Active vs Passive Seasoning?

Catfish · 03-10-2009, 11:26 AM

I'm guessing evaporation. Boiling water forms a vapor and permeates the wood inside the humi. And boiling also gets rid of organisms residing in the water.

WildBlueSooner · 03-10-2009, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Catfish

I'm guessing evaporation. Boiling water forms a vapor and permeates the wood inside the humi. And boiling also gets rid of organisms residing in the water.

Yeah but if the water is in a bowl inside the humi it is the vapors that absorb into the wood. And when water in the bowl evaporates it is pure (no organisms or minerals). At least that is what I thought!

Da Klugs · 03-10-2009, 11:48 AM

I'm a wiper on the cabs.. but they are solid cedar and Mahogany. Probably always preferred to let it be done through evaporation. Difference in time would be a big variable based upon the starting point. The drier the wood the longer the difference would be.

Putting waded up paper towels on a dish soaked in distilled is a way of getting more evaporative suface area ... decreasing the seasoning time. It's much faster than just a container of liquid.

cigarusmaximus · 03-10-2009, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by WildBlueSooner

Yeah but if the water is in a bowl inside the humi it is the vapors that absorb into the wood. And when water in the bowl evaporates it is pure (no organisms or minerals). At least that is what I thought!

Bingo.
Evaporating water is essentially, distilled water.
I personally take a slightly damped lint free cloth and give the insides a sparse wipe. Toss in dampened beads and you're done.

1-3 days and you should have stable humidity.
Granted I'm a rookie and I've only done this with 2 smallish humi's, but it worked perfectly each time. I live in Calgary where it is -27 C right now, and the RH in my house is about 20% if I'm lucky.

Good luck!

WildBlueSooner · 03-10-2009, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by cigarusmaximus

Bingo.
Evaporating water is essentially, distilled water.
I personally take a slightly damped lint free cloth and give the insides a sparse wipe. Toss in dampened beads and you're done.

1-3 days and you should have stable humidity.
Granted I'm a rookie and I've only done this with 2 smallish humi's, but it worked perfectly each time. I live in Calgary where it is -27 C right now, and the RH in my house is about 20% if I'm lucky.

Good luck!

Did this with my 400qt and it works beautifully! Just need more smokes now

Whee · 03-12-2009, 04:54 PM

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Did this with my 400qt and it works beautifully! Just need more smokes now

First rule of the nut house is never, ever post in public about needing more smokes. Your mailbox may not be able to stand the onslaught.

For my first humi, the 300 ct footlocker, i used the boveda packs. Left them in for a week because I was worried. All future humis I have placed one or two bowls of DW in for 2-3 days, then beads for another day or two and then good to go.

Reseasoning my "chairside" humi now. The dry, winter air killed it.

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