Hey guys,
Do you freeze your sticks or not freeze em?
Do you freeze your sticks or not freeze em?
think this works IF you have an industrial blast freezer. qiucker the freeze, smaller the ice crystals, and therefore less cellular damage.No need to IMO. Frozen veggies never taste the same as fresh, freezing causes cell damage in plants. Does it change the flavor of a cigar? Don't know and don't want to risk it.
Why not just skip a few steps and quarantine suspected cigars until consumed or they show any signs of infestation if you're that concerned? Just curious.I do though, freeze all sticks given to me as a gift where I either do not trust the giver as a fellow cigar enthusiast, or the sticks did not come from a trusted cigar retailer or have not ever laid eyes on the conditions of the humidors of retailer they were purchased from. Even without any signs of infestation, they are frozen, properly thawed, rehumidified and quarantined into their own Tupperdor with Humipaks until they are consumed.
Better safe than sorry. Had a perfectly innocent looking stick destroy a smaller humidor before.Why not just skip a few steps and quarantine suspected cigars until consumed or they show any signs of infestation if you're that concerned? Just curious.
Amen my friend. Just put 4 boxes that showed up today from one of my best friends shop in there. I will NEVER see another beetle in my collection again.Better safe than sorry. Had a perfectly innocent looking stick destroy a smaller humidor before.
Once bitten, twice shy.
The reason I don't do this is because when I caught the problem last time the sticks were from somebody with a great almost impeccable reputation. I lost about $200.00 worth. Not huge, but my collection is much bigger now.Why not just skip a few steps and quarantine suspected cigars until consumed or they show any signs of infestation if you're that concerned? Just curious.
What about the UPS, FedEx or similar truck. The warehouse they were transferred in, and so on. If the temp + humidity factors are right it only takes one to hatch. Then it is on. I will take the extra few days to do it right so I will never be concerned with it again.I do not freeze. But my house never gets above 75 degree's F
Not to be argumentative but he said that after he freezes them he still keeps them quarantined from his collection. I was just wondering why bother freezing them in the first place then since contamination would be impossible unless one of the cigars knocked out the isolation wing guard, shimmied up the tassel of his humidor key and quietly squeezed its way under the tightly sealed lid. All of which is highly unlikely considering the quality of craftsmanship of today's humidors.The reason I don't do this is because when I caught the problem last time the sticks were from somebody with a great almost impeccable reputation. I lost about $200.00 worth. Not huge, but my collection is much bigger now.