By rolling 2 cigars a day it is quite a nice average, 700+ smokes a year. With 45 lbs of tobacco with about 10% in lost you should be able to roll at least 600 more wouldn’t you?
In a way storing your smokes for two years in a thin can would be similar to what many makers do when they box them in tubos airtight cylinders which I think are made of aluminium.
As I wrote previously, I am moving away from wood humidors to airtight glass jar, they are cheap and if the cigars go in at 65% RH they should stay there without the need of any humidification. I put a piece a cedar for the aroma but putting tobacco scraps may be the trick as you did with your extra wrappers.
I am wondering by putting a cigar in an airtight container if after a while there could be a form of anaerobic fermentation developing? Any chemist amongst the group?
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Not a chemist, but I did sleep in the doghouse last night.
I tried the acrylic canister method once, and, yeah, it got all diaper pailed up in there. Mighta been too damp on the way in. I still use the acrylic canister, but I use it for my ready stash of gars on the porch... which means it gets opened frequently, which would swap out the air. My steel canister inside the Bigloo, that was never sealed, so presumably air could leak in round the lid.
You know those Spanish cedar dividers you find between layers in a cigar box? They make fine liners to imbue aging rolls in a can with their cedar snurff. So do those shaving thin liners they put inside tubos.
But I honestly think the easiest option is a tight lid Bigloo filled with cedar boxes. The local gar store sells their empties for a buck. I pick thru them for the best looking with clasp lids. Label each box with the blend I am stashing. In they go. Used to shrink wrap each box & set 'em on a shelf, before I blew fifty bucks on a bigloo. You can see the smaller Payback box has still got some cling wrap on it... the one labeled "Bob". But this big cooler, nothing seems to go dry. I spose if I lived where Bliss does, I might put some kitty litter in there to soak up excess wet. If I lived in the vast bleak wasteland of the Southwest, I might set a wet rag in there from time to time. But for DullAware, this works easy fine.
I stack four or five layers of boxes inside. So there's a lot of boxes in there you don't see in the pic. Each box holds a couple dozen. That larger Payback box you see has an inch and a quarter cedar flange and holds 60. I have a couple of those. This one Daily Habit can... can't even see it in the Bigloo pic, but there's gotta be a hundred just in there.
I should update an inventory of this stash.
A box of 50 FX Smith's gars ships out inside a corrugated box with crumpled newspaper liner at two pounds. So without the box inside a box and the newspapers, plus wastage, let's say 25 gars a pound. That calcs out to 1,000 gars for 40 lbs, assuming you used all of it. I figure on 800, and then I'll be all wrapper and no filler... something like that. We'll see. At some point, I will have to admit I have more gars than I can live long enough to smoke. Used to give more away faster; but I'm saving on postage since the budget got squeezed all to hell. Might throw some batches away just cause others are better.
Okay. I gotta cook breakfast now and then get to work.
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