Flavored Cigar Storage Question

[djs134]

I will be spending some vacation time with my wife's family next week and plan on smoking a number of cigars with various in-laws throughout the week. My wife and her sister will occationally smoke cigars so I want to get a few that they can enjoy. I'll get a couple of Macs, but I also think I'll pick up a couple Javas and a couple of CAO flavors.

Here's the question: I'll be transporting these sticks in a 24 count Cigar Caddy that I put new foam trays into to expand it to 36 count. I don't want the flavored cigars to taint the Padrons, VSGs, LGC Serie R, etc. Would I be safe in putting each flavored cigar in an single cigar baggie and then into general population? Don't see why not, but I thought there might be some experience out there.

 

[MichiganM]

As long as the baggies don't "breathe" and aren't permeable you should be ok.

 

[djs134]

Kinda what I was thinking. Plan to use either the 5 finger bags or the single baggies that we use for passes. Should be ok. Then, if they aren't all smoked, I'll have to make sure they don't taint my coolerdor.

 

[N2Advnture]

All baggies are permeable on a microscopic level.

Since flavored cigars aren't typically smoked by those who are true connoisseurs just keep them in a zip lock outside of the caddy a week won't make a difference on those smokes and would risk it at all.

 

[djs134]

Hmmm. That makes a difference. Good point. If I package them well enough, they might make it in the suitcase.

 

[Greg]

I would triple-bag those stinkers and then bag them one more time.

 

[MichiganM]

All baggies are permeable on a microscopic level.

Since flavored cigars are typically smoked by those who are true connoisseurs just keep them in a zip lock outside of the caddy a week won't make a difference on those smokes and would risk it at all.

Good points Mark...probably better to leave them outside the caddy.


I didn't get the line about flavored cigars being smoked by true connoisseurs though....

 

[N2Advnture]

...I didn't get the line about flavored cigars being smoked by true connoisseurs though....

:jitb: ...I meant "aren't"...except for Todd (Wasch_24), that's all he smokes. :thumbsup:

 

[MichiganM]

:jitb: ...I meant "aren't"...except for Todd (Wasch_24), that's all he smokes. :thumbsup:

:hysterica

 

[tobby4]

Yea Todd prefers the ones with the flavored tips on the ends....

 

[CWS]

Definitely outside the Otterbox. I picked up a CAO and and another flavored at last years Big Smoke in Las Vegas, bagged them separately and set them in my travel desk top. By the time I got home everything around them smelled like them. The bags were good vendor cigar bags! If your worried about drying get a separate fuentes bag for the flavored.

 

[Headbanger]

Can always tie them to top of the car to air them out some :tongueout

 

[Wasch_24]

All baggies are permeable on a microscopic level.

Since flavored cigars aren't typically smoked by those who are true connoisseurs just keep them in a zip lock outside of the caddy a week won't make a difference on those smokes and would risk it at all.

Well, I was going to say Mark is a genius and this is exactly what I was going to say but.....

:jitb: ...I meant "aren't"...except for Todd (Wasch_24), that's all he smokes. :thumbsup:

Now my advice is to send them to Mark and in exchange he will send you two habanos for every one flavored cigar.

 

[cvm4]

Good exchange rate Todd :yes: :rofl:

 

[Kingston]

If you're worried about transporting them outside of the caddy (getting crushed/damaged), you could stick them in a small tupperware.
That way you can still toss them in with your luggage and they should be ok.

 

[AZsteelman]

All joking aside...but them inside 123 ziplock baggies, stuff them in a large cardboard box and add lots of newspaper...tape that sucker shut like it's got weed inside you don't want to lose, and UPS it to the final destination...wash your hands, and have a real smoke!

 

[David]

Vacuum seal them. Place bag in tupperware. Vacuum seal the tupperware. Place the vacuumed sealed tupperware which contain the vacuum sealed sticks inside a sealed 5 gallon bucket. Vacuum seal the bucket. Place the vacuumed sealed bucket which contains the vacuumed sealed tupperware which contains the vacuumed sealed sticks inside a duffel bag. Vacuum seal the duffel bag.

If you want to be safe I guess you could place the bag in the trunk instead of in the interior of the car...but no need to over think the situation.

 

[Wasch_24]

:rofl:

 

[MichiganM]

Vacuum seal them. Place bag in tupperware. Vacuum seal the tupperware. Place the vacuumed sealed tupperware which contain the vacuum sealed sticks inside a sealed 5 gallon bucket. Vacuum seal the bucket. Place the vacuumed sealed bucket which contains the vacuumed sealed tupperware which contains the vacuumed sealed sticks inside a duffel bag. Vacuum seal the duffel bag.

If you want to be safe I guess you could place the bag in the trunk instead of in the interior of the car...but no need to over think the situation.

:rolling: :rolling: :rolling: