Hey guys. My Newair CC300 should be here tomorrow and I just wanted to run my seasoning strategy by you who have one. After reading through a number of the threads here’s what I came up with. My plan is to clean the inside and let it air out with the door open for a couple of days just to be sure there is no odor. Then I’m going to put 2 calibrated digital hygrometers, one on top and one on bottom, inside with no humidifier for a couple of days to see where things are at. Then my plan, subject to adjustment, is to put 1 Boveda 320 gram 69% on top and one on the bottom and leave them for a few days to get some seasoning on the shelves as well as get a feel for how the unit will respond to the Bovedas. Does this sound like a good strategy or do you have any other suggestions?
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Wineador Seasonng Question
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Slow and safe is always best. This is exactly what I did for my wineador and it took about 2 weeks to completely stabilize.
I know when I read the threads there was considerable debate over whether or not to wipe the shelves/drawers with distilled water. At this point I’m inclined to bypass doing that. I think it would be easier to get additional humidity into the unit then to have to dry it out.
It's not the humidification device that causes drainage problems. It's the cold plate in the unit that causes condensation that seeps down the back of the unit in the formed channels and out the drain hole. I plugged the hole in mine and put a piece of wicking fabric over it so condensation would get wicked back into the system. One of the members (wish I could remember who) suggested aiming a fan at the cold plate to prevent the condensation in the first place and that seems to have helped quite a bit.
What did you plug it with? Do you think a container set against the back wall would catch the condensate?
A dish never really worked for me because the condensate hugs the back of the unit as it flows down. I use an evaporative cooling cloth (the ones advertised that you wet and place around your neck) I have wire to my fans running through the drain hole so I just plugged with a bit of saran wrap and laid the cloth over the drain hole.
Very cool and simple idea, right in line with my mechanical skill set. Thanks Boudie.
It’s funny that you said that. When I first got out of culinary school my very first job was at a banquet hall making radish roses and carving watermelon boats 12 hours a day. Ahh the good old days.
With mine, I used the container that came with it to put DW in it to season it. I would let it get up to about 5% higher than what you are shooting for, take the DW out, let it settle for a while then put your KL or bovedas in. Let it settle for another week down close to where you want it, then loader up. My shelves and drawers soaked up quite a bit. Mine also came with almost no odor. I let mine air out for a day. That’s all it took.
The only time I have condensation issues was when I tried to keep the inside temp more than five degrees lower than ambient. I try to keep it around 67-68 and no condensation issues. Although I have to set it at 66 for that. Also, I have four drawers in mine. A shelf on top and one at bottom with a large flat tray of KL underneath at the bottom. I have a computer fan inside and one on top of the vents outside to aid cooling during the hot months. That’s all.
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The only time I have condensation issues was when I tried to keep the inside temp more than five degrees lower than ambient. I try to keep it around 67-68 and no condensation issues. Although I have to set it at 66 for that. Also, I have four drawers in mine. A shelf on top and one at bottom with a large flat tray of KL underneath at the bottom. I have a computer fan inside and one on top of the vents outside to aid cooling during the hot months. That’s all.
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