cellophane or not to cellphane, that is the question

You'll get a wide variety of answers on this. Some will have to deal with how long you plan to keep them. A cigar will have it's aging process drastically retarded by leaving the cellophane on. Other than that, and with that consideration in mind, the decision is up to you. Personally, I remove the cellophane immediately, unless I know that I bought a certain group of cigars to begin sending to people, in which case I'd leave it on.

I never take them off -
I'm Lazy -

I am constantly taking sticks with me as I travel and I HATE damaging the cigars because of lack of protection. Also, I like to be able to send gift packages with the cellophane on, again, to provide as much protection as possible.

Of course, if I buy sticks that come without cellophane, I look like a neonatal surgeon when I handle them for trips or shipping.

1) Did you "season" your humidor?
2) Order a larger humidor, you're gonna need it.


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I leave the cello on for transporting and rough handling.

Doc is right about buying a BIG humi.

I first got a 75 count and filled it up and them got a 300 count and filled that too...Now I have no room for anything...

What to do...what to do?

TexasCanuk said:

I leave the cello on for transporting and rough handling.

Doc is right about buying a BIG humi.

I first got a 75 count and filled it up and them got a 300 count and filled that too...Now I have no room for anything...

What to do...what to do?

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Send those extra sticks to Kelvin for storage......

If I am going to smoke them inside of 6 months or if I am going to take them on the road, I keep them in cello. If I know I am going to let them sit for a while, I take them out.

i take the cello off

Cello on. The ones I am going to age don't come with cello. :wink:

Kelvin said:

Send those extra sticks to Kelvin for storage......

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But what would you do with 300 White Owls???

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Alex Svenson said:

If I am going to smoke them inside of 6 months or if I am going to take them on the road, I keep them in cello. If I know I am going to let them sit for a while, I take them out.

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Is it a big deal if you leave the cello on and have them sit for more than 6 months?

If you keep the cello on, they do not age as fast. In fact they age much slower. The whole thing with six months is that if you keep them for less than six month, they don't really age that much.

talumn said:

Alex Svenson said:

If I am going to smoke them inside of 6 months or if I am going to take them on the road, I keep them in cello. If I know I am going to let them sit for a while, I take them out.

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Is it a big deal if you leave the cello on and have them sit for more than 6 months?

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I used to play cello but I quit and learned to play the violin instead

phisherman said:

If you keep the cello on, they do not age as fast. In fact they age much slower. The whole thing with six months is that if you keep them for less than six month, they don't really age that much.

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ok, while we are on the subject....don't most people age stronger (full bodied) cigars, rather than mild to medium ones? I was under the impression that while aging stronger cigars will mellow them and increas the complexity of their flavor, the aging process would lessen the flavor of a mild or medium cigar with little or no benifit to the body. If this is true, wouldn't you be better off keeping said mild to medium cigars in their cello so that the aging is retarded? Still trying to figure this one out, so please advise.
~S

Stickman said:

talumn said:

Alex Svenson said:

If I am going to smoke them inside of 6 months or if I am going to take them on the road, I keep them in cello. If I know I am going to let them sit for a while, I take them out.

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Is it a big deal if you leave the cello on and have them sit for more than 6 months?

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I used to play cello but I quit and learned to play the violin instead

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I had a cello when I was a kid, my parents made sure I always kept it wrapped up so it would not age too fast!

Spider66 said:

phisherman said:

If you keep the cello on, they do not age as fast. In fact they age much slower. The whole thing with six months is that if you keep them for less than six month, they don't really age that much.

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the aging process would lessen the flavor of a mild or medium cigar with little or no benifit to the body. If this is true, wouldn't you be better off keeping said mild to medium cigars in their cello so that the aging is retarded? Still trying to figure this one out, so please advise.
~S

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Makes sense to me!

One part of the cello-not cello debate that has always puzzled me...


My non-cello sticks and my cello sticks sometimes share the same humidors.
I keep the humis at the same RH levels.
Both the non and cello sticks receive the same RH and smoke the same.

Doesn't this mean that cello is NOT an effective barrier for moisture? And if so, doesn't THAT mean that cigars will age the same regardless?