Cigars need to be kept fresh in a controlled environment. A personal humidor (as opposed to a humidor room) is a box designed to store your cigars at an optimal humidity range of 65-75%, at room temperature. Most personal humidors are made of wood, with the inside usually made of Spanish cedar.
Aside from its protective value, many cigar aficionados treat humidors as a work of art or a fine piece of furniture.
There are various sizes of wood humidors. From the small Otterbox cigar caddy that holds up to 15 cigars, to the great glass-top wood display humidor that can hold up to 150 cigars, there are a lot from which to choose.
Once you’ve purchased your humidor, you will need to prepare, or cure, it before storing your cigars. Please do not skip this step or you will compromise the life of your cigars.
Here are the 8 steps to prepare your humidor:
1. Remove the humidity device and fill it with distilled water. Set it on a paper towel to soak up any extra water before you put it in your humidor, or you might stain the wood.
2. Wipe down the interior of the humidor with a clean, damp sponge. Be sure to get the sides, top, bottom and any dividers. Don’t use a paper towel or anything that might leave bits of itself behind in the wood.
3. Place a plastic bag on the bottom of the humidor interior and place the damp sponge on top of the plastic. Again, this is to avoid staining the wood.
4. Install the humidity element.
5. Close the lid and leave it undisturbed overnight for at least 12 hours. Open the humidor, remove the humidity device and refill it with distilled water.
7. Remove the sponge and the plastic bag from the humidor.
8. Close the lid again for an additional 12 hours, ensuring the interior wood reaches the optimum humidity level of 65-75 percent.
Top Hat Tobacco has a nice online selection of cigar humidors, or just come on into the shop and browse around.
 Written by Eric | Cigar Reviews and Related Topics www.tophatcigar.com  |
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Not that I’m impressed a lot, but this is more than I expected for when I stumpled upon a link on SU telling that the info here is quite decent. Thanks.
Thanks, glad to be of some help.
The information here is really good thanks. I’m new to the cigar thing myself. My squad leader got me into it. Just got my first humidor yesterday.
You realize you only have 7 steps? It jumps from 5 to 7.
How offend do you have to re-prepair the humdor once it been done for the first time. Thank you