Hey Tommy, If you need a second opinion on how well you did with you cigars, hit me up :P I have a bunch of Padilla Fumas I bought off the daily a few weeks ago that I've decided are good subjects for some kind of experimental Infusions - so we can swap war stories sometime! If you didn't see my location - I too am Carson City, And feel your humidity pain for our damn desert we call Nevada.

Sounds like instructions for an airplane bomber... Freud's loving it. So, for anyone who'd interested, here's what's going on with this experiment. Now when I check the humidity in that container, it's showing at 95%. Holy crap! When I open it, it's DEFINITELY humid in there. I put both these sticks into cellophane slips that I had left from a cask of Romeo's to try to hold them together. Not sure how a wrapper can un-wrap from too much humidity, cuz this usually happens when a stick gets dry. Sometimes this happens here in Nevada just while you're 'enjoying' a stick. When the humidity skyrockets to 20% here, you have to puff fast - ha. I'm beginning to wonder if maybe my great little metal container isn't the perfect flavoring device after all. Seems to get really humid really fast. Or, maybe my little bowl with the Cognac in it is too big (even though it's only holding maybe a tablespoon of Cognac). Wifey suggests floral foam instead of the bowl. I might try that. I hate to think I might be becoming obsessed with this project... Amos, I'm going to look for that thread you mentioned. I'm curious what someone else had done with this 'scheme'. ADDED: Found it! Thanks. He mentions high humidity too, around 80% (I've got him beat - ha). I'm a bit concerned about this humidity thing, but we'll see what happens. 95% just sounds a bit much. What I may have to do is get a new 'smallish' humidor that I designate as an "infusion box" (maybe I'll even get the glass engraved with that - yeah, that's it!) and go from there. That way maybe I can keep the humidity at a more comfortable 80% or so. Meantime, I'll just let these two sticks sit in this 'tank' and soak up my Jacques Cardin VSOP for a while. I'm not even sure how to tell if these things are done. And just what IS done? Ok, I've got a day to get started here.

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GadwinDuil:

Hey Tommy, If you need a second opinion on how well you did with you cigars, hit me up :P I have a bunch of Padilla Fumas I bought off the daily a few weeks ago that I've decided are good subjects for some kind of experimental Infusions - so we can swap war stories sometime! If you didn't see my location - I too am Carson City, And feel your humidity pain for our damn desert we call Nevada.

Hey - local talent! We should meet up at the Carson Cigar Company one day. Michael makes a mean Gentleman Jack Manhattan.

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OK Im starting this project but I think I am going to try my hand with some wine. A nice deep red. I am going to use 7 Arturo Fuente Special Selections. I am headed to the spirits place now to pick out a bottle. If anyone sees why using wine instead of liquor would not be good please let me know as I will wait till tomorrow to start this little thing.

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The Cank:

OK Im starting this project but I think I am going to try my hand with some wine. A nice deep red. I am going to use 7 Arturo Fuente Special Selections. I am headed to the spirits place now to pick out a bottle. If anyone sees why using wine instead of liquor would not be good please let me know as I will wait till tomorrow to start this little thing.

Right on! I'm beginning to think this 'infusion' business is unlimited as far as what you use for a flavor. Hell, tea toatlers could use milk - UGH. I would think though, that a port or sherry might be better than straight red (cab or zin or whatever). But hey, who knows? My little project is still sitting at 97% humidity. Scary, but I'm carrying on... Good luck, Cank. I'll be watching.

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Hey - local talent! We should meet up at the Carson Cigar Company one day. Michael makes a mean Gentleman Jack Manhattan.

Haha, It's the only cigar place I go to :-P I'm sure I'll run into you sometime, but now I'm starting to think i should wait till I know more than a couple months worth about cigars or else I'd show up and you'd spend the whole time teaching me how I'm supposed to light up the right way! I'll PM ya sometime and see if you're up to going and you can show me this mean Jack Manhattan! Also, I'm genuinely interested in how your infusion goes. I want to give it some trys myself in the nearish future with a few different flavors.

Ok, I took some pictures (no comments on my prowess at picture taking allowed!) of this ongoing project. Hopefully this link will take you to my Picasa picture site. http://picasaweb.google.com/tmolnar1946/TheBigCigarExperiment# Let me know if it works. It's the first time I've tried to use it.

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The link works just dandy - that is to say if I was only supposed to see 4 pictures! :P I'm interested to see the head of the cigars because earlier you mentioned that they were cracking and unraveling... No biggie though - Keep them in the celo to make sure they don't burst or anything!

It looks good to me

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GadwinDuil:

The link works just dandy - that is to say if I was only supposed to see 4 pictures! :P I'm interested to see the head of the cigars because earlier you mentioned that they were cracking and unraveling... No biggie though - Keep them in the celo to make sure they don't burst or anything!

Ok,maybe later this week when I'm home I'll get a couple pictures of the 'unraveling'. It was the foot, not the head (note how I paid attention and now use the correct cigar terms...). Interestingly, it was the higher buck Romeo Y Julieta and not the cheapo Thompson Tusker that began unraveling... Go figure. Oh, and I'm lucky I got even the four pictures up there. I just created the account FOR these pics!

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The Cank:

It looks good to me

Thanks. Any idea how I tell if and when these things are done? This is totally uncharted territory for me. I know one gentleman said a year or so? Ain't happening! Not this time anyway. In order for that to happen I'll have to put the container under the house - out of sight, out of mind.

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MrTommy:

It was the foot, not the head (note how I paid attention and now use the correct cigar terms...).

Dang! I coulda swore I head someone say that you light the head and put the foot in your mouth (insert some joke about sticking a foot in your mouth) But I may have read it backwards :P

MrTommy:

The Cank:

It looks good to me

Thanks. Any idea how I tell if and when these things are done? This is totally uncharted territory for me. I know one gentleman said a year or so? Ain't happening! Not this time anyway. In order for that to happen I'll have to put the container under the house - out of sight, out of mind.

I was going to say around a year...... Not what you want to hear huh......... well try for 6 months.

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The Cank:

MrTommy:

The Cank:

It looks good to me

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I was going to say around a year...... Not what you want to hear huh......... well try for 6 months.

Wifey says the humidity in the container is reading 99%. Holy crap! Maybe I'll just wring them out and drink the tobacco flavored Cognac - ha.

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Maybe the presence of the cognac is causing the hygro to give incorrect readings?