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12-18-2014, 03:39 AM | #1 |
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Cleaning Your Humidor
How often should you clean out your humidor? Is it only when you suspect mold or possible outbreak of beetles? Would it be overzealous to clean out your humidor every month or two and re-season just to make sure you stogies are well taken care of?
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"Clean out," or "clean?" Those are two very different notions.
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12-18-2014, 10:13 AM | #3 |
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Your humidor is just a thin veneer of cedar over fiberboard. Getting it wet will probably cause damage to it. If you have a patch of mold show up on your veneer, wipe it clean with water and a towel, immediately dry it off, and then wipe it off with rubbing alcohol, and immediately dry. The alcohol may not even be necessary, but it will work as an antimicrobial that can kill off the active mold.
Doug is right. your humidor is already swarming with microbes. When you open canned goods, the microbes in the air will make them rot in no time. the thing is, you have to have proper conditions for them to grow. In the case of mold or other fungi, you need moisture and something for it to feed on. Damp veneer is perfect. Probably the best thing you could do for a mold infected humidor would be to load it with ozone, for example, stick it in a cooler with an ozone generator and run it for a day or so. That would sterilize any live organisms without harming the box. Don't ask me how to pull that off. I just make the suggestions. |
12-18-2014, 03:33 PM | #4 |
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Sweet, thanks guys, just what I was looking for. These were random thoughts that have been bouncing around in my head lately.
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12-18-2014, 04:23 PM | #5 |
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Overzealous? That's not a strong enough word to describe such anal behavior.
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#Truth!
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