bringing back the dead

Glassjoe

have any of you guys been able to bring back a badly dried cigar. How succesfully and what did you do just lay in a  humidifier? or are there  words to speak ? 
clato verata necto

BKDog

Yeah, never did it either.

Read an article about taking the dried cigars into the bathroom with you when you shower, then placing in gradually increasing humid conditions until you get back up to 70%RH. And it's a slow process, I assume. If you try to add too much moisture, they can expand too quickly and crack. It's also reported that they are never quite the same, but the slower you go the better. And rotate the cigars daily...

I'm too much of an obsessive type, I check most cigars daily and some weekly but never longer do I go without looking in on the fancy dog rockets. That was a tough sentence to type. I think I may have mixed a word up somewhere. Oh well, I'm tired.

peter4jc

I mean, so you're trying to save a cigar...  you **** around for who knows how long, brooding over it in your humidor, thinking about it, dreaming about it...  and then how do you find out if you've met with success?  You clip it, go to your favorite smoking spot and settle in, light it, and then... you find out you just wasted a bunch of time and mental energy that could've been spent more wisely... kinda like I just did w/ this stupid thread.  :-)

Yakster

Never tried myself but have read old thread about bringing it back slowly.

peter4jc

Toss it.  Life's too short.

0patience

I would only make the attempt on a unicorn cigar and only if it were severely discounted. Cause if I paid full price for it, they'd be getting it back.

silvermouse

send 'em to Peter if you can't toss them and he'll toss 'em for you. He uses them for kindling in his coffee roaster I hear.

Glassjoe

Thats what I thought. Thanks for the advice.

Rhamlin

I read that same article. Don’t think I agree with it. That would be a lot of humidity too quickly I think. Also it depends on how long the cigar has been dried out. After a month I’d say toss it. You can bring any cigar back to the right humidity but once the oils are gone it’s just a rolled up pile of leaves. 

dirtdude

Sounds like a cigar, rolled up pile of leaves, think I'll have one.

BKDog

dirtdude said:

Sounds like a cigar, rolled up pile of leaves, think I'll have one.

I did that once as a PFC way, way back, deep in the woods of Georgia when we were on our final training operation and myself and my buddy were in an observation position, dug in for two days. Long story short, I had done like a few others and kept some Skoal around, sneakily mind you, just in case we might ever be suspected of having it and then be in deep trouble. Well, I lost mine somewhere along the way, and out of mad desperation decided to roll up some leaves and torch it.

It was, among a few things in my life, a massive mistake and one I shall never forget. You know how some people might repeat something they've heard as though it's factual when there may have been "somebody" at some point who actually did the deed in order to create the fact in question possible? Well, I was that "somebody" who actually tried to smoke tree leaves.

And yes, unlike Mr. Clinton, I inhaled. The burning...oh, the burning pain!

GaryThompson

BKDog said:

dirtdude said:

Sounds like a cigar, rolled up pile of leaves, think I'll have one.

I did that once as a PFC way, way back, deep in the woods of Georgia when we were on our final training operation and myself and my buddy were in an observation position, dug in for two days. Long story short, I had done like a few others and kept some Skoal around, sneakily mind you, just in case we might ever be suspected of having it and then be in deep trouble. Well, I lost mine somewhere along the way, and out of mad desperation decided to roll up some leaves and torch it.

It was, among a few things in my life, a massive mistake and one I shall never forget. You know how some people might repeat something they've heard as though it's factual when there may have been "somebody" at some point who actually did the deed in order to create the fact in question possible? Well, I was that "somebody" who actually tried to smoke tree leaves.

And yes, unlike Mr. Clinton, I inhaled. The burning...oh, the burning pain!

ANNND there was a witness! Your buddy must have been laughing his arse off at you     
The things we men do when young and bulletproof..