The yellow cello experiment….
We’ve all done it. Pulled out a cigar, seen the yellow cello, and thought “nice, this has some game on it”. But does it really? Does the darkened cello really indicate age? We’ve all also smoked cigars with several years of age that had perfectly clear cello.
So I got curious and for the last 6 months I’ve been conducting a little experiment. I took two of the exact same cigars from the exact same box and tested a little theory.
I placed each cigar individually into identical tupperdores with no other cigars. One cigar I kept at a constant rh of ~65 and the other I changed at regular intervals. I allowed it to go as high as 72 and then as low as 55. I did everything I could think of to make sure that the only variable was rh.
I think the results are pretty damn cool and speak for themselves.
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The result of premature aging due to a hard life.
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Pretty dang interesting. Even the difference in the wrapper says quite a bit.
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Brilliant. Whatever led you to do this experiment? Do you think it was the high rh, low rh, or changing rh? And, why?
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Do we have to guess?
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@silvermouse said:
Brilliant. Whatever led you to do this experiment? Do you think it was the high rh, low rh, or changing rh? And, why?What led me to it was pondering conversations we’ve had on the vHerf about different cigars aging differently. A couple of us talked awhile back about the cello and how some will turn color and some won’t. Basically just nerd curiosity lol. As far as what caused it I believe it was the fluctuations allowing the moist air to mix with oils in the cigar and those changes bringing them more to the surface at times.
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Let us know if they smoke and taste different.
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I believe I've heard @EgoBoundary talk about the possible benefits of aging with alternating intervals of different rH.
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Very nice, Rusty. Thank you for making my brain hurt; this experiment reveals even more unknowns.
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As always, you are very welcome sir 😂
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I assumed it had either to do with light or tobacco oils.
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As @0patience would tell you, "It's atmospheric pressure and ****."
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