Watering a Dry Wrapper Experiment

[El Presidente]

Watering a Dry Wrapper Experiment will be conducted and filmed this Friday afternoon. 

Resident egg head Smithy has drawn up the experiment and cigars have been allocated their resting positions since Monday. 

Smithy, Steve and I will be the team. Let's see how it pans out 

[Wilzc]

[El Presidente]

Ok....maybe not to that extent 

[Islandboy]

I think you’re supposed to do this BEFORE clipping it.

[Toast & Taste]

That poor Larranaga.

 

Big Al

[BrightonCorgi]

I douse cigars under water before throwing them into the trash.

 

[alloy]

What??? No Ken? Or is he in Spain?

[benfica_77]

Very interested to see the results. I posted a video a while ago  I found of someone that does this with very old cigars to hydrate them. Thanks for doing this!!!

[benfica_77]

Here's a link to the thread I made regarding this topic.

  Cheers!

[TBird55]

I am not sure why you would want to wet a perfectly good cigar.Last week my condensation collection tray, in my humidor stopped up. Not taking the time to remove all the boxes under it, I inadvertently dumped the water on a box of JL2. Half of the cigars swelled up, before I could get them out. 5 of the wrappers  split,  the rest I am drying out for "yard work cigars". Not sure how they will taste or smoke, live and learn...

[BarryVT]

From my understanding Min Ron Nee would occasionally wet his cigars before smoking, said it would help to bring out more of the flavors. I've never tried it, run tap water over wrapper and supposedly it repels water from getting to filler.  

[ponfed]

I'm curious to see the details of the experiment.

Ideally, it would need a control where you wet a perfectly fine cigar with a well humidified wrapper. 

Maybe : Young cigar, dry wrapper.

Young cigar, not dry wrapper.

Old cigar dry wrapper

Old cigar, not dry wrapper. 

Then for each of these category, smoke on watered and another unwatered. 

I would recommend Behikes but they're not old enough yet. 

So Esplendidos? Or maybe Habanos Millenium thingies?

 

[Lucass111]

Just the idea of putting water on my cigars scares me

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[BrightonCorgi]

12 hours ago, BarryVT said:

From my understanding Min Ron Nee would occasionally wet his cigars before smoking, said it would help to bring out more of the flavors. I've never tried it, run tap water over wrapper and supposedly it repels water from getting to filler.  

I do it all the time now.  On newer cigars, makes them more refined and I find it generally improves the combustion all around.  It depends on how I want the flavor of the cigar to come through.  If I want them punchier tasting I do not rinse.

[helix]

Do it on occasion , seems to enhance flavour I think , hard to tell , certainly hasn't been negative in anyway . Helps keep wrapper from cracking when lighting up in winter outside.

[ponfed]

16 hours ago, BrightonCorgi said:

I do it all the time now.  On newer cigars, makes them more refined and I find it generally improves the combustion all around.  It depends on how I want the flavor of the cigar to come through.  If I want them punchier tasting I do not rinse.

How do you do it? Like just open a thin water stream for the tap and just run the cigar through it?

How fast do you do it? Head to foot or foot to head?

[BrightonCorgi]

5 hours ago, ponfed said:

How do you do it? Like just open a thin water stream for the tap and just run the cigar through it?

How fast do you do it? Head to foot or foot to head?

Yes, before cutting, just rinse the cigar with the foot pointed slightly down for like 2 seconds and then wipe excess water off.  Not heavy stream of water, just an easy stream  at room temperature.  A few minutes after rinsing, you'd have no idea the cigar was even touched by water.  I leave the band on if it won't come off easily.  

Sometimes I just rinse the head of the cigar if I think there is even the slightest possibility it may crack when I want the cigar without rinsing.

Don't be afraid, even it was 3-4 seconds of water, I don't think that'll make any difference.  Once you try it; it'll make sense and you'll know when it is appropriate.  Try on a cigar you are familiar with first.

[Habana Mike]

45 minutes ago, crking3 said:

This scares me too.....how would the thing stay lit seriously


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The filler and binder are still dry. The wrapper actually dries out fairly quickly as well.

I do this by moistening a paper towel, wrapping it around the cigar. Give it a little squeeze, unwrap and light. Never a problem with it staying lit.

[Raskol]

49 minutes ago, Habana Mike said:

The filler and binder are still dry. The wrapper actually dries out fairly quickly as well.

I do this by moistening a paper towel, wrapping it around the cigar. Give it a little squeeze, unwrap and light. Never a problem with it staying lit.

This sounds better....thanks. Will give it a go...

[Jimmy_jack]

Yeah but what does it dooooo?

[LGC]

Everyone just get your panties unbunched!!

Go get a couple TPC’s from the same box. Run one under the tap for several seconds and wipe it down with a paper towel. Cut them both and smoke them.

Smoking and storing cigars is not like trying to grow truffles. Simply experiment and make up your own mind!!

[Habana Mike]

1 hour ago, Brandon said:

Everyone just get your panties unbunched!!

Go get a couple TPC’s from the same box. Run one under the tap for several seconds and wipe it down with a paper towel. Cut them both and smoke them.

Smoking and storing cigars is not like trying to grow truffles. Simply experiment and make up your own mind!!

Like everyone has TPC's laying around these days ?

[LGC]

Like everyone has TPC's laying around these days 

Sorry... make it a minutos Mike. In your case, a double robusto or salamones will work just fine I might be able to dig up some tres petits if needed...