More Wineador Help

[Blazer]

Hey All,

It's been a minute. Those health problems I had in 2017 reared their ugly head again last year and almost took me out. Me 2 - Death 0. Anyway, my sticks were let unattended for quite a while, again, and a severe mold problem has reemerged in my wineador.

To provide some history, I was using cat litter to manage RH previously and had some mild mold issues. Once I was up and around I wiped off all the sticks and dry boxed them while I used grain alcohol to disinfect my cedar drawers & wineador. After about 2 weeks I refilled the wineador and filled it with new 70% RH beads. 

Got back to the wineador this weekend to find an even more invasive mold problem than before! Almost all of the non-cello sticks have some degree of mold. All the cello sticks appear fine. I was surprised since I have hygrometers in the top, center & bottom drawers all reading 69* & 68% RH So looking to the experts for suggestions. Any chance of saving anything or should I just chuck the all? Suggestions for ridding the fridge & drawers of any lingering mold problem? 

Thanks in advance 

 

[jackupster]

31 minutes ago, Blazer said:

Hey All,

It's been a minute. Those health problems I had in 2017 reared their ugly head again last year and almost took me out. Me 2 - Death 0. Anyway, my sticks were let unattended for quite a while, again, and a severe mold problem has reemerged in my wineador.

To provide some history, I was using cat litter to manage RH previously and had some mild mold issues. Once I was up and around I wiped off all the sticks and dry boxed them while I used grain alcohol to disinfect my cedar drawers & wineador. After about 2 weeks I refilled the wineador and filled it with new 70% RH beads. 

Got back to the wineador this weekend to find an even more invasive mold problem than before! Almost all of the non-cello sticks have some degree of mold. All the cello sticks appear fine. I was surprised since I have hygrometers in the top, center & bottom drawers all reading 69* & 68% RH So looking to the experts for suggestions. Any chance of saving anything or should I just chuck the all? Suggestions for ridding the fridge & drawers of any lingering mold problem? 

Thanks in advance 

 

70% is a bit high for for Cubans. 62-65% is usually preferred but some like a little higher. If they have mold on the foot you should probably toss them. On the wrapper wipe it off and start smoking them. I would keep them separated from any new sticks you get with ziplocks or tupperware. I would clean as much as you can and let it toally dry out and start from scratch again with the wineador. Mold is everywhere and on everything...you just need to keep it under control. 

[Blazer]

On 3/11/2020 at 12:31 PM, jackupster said:

70% is a bit high for for Cubans. 62-65% is usually preferred but some like a little higher. If they have mold on the foot you should probably toss them. On the wrapper wipe it off and start smoking them. I would keep them separated from any new sticks you get with ziplocks or tupperware. I would clean as much as you can and let it toally dry out and start from scratch again with the wineador. Mold is everywhere and on everything...you just need to keep it under control. 

Thanks for the reply. Since I had previously wiped everything down with grain alcohol is there another recommended cleaning solution?

[jackupster]

On 3/15/2020 at 10:50 AM, Blazer said:

Thanks for the reply. Since I had previously wiped everything down with grain alcohol is there another recommended cleaning solution?

I think just let it dry out for a bit. You'll nver get rid of it all short of setting it on fire. You can just reduce the mold and limit it's return. 

 

[havanaclub]

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