Interesting humidification tester

[benfica_77]

Anyone use one of these before?

[Li Bai]

Yep that's a cigar, one's supposed to smoke them without inhaling, I use them all the time 😁 

The electronic device on the other hand, I don't know what it is 🤔

[ha_banos]

I think there's a couple out there now. Two prongs you poke into the foot of a cigar to tell you the internal humidity ... About 10mm into it. Useless in my books 😊

Ofc you could poke it along the side of the cigar in steps to get the average or variance of humidity along the whole length of the cigar.

Let us know! 😊

[Chibearsv]

My mom used something like that to hold corn on the cob. It didn’t take batteries though 😜

[Chas.Alpha]

When you only have $19.95 left in your monthly discretionary budget.

[cwrightthruya]

There are several on the market now that range in price from about 20usd up to about 500usd. I've used one from cigarmedics for a while. It's precise and accurate enough for my needs. I would only use them for relative comparisons and not total humidity readings. It helped me perform a root cause analysis for why I was getting inconsistencies across cigars stored in my coolidor stack.

I had hot spots from an overhead vent that was funnelling air behind a dresser to a back corner of the stacked coolidor.

Short story, I was getting anywhere from 55% to 67% relative internal humidity. l found that I like to smoke NC and Cuban alike at 63% based on my meter...and voila, my consistency in flavor and wrapper delicacy improved tremendously.

[cwrightthruya]

14 hours ago, ha_banos said:

I think there's a couple out there now. Two prongs you poke into the foot of a cigar to tell you the internal humidity ... About 10mm into it. Useless in my books 😊

Ofc you could poke it along the side of the cigar in steps to get the average or variance of humidity along the whole length of the cigar.

Let us know! 😊

Assuming you poke the foot and then the head, you could simply assume a gradient between the two ends. I did sacrifice a few cigars testing that hypothesis, and for me holds true.