Rotating cigars in the humidor

[Caesar]

Question for the group:

How often do you rotate your cigars and/or turn them over in the humidor?

If you don't do this semi-regularly, how much will this affect the smoke?

[kyee]

nope, I'd be rotating cigars for hours on end if I had to do this.

[mkz]

The only time the sticks in my humi gets some exercise is when I need something tasty from the bottom...

[SmokinAl]

Mine seem to get smoked so quick as to make revolving them academic.

[skindiver]

I don't really rotate my boxes as such, but seem to be playing a constant rotation based upon the sizes of the boxes, kind of a mixed puzzle game. I think there's a name for that but it escapes me.

[Fuzz]

» I don't really rotate my boxes as such, but seem to be playing a constant

» rotation based upon the sizes of the boxes, kind of a mixed puzzle game. I

» think there's a name for that but it escapes me.

Tetris or Klotski?

[bobsled]

No scheduled rotation, but probably take everything out and reaarrange quarterly based on stock and space issues.

[Colt45]

Count me as one of the guys who only moves things around when trying to make room or dig something

from the bottom. I don't know that that there is an effect either way.

Professor Twain uses a wine cooler and rotates his boxes, as he's found the humidity varies from top to bottom.

Here's a link to the thread:

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[Taino]

never

[KB24]

I do a steady rotation every 3-4 months with the boxes. I'm not so sure it matters but I like taking them all out of the Aristo and seeing what I have and then putting them back in.

-Patrick

[Ziggy]

The only time I rotate my stock is when I know my sticky fingered

relatives are coming over, then I rotate my good stock to the closet and bring out the dog rockets.:-D

[hueynova]

» Count me as one of the guys who only moves things around when trying to

» make room or dig something

» from the bottom. I don't know that that there is an effect either way.

» Professor Twain uses a wine cooler and rotates his boxes, as he's found

» the humidity varies from top to bottom.

»

»

»Only when I need to clear space for a new shipment. Or I'm bored. Or I want something from the bottom.

[El Presidente]

Never.

[Lanthor]

» Question for the group:

»

» How often do you rotate your cigars and/or turn them over in the humidor?

»

» If you don't do this semi-regularly, how much will this affect the smoke?

My humi is fairly small and I have a coolerdor, which almost makes for a revolving system as cigars move from cooler to humi on a pretty regular basis.

This said, I don't think a person could convince me that rotating stock at set intervals is of any value.

[wp2]

I rotate boxes occasionally (Mini, winecoolerdor, frigerdor), but I'm more concerned with having the right humidity in each.

[Mel39]

» Question for the group:

»

» How often do you rotate your cigars and/or turn them over in the humidor?

»

» If you don't do this semi-regularly, how much will this affect the smoke?

I rotate and inspect fairly regularly, usually after a new purchase so as to make room.

I have temperature problems. I am well pleased that I do check, as I found a live beetle recently. It hadn't done much damage that I could see and maybe it wasn't a tobacco beetle. I was so shocked and splatted it before I thought of having a good look. I also found some mould (mold) recently.

I guess if you are running at 70/65-ish all round. then rotation shouldn't be necessary but if you can't guarantee the optimal settings, it pays to play Tetris.

[Mr. Japan]

I rotate at least twice a year , but sometime purchasing several boxes, to make space I move all around.

[sandholm]

never, never thought about it either, if you use a good humidor, with an active humidification unit, who has a fan, the humidity will be the same in the whole humidor

» Question for the group:

»

» How often do you rotate your cigars and/or turn them over in the humidor?

»

» If you don't do this semi-regularly, how much will this affect the smoke?

[Mel]

» The only time I rotate my stock is when I know my sticky fingered

» relatives are coming over, then I rotate my good stock to the closet and

» bring out the dog rockets.:-D

Love this answer! I would never get everything back in the nine humidors.

[Chicago]

»I guess I am in the minority but I keep a stash of loose cigars in my top shelf and need to rotate them as the cigar oasis I use kicks in quite frequently here living in Siberia. If I do not rotate them, they burn crooked.

So there.:-)

[anacostiakat]

Nunca.

I do not rotate the singles drawer either. . .

Demasiado trabajo...

[MaltPointer]

» »I guess I am in the minority but I keep a stash of loose cigars in my top

» shelf and need to rotate them as the cigar oasis I use kicks in quite

» frequently here living in Siberia. If I do not rotate them, they burn

» crooked.

» So there.:-)

I'm with you, Mike.

I haven't been doing this long enough to know for sure, but I have noticed that I get a much cleaner, more uniform burn when I set a stick aside for a couple of days, out of contact with any other cigars, and remember to rotate it a couple of times.

It's on the times I haven't done this that I get a side-burn. Just sayin', is all I'm sayin' . . . .

[El Presidente]

» »I guess I am in the minority but I keep a stash of loose cigars in my top

» shelf and need to rotate them as the cigar oasis I use kicks in quite

» frequently here living in Siberia. If I do not rotate them, they burn

» crooked.

» So there.:-)

I am just lazy mate ;-)

[beezjr]

the only rotation mine get are when i put them in the humi and when i get it out to smoke