Posted: 7/30/2009 10:03:38 PM EDT
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this past weekend the AC went out in my house and the humidity went way up the only two sticks in my humi to get effected were my cohibas the developed a small white fur on the outside
I put them in the frezer to stop any further groth is there anything I can do to salvage these or are they gone? |
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Sorry, could have save the cigars if you did not put the cigars in the freezer.
Hopefully they are not in there for too long. Molds on the wrapper could be wiped off and smoked. You need to clean the humidor thou, it might have spores. Place humidor open under the sun for a day or so, then re-season the humidor. Molds on the foot and head is game over for the cigar, especially blue-green molds, unless you want to get sick. |
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Slowly warm them up, move them to the fridge, then back to the humidor, or back to the humidor with small blue ice and let them warm up slowly.
Worse case is cracked wrapper, which is 60% of the flavor. Wipe off the mold, amd smoke them as soon as they are room temperature. You will eventually have to kill the potential spores with direct sunlight or UV light, and re-season humidor. Good luck. |
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There is nothing wrong with freezing cigars, lots of people do this to help reduce the chance of beetles, even some factories used to.
As long as you take your time and they aren't left in the freezer or fridge too long you'll be fine. Move them from the freezer to the fridge, first the back then the front then allow them to warm to room temp. Also, bloom (or ploom or blume) is VERY rare and will not grow just on one part of a cigar over the course of a few days. Bloom appears uniform and is crystalized not "fuzzy" |
oh well all seems well will be re-seasoning soon anyhow