View Full Version : Cello or no
sparky426
03-21-2015, 01:45 AM
I couldn't help myself, so lets hear it. Guys that have stripped all stogies and ones that don't. If i buy a single and it's got one I leave it on. Reasoning,I play with my sticks too much. Insert inappropriate joke here.....
Dijit
03-21-2015, 05:18 AM
I always leave the cello on. IT protects the cigar from skin oils and abrasions from being moved within the humidor. Some may say this isnt necessary but I have a couple older sticks over 4 years old and no cello on them and the wrappers definitely are showing the wear and tear on them. The cello breathes almost as well as no wrapper and as long as the sticks are kept in the correct atmosphere it really makes no difference flavor wise that I have ever been able to detect.
anthony d
03-21-2015, 06:26 AM
I always take the cello off. Just habit, and for aesthetics in the humi really.
Tgs679
03-21-2015, 06:48 AM
I leave them on.
Tobias Lutz
03-21-2015, 07:00 AM
I used to strip them when I stored at 69, since dropping to 58-60, I leave cello on for the protection when I go digging through the stacks :)
steelman
03-21-2015, 07:08 AM
Take them off here...
MattyMatt
03-21-2015, 07:26 AM
I leave it on.
x6ftundx
03-21-2015, 07:28 AM
I leave them on so they don't mingle odors together. I don't know if that is true or not but that's what I think.
Old Smokey
03-21-2015, 07:44 AM
I leave them the way God made em.
zeebee
03-21-2015, 08:28 AM
I used to go naked, but since getting involved with trades here and lacking 5 finger bags, I've become a cello on guy. Plus, yellow cello is gratifying.
Cool Breeze
03-21-2015, 08:38 AM
On for me. Sure they look better sitting in a nice humidor naked, but in my tuperdore I don't thin looks really means much. :)
I want the added protection, especially if it is a higher end stick.
Indyhp
03-21-2015, 08:45 AM
I store at 65 and naked sticks tend to suffer wrapper damage as I paw around in my humidor deciding what to smoke. If it comes with a prophyactic, I leave it on to prevent damage to the wrapper.
jhedrick83
03-21-2015, 09:29 AM
I leave them the way God made em.
Same here. It can provide a nice layer of protection, but if they come cello free, whatever. Just remember if you get a CC in cello, maybe don't smoke it.... :rolleyes:
debated this for years, finally decided if it comes with cello, it stays in cello...if it comes bare I put it with other bare ones.
johnnyflake
03-21-2015, 09:33 AM
I always leave the cello on. IT protects the cigar from skin oils and abrasions from being moved within the humidor. Some may say this isnt necessary but I have a couple older sticks over 4 years old and no cello on them and the wrappers definitely are showing the wear and tear on them. The cello breathes almost as well as no wrapper and as long as the sticks are kept in the correct atmosphere it really makes no difference flavor wise that I have ever been able to detect.
This is excellent advise!
If the manufacture didn't want them stored without the cello, they would not have put it on the cigars in the first place. Storing the cigars with the cello on ,as intended, is the right way to go.
I'm not overly concerned with time it takes to acclimate my cigars. Leave it on. However, I never put it on if it comes naked.
Bruck
03-21-2015, 10:26 AM
I've found that cigars taste a lot better if you remove the cello before lighting.
jhedrick83
03-21-2015, 10:33 AM
I've found that cigars taste a lot better if you remove the cello before lighting.
That reminds my how much I miss the El Bubble review...
Bruck
03-21-2015, 10:50 AM
That reminds my how much I miss the El Bubble review...
Yes, that was a classic! Here's a link to it: http://www.puff.com/forums/vb/non-habanos-reviews/335972-el-bubble.html
I didn't write it, so I think it's illegal for me to copy it over here.
Dijit
03-21-2015, 11:29 AM
Yes, that was a classic! Here's a link to it: http://www.puff.com/forums/vb/non-habanos-reviews/335972-el-bubble.html
I didn't write it, so I think it's illegal for me to copy it over here.
Now that is some funny chit right there! I dont care who you are, thats funny.
Lostmason
03-21-2015, 11:41 AM
I personally prefer the violin,, but as to my smokes I leave them as they come,on or off doesn't make a big enough difference to me.
The vast majority of the cigars I have/ buy don't come with cello on; but when I get cigars with cello I just leave it on.
FireRunner
03-21-2015, 01:12 PM
90% of the time the cello comes off. They are easier to stack and typically my cigars are not moved much.
El Whedo
03-21-2015, 01:40 PM
Cello on!
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Horseshoe
03-21-2015, 01:43 PM
The cigars are stored how they came. Some on some off. I think I prefer on to prevent some wrapper damage.
jhedrick83
03-21-2015, 01:47 PM
http://www.cinemablend.com/images/sections/55328/_1367615346.jpg
I know what this guy votes.... Couldn't help it.
Mister Moo
03-21-2015, 03:07 PM
Either on or off depending. In both cases I am dissatisfied.
johnnyflake
03-21-2015, 03:13 PM
Either on or off depending. In both cases I am dissatisfied.
You lost me brother!
I've found that cigars taste a lot better if you remove the cello before lighting.
That's crazy talk! What next? Remove band?
RogueBallBoy
03-21-2015, 09:40 PM
I switched to naked a few months ago, but only in a 50 count outside of my fridge. They have taken a beating as I rummage through them so I'm going back to "on".
HTML5 Gordon
03-21-2015, 10:25 PM
I leave them on if they came in one. Since I have so many cigars, I usually don't around get to smoking new stock for at least a year (or more, depending on the cigar). And... I am horrible about dating my cigars, so the amount of yellowing on the cello gives me some idea of how long they've been in there. ;)
I've found that cigars taste a lot better if you remove the cello before lighting.
Draw is better, too..
Bruck
03-22-2015, 01:33 PM
That's crazy talk! What next? Remove band?
True confessions, a time or two I have forgotten to remove the band while smoking in the dark.
Mister Moo
03-23-2015, 07:01 AM
You lost me brother!
1. If I take the cellophane off I always crack a wrapper or fray an end; and
2. if I leave it on I feel like I am strangling my cigars or impregnating them with some kind of hydrocarbon toxin (which I am not - cellophane is both permeable and pretty much non-toxic once clear of the manufacturing site).
Sometimes I take the cello off but then put it back on a more valuable or fragile vitola to increase the overall value/survivability quotient. So that's cello off-and-on; no accounting for that in the on/off polls.
Then, sometimes, I find an old Fuente-Fuente OpusX #4, upon which I ALWAYS leave the cellophane, in the Opus box without a cellophane jacket; no telling where it went or why. That's cello-on-vanished again with no category.
Then sometimes I find the '98 Upmann churchills or some creme-de-la-creme Bolivars in the humidor that were delivered without cellophane but I always wished they HAD come with cellophane.
I am one of those people who is never satisfied. I similarly worried about pipe tobacco, jarred or tinned but, now, I just smoke the stuff and forget about it.