Wineador drawer question

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Originally Posted by Zeede

Coolerador?

Otherwise the other thing you could try doing is only putting in one drawer at a time. If it's bursting at the seams with cedar and cigars, those will help act as a buffer. Hopefully just one drawer at a time won't drop the RH too quickly. I'd also try to not put any cigars directly touching the new drawer.

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I actually found that I have a medium sized cooler that I forgot about and I think it will work great to hold my sticks until the drawers are ready.

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Originally Posted by AuTechCoM

Lots of info here: http://www.cigarbum.com/forum/showth...ormation/page4

and a shameless plug for my build thread: http://www.cigarbum.com/forum/showth...0e-guide/page2

I personally took 4 disposable Ziploc containers and put a sponge in each and then filled each with enough water to go halfway up the sponge. it worked really good. but I would wait a little longer than i did because the drawers still could have seasoned a little more but it evened out fairly quick.

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Shameless plugs are very welcome here.

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Originally Posted by tjhemp

Shameless plugs are very welcome here.

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Now that I had a second to re-read your question...

I only seasoned mine for 3 days before i became impatient. I think if you just throw your cigars in a cooler in the meantime you should be fine. but a few other BOTLs said "just load her up and let it season over time." I don't know if i fully agree with that advice but it sure didn't change the outcome for me. since my drawers were still sucking up moisture for a few weeks. i just noticed that I had to recharge my HF Beads every few days to a week but now it is solid and I haven't had to recharge in over a month i think.

Most cedar comes kiln dried, so basically zero humidity. Most places the ambient humidity is 30-50%. So you could just have the drawers out in the open for a week or two and they'd naturally start absorbing some humidity. Then if you were to just drop them in the wineador with the cigars the relative difference would be less.

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Originally Posted by Zeede

Most cedar comes kiln dried, so basically zero humidity. Most places the ambient humidity is 30-50%. So you could just have the drawers out in the open for a week or two and they'd naturally start absorbing some humidity. Then if you were to just drop them in the wineador with the cigars the relative difference would be less.

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Mine came in pretty dry.

Mind you mine were made and shipped in the winter.

When I put just the brand new drawers in the wineador and let it sit for about 6hrs, it showed a 42% RH.

That was a good clue for me that they needed to be seasoned, lol.

I made the massive mistake of seasoning my drawers when I got them. I was stuck at 80% rh for over a week. Seasoning is definitely not required in Florida. I actually never have to recharge my beads. On the contrary...I actually have to nuke them every few months to remove the humidity. So results will vary a little to a lot depending on geographic location.

Then the second huge mistake was that I thought my collection would fit in a single 28-bottle wineador. I was mistaken by about 300 sticks. A year later and I still have overflow in the old coolidor. So far I have managed to resist the urge to build a 2nd one but its inevitable :D

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Originally Posted by projectsunfire

I made the massive mistake of seasoning my drawers when I got them. I was stuck at 80% rh for over a week. Seasoning is definitely not required in Florida. I actually never have to recharge my beads. On the contrary...I actually have to nuke them every few months to remove the humidity. So results will vary a little to a lot depending on geographic location.

Then the second huge mistake was that I thought my collection would fit in a single 28-bottle wineador. I was mistaken by about 300 sticks. A year later and I still have overflow in the old coolidor. So far I have managed to resist the urge to build a 2nd one but its inevitable :D

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I am afraid this could be me in short order.

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Originally Posted by projectsunfire

I was mistaken by about 300 sticks.

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...yeah...I'm not even remotely in the same neighborhood as you are...

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Originally Posted by Zeede

...yeah...I'm not even remotely in the same neighborhood as you are...

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Just give it time... ;)

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Originally Posted by jhedrick83

Just give it time... ;)

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Ditto. This is a very slippery slope.