Cello or no

[sparky426]

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]

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.

[johnnyflake]

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.

[anthony d]

I always take the cello off. Just habit, and for aesthetics in the humi really.

[Tgs679]

I leave them on.

[Tobias Lutz]

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]

Take them off here...

[MattyMatt]

I leave it on.

[x6ftundx]

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]

I leave them the way God made em.