What's your storage method

[Cardinal]

In plastic bags inside a big filing cabinet. Check it out:



Some leaves:


Some more leaves:


Yet more leaves:


Well now, this is getting ridiculous:


And here's some jars of condiment blending components - cavendish, latakia, etc.;


And because they're in the vicinity, my rolling supplies and implements:


The leaves get a little dried out in the plastic bags, so I always have to rehydrate before rolling or blending/pressing. I should figure out a better way to store them. I could probably put some big tupperdors in the filing cabinet drawers.

Anyway, more than you asked for, but there it is, Bruck's Tobacco Library

What's your estimate on the number of cigars that leaf will turn into? Say in a toro on average.

Man, I want to try that someday. Too many hobbies, not enough time.

[Bruck]

What's your estimate on the number of cigars that leaf will turn into? Say in a toro on average.

Man, I want to try that someday. Too many hobbies, not enough time.

Not as many as you'd think, really. I did a calculation the other day and found that I get on the average about 17 or 18 cigars per pound of tobacco. Now mind you, that's a broad average, as there are 3 main categories of leaf - wrapper, binder, and filler - and you use varying quantities of each. Also, rolling produces a lot of scrap, which I don't recycle into cigars.

Also, most of the leaves in my library are more suited to pipe tobacco production, which is also where I recycle my scrap into. For pipe tobacco I usually make little bricks of pressed flake.

So to answer your question, I've only got a few pounds of cigar tobacco on hand, so approx. 50 to 60 cigars could be extruded from current stocks. But for making bricks of flake (4"x4"x0.5-0.75"), I could only guess, but probably on the order of a couple dozen.

...which is why I don't buy a lot of cigars or finished tobacco. Who am I trying to kid? Yes I do

[WNYTONY]

@WNYTONY

3 wineadors

That would be 2 wineadors


but I do have an empty cooler sitting around that could be pressed into service if you keep dropping on me

[Skillett]

Never had thought of that, of course I'm kinda slow anyways. If it works, let it and more power to you. I do have trouble with temps in my house and never have landed a good temp location here in the summer.

[Indyhp]

I have a cheap 50-count desktop at the office and a 1000-count Aristocrat "Mini" active humidified endtable humi at home.

[steelman]

I have 2 wineadors. 1 for CCs and 1 for NCs. I use kitty litter in both for humidification. 62% for CCs and 64% for NCs. They are in the basement which stays around 68 degrees. I also have a 20 count desktop upstairs to use as a sort of drybox to store my current smokeables in.

[Tombstone]

I use multiple wooden humidors as well as a coolidor. I plan on building a humidor into my bar one day.

[Herf N Turf]

Can't vote twice...so I use a wineador primarily but still have a large coolidor that I have been slowly trying to empty. For me temperature control is a necessity so the wineador is the best choice

Yeah, that might be argued to be flaw in the polling, since so many of us are "hybrids".

I'm a bit surprised that a traditional is as far behind as it is. I figured most people would be wine/coolerdor users for primary storage, but not buy a 4-1 margin.

I think the reason is that most of us are not "traditional" cigar storers. We tend to have a lot more than your usual B&M purchasers, who more often than not have one, small, less than half-full wooden humidor.

Primary storage is a NewAir cc-280E wineador. I pretty much use that for my CC's and it's almost full. I also run two tupperdors for my NC's. And in the past few weeks I setup a coolidor for longer term storage of CC boxes I'm going to lay down to sleep.

After three sentences you're so tired you have to lay down to sleep, lol!


I managed with one Edgestar 28 for about a year. It's packed full and I'm pretty deft at cigar tetrus. Alas, mostly due to the pounding you guys laid on me when we launched the board, I've been forced to creep back into my largest wooden humidor. Not such a bad problem to have.

The Edgestar is outfitted with 6 Waxingmoon drawers, made from SC and Virginia Wormy Chestnut. Nice touch on Ed's side, since he knows I'm a proud Virginian. All the drawers are packed, as I said, and I have four boxes of CC laying on top of the top drawer. I use Bovedas in there to save space.

The big wooden humi is a RyJ Limited Edition Contemporary Model 11, which is Mohagany and dark stained quilted maple. It's got three levels with two shelves and holds in the neighborhood of 250 sticks. I run HF beads in that guy.

[TreySC]

That would be 2 wineadors


but I do have an empty cooler sitting around that could be pressed into service if you keep dropping on me

So you're saying you have room?

[WNYTONY]

So you're saying you have room?

I would after I run down to the post office.......