How to Freeze and the Science behind it. Long Post

[Silound]

Excellent post!


Some additional information from my own firsthand experiences:

Beetles will eat or gnaw through anything. This includes cellophane, polypropylene bags, freeze bags from airtight sealers,cork, cedar boxes, cardboard packaging, and (drumroll please).....thin aluminum tubes! Yes, I have found tubes that bear the unmistakable small round holes signifying damage from beetles. I've seen it twice, and that was enough for me to even be cautious about tubos too. The only things I trust are glass and hard rubber, and I don't exactly see many cigars in a glass tube or box these days.

Beetles can and DO hatch at 60*. Some are occasionally capable of sustaining life at very low temperatures (not below freezing however) and will still come back to haunt you. The absolute best insurance is to freeze them for a period of time.

[md4958]

Originally Posted by Silound

and I don't exactly see many cigars in a glass tube or box these days.

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Cuesta-Rey Fino Sungrown... just off the top of my head


To Shawn:

Thanks for not putting the temps in F for all us Celcius-impared Americans!

[Cigarcop]

Originally Posted by md4958

To Shawn:

Thanks for not putting the temps in F for all us Celcius-impared Americans!

Heres yah go....Eh

http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm

[md4958]

Originally Posted by Cigarcop

Heres yah go....Eh

http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm

Thanks Keith, but as you know, we Americans are notoriously lazy as well... I would really have preferred if Shawn had done it for me... just sayin!