A cigar box is attractive, but it provides little protection for its contents. To keep your favorite cigars rich and flavorful, humidors are your best storage option. In this article, we’ll show you how one works and how it improves the taste of your cigars.

A humidor is any kind of box or room with constant humidity and is used to store cigars or pipe tobacco. For private use, small wooden or acrylic glass boxes that can store a few dozen of them are used. Tobacco shops may have massive walk-in, humidity controlled rooms that can cover an entire whole floor. Whatever the size, they use hygrometers to keep track of the humidity levels. The ideal humidity inside one is around 65-75%. The more empty space, the more readily the humidity will drop.

Cigar humidors are typically made of wood board with an interior veneer of Spanish-cedar wood or mahogany. Spanish-cedar is the most frequently used wood for the interior veneer because it holds more moisture than most woods, so it helps maintain humidity. As a bonus, it imparts its aroma to cigars if they are stored in it long enough.

For the same reason, some of them are wrapped in Spanish-cedar sheets before they are sold. Spanish-cedar wood can also repel tobacco beetles. These pinhead-sized beetles can ruin entire stocks. They eat the tobacco and lay eggs which causes further infestation.

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