Here are my coolers : My Coleman 5qt flip lid to go cooler: My Clevelander’s I bought one on sale for $236 ( normal is $295) The other one was bought used from flea bay for around $150, if I remember correctly. I like them because they have actual trays rather than shelves so nothing rolls off. Capacity says 250 but 150 loose is a load, I bought two trays from amazon so I could add one to each on the bottom. The only thing I don’t really like is the temp maxes out @ 65*. My Coleman 16qt & Xicar travel humidor for flavored My Igloo coolers : The blue is all singles, the 2 red ones are mostly boxes, cigarillos with a few singles. Or did I totally misunderstand & you wanted to see how I packed them in there ?
Well, I mean staring at stacks of stogies is always cool too, but I was more curious how you were holding it all. "Coolidor" is a crossover term to most and you use both of them. The electric coolers and the actual coolers, Coleman types. I always kinda wanted one of the electric coolers, but never did get one. I think when they size these things, and regular wooden humidors as well, they must use small cigars or else they just cram that sucker so full you can't even get to anything in it unless it's right in front. I get a bit weird about organizing stuff. It's why I never got another humidor, until I can get a big one that holds everything in one place. I have a hard enough time keeping the 2 I have, in the range I like them.
I get the organization part, I got all bothered by just loose cigars & loose cigars in ziplock bags. I always want a spot for everything. That’s why I bought some trays to hold loose cigars & liked the trays in the Clevelanders, although the Clevelanders trays don’t have dividers. Once I started using Heartfelt beads (65%) I haven’t had any trouble at all with humidity, it’s always 65% - 68%. Using the humidifiers that came with a couple wooden humidors or humicare humidifiers, the humidity was always way high it seemed. I took them apart removed the foam/beads, washed them then added Heartfelt beads to them. I have one humicare jar & that’s in my flavored cigars & it seems to work well & a couple small sticks in one 50 count wooden humidor that seem to hold a constant humidity. 1/2# bags in a couple bigger wooden humidors 1# bags in the coolers & Clevelanders Plastic humidifiers gutted with Heartfelt beads added to them The Humi-jar & Humi-sticks The smaller trays I bought for the Clevelanders & two that I stack on top of the larger trays in the cooler. I should of left the cellophane on my cigars & just snipped the ends so different types don’t intermingle flavors when touching.
The Monte Cristo tray..........nice. Nice layout. I'm gona have to look into the Heartfelt beads things. I use Boveda packs and they do pretty good. I'd like to find a setup that is a one time cost and be done with it. Kinda another reason I'd like to do 1 big humidor. Then I could get one of those electric Oasis type humidifiers and focus on 1 setup. There's been a couple times I spaced off replacing the Boveda packs in my foot locker and humidity got down to about 45%. Not the end of the world, but I just want to try to keep things as simple as possible. I'm good at spacing things off sometimes.
Sooo, I was going thru my coolers trying to make room & organize things when I came across a box of Cohiba Puro Dominicana Churchills that I had totally forgot I had. I looked up when I got them & what I paid, it was less than they are going for on CB now.
You know you get after things, when you are 3 or 4 months into a hobby and forget about stuff like you've been at it for decades. Lol That's awesome man! I need to get me some Cohibas and give them a try. Churchhills are about too much at one time for me.
The Puro Dominicana Churchills are 7” x 49 so not to bad on ring size, it’s the ones around 54 ring gauge or the 6”x 60’s Gordon’s that require some time for me. I still haven’t fired up one of my 8” x 80 Lunatics. I gave one to a cousin today, I am curious as to long it’s takes him to smoke it what he thinks of it.
Good grief! 8x80! I don't think I'd even be able to do that in one sitting. By the time I get to the end of my longer Platinums, I'm ready for it to be done. I prefer smaller ring gauges myself. Unfortunately, I can't get my favorites in smaller ring gauges, but I do like them more. That's another reason I bought those nubs, to shorten the time it takes to smoke them. I don't like doing anything when I smoke, but don't jist like sitting around all the time either.
Had this one tonight. And yes, I do have one rocky patel flor de san andres left. Had a bit too much nicotine for me, I ended it early.........or maybe the "buzz" came from the rum I was drinking?
Just sitting down... Boiled about 10.5 dozen eggs today and put them in jalapeno's pickling solution... I did add a few Ghost Peppers and Scorpions into the mix in a couple of them... Just to enhance the heat... But having water and a Diesel Shorty...
I hope the wind starts blowing out of the north… Lots of folks like them but they sound like heartburn, gut ache & a lot of seat time too me. I had a Diesel yesterday afternoon & a Whiskey Row Sherry Cask last night
After cutting another load of firewood & some fence posts today, I hopped in the pool at my folks place. And am now having my first one of these & waiting on supper. Mother is having a back to school supper for her grandkids that are heading to college & K-12.
Gonna try this one out tonight, fireside. More pics to come hopefully. I’m fairly certain this came from the one and only JimBear Thanks brother sitting at 68f currently but breezy. Still, a nice night for a fire on the patio.
