Rehydrate Dried Out Cigars?

[DCP]

Because of life, I let my cigars go they are dried out.

Anyone Rehydrate Dried Out Cigars?

The cigar store said mist-spray them with distilled water.
Let them sit 10min then dry them-it and smoke.
Seem like, not a lot of time!

[kens]

I have not had good luck rehydrating.
I would not mist them, if they are too wet they may come apart.
I would put them in the humidor with a heavy dose of moisture for quite some time, and try to let them absorb moisture content slowly.
Another decent way is to take a plastic cigar wrapper and insert a wet cotton ball into the wrapper, then put that plus a few cigars in a ziplock baggie.
You want the cigars to be exposed to moisture, but not actually touch water.

[bdicki]

A trip to the Virgin Islands this week should do the trick. But then you might be asking how to dry them.

[Taylor]

Put them in a zip lock,add a slice of apple or two.Give it a day or so.That's the way my granddad did his pipe tobacco and I keep a slice in my humidor.

[imashooter2]

A week in the humidor for every day out of it. If you've left them out for a month or more, don't be surprised if they never come back.

[Kraschenbirn]

I buy almost all of my cigars online and, despite careful packaging by my favorite vendor, they inevitably arrive a little on the dry side so I remove the outer packaging, leaving the cigars in their individual wrappers, and place them in a humidor for a couple weeks before putting a flame to them. If the outer wrappers of your cigars are still intact and not cracked/flaking, they might be salvageable. You can jury-rig a serviceable humidor using large Tupperware container and a piece of wet sponge in a small container (margarine tub?) of bottled water. Put 'em in the Tupperware with the wet sponge (in its open container) and put on the Tupperware lid. Leave it for a couple weeks at indoor temperature before lighting up one of your smokes and, if they're still too dry for your taste, refresh the wet sponge and give 'em another week or two before tossing 'em out.

Last weekend, I ran across a very nice cedar humidor at an estate sale and, when I opened it, I almost wept. It was 2/3 full of high quality cigars...all (literally!!) dessicated to extinction. Seller said it had belonged to an uncle who died last year and until she and her aunt had cleaned out his workshop for the sale, no one had opened it since he past away.

Bill

[Multigunner]

I have a ceramic hydrator disc in a aluminum casing that I use to rehydrate dried out tobacco. You should be able to find something like this at a tobacco shop. The apple core in a plastic bag trick does work very nicely. Orange peels also work well. Only possible difficulty is when the tobacco takes on a fruity flavor, but it never bothered me.

[Larry Gibson]

Put them in a Tupperware container with lid. Form a small bowl out of tin foil. Put a small chunk of soaking wet sponge (water) in the tin foil. Put sliced apples, slices of oranges or whatever if you want a slight flavor to the cigars. You need moisture to rehydrate the cigars; the more cigars and drier they are the more moisture is needed to hydrate.

Seal the lid on and put in refrigerator making sure the sponge or fruit are not touching the cigars. Put on a windowsill will rehydrate faster but watch out for mould.

[Wayne Smith]

Smell them. If you smell mold throw them out. If clean tobacco rehydrate - I like the fruit flavor or a little whiskey in the water.

[jsizemore]

A Herco clay instrument humidifier is a cheap and simple way to keep the humidity up without the mold issue.

[jcwit]

No idea about cigars, but when my pipe tobacco gets to dry I leave it outside on a humid night with the lid off and by morning it's right back to how I like it for smoking.

works well for pipe tobacco, not sure about cigars.

[koehn,jim]

I have good luck re-hydrating cigars by raising the humididy slowly. If you go too fast the cigar will swell and crack the wrapper, if that happens they are toast.

[jcwit]

dpend son the tobacco. not all tobacco is tobacco.

MOST pipe tobacco, say borkum riff and captain black, and similar Lane pipe tobacco, has so much propylene glycol, that it CANT dry out.

but then what I smoke is Half & Half and Prince Albert!



Regarding the "can't dry out", try it after 10 years after sitting on the shelf, YUP Borkum Riff & Captain black can and does dry out, believe me I know!