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How To Purge Your Cigar
This is quite a neat trick to keep your tobacco fresh when smoking it. There are two different types of purges that you can do.
The first is the dry purge that is mostly done after you toast the end of the foot, usually before your first couple of draws on the cigar. The purpose of this dry purge is to really expel any of the not completely burned tobacco particles. So that you are getting a more full fresher draw when you do start your smoke. It is also a good idea to do a dry purge every so often when you are smoking your cigar.
How you do the dry purge is basically blowing out after you toast the foot, through the cigar. You don’t really have to do it that long, just a couple seconds.
There is another method of doing a purge called a flambé purge. This is usually done when you have been smoking for a little bit and you want to get rid of any particles. While you are purging (blowing through) you will want to toast the foot again, look for a colorful flame. If you are getting a multi-color flame keep going until that seems to disappear. You want to see a flame that is not multi colored, but just a standard looking flame.
You can get multi-colored flames when you have a lot of ammonia in the cigar. So try to get as much of that out as you can.
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Keep Cigars In Cellophane Or Not?
If you attend any event focused around cigars you are going to find that this conversation will come up at some time. Should you keep your cigars in the cellophane or take them out and let them sit there in the humidor without it? Well even representatives from the cigar companies don’t really have a perfect answer for this.
A lot of people like to be able to inhale the aroma of the cigars when they open their humidors. It has a feeling that just can’t be replaced when you keep your cigars in the cellophane.
Most of the representatives at Cigarfest are going to tell you to keep them in the cellophane. However we could never really good a really good answer as to the specifics of why to keep them in the cellophane. What it really comes down to is keeping them safe from outside factors. If they are in the plastic then it is harder to tarnish them. Which makes total sense and I believe in this idea as well.
Basically you are going to have opinions from both sides of the board. You are never going to get a definitive yes or no. This will ultimately come down to what you feel is best for you. If you don’t want the oils from your hands on the cigars when you open the humidor then keep them in the cellophane. This is also only an option if you are constantly handling your cigars quite often. If you are from the category of letting your cigars age and leaving them, then this might not be a concern for you at all.
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