Unlocking the Full Flavor of Your Cigars: A Guide to Properly Dry Boxing 

When I dry box, I also cut the cap when the cigar goes into the box. The thinking here is that the cap insulates that end of the cigar. By cutting it, the cap end can dry out evenly with the foot.

I enjoy humidity at 65 to 68% in both my humidors. And i have recently started to put up to 3 cigars in a small travel cigar case so i have a couple of cigars to choose from. I smoke one cigar a day and this practice has given me better smoking experience.

I haven't tried dry boxing yet but have liked the results of lowering my humidity levels. Started out at 70% and have since slowly made my way down to 65% where I currently like to keep it. Better burns and flavors. I have only been into cigars for a few months so I am still playing around with things to find out where I like them.

I've found 18 to 24 hours works well for me. I thought i was the only person doing this 😂😂

Living in Florida, this is something I need to try. My sticks suck up the humidity from the air here when I’m outside. I’ve lowered my humidors to 65 and it still happens here. I’m going to give this a try.

Great video Tim. I don't dry box but I normally come in the house straight from work, select a stick, cut it, and leave it on the counter while I grab a shower and dinner. That takes usually between 30 minutes to an hour. After dinner I pick out a beverage to pair with my stick and I head to the patio to light and smoke. By the way, my Newair humidor stays around 65 degrees and 69% RH and I rarely have issues.

Hey Tim I love and appreciate all of cigars daily content you guys do. I really would love a video of Tims all time favorite cigars! I think that would be a great vid.

This is exactly what I have been dealing with lately. Wrappers exploding. Going to try lowering the humidity in my tupperdor and will give dry boxing a try. Perfect time for this video. Thx Tim! 😮💨

You’re really informative man, really appreciate all your videos and tips..I haven’t smoked any cigars yet but I’m trying to do plenty research and halfway know what I’m doing before I dive in…plan on buying my first cigars and humidor within the next week or so

I have found I enjoy my cigars a lot more at 63%-65%. The 70% rule is way too humid for my liking. The first 1/2 on a 70% in great but then the moisture builds up as you smoke and the flavour goes down the drain and the burn SUCKS!

I dry box for 4 to 8 hours in the summer. Works pretty well especially as a predominantly maduro smoker.

The exact video I have been needing. Thank you!

I live in PA and keep my humidor at 65 percent. I smoke outside only and typically dont need to dry box. I have dry boxed previously, but only when I purchase over humidified cigars. Great vid Tim as usual brother.

Great video, as always! Thanks!

I keep my tower at 62-65% so don’t typically need to dry box and have zero issues with burns and draw. Now that changes with temperature. Once seasons start to change I definitely dry box to get it use to outside environment especially if it’s damp out.

Thanks Tim,. Here in Virginia it's that time of year when temp and humidity go up and down like a yo-yo. I'll notice my humidors jumping around a little so I have been moving mine to my wood humidor which runs lower from my tupperdors. I'll try this too,thanks.

Man I just decided to look this up and u happened to make a video 2 weeks ago. Hella good info as always

GREAT info, thanks!

Good thing about living by the beach in Florida. Always perfect 60% humidity. 👍

well i finally got my main humidor perfect. I also use a humidimeter to check the cigars to make sure . Here in FL though i usually drobox when the temp is very different where i smoke from where i store

Thank you for this video!!!

Very helpful... explains a lot

I’ll give it a try. It gets really humid in the summer in Texas.

I recommend using a couple cheap govee units, like just the Bluetooth ones. Put one in the box but also track the RH outside the box.

Hey Tim, anyone ever tell you your a bad ass? Thanks for all your videos, they really help a lot no matter how much experience one has. 🤘🏼

Love the videos tim keep up the great work…. Im stoked to get my FLVR cigars !!

Just started doing this. I live in West Texas and had issues with wrappers exploding on me. I try keeping my cigars at around 69% humidity in my humidor. Which is much higher than humidity outdoors when I smoke. Thanks for a well thought out video

The only dry boxing I did, was some Dominicans and a Partagas Corona, that I kept in a box in lack of a humidor. For 20+ years. I hope they get back in shape, if I let them sit in my humidor for the next year.

Hello Tim, Charlie Factor here, I have been testing with Cigar Medics Humidity meter and I am amazed how hard it is here in the North East to keep cigars above 65. They come in the box, with wrappers on, at 60 to 62, every box I buy, locally or online is like that. The humidity here all winter is 25%RH to 35%RH, even now in spring it is 40% at my office and at home due to heating systems. I keep my Needone at 70 and strip all cigars of wrappers and after a month in there they still read 66, it seams they get dry a lot easier than they pick up moisture. After 3 months they read around 68. The air outside in winter here is 0% humidity 20 degrees out- with stoves burning away, our home humidifier put 6 gallons a day into the air and it makes little difference, its an ongoing battle. Wooden humidors don't work here at all, in winter, a salad bowl of water won't get that thing past 65%. I saw your advice about the Brilliance line from rubber maid, now I understand why you advise that. Thanks for your input, I'll keep watching and learning.

Wet here in eastern NC. Even in the house, it rarely gets below 50%. I use 65% and 62% bovedas in tandem. I'll soak the 65's in distilled water when they dry out and reuse them. I almost never have to do anything with the 62's as long as I stay on top of rehydrating the 65's. Generally, I just sit cigars on the counter or on a table outside if I intend to smoke it anytime with the next several hours. If I intend to smoke it within the hour, I'll go ahead and pull it out of the cellophane, otherwise I leave it on. Mostly I'll leave it to protect it from damage, but also, I feel like it will dehumidify more evenly in the cellophane. I have no idea if that's true. Sometimes, if I need to dry out an over humidified cigar, (say something from a box that just came in the mail) I'll actually stick it in the fridge for a while, where the humidity is around 33%.

im just in the few months of my cigar path an i havent dryboxed my cigars yet. living in western washington its hard to tell what the humidity is going to be but i normaly shoot to have my desk top humidor at around 69% an the other 5 jars have 2 mini 69% packs in them an the tuperdors have 72% packs

I live in Colorado and was we had an extremely wet summer. Flooding, etc. I struggled to keep my cigars below 80%! Now it is dry again and a certain brand i love the wraps are exploding. I am struggling to keep them above 60% even with two humidity packs in a 20 cigar cedar humidor. I wish i saw this vid before when the humidity was nuts. My cogars were rough to smoke and i had mold start in my humidor.

Going to start doing it. My last 3 cigars have had uneven burns or part of the wrapper wouldn’t burn at all. Different brands bought at different times. Only thing that’s the same is I seasoned a new humidor and have it set at 68% and my other humidor was at 72%. I think they’re a little wet.

No matter what the humity is in my box, I always take them out of the cellophane and let them air out for at least an hour. It always helps with the shock.

I love the Tatuaje pork tenderloins, I’ve had maybe seven so far, and I’ve had to touch up and relight every one. I’m thinking these bad boys are just wet out of the box(or butcher paper).

I may have to try this. I usually leave my cigar out for 10-20min after removing the cellophane

I live in central Texas. Humidity varies but it’s mostly more humid than dry. I’ve been having trouble with my cigars, not issues with exploding wrapper but having to re light them often and struggling to keep them lit. I feel like it may be over humidified. I use a Govee digital hygrometer and bóveda packs to keep them at around 74 degrees Fahrenheit and 65 percent humidity.

I have been having issues even from my local cigar shop. Wrappers peel and explode. I tend to leave cigars out or in a box for anywhere between a half our to 24 hours in the general environmental conditions I will be in when I smoke them. It has greatly diminished the issue. However I have a friend who still seems to be having issues with the wrapper leaf exploding and I wonder if it has something to do with how fast he smokes it.

I had an issue with trying to smoke a cigar outside 50 degrees like 30% humidty. Cigar was kept between 66-70 degrees and roughly 68% RH. Cigar just tasted and felt really dry and harsh. No visual issues with wrapper or anything.

I live in Rhode Island, and in the winter I would dry box my morning smoke over night and my after dinner in the morning - say 8 hours each. However, in the summer it's half the time. Don't ask me why, it seems counter intuitive, but I found that my wrapper cracks in the cold air if I don't do it for longer in the winter

Thanks

Hello Tim! I'm a huge fan from Sweden and I just had my first bad experience with a la Galera box Pressed 1936. I have a humidor that's 67% too 69% and the other day when I lit my box presser 1963 la Galera I just couldn't keep it alive or keep the draw even. Do you have any tips for a northerner on how to store cigars better?

Thanks for the video Tim, I live in a very humid climate. My humidor is 65%RH and my cigar boxes outside are reading 71%RH. In a few weeks it will be 90-100 humidy outside. With this in mind, is there any way for me to dry box or would it be counter productive?

If people would just store at a lower humidity in the first place, no need to dry box. I have that Cigarmedics humidity meter and it's a game changer for me.

I dry box by leaving my cigar outside for 2 hours where i always smoke. The cigar gets a little harder and burns perfectly. I live in a humid place. My humadore stays between 67-70. And if i dont, the burn at times not even and the smoke out put is less. I suggest to take ur cigar out and keep it the place where you gonna smoke. 2 hour periods gets my cigar at the right temperature and humidity.

Have you gotten to try all the sticks you have in your Shop or are there still some You haven't smoked and if so will you ever smoke them?

My humidor is fairly cold, occasionally reaching as low as 16 degrees celcius. This because I cool it by putting an ice pack on top of it, with a small towel in between, folded 2 times (4 layers of cloth), which I replace every 12 hours. This keeps the temperature between 16 and 20 degrees at all times (sometimes reaching close to 21 degrees), but it varies during those 12 hours obviously. Will this slow the aging process by alot or should it be fine in this temperature range? Humidity also varies but stays between 65 and 69 percent at all times. Thanks.

In the South humidity is between 75% and 100% during the summer.

I live in NC and I have to dry box all of my cigars for a few days before smoking them. For me it has absolutely nothing to do with draw, burn, or exploding wrappers, though stuff like that does happen on occasion. It all has to do with taste. If I don't dry box them they taste so extremely sour, bitter, and just plain nasty. Especially in the middle third. I use a Cigarmedics Humidimeter Pro to check them and I've found that they have to be between 55%-60% preferably and they are ok as low as 50% and as high as 62% at an absolute max, inorder for them to taste like they are supposed to. I try to keep my humidor between 62%-65%. I've also found that dry boxing is far more important in the summer than it is in the winter for me. It can actually be quite a struggle in the summer to get a decent tasting cigar. Usually I don't like the winter in general, but the winter has turned out to be my smoking happy place just because it's not as hard to maintain my cigars for a good taste.

Hi! Where i live the winters are realy cold and dry, the summers are cold ish and humid. Could it help to change the humidity in my humidor depending on the season, to help shorten the time i need to dry-box my cigars? My schedule makes it hard to plan for when i have time to sit down and light up.

Dlove done changed the game he is the first one to speak on this.

What about if i live in a very humid place, how do i lower humidity?

have u tried cigars from tabacalera incorporada? Its the oldest manufacturer of cigars not only in the philippines but in asia! People say they are one of the best and level with cuban cigars and the like. The most famous and favorites are the 1881’s and also the tabacalera

Cigar Medic helps too

Is this a dry area problem? I live in Oregon always wet

Yay! I'm the "1000" like!

Hey guys does anybody know how to remove the bottom shelf of the NewAir 840 count coolidor????????! PLZZZZ

Where did you get that humidor?

ok, I am new to cigars and need some help understanding this.... If cigars smoke better at a lower humidity, like 60-65%, why not just store cigars at this humidity?

Smoke em if you got them (There’s no point in just looking at them in your humidor. Use them for what they were intended for….PURE ENJOYMENT !)

In timing I find an hour is good but my humidity is at 65% and temp is 72 and that works the best in my house

I always keep the cellophane on my cigars unless they come without them...

Noone has a couple days worth of patience. Hell, i dont have 1-3 hours of patience. When its go time, its GO time.

I'll just ask my wife how she does it...

I want that shirt

I bought some Oliva V melanio gran reserva limitada and they were absolutely unsmokeable. Way too loose

why not just leave it on the counter to get humidity out quicker?

Daammm man!! You lost mad weight

Sounds like a low humidity high heat desert problem.

Don’t use a box just set it on the counter for 4-8 hours before I smoke it.

That was exactly what I asked. “What the hell is dry boxing.”

Mr. Jonathan has a different method he calls dry boxing.

My humidor is my dry box

Everything in cigars is subjective apparently.

So, are you ever gonna publicly talk about why Dustin got fired? I know I keep beating a dead horse by commenting on these videos, but as somebody will openly and honestly call somebody a brother like you used to call him, I couldn’t imagine hurting them so bad that they would be so upset with me. I guess us and the service have a bit more understanding and compassion for using that term with somebody. We don’t just throw it around for no reason like you did.

And every cigar holds different humidity levels

Seems like way too much work.

70% to 72% isn't high. To you its high because you keep yours extremely low. I've been smoking for over 20 years and if I go as low as you my cigars get a nasty flavor and burn really fast. The wrapper is brittle and cracks easily. The lowest I will go is 68%. To each his own but to say 70% to 72% is high humidity is false.

11 minute video to impart about 2 1/2 minutes of information which doesn’t begin until about the five minute mark. What is dry boxing? Taking cigars out of a humidor and placing in a dry wooden box in order to allow them to acclimate to each other, the relative ambient humidity, and relax before smoking. Next… repeat non-pertinent information four or even five times throughout the video as to why people want to dry box.

WRONG!... Are your cigars are too humid? ... Then change the boveda packs, DONE!.... Dry Boxing is for the amateurs who don't know what they're doing.

This was a lot of filler information over and over and over again

Worst video ever.

Its overrated. If u know what to do u have no problem..