The Half Ashed Cigar Forum

^^^ Your just rubbing it in (or one out as Kip would say) with the whole been to Cuba 3 times thing. Jealous.

I have also been to other warm countries in the winter, but they didnt have the humidity like the coast....and since Cuba has been the only place where I can get a fair assesment after being there for a week each time, I figured I would state my findings. I really am not trying to brag, as I have been online for many years now and never said anything about it, but I do know that the humidity difference is obvious when you travel all that way in one day and it is such a drastic change.

Cigar F^iend

Zed, you bring up the Dale Roush theory on cigar smoking: Elevation and the difference in oxygen concentrations plays a huge role in enjoyment. He actually was pretty scientific about it at one point when we were herfing. It makes a lot of sense.

kurtdesign1 wrote:Zed, you bring up the Dale Roush theory on cigar smoking: Elevation and the difference in oxygen concentrations plays a huge role in enjoyment. He actually was pretty scientific about it at one point when we were herfing. It makes a lot of sense.

I 100% agree with that theory, independently of Dale. Based on the past 15 years of frequent trips between TN and FL, it seems that tobacco tastes radically different when all else is similar except altitude. In the winter, I would have guessed humidity and/or temp to have a bigger impact. But even during the summer when temp/humidity are similar between TN/FL, the taste is very different....leading me to anecdotally blame altitude.

Just a hillbilly, Tappin and a-Talkin

So I want to understand something. Are you saying that the humidity level impacts how you taste cigars? I'm not saying "humidity impacts how a cigar tastes", I'm talking about you. There's a clear difference and I'm just not thinking that you're saying something different than I was. I've never noticed this independently of how I perceived the moisture content of the cigar to be changing over smoking time. Interesting...

Here goes Craig getting way too technical and taking things overboard....haha

Cigar F^iend

Zedman05 wrote:Here goes Craig getting way too technical and taking things overboard....haha

Cigar F^iend

True that! But that's why we love this Chigringo


Kid Corona

Why not?

Ambient
Ambient humidity is just another atmospheric factor, like temperature or altitude (oxygen density's impact on burn......is the mix lean or rich?). Seems to me that it could have as much impact as any of the others.

Internal
Humidity within the cigar....keep your cigars at 40% for a few months and tell me if they taste different.


Now I'm thinking. Although total availability of oxygen in air at higher altitudes is lower, the partial pressure exerted by it is likely similar no matter one's elevation. I need to go peruse a few old scuba texts and see how this might inter-relate.

Kip wrote:the partial pressure exerted by it is likely similar no matter one's elevation. I need to go peruse a few old scuba texts and see how this might inter-relate.

False. Take a bag o' chips that you bought in Florida to Ian's house in Montana and tell me if it doesn't damn near explode by the time you get there. There is a drastic pressure change.

kurtdesign1 wrote:

Kip wrote:the partial pressure exerted by it is likely similar no matter one's elevation. I need to go peruse a few old scuba texts and see how this might inter-relate.

False. Take a bag o' chips that you bought in Florida to Ian's house in Montana and tell me if it doesn't damn near explode by the time you get there. There is a drastic pressure change.

Wait, maybe you're saying something so intelligent I didn't even follow your point. The damn tumor is making you brilliant now!