FOHrensics Video Experiment: Dunking A Cigar In Water

[MoeFOH]

Rob, Smithy, and I were so stunned by the results of this that we've vowed to put the experiment through its paces a few more times, just to be sure... Tough job, but someone has to do it.  

All the details of the experiment are in the vid. Enjoy. 

 

[dageshi]

Well bloody hell...

Think it's worth doing a test on dunking a correctly humidified cigar? See if it improves it any?

I've got some PL Panatellas I think I ought to give it a go on

[irratebass]

Thanks for the video. I've tried this before, but not with 3 of the same sticks, may be time to try it at a herf. 

[houdini]

Ive done this with both properly humidified and under-humidified smokes. Ive never dunked them but ran water from the faucet on them (foot down). It works for unproperly humidified smokes and on well humidified smokes, a perfect burn!

[Wushy]

Hilarious how all 3 hate they had to be honest about which they liked best. Everyone gonna start dunking now. Water? Scotch? Milk?

[leafdream54]

This is fascinating.  I have a few cigars that have been kept in perfect humidification and temperature (and several years of age) that have always had a rather 'dry' looking wrapper and have left my mouth feeling dry whenever I have smoked them.  I'm going to give this a try and see what happens.

[Puros Y Vino]

Great work gents. This has been in the back of many minds. I know @Ginseng is already of a fan of wetting the wrapper.  Perhaps he is more wise than we all thought?

The conclusions were quite surprising to me.  I may have to give this a try.

[BG1165]

Note to self: Take shower with cigar prior to smoking.

 

[Raskol]

Great video.... May have to try them on some dry ones. Thank you!! 

[Colt45]

Great stuff gents

A couple of thoughts...

First, to my recollection, most discussions regarding rinsing have been more about keeping wrappers from cracking in dry weather, so this flavor element is quite interesting - I will try this with an RA Estupendos (normally humidified) next time I ignite.

Secondly, to RA's end point, the whole time cigar three was being evaluated, all I could think was that this might show even more how much wrapper interplay means to overall flavor.

Onya Steve-O! ( you know why... )

[LGC]

What a novel idea... doing a controlled experiment rather than drawing conclusions based on preconceived notions. Well done. I’ve done this in the past, but will have to experiment more in the future.

[Head83]

Wow!  I’ve always wondered about this.  He next test needs to add a dunked properly humidified cigar....... for science

[amberleaf]

I'm too scared to dunk mine like that, I might try just giving them a spritz with a fine-mist spray bottle.

[houdini]

1 hour ago, amberleaf said:

I'm too scared to dunk mine like that, I might try just giving them a spritz with a fine-mist spray bottle.

Quickly over running water with foot down is fine.

[Cmelle]

Wow. Bigger twist ending than Dexter season 1 ??

[IanMcLean68]

Wow, blown away by this. What a surprise result. I've seen a YouTube video reviewer do this with vintage cigars, but never really believed you could improve them in such a substantial way.

Good work gents! Gotta hand it to FOH, first you blow the cigar plume/bloom myth out of the water (well in my mind you have already anyway), and now I agree here with what El Pres says in the video, this really does settle the wrapper significance to flavour debate - although I feel you had already done that with the Siglo VI/Genios wrapper experiment. This second positive result concludes it IMHO. The wrapper does makes a significant difference. Well done. ?

[KavalanWhisky]

I was shocked by the result also and how the cigar wrappper was able to absorb so much liquid.

One thought, how dried out and old a cigar can 'The Dunk' save?  

I've got a couple of vintage cohiba that look pretty crackly...I just can't seem to get myself to dunk my cigar! 

I'm definitely going to try it on a few cheaper sticks first to see if it makes a big difference.

[Chellams]

I’ll have to give this a try next time I find a dry cigar in my stash


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[golf4less]

After closely watching the video, I decided to pick up a new desktop humidor

BTW, Great video fellas!!

[MrGlass]

I'm curious if you would have seen a similar change in cigar number 2 if you dunked it and then resumed smoking it.

[IanMcLean68]

39 minutes ago, MrGlass said:

I'm curious if you would have seen a similar change in cigar number 2 if you dunked it and then resumed smoking it.

Probably like sucking on a wet blanket (thanks @MoeFOH  for that one), seeing as the cigar is already cut !!?

[MrGlass]

3 minutes ago, IanMcLean68 said:

Probably like sucking on a wet blanket (thanks @MoeFOH  for that one), seeing as the cigar is already cut !!?

Well don't I feel like an idiot now for forgetting about the hole at the other end .  Revised theory - gentle spritzing maybe?

[dageshi]

Actually, thinking about it, I do recall buying a single in Davidoff London once and they spritzed it with some water... I wondered why they did it at the time, but perhaps this is fairly commonly done?

[IanMcLean68]

8 hours ago, MrGlass said:

Well don't I feel like an idiot now for forgetting about the hole at the other end .  Revised theory - gentle spritzing maybe?

That wasn't my intention. The intention behind your idea is sound after all ? Putting the problematic execution of said idea aside, it would indeed be interesting to know the results.

[Gamehawker]

Wow,

As you said I the video I would never expect those results of the dunked cigar.

 

I could not see on the video, did you dunk the dried out cigar cap or foot first in the water?

 

Thanks!