If the first thought that came to you when you read the title above, please consider this your personal and cordial invitation to come out from under the rock where you have been living for the past 25 years, and welcome to cigar preservation in the 21st Century! For me personally as a humidor craftsman, it’s hard to imagine a better solution for cigar humidification than the one that Boveda, Inc. brought to us around the start of this century. I am privileged to be on the “A-List” with them, since practically everything I now make brings a new lifetime customer to Boveda — and genuinely I consider it a privilege to sing their praises.
The Boveda revolution was destined from its inception to become the cigar and tobacco world’s go-to solution, since its product performs exactly as it is supposed to every time. So what does it do? If the relative humidity number printed on the packet says 69%, it keeps its surroundings at 69% RH. If it says, 72%, then that’s what where it maintains the RH of its surroundings…and so it does for every RH level packet they manufacture. The secret is in the packets’ ability to both absorb moisture from AND release moisture into its surroundings. There’s no guess work on how much water to add to a container or block of floral foam, no danger of spillage onto your cigars or tobaccos, and no harm done whatsoever if the packet itself comes into or even lives in constant contact with your tobaccos. Pure genius, I tell ya…
Boveda is available in sizes from tiny 8g packets that have been tested and rated to keep up to five cigars properly humidified with a single 8g packet, all the way up to a 320g size capable of serving up to 100 cigars. You can even add more packs to increase the number of cigars in your humidor, up to as many as the humidor will hold. Many people over the years have said that the simplest ideas are sometimes the best…and are the ones that make the most money. Choosing Boveda packets to maintain your humidor’s relative humidity is one of the easiest and best choices you can make. Now if only they could come up with a solution to regulate temperature so easily!
—Danny Jackson
