| Before getting into exploring the three most | | | | with a five types of humidors: room humidors, table |
| commonly bought types of humidors, it might be a | | | | humidors, cabinet humidors, travel humidors and |
| good idea to come up with a brief ‘primer' as | | | | personal humidors. And some of these types of |
| to what a humidor is, for the benefit of those who | | | | humidors tend to be more commonly bought than |
| may be encountering them for the first time. Now, | | | | others. |
| humidors are spaces with controlled humidity, used | | | | The most commonly bought variety of humidors are, |
| for storing things that would be ruined if exposed to | | | | arguably, those that are known as personal humidors. |
| the severe humidity variations. The things we are | | | | These are usually very modest in size, and are |
| looking here include, for instance, cigars, cigarettes, | | | | especially popular amongst (individual) cigar lovers. |
| and the semi-processed tobacco that is usually sold | | | | They can be useful for the people who buy their |
| for people looking to use in for their pipes. Tobacco, | | | | cigars in bulk, yet who are not heavy smokers, so |
| as we know it, is very sensitive to variations in | | | | that the stock of cigarettes bought today could stay |
| temperature. The easiest way to ruin it is by | | | | for a couple of months or so – during which time |
| exposing it to huge temperature variations. It | | | | they may get messed up by humidity changes. A |
| therefore becomes imperative to strictly control the | | | | typical personal humidor will usually have capacity for |
| humidity in the place where it is stored, with humidors | | | | up to, say, 70 cigars. |
| coming in handy in that role. | | | | Another commonly bought variety of humidors are |
| Now humidors take all shapes and come in all sizes. | | | | those that are known as table humidors. They tend |
| There are some whose measurements are in terms | | | | to be bigger than the personal humidors, with |
| of cubic inches (where the humidor is a small box-like | | | | capacity for several hundreds to a thousand cigars. |
| structure that you place on your table, even in your | | | | They are popular with cigar sellers. |
| traveling bag). And then there are those that are | | | | Then there are travel humidors, as another variety |
| huge, sometimes filling a huge room or even a whole | | | | of commonly bought humidors. Strictly speaking, |
| building floor. In cases like these (where we are | | | | these fall under the category of personal humidors; |
| talking of the room/building filling humidors), the | | | | but with specialized features for travel. They will tend |
| humidor tends not to be a ‘stand-alone' structure | | | | to take fewer cigars than the typical personal |
| that is brought in; but rather, it is the room or the | | | | humidors that are created for home usage (so that |
| building that is redesigned to act as a humidor. All it | | | | while the average personal humidor has capacity for |
| takes, in any case, is to control the humidity | | | | 70 cigars, the average travel humidor could take in |
| conditions in a given space, to turn that space into a | | | | between 10 and 40). |
| humidor. | | | | The other two varieties of humidors – room |
| There are many companies that make and sell | | | | humidors and cabinet humidors - are less common, |
| humidors. In the market, the humidors are usually | | | | being as they are, humidors meant for large scale |
| categorized according to, among other things, their | | | | applications. |
| sizes. And from this categorizing criterion, we end up | | | | |