Product Review: Humi-Care Water Pillows

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What: Humi-Care Water Pillows (10 pack)

Where to Buy: Cigar.com

Price: ~ $14.95

Overall Rating: 8.25

 

How to Charge & Re-Charge Your Humi-Care Pillows

Not that we are questioning your intelligence but we often find that new cigar smokers are hesistant when it comes to water being around their cigars. Thats why we decided to go ahead and make “How To” articles for different maintenance activities that might come up.

The Humi-Care Pillows are fairly new to us and were supplied to us by our new friends at Cigar.com. Not that they went out of their way to send them to us – in fact, they were included gratis with an order we had put in. 

Step 1 - Fill a small bowl with about a 1/4″ of distilled water (if available) or tap water.

Step 2 - Open the Humi-Care plastic baggie and remove the pillow

Step 3 – Soak the pillow in the water for at least 20 seconds, completely submerging it.

Step 4 – Dry excess or dripping water from the pillow and place back in the Humi-Care bag.

Step 5 - Place the Humi-Care Pillow in your temporary storage or humidor!

Remember, the Humi-Care Pillow will provide up to 67% humidity to 15-20 cigars so be sure to have the right amount on hand!

How to Calibrate an Analog Hygrometer

Calibrating hygrometers are especially important with new hygrometers as accuracy can be affected by so many events from the manufacturing process to shipping – to banging around the shipping truck all the way to your house. It is also imporant for your smokes – as you don’t want to maintain high humidity or too low humidity.

Step 1 – Find yourself a regular sized ziplock bag, a water or soda bottle cap, and some regular table salt and an eyedropper.

Step 2 – Place the ziplock bag on a flat surface such as a countertop. Next, fill the bottle cap with the table salt and use the eyedropper to add water to the bottlecap filled with salt. It is very important that you only dampen the salt, meaning that water should not be “pooled” on top of the salt for the purposes of this test.

Step 3 – Place your hygrometer in the center of the ziplock bag face up, and the bottle cap with salt and water next to it and close the ziplock bag. Be sure to leave air in the ziplock bag; enough to keep the top of the bag from touching the hygrometer.

Once this is complete, leave the ziplock bag and its contents on the counter for 6 to 8 hours.

Step 4 – After waiting 6 to 8 hours, take note of the humidity (it should be 75%). If your hygrometer doesn’t read 75%, use a screwdriver to adjust the dial until your hygrometer reads 75%. If your hygrometer doesn’t have an adjustment screw, be sure to note the difference.