Expert: M J Robbins - 4/11/2009

Question
Hi MJR, It's Ian again, I asked a question a few weeks ago on how to bring the temperature down in my humidor, you mentioned to talked to Vigilant company.  I did get in touch with them and yes they do sell complete humidors with temperature control, I told them the size of mine, they emailed me back and said they can't help me.  Do you have any other ideas, since its installed into the wall in my kitchen I can't move it to a cooler area.  If I ran a chiller in my crawl space and ran the chilled pipe in and out of my humidor, this should work but will the condensation on the pipe affect the cigars, is it distilled water coming of the pipes? I'm not sure, thanks in advance for any help, Ian

Answer
Not a good idea to run a chilled pipe into the humidor.

Get a small window air conditioner for your kitchen and cool it down in there. Or you can run another vent from your Air conditioning into the kitchen to cool it down.
The heat from the refrigerator makes the kitchen warmer. The heat from cooking makes it warmer.

The kitchen is not the best place for a humidor.
The bedroom or a cool dark place is usually ideal.

MJR