Crystal Gel Humidifier for Cigar Humidors - 4oz Jar

Up the humidity fast on my humidor definitely recommend

I had been using water packs for storing my cigars for many years. I thought they were effective and less work to deal with storage issues. I was wrong. I saw the Joe Cool jar read what they said about their product and decided to try a couple. I own a wood cedar lined cigar box, have a cigar cooler that holds another 200 cigars and for additional storage I bought clear plastic rubber sealed containers each holding 25 cigars. When I bought a couple of Joe Cool jars I tried one in my cigar box and another one in one of my long term storage boxes. After four or five days I took a cigar out of each type of container and was surprised to find the cigars to have great humidity freshness. I continued to use both jars in the containers and three weeks later the cigars were still fresh slightly moist and ready to be placed into a dry box for 2-3 days to breathe before smoking although you could smoke them immediately. After using them for longer term storage I now had something in which to compare to my previous water packs method. The jars were just as easy to use but provided a better quality in maintaining the right amount of humidity and keeping the cigars as fresh as when I purchased them. I have now been using them in all three storage methods and they have been extremely effective for both near term and long term storage. Always having approximately over 500 cigars in storage I no longer have to worry about guessing the amount of time that a water pack needs to be replaced. With the Joe Cool jars you can look at the clear jar and know exactly when the crystals are low and need to be refilled. How long the jars last will be different for people based on how often you open your cigar humidor and the number of cigars you are storing and based on the soundness of your containers. I do know that the Joe Cool jars that I use to store my cigars undisturbed for long periods actually last a bit longer. I will never go back to using water packs because I have had several months to see how effective the Joe Cool jars are and just as easy to maintain effective humidity levels. Lastly, there’s the cost issue. Although the most important factor is to maintain humidity to prevent you from having to toss out dried and tasteless cigars, you will be pleasantly pleased to find that replacing Joe Cool crystals is much less expensive than buying the water packs. Sure you still need to monitor humidity levels as with any storage methods but for all the above reasons these jars are worth five stars.

Humidor is holding at a perfect 70%

It was ready to go when it arrived. I put it in my humidor, and it held at about 71 to 72 for a few days. Then it went up to around 76%. It held at 76%. That's too much humidity. So I have learned that if I put the lid on top of it and just expose a few of the holes, it works. It's been holding steady at 71% for about 2 weeks now by doing that. And I've already added more fluid. I used Xikar's blend. Nothing, absolutely nothing is going to work as well as a boveda pack. But that gets more expensive than this method after a while.

Does the job with no mess.

I keep two of these in my large humidor and it keeps the humidity perfectly between 67-70%. This is a must buy for cigar smokers!

just what the doctor ordered

Not impressed and disappointed, almost lost all my cigars. I checked today and my humidor was at 43%. I had a different brand blue bead type that I reused the same jar for years. I decided to replace out of just curiosity and this item is only holding about 50-60% in my medium box. I have no issues with the box it’s seasoned and doesn’t leak. I had to buy another product to compensate this.