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Humidors are spaces (in the form of boxes or specialized buildings) with controlled humidity conditions, used for storage of things that sensitive to humidity fluctuations, and especially tobacco products like cigars and cigarettes.

They come in all sizes, from those that can fit into a pocket (say the variety that is known as travel humidors), to those that take up a whole room or even a whole building floor. Their working is dependant on the humidifying system they tend to come with, which, when faced with falling humidity levels, quickly moisten the surrounding environment to compensate for the natural fluctuations. It is not always a highly sophisticated system. Sometimes, this humidifying effect takes place by the simple virtue of the material the body of the humidifier is made of – typically wood. But then again, nowadays, there are electronic humidors, which come equipped with electronic humidity sensors and these can be extremely useful.

Now humidors tend to be relatively costly pieces of equipment. Moreover the role that they serve is a very sensitive one – especially in the case of the huge scale (room filling) variety, where a malfunction can often translate to very huge losses in terms of ruined cigars or ruined tobacco. It therefore becomes imperative to take proper care of humidors – with a considerably high number of people searching over the Internet for information in this regard.

One key to successful care of humidors is to ensure that you regularly season them, as the need arises. When we talk of seasoning, it is worth noting that humidors are usually (structurally) made from special types of wood; so that when we talk about seasoning in this respect, we are actually talking in the same terms a logger or a carpenter would be talking. One of the biggest blunders you could make is to buy a humidor and put it into use immediately, without seasoning it. The seasoning is not hard to do – but people often forget to do it out of plain ignorance. Often, all it takes to season a humidor is to keep a small water container (or even just a piece of sponge that is soaked in water) in it for sometime and it would be properly seasoned. The idea in doing all this is to humidify the wood that makes the humidor structure, so that it doesn’t end up ‘stealing’ the humidity from the space it encloses and cause humidity fluctuations, which are precisely what it was installed to check!

Another key to successful care of humidors would be in controlling temperature carefully, to ensure that it never goes above 25 degree Celsius; the point at which malfunctions start to occur.

Another key to successful care of humidors is to ensure that you buy those of a size that is likely to be occupied a lot of time (so that the empty space in them at a given time is likely to be small). This is because the greater an empty space you have, the greater the chances of humidity levels inside falling – causing the very humidity fluctuations we are trying to avoid.

In electronically controlled humidors, it helps to check the circuitry regularly to forestall the occurrence of faults, because waiting for something to happen before you can act might mean ending up incurring huge losses.

Where the humidor is used for keeping tobacco (as is usually the case), it become essential to ensure that the humidity level in it never exceeds 75% – the point at which the risk of starting to breed tobacco beetles becomes very high. You can vary the humidity levels depending on your preferences, but they must never exceed this critical point of 75%.