Ouch! Tad harsh, no? Actually F/D got various answers- which one do you object to him ignoring?
Yours? I checked the beetle issue on Cigar Adviser
http://www.famous-smoke.com/cigaradvisor/cigar-beetles-and-freezing-cigars and they are talking about a
home freezer,
after the bug outbreak. In order to kill the eggs, cigars have to be frozen at -40, (minus forty) degrees for at least two weeks. Like I said before, the bigger suppliers are doing that already:
Re: How to properly freeze cigars?
"Up until recently, the attempt was to destroy the beetle and the larvae of the infested cigars by shock-freezing them at the temperature of minus 20 to 22 degrees centigrade. Tobacco importers, though not all of them, are deep-freezing their tobaccos, as well as their cigars, for up to 14 days.
Tobacco importers like Philipp Schuster of August Schuster Cigarrenfabrik in Bünde, fared very well with this method - however at a freezing temperature of minus 28 degrees centigrade! "At higher freezing temperatures, the larvae and eggs of the to-bacco beetle can still survive, even if the moths themselves die". This is exactly the point. Botanists also admit the survivability, even at low temperatures."
http://www.cigarsinternational.com/h...g101_14ymt.asp
So, I guess the effect that freezing in a home freezer is debatable and varies greatly depending upon where you go for info, but if it makes you feel better about the little buggers..."
I'm in the process of bringing a tupper box up to 70% so I can complete a test run in my fridge and after a week in there, I'll give out my result if this thread isn't dead by then.
Actually, Snake is the only one whose comment gave me pause so that's why I'm testing the theory. To be cont...