Kyle Weiss
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As I go crawling the junk stores, I often come across these "wine chiller" devices, most of them are pretty smart-looking, glass-front swinging doors, roughly three feet high, about two feet across, and have metal racks in them that are designed to hold wine.
One particular unit caught my eye due to a faux wood paneling, and it looked pretty sharp. It matched my furniture arrangement and color perfectly... a wine-colored, darker wood.
I don't drink wine... not really a wine guy.
Further inspection caused me to notice it uses thermoelectric or "Peltier" cooling, which essentially just transfers heat from one side of a special plate to another. In this case, it takes out heat from the inside of the cooler and disperses it to the back of the unit. There is no air flow.
An idea suddenly hit me.
I could use this as a standing tobacco cellar. It wouldn't take much to re-fit the inside with cedar wood shelving, and since the doors have seals on the much like a standard refrigerator (the units I've seen, anyway), but without the drying effect compressor-type refrigerators tend to have. Ideally, you could put some kind of moisture-introducing setup (a larger container of Xikar gel?) and probably have a fantastic, controlled environment to store tobacco.
Of course, once I put this all together, I was well out of the store, and the unit was long gone.
Have any of you attempted this?
Is it worth attempting?
I figured it may help some of you out that are using coolers and other possibly "in-the-way" or unattractive measures to keep your tobacco, especially those without a proper basement/cellar or other "cool spot."
One particular unit caught my eye due to a faux wood paneling, and it looked pretty sharp. It matched my furniture arrangement and color perfectly... a wine-colored, darker wood.
I don't drink wine... not really a wine guy.
Further inspection caused me to notice it uses thermoelectric or "Peltier" cooling, which essentially just transfers heat from one side of a special plate to another. In this case, it takes out heat from the inside of the cooler and disperses it to the back of the unit. There is no air flow.
An idea suddenly hit me.
I could use this as a standing tobacco cellar. It wouldn't take much to re-fit the inside with cedar wood shelving, and since the doors have seals on the much like a standard refrigerator (the units I've seen, anyway), but without the drying effect compressor-type refrigerators tend to have. Ideally, you could put some kind of moisture-introducing setup (a larger container of Xikar gel?) and probably have a fantastic, controlled environment to store tobacco.
Of course, once I put this all together, I was well out of the store, and the unit was long gone.
Have any of you attempted this?
Is it worth attempting?
I figured it may help some of you out that are using coolers and other possibly "in-the-way" or unattractive measures to keep your tobacco, especially those without a proper basement/cellar or other "cool spot."