Box Pressed

[rodwha]

A circle has a lower circumference to area ratio. With a rectangular cigar of similar fill area, you will have more wrapper to surround it.....

Stated another way, given the same cross sectional area, it takes more binder & wrapper to surround a rectangle than a circle.

Theoretically. Whether it is significant enough to make difference in taste.. ?

A larger RG box press cigar is more comfortable to smoke.

This is certainly an assumption, but isn't a 54 ring cigar rolled round and then box pressed? If so it shouldn't change anything but the shape, right?

[TreySC]

This is certainly an assumption, but isn't a 54 ring cigar rolled round and then box pressed? If so it shouldn't change anything but the shape, right?

I remember someone explaining this before that most of the box pressed cigars these days aren't a true box press. Meaning they are packed tightly in boxes and that's what squares them off a bit. They are rolled round but then put in a mold to get the desired shape. After they've sat in the mold for a specified amount of time then the wrapper is put on. Which would give credence to Nature's theory of there being a little more wrapper to influence the flavor. Hopefully someone more experienced can explain better.

[rodwha]

I remember someone explaining this before that most of the box pressed cigars these days aren't a true box press. Meaning they are packed tightly in boxes and that's what squares them off a bit. They are rolled round but then put in a mold to get the desired shape. After they've sat in the mold for a specified amount of time then the wrapper is put on. Which would give credence to Nature's theory of there being a little more wrapper to influence the flavor. Hopefully someone more experienced can explain better.

I'll buy that I suppose. I thought they were rolled round and then pressed into shape. But then I am quite ignorant of a lot of things cigar. Not long ago I was under the impression that Maduro wrappers were shunned and then Jeremy sent me some and set me straight!

[allusred]

I'll buy that I suppose. I thought they were rolled round and then pressed into shape. But then I am quite ignorant of a lot of things cigar. Not long ago I was under the impression that Maduro wrappers were shunned and then Jeremy sent me some and set me straight!

I'm one of dose guys wot bin shunin Maduros...fer quite a time.
Smoke sum now, tho still ain't my top choice wrapper.

[Sir Lancerolot]

I thought they were rolled round and then pressed into shape.

They are - at least partially. Cigars consist of filler rolled in a binder and then rolled in a wrapper. Commercial (and a lot of home-rolled) handmade cigars are placed in a mold after the filler is rolled in the binder. After the desired time in the mold, the wrapper is added.

I don't think the box-pressed molds are likely to squish the filler any tighter than cylindrical molds or whatever other shape is used. But they do change the shape of the cigar, which might influence the ratio of wrapper to binder/filler. It's also not impossible that the square shape affects the way air passes through the cigar, as opposed to a cylindrical shape.

[herman]

dont know but I prefer them yet not sure why.... this thread is a good start.