Note: also applies to atomiser coils of any type however the disposable CE4's referred to in the quote are not really suitable for this treatment as they can not be dissassembled.
After dry burning you really must boil them otherwise you will just be tasting the burnt ash from the dry burning.
If you wish you can skip the drying, and this will speed up the processing time quite a bit obviously. The down side of this is that it will take more time and power to dry burn, and if you're not careful a long wick may not dry burn properly due to the moisture content keeping the temperature down. You should at least pat the wicks with some absorbent paper to remove most of the moisture.
On no account miss the soaking and boiling steps. There's no point trying to dry burn the coil if the wick is saturated with juice, and if you don't do the finish boil (or vodka soak if you wish) then it's just going to taste like an old ashtray.
kc76 said:
After dry burning you really must boil them otherwise you will just be tasting the burnt ash from the dry burning.
Procedure:
- Pull the head apart and soak in hot water for 10 minues to remove remaining juice
- Dry them out, especially long wicks
- Dry burn
- Screw the dissasembled head onto a base and screw this onto your battery
- Start at low power and fire until the coil starts to glow
- Increase the power incrementally, giving the coil several one second pulses
- Work your way up to at least 8 watts (volts = ohms + 2 = 8 watts).
- Keep pulsing the coil until all the ash is white or stops changing colour. It is then friable and will be easily removed by boiling (Note: if you find that the ash is not removed from the coil in the subsequent step it means that you did not burn it hard enough)
- Boil for 10 ten minutes to remove all the ash and nasty taste
- Dry
- Assemble and use
If you wish you can skip the drying, and this will speed up the processing time quite a bit obviously. The down side of this is that it will take more time and power to dry burn, and if you're not careful a long wick may not dry burn properly due to the moisture content keeping the temperature down. You should at least pat the wicks with some absorbent paper to remove most of the moisture.
On no account miss the soaking and boiling steps. There's no point trying to dry burn the coil if the wick is saturated with juice, and if you don't do the finish boil (or vodka soak if you wish) then it's just going to taste like an old ashtray.
