Am I the only one that prefers cotton balls over japanese cotton?

[toucandan229]

Lately I have been venturing out from the japanese cotton pad bandwagon to try out different wicks just to say I did it and out of all the things I have tried(mesh, cable, rayon, glass, and even wickless) I have gotten the best flavor out of, believe it or not, rite aid brand organic cotton balls. I don't know if it is just my wicking method or what but it does in fact beat out my japanese cotton pads slightly. Now given there is a break in time for the cotton since I never did boil it and it's a little harder to work with, but so far I couldn't be happier! Also with the japanese cotton I did in fact pull off the dense layers to help up the flavor but the organic cotton still has it. I can't be the only one out there thinking this, can I?

 

[Cullin Kin]

I'm right there with you. I love my organic cotton balls. Screw everything else.

 

[Nomoreash]

I prefer KGD, used cotton balls for a long time though. To me flavor is about the same but KGD is easier to prepare and wicks better. Everyone has their preference bottom line is, as long as it's working for ya, keep using it.

 

[93gc40]

I change my wick daily if not more often. I use Walmart cotton balls.. Because once I rinse them I can't tell the difference flavor wise. I also find balls just as easy to work with if not easier than the pads. You can't beat the price. Organic or not is up to you 10% is best although if it was a % of rayon IDK. Rayon is also very popular, but I don't know about blends. Heck there are even people that use cotton YARN.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

I prefer the Sally Salon Coil cotten over KGD. And it is not even organic
$3.29 for 45 feet of finger sized fiber aligned fluffy cotton rope.

 

[petrotech]

nope...I use plain cotton balls from CVS (at least I think that's where I got them...one bag has lasted me a LONG time). they're not even organic and I don't boil them...and hey, I'm still alive!

 

[Robert Cromwell]

nope...I use plain cotton balls from CVS (at least I think that's where I got them...one bag has lasted me a LONG time). they're not even organic and I don't boil them...and hey, I'm still alive!

Same here no organic cotton. We will likely die, but not from the cotton

 

[petrotech]

Same here no organic cotton. We will likely die, but not from the cotton

when I die, I hope its some giant medical mystery and 50 years later they find out it was from not boiling my cotton...

 

[Robert Cromwell]

When I first started rewicking I grabbed some cotton balls from the bathroom. Was horrible they had perfume or something in them. So ALL of them are not ok to use.

 

[narrdarr]

i also prefer cotton balls over the pad. but have since moved to cotton bacon. its just better in every way.

 

[Alien Traveler]

I do not see big difference between various cottons in taste and I do not like making wicks (I do not like many things which I have to do anyway, like making coils, mowing grass, tying shoos). So, I prefer cotton pads (like KGD) - easier and faster to work with, and results are more consistent.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Alien, I do taste a difference for several puffs with a new cotton wick. Strangely enough that taste is reduced to virtually none when I use my non organic cotton salon coil vs when I use KGD.
the old cotton wick breakin flavor.
Now my first cotton I used was just a cotton ball I grabbed out of the jar in the bathroom. Was horrible it had some kind of perfume in it....
That was when I went and paid $5 for 3 KGD pads at a vape shop. And thought this was wonderful, and the new cotton taste only lasted for a few puffs. Then I learned how badly I had been ripped off, courtesy of ECF posters. This was while I was still a lurker...
I ordered 60 pads I think it was for $12 but while I was waiting on it to come in I stopped by a Sally Beauty supply on a whim and found the 45 ft of cotton Salon Coil for $3.29. Tried it and liked it better than the KGD. So when the KGD came in I gave it to the wife to use on here face or wherever she wanted to use them. She said they are wonderful for makeup removal and such so I gained points for my "sacrifice"
Been using the salon coil for a month or so and have used less than 6 inches of it. At that consumption rate it will last me over 6 years...

 

[Penumbra]

That was when I went and paid $5 for 3 KGD pads at a vape shop. And thought this was wonderful, and the new cotton taste only lasted for a few puffs. Then I learned how badly I had been ripped off, courtesy of ECF posters. This was while I was still a lurker...

I am just enthralled by people that come into the local shop and buy anything beside juice...

I mean anything... Tanks, RBA's, Rda'S, Wire, WIcking, just anything. The prices are just astronomical, though I realize they have all that overhead to pay for, I have no clue how they stay in business.

The only assumption I can make, is that the people that buy from the local shop are completely and utterly computer illiterate... and I dont mean 1 pack of cotton, or one tank or battery when they first started... I mean they buy all stuff.

I remember when I first got a reg. mod and a subohm tank a few months ago. I got an iStick 50 (52.95$) and an atlantis (23.99$). I went to local shop for some juice and noticed they had the iStick and Atlantis... they were selling iStick 50 for $89.99 and Atlantis for 45.99$... You literally have to be severely mentally handicapped to pay those prices... either that or afraid of those pesky computers.


On the other hand... I still need to try some org. cotton balls. I thought my KGD that has been sitting for a couple months was giving me headaches, so I was about to grab the cotton balls.

I set my kgd pads out in the open, since they were in a ziplock bag inside a drawer. I am literally allergic to alcohol, and it gives me migraines. Even cantaloupe that's a day or two old will give me a headache... so I wondered if maybe the cotton KGD had fermented possibly??

So I aired it out and I dont get headaches now... but I'm still gonna check cotton balls. I'm goin organic though.

 

[satchvai]

Maybe I'm weird, but unless it's kgd or samurai Japanese organic cotton, the flavor is horrible to my tastebuds. I've tried rayon and various other cotton balls but always go back to kgd. Probably a good thing since I have enough to last me a year or so.

 

[eddiea]

Personally, I would stay away from using standard cotton balls (most are bleached and who-knows-what-else). When I first started vaping I used regular organic cotton balls purchased from Amazon, and at the time I thought it was fine until I tried organic Japanese cotton a few weeks later. The regular organic cotton tasted somewhat funky (it was the kind which supposedly did not require boiling since it was organic). I've been using organic Japanese cotton sheets ever since and won't think twice about using anything else...it offers a clean taste, absorbs juice more efficiently, and it's easy to cut strips for a perfect sized wick.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

I like neutered cotton best.

 

[Rickb119]

I use natural unbleached cotton cooking twine (BBY). Boiled of course to get the "natural" out. Wicks great, no taste at all and, very easy to pull into the coil using a bead needle (Hobby Lobby).

 

[iamthevoice]

I've been using the Shiseido cotton pads for most of the last year and the only real advantage they have is the ease of repeatability in wicking, because you can cut the same width fairly easily. At the rate I'm using it up, I'll have enough to last me several years. I've tried plain cotton balls, but I found that getting the same amount of material each time was pretty hit or miss for me.

To each his/her own!

 

[Robert Cromwell]

for smaller coils and lower watts the looser cotton either balls or the salon cotton coil works fine. For the larger and higher wattage coils the pads seem to be much easier to use.

 

[Scotticus93]

I am just enthralled by people that come into the local shop and buy anything beside juice...

I mean anything... Tanks, RBA's, Rda'S, Wire, WIcking, just anything. The prices are just astronomical, though I realize they have all that overhead to pay for, I have no clue how they stay in business.

The only assumption I can make, is that the people that buy from the local shop are completely and utterly computer illiterate... and I dont mean 1 pack of cotton, or one tank or battery when they first started... I mean they buy all stuff.

I remember when I first got a reg. mod and a subohm tank a few months ago. I got an iStick 50 (52.95$) and an atlantis (23.99$). I went to local shop for some juice and noticed they had the iStick and Atlantis... they were selling iStick 50 for $89.99 and Atlantis for 45.99$... You literally have to be severely mentally handicapped to pay those prices... either that or afraid of those pesky computers.


On the other hand... I still need to try some org. cotton balls. I thought my KGD that has been sitting for a couple months was giving me headaches, so I was about to grab the cotton balls.

I set my kgd pads out in the open, since they were in a ziplock bag inside a drawer. I am literally allergic to alcohol, and it gives me migraines. Even cantaloupe that's a day or two old will give me a headache... so I wondered if maybe the cotton KGD had fermented possibly??

So I aired it out and I dont get headaches now... but I'm still gonna check cotton balls. I'm goin organic though.

I would go to my local vape shop to support them. Even their juice prices suck. I diy now but there in house is good and presteeped! It was 9 for 15ml or 16 for 30. The only thing they truly ripped me off on was 46 for a subtank mini. That was back when it first came out and was more tho. Like 35 online or maybe 30. I didn't wanna wait to ship it in so that was my fault.