Boiled cotton v. Unboiled

[Moocow0419]

Was curious what the difference was between the two in flavor and longevity. And organic cotton is the only I way to go with if I'm not mistaken besides silica wick? If I am let me know.


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[Miata GT]

No difference in longevity. If you get organic cotton with no additives you will be fine without boiling. I only boil my cotton yarn to remove any sizing that might be in it. You may get a slightly different taste at first but that goes away quickly.

 

[fasteddie5]

No idea, I have never boiled cotton.

I use sterile cotton balls, I just pinch some off, and wick the coils.

 

[Vapoor eyes er]

Was curious what the difference was between the two in flavor and longevity. And organic cotton is the only I way to go with if I'm not mistaken besides silica wick? If I am let me know.


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Realize sterile organic cotton has been treated with peroxide. I boil mine but it's a personal choice. There's also bamboo, hemp, SS and Ekowool which is braided silica with a hollow core. Have also heard of Ekowool with the center hollow core filled with cotton.

 

[grayscale]

Without boiling cotton you will get more of a throat hit as you begin to vape the chemicals used in the refinement process. "Organic" cotton is not what everybody thinks it is. It is not plucked off the vine and shoved in a bag straight to the consumer. The "organic" monicker simply denotes that the cotton was grown organically. Once it leaves the field it goes to the plant for processing, and at the absolute least goes through a bleaching process. Some people think that if the cotton is slightly discolored and has a few black spots in it than it must not have been bleached - incorrect, it was only bleached less than the other stuff.
I wish people would stop toting the "organic cotton" as if it was safe to use right out of the bag. You are encouraging people to use products that can be harmful to their health.
I do use cotton, however, I boil it and dry it to death, but this still does not mean that it is 100% safe to use. Please, in the future, direct people to use cotton at their own risk, because, just as with any of the products we all vape with, they are all still unknowns at this point.

 

[Bunnykiller]

I use it straight out of the bag... tried it both ways, didnt see any difference in taste,smell,etc... and besides, I smoked 2PAD for 40 yrs, a little Boll Weevil pee isnt going to make a difference as compared to all the stuff that is in a ciggie.

 

[grayscale]

I use it straight out of the bag... tried it both ways, didnt see any difference in taste,smell,etc... and besides, I smoked 2PAD for 40 yrs, a little Boll Weevil pee isnt going to make a difference as compared to all the stuff that is in a ciggie.

If bug pee was all that was in there it wouldn't be so bad...

 

[Moocow0419]

Without boiling cotton you will get more of a throat hit as you begin to vape the chemicals used in the refinement process. "Organic" cotton is not what everybody thinks it is. It is not plucked off the vine and shoved in a bag straight to the consumer. The "organic" monicker simply denotes that the cotton was grown organically. Once it leaves the field it goes to the plant for processing, and at the absolute least goes through a bleaching process. Some people think that if the cotton is slightly discolored and has a few black spots in it than it must not have been bleached - incorrect, it was only bleached less than the other stuff.
I wish people would stop toting the "organic cotton" as if it was safe to use right out of the bag. You are encouraging people to use products that can be harmful to their health.
I do use cotton, however, I boil it and dry it to death, but this still does not mean that it is 100% safe to use. Please, in the future, direct people to use cotton at their own risk, because, just as with any of the products we all vape with, they are all still unknowns at this point.

Will definitely take this in consideration for the future. Ive eard of double boiling? And do you just let it air dry?


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[grayscale]

Yep, just hang it out to dry. I use yarn cotton, so it's easy to hang up.

 

[Bunnykiller]

Yep, just hang it out to dry. I use yarn cotton, so it's easy to hang up.

I was wondering where people found the tiny little clothes line clips to dry the cotton with

 

[rurwin]

Many more of these scary threads and I'm going to look out the little packet of bog cotton that I picked myself, years ago.

 

[Dogeggs]

I was wondering where people found the tiny little clothes line clips to dry the cotton with

I got a few miniature clothes pegs, no idea where they came from but they looked neat and didn't take up space so i kept them, gotta get some cotton to hang them with now

 

[TJVJR]

how long should cotton be boiled? I boiled mine for 5 minuets and have ran about 3ml through this wick but I still occasionally taste the cotton .No biggy , mostly curious .

 

[1BlackSheep]

As a spinner, I only know that boiling cotton sets the twist and is a process used to make it more absorbent. It also kills bacteria that may be living on your cotton. I have so much cotton that I've spun, or waiting to be spun; I'm glad I can use it to make wicks instead of knitting dish towels.


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[planes]

Without boiling cotton you will get more of a throat hit as you begin to vape the chemicals used in the refinement process. "Organic" cotton is not what everybody thinks it is. It is not plucked off the vine and shoved in a bag straight to the consumer. The "organic" monicker simply denotes that the cotton was grown organically. Once it leaves the field it goes to the plant for processing, and at the absolute least goes through a bleaching process. Some people think that if the cotton is slightly discolored and has a few black spots in it than it must not have been bleached - incorrect, it was only bleached less than the other stuff.
I wish people would stop toting the "organic cotton" as if it was safe to use right out of the bag. You are encouraging people to use products that can be harmful to their health.
I do use cotton, however, I boil it and dry it to death, but this still does not mean that it is 100% safe to use. Please, in the future, direct people to use cotton at their own risk, because, just as with any of the products we all vape with, they are all still unknowns at this point.

I think there is cotton one can by which says no bleach.

 

[grayscale]

I think there is cotton one can by which says no bleach.

Bleach is just one of the many agents that is used in processing cotton. As was pointed out earlier, peroxide is yet another. As I'm sure 1BlackSheep can attest, these agents are used for different reasons in the process - to make it stronger(which is a main function of spinning other than creating long strands), making it more absorbent, make it more susceptible to dying processes, making more resistant to dying or discoloring, making it softer, etc..... As a matter of fact, the chemicals used to make it softer may be found mostly in cotton balls as these are used most often on the face. Cotton is not so fluffy soft straight from the field as everyone might think it is.

 

[grayscale]

Let me point too though, I am in no way suggesting that organic and regular cotton are equal for our use. The organic type is much better to start with. It is common practice for some extremely nasty chemicals to be used when growing cotton, things that have had life lasting effects on bystanders, as highlighted here in another thread on the forums. Also, as I cannot speak for other countries, I would not suggest using organic cotton from outside the US, make sure it is grown here. The US standards for "organic" may be much more tightly regulated than they are somewhere else.

But as with anything else in this world, please remember that we are in a very new industry and all users should only use things at their own risk. No one really knows yet the extent of all the things we continue to try out.