Boiling cotton evidence

[fcreeves]

I only use the best CCR cotton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4zPEmRufMU&feature=kp

Awesome! Hadn't heard that in years. Had to download it.

 

[herb]

To answer, no it's not going to kill you if you don't. But, for me, it takes 5 minutes to do it and it's done. Sometimes I don't if I'm really lazy and I don't bother with organic cotton. But, the only thing I ALWAYS boil is yarn. Not sure where you live, but I certainly don't want to vape the yarn that's been handled by the people I see in my local walmart without boiling it. Yuck.

Yeah man, some real real sickos in there lol.

 

[Orangebantha]

So I got home from work and rewicked a kanger pro2 with just regular old cotton ball pretty easy for my first time. The old wick was a pain to get out and it fell apart in a bazillion pieces. I put in a RY4 and it taste perfect. It hits like a champ. No noticeable taste differnce.

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[twgbonehead]

One person's cotton is going to be different from somebody else's cotton.

One person's cotton is another person's rayon.

I boiled my generic CVS cotton balls, and detected a whiff of chlorine. Probably less than I would inhale swimming in the pool in my back yard.

Have switched to CelluCotton (rayon) and will never boil anything again (except corn, lobsters, and eggs).

 

[Kevinn]

I just buy the organic cotton, and vape it right out of the package. I don't notice any taste difference.

 

[tazzle]

I'm just learning about cotton wicks, and for people who are curious/interested in organic vs. regular sterile cotton balls, I'll post an infographic below that was shared by another ECF member. I found it pretty convincing:

I'm going to be boiling it in distilled water as well, which, yeah, I find pretty amusing about myself, since I smoked cigarettes with their 1000s of chemicals for so long, but hey! -- I figure as long as I'm doing the better thing now, why not take the couple of extra steps on something that you only have to do once to last for such a long time (like what? once a year, maybe? Even longer? I don't even know).

I'm not proselytizing about this, though; I'm just learning now myself, and sharing what other kind folks here have shared with me.

 

[twgbonehead]

I'm just learning about cotton wicks, and for people who are curious/interested in organic vs. regular sterile cotton balls, I'll post an infographic below that was shared by another ECF member. I found it pretty convincing:

I'm going to be boiling it in distilled water as well, which, yeah, I find pretty amusing about myself, since I smoked cigarettes with their 1000s of chemicals for so long, but hey! -- I figure as long as I'm doing the better thing now, why not take the couple of extra steps on something that you only have to do once to last for such a long time (like what? once a year, maybe? Even longer? I don't even know).

I'm not proselytizing about this, though; I'm just learning now myself, and sharing what other kind folks here have shared with me.

Sorry, but you got a source for that pretty graphic? Looks more like one vendor talking about THEIR organic cotton. I sincerely doubt that any significant amount of "organic" cotton on the market corresponds in any way, shape, or form to that description.

The Ko Gen Doh organic cotton has often been praised as the best organic cotton. Grown in Japan. Google Fukishima to see how the Japanese government has aggressively prevented any news about the reactors from being published. (The reactors are still spewing radiation, 3 years later).

But KGD is organic, so it's cool, right?

Hey, whatever works for you, it's cool.

 

[tazzle]

I think this is from ECF member qorax (see the info along the left edge of the image), though it was a different member who pointed it out to me. I'm not an employee of Big Cotton!

 

[twgbonehead]

I think this is from ECF member qorax (see the info along the left edge of the image), though it was a different member who pointed it out to me. I'm not an employee of Big Cotton!

Sorry, tazzle, didn't mean to single you out.

But "organic" is a word that has little or no meaning. There are very few recognized standards about what can or cannot be labeled organic, and of those that exist, ALL (AFAIK) only refer to foods. Cotton is not a food, despite Milo Minderbinder's efforts!

You live your life, and take your chances. The alternative (not taking any chances) is usually a worse strategy. JMHO.

 

[Deryan3]

LMAO.

I asked a friend to grab me some cotton from CVS. Well he went cheap and brought me some stuff from the Dollar Tree which was made in Mexico.

In turn, I'm on my 3rd boil!!!!

too funny, side note: I would too!!!!!!

 

[rurwin]

I don't understand the point of using distilled water.

In the UK, and I assume the USA and most other countries, the water coming out of the taps is very pure. We drink gallons of the stuff, boiled and unboiled, and we hang around in kitchens while boiling vegetables and inhale the steam for hours.

The amount of contaminants it leaves on cotton is going to be very insignificant.