Cotton taste

[Gibby92]

I have been using drippers for a few months any every time I re wick them I get a strange cotton taste (organic) I boiled half of the bag in distilled water twice it never really made a difference the taste does go away after a while anyone have any ideas. should i get some sterile cotton?

 

[dannyrl]

Do you keep your cotton out in the open, or do you keep them sealed in a bag? I've found that the cotton that I leave exposed to open air have more of a cotton taste compared to the ones I leave in the bag sealed.

 

[Gibby92]

They are in a sealed bag the boiled ones are sitting out not put them in a bag yet after drying them.

 

[Paradicio]

I've noticed the same with organic cotton, be it in my rda or RBAs. The first few hits always taste a bit like cotton, after that it goes away. The nice gentleman in my local vape shop told me it just happens with cotton. But once you get past it, you can't beat the flavor.

 

[soulcatcher]

Same thing here. I am sensitive to certain flavors, cotton being one of them, and using both sterile and boiled cotton I pick up the flavor for maybe 10 or so puffs and then it fades away. Just a matter of 'breaking' them in. You may also want to try a different brand of cotton as some have a stronger flavor then others (no idea why but they do).

And as I'm sure others will recommend, try using CelluCotton/rayon instead of cotton. It wicks better, has a less noticeable flovor w/ less of a break-in time, and is easier to work with.

-Best of Luck-

 

[StrafeMalone]

Use less cotton in your wicks. When I started using cotton I was using way to much and had a cotton taste. One of my buddies rewicked my RDA with just enough to cotton to slide through the coil easily and just enough left over to loosly fit under the coil and it made all of the difference.

 

[Gibby92]

I only use drippers so I have wicked a lot of coils tried all different widths of cotton I just vape through the taste but i hate having to re wick them because of the taste just seeing if anyone had a better way of getting rid of it

 

[TheColdHandedVG]

To my knowledge there isn't really a way around the cotton taste. You just have to take a few puffs to get it away. Some brands have a stronger taste than others. The Japanese cotton pads have the worst taste so far IMO but they are the most absorbent. The Organic cotton balls from Walgreens have the least cotton taste but are also the least absorbent. Pros and cons to everything in vaping I guess....

 

[p7willm]

Sterile cotton has more "stuff" in it than organic. Sterile means that they used "stuff" to kill the germs, usually at least Chlorine, and organic means less, though not no, "stuff".

I wish I could taste the difference between old and new cotton but I don't have that problem.

 

[bjaxon]

I usually saturate my cotton. Then I fire a good bit of it off, then add more, before placing my top cap on and vaping. Tends to get rid of all that cotton taste.


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