Help! Tasting strategy

[Aal_]

Hi Guys, Please help me in getting out of the mess I am in right now. Well I have around 30 different bottles of juice. And I received them during a month period. I have 5 boge 2.0 cartos, a CE dual coil clearo, CE4 plus clearo, smok DCT and ego-c tanks and attys. My kit is an ego-c. So I know I like Bobba's bounty, and i used to have it in a clean boge carto vaping happily. However i started tasting other stuff, and tasting and tasting! now all my cartos are messed up. They all taste like a 100 flavors, and to make it worse, the bad tastes always win. So i decided to stop for a while, use my CE4 for Bobba's and got an ego-c twist for extra power. But now I am in a mess. I need a strategy to isolate the good flavors from the bad ones and start focusing on the good ones. After my research yesterday i realized that people shouldnt use cartos for tasting. So what do i do now? How do I approach this? I am planning to clean my cartos with the boiling method, however I am worried to fill my CE4 and my clearos with some flavors that will stick? I need a strategy. In summary:

1- Before buying new boge I need to isolate what are the "throw aways" and what are the "could buy next"
2- Is a DCT good for tasting? or it will act like the boge since it has a filler and needs thorough cleaning?
3- Are the clearomizers mentioned better for tasting? Since they don't have a filler? what about the ego-c tanks?
4- What do you use for trying flavors? I read somewhere people buy some atttys and drip. What attys?
5- All in all how did YOU do it?

 

[occultangle]

I think the eGo tanks are pretty good for taste testing. There will be some flavor left in the atomizer for a minute but then it goes away. After a few flavors you can take out the atomizer and wash it too.

 

[Aal_]

I think the eGo tanks are pretty good for taste testing. There will be some flavor left in the atomizer for a minute but then it goes away. After a few flavors you can take out the atomizer and wash it too.

I think they are but the flavor is weak in my opinion. I am not sure it gives you the actual taste for you to judge. What do you think?

 

[sportcardiva]

i agree with aalwani

 

[sailorman]

Ehh.... The eGo tanks have been known to wash out the flavor some. If I were you, I'd go ahead and invest in a regular 510 atty or two or three, and a drip tip or two, or even some dripping attys. You can sit down with your flavors and test them all in no time flat using some unflavored 0 nicotine juice, or one of the special "flavor eraser" juices to clear out the atty between flavors. Who knows, you might even get into dripping.

2ohm attys would probably work best, or match the resistance of your existing atomizer as closely as possible. Err on the high side.

 

[occultangle]

Personally I think they give a pretty good "average" flavor, useful for judging. And like I was saying, it's easy enough to wash off the attys and then you can switch them while one dries for a while. I was recently trying the CE4s myself and I don't find that much difference between them and the tanks. I like to use Boge cartos for flavors I don't vape a lot, and I can put the condoms on back on them.

 

[Accomplice]

Hi! I'm newer than you are but this is one reason I bought the clearomizers. I thought that no batting was probably a good idea and they look so easy to clean between flavors. There are some good videos on YouTube. The only things in them that soak up the flavor are the wicks so how hard could it be? Of course I haven't tried it yet so... And I also seem to take one too many puffs from a cartomizer and I'm sure I've burned a few! LOL

 

[sailorman]

.....

1- Before buying new boge I need to isolate what are the "throw aways" and what are the "could buy next"
2- Is a DCT good for tasting? or it will act like the boge since it has a filler and needs thorough cleaning?
3- Are the clearomizers mentioned better for tasting? Since they don't have a filler? what about the ego-c tanks?
4- What do you use for trying flavors? I read somewhere people buy some atttys and drip. What attys?
5- All in all how did YOU do it?

More detailed answer:

2) No. A DCT isn't good on any battery that provides less than 4 or 4.5 volts. They really need 4.5-5V to work well. A DC carto consists of two 3ohm coils and 3ohms is too high to heat up properly on a 3.4V battery. A DCT tank works fine if you use a single coil carto like a 1.7ohm smoketech ressurector. But it uses a carto one way or the other so it'll be just like a Boge. Good for vaping. Not good for testing.

3) Clearomizers are better for tasting than cartomizers or tanks that use cartomizers, but they're not very good for tasting either. They're fiddly to clean and take apart, so you don't want to do it over and over again.

4) Atomizers. You can use standard atomizers made for a 510 connection. Or, you can use "dripping attys" which are built better and usually last longer and vape better. The i06 and V2 Cannon at Ikenvape.com are both excellent, reasonably priced dripping atomizers.

5) I use both standard and dripping attys. I use a higher resistance than you would want though.

 

[sailorman]

Hi! I'm newer than you are but this is one reason I bought the clearomizers. I thought that no batting was probably a good idea and they look so easy to clean between flavors. There are some good videos on YouTube. The only things in them that soak up the flavor are the wicks so how hard could it be? Of course I haven't tried it yet so... And I also seem to take one too many puffs from a cartomizer and I'm sure I've burned a few! LOL

Clearomizers are, IMO, second only to dripping for a clean flavor. The problem is that you have to take them apart to clean them well. Then, you have to either let them dry or vape through the remaining water in the wicks. Taking them apart over and over again can't be good for the seals and repeatedly cleaning them makes the wicks fray faster.

I love clearomizers. The Fluxomizers are probably 70% of what I use, the other 30% being dripping and the Vision Stone tanks. But I wouldn't use them for tasting unless I had no other option. A plain old atomizer is less hassle and faster. If I had a bunch of clearomizers and only a few juices to test, then yeah, why not? If you don't like it, just dump it. But I wouldn't test a dozen or more juices with clearomizers.

 

[Accomplice]

@sailorman - Would You clean a clearomizer before the first use or just use it? Do you know if there is anything in there that would affect the flavor?

 

[sailorman]

Some clearomizers have residue from manufacturing in them. The CE4 Stardusts is one that I know does. The Fluxomizers don't and that's the only ones I use. I don't think the CE3's or the Phoenix cartos do either. Usually what you do is take them apart and burn the cup and wicks for 20 seconds or so with a butane lighter. Just be careful not to burn wire insulation. The wicks won't burn. Sometimes you can see vapor coming from the cup and coil area of CE2s. With CE4s, you should also wash the included drip tip.

 

[Katya]

I taste all my new juices in my eGo-C atties. I put a few drops in the tank, vape, and if I don't like the flavor, I empty and rinse out the tank, fill the tank with a few drops of PG, vape that to clean the atty coil (PG is a very good solvent) and I'm good to go!

Doesn't get any simpler than that.

 

[Aal_]

Can I use the ego-c as a dripping atty without using the tanks? is there some kind of drip tip that fits the ego-c cone?

 

[sailorman]

I think they are but the flavor is weak in my opinion. I am not sure it gives you the actual taste for you to judge. What do you think?

I think you are right. It's a commonly known fact that the tanks mute the flavor. It might be better to drip straight on the atomizer, but why bother. Just get some plain old attys. They're easier to clean and you can use them for dripping. If you like dripping, you can get dripping attys. If you like to swap flavors a lot, you might like dripping more than the tank system anyway. Nothing--not tanks, clearomizers or anything else, tastes better than dripping on a good dripping atty.

 

[sailorman]

Can I use the ego-c as a dripping atty without using the tanks? is there some kind of drip tip that fits the ego-c cone?

You can use it, but there is no drip tip for it. You'd just have to use the empty tank.

 

[Aal_]

Just dissected an old 808 cartomizer I had and removed the filler. Luckily i have an adapter 510-808, and I am using it as a drip atty now. Tasting is now pure flavor.

 

[sailorman]

Do you see what I meant when I said the tanks mute the flavor?

 

[Aal_]

Do you see what I meant when I said the tanks mute the flavor?

yeah i was aware of that, and it is nice to know I am not the only one . That's why I used only boge that I screwed them all with different tastes. I am running experiments today to proper clean them and would definitely order others. From there on I will do my best to stick to one flavor per carto. i cannot promise though

 

[sailorman]

yeah i was aware of that, and it is nice to know I am not the only one . That's why I used only boge that I screwed them all with different tastes. I am running experiments today to proper clean them and would definitely order others. From there on I will do my best to stick to one flavor per carto. i cannot promise though

It's hard to keep them straight without labels. I have 6 clearomizers and 3 syringes in front of me and I can only guess by the color of the juice what they are.

 

[Warren D. Lockaby]

Someone suggested using the little multi-colored rubber bands made for childrens' dental braces to identify the flavors in cartos, juice bottles, etc. Also I suppose lots of folks use different colored drip tips for their cartos & attys. Of course I'd have to keep a log of what each color identified... my memory is shot for such functions. Haven't tried this myself but I like the rubber band idea.