How do you test-taste new liquids?

[sofauxboho]

I just ordered, well, most of the winners from here:
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How do you test-taste new liquids?

I'm vaping an eGo-C with Kanger T3. Even if I re-use the tank and just buy an atomizer for each liquid, that adds up.

Is there a good way to clean an atomizer to use it with a different flavor without mixing up the taste?

Or would I be better off dripping to test flavors? Folks have recommended the LR306. How do you clean that?

 

[Johnnie Price]

Drip, drip, drip.

I've heard the 306 is good. I've been breaking in my new 108 half the day and I love it. The 901 is great as well.

Drip.

You can soak it in alcohol and do a quick dry burn to clean it. Hell, if you want to test a bunch of new flavors at once, you can just put the new flavor on top of the old. It'll take a few hits, but the flavor will come through.

And if you decide to use a mini, you can simply dip. Much better than dripping.

 

[darkhood]

Vape - SmartVapes 306 1.8ohm E cig Dripping Atomizer

 

[darkhood]

a good way to clean it between flavors is a couple drops of flavorless or menthol (menthol ice works best for me)

 

[sofauxboho]

And if you decide to use a mini, you can simply dip. Much better than dripping.

Hey Johnnie, thanks for the advice! What do you mean by a mini, and by dipping? Is that some sort of exposed atomizer that you can dip in a little vat of liquid?

Things seem to have come so far since I gave up my DSE901 back in 2009!

 

[Tanti]

we use cheep bridgeless mini atty cause that is the only thing we use it for

 

[VaperBart]

I use an A7 RBA. you can rinse the wick pretty easy between flavores and it holds around 10 or 15 drops.

Plus all you have to buy is wick & wire and rebuild your wick. Some places you can buy the coils already wrapped with the wick.

 

[Johnnie Price]

Hey Johnnie, thanks for the advice! What do you mean by a mini, and by dipping? Is that some sort of exposed atomizer that you can dip in a little vat of liquid?

Things seem to have come so far since I gave up my DSE901 back in 2009!

Mini is the little minis you used 4 years ago, like the 401, 306, ect. And you nailed dipping on the head. I'm using a 108 right now, but the 306 is vastly more popular among the exposed atties. Though I imagine dipping with an eGo or a mod would be an adventure.

 

[GimmieMore]

For now I use an old 510T atty and drip on it to taste test. Doing it now actually! Just got 9 new bottles in the mail and I just HAVE to try them all!

 

[Orobas]

Yeah, just drip.

Any old inexpensive 510 atomizer is fine for tasting juice. When you're done with one flavor, just blow it out into a paper towel, fire it in a few brief BRIEF! pulses to burn off what's left, drip next flavor.

 

[eHuman]

I use an IGO-L with SS wick. If the flavors are close I drip some no nic 50/50 PG/VG and vape between flavors. If I have a flavor that lingers I rinse it in hot tap water and blot/blow it dry then dry burn the coil, new flavor in 2-3 minutes, no cloth wick to deal with retaining juices.

 

[Ryedan]

Yeah, just drip.

Any old inexpensive 510 atomizer is fine for tasting juice. When you're done with one flavor, just blow it out into a paper towel, fire it in a few brief BRIEF! pulses to burn off what's left, drip next flavor.

I second this one. I do flush it out with water if it's a strong flavor. Takes a minute or so.

 

[plastictree]

I go all in. If it smells good, I throw it in a carto tank. Everything that I love today sucked the first few times I tried it, so I don't trust a dripping atomizer to "test" it. Thats just me

 

[OLDER71]

I go all in. If it smells good, I throw it in a carto tank. Everything that I love today sucked the first few times I tried it, so I don't trust a dripping atomizer to "test" it. Thats just me

I agree, besides dripping is WAY TO MUCH PIA for Me

 

[plastictree]

I do have a DCA 306 atomizer, for when I'm like... Crab Juice? ....Alright take a step back lets just try this one....

 

[Orobas]

I go all in. If it smells good, I throw it in a carto tank. Everything that I love today sucked the first few times I tried it, so I don't trust a dripping atomizer to "test" it. Thats just me

a lot of juices need to steep. that's not the atomizer's fault.

 

[plastictree]

a lot of juices need to steep. that's not the atomizer's fault.

Nah cause I can buy a new bottle of legend from hhv and its not the steeping, it's just any juice. For example vanilla dream from HHV. I got my mountain oak vapors juice and HHV juice the same day, so I decided to start on the mountain oak first, so the vanilla dream sat for a couple days. I wasn't done with the mountain juice but I wanted to try the vanilla so I did put it in my 306 and it tasted alcoholy and like straight vanilla extract. The next day put it in a tank and it tasted the same but after an hour or so I kinda got it and it tastes like french vanilla ice cream. Idk it might be just me or something.

But if you have a lot of samplers, I'd go with the 306, a lot easier to clean than a 510.

 

[Orobas]

Yeah.

I think it's you.

 

[plastictree]

Yeah.

I think it's you.

Yeah, don't listen to me.

But I do recomend a 306 over a 510 because on a 510, you have the barrel on it that can get juice on it, and to get that out you have to stick a paper towel in it or something and I have found that paper towels can leave like fibers onto the coil and I can taste the paper towel. The 306, it's coil is expposed and your drip tip is the barrel, so a quick rinse of water and blow it out and it's good.

BUT....... Maybe thats just me.

 

[akatina]

Nah cause I can buy a new bottle of legend from hhv and its not the steeping, it's just any juice. For example vanilla dream from HHV. I got my mountain oak vapors juice and HHV juice the same day, so I decided to start on the mountain oak first, so the vanilla dream sat for a couple days. I wasn't done with the mountain juice but I wanted to try the vanilla so I did put it in my 306 and it tasted alcoholy and like straight vanilla extract. The next day put it in a tank and it tasted the same but after an hour or so I kinda got it and it tastes like french vanilla ice cream. Idk it might be just me or something.

But if you have a lot of samplers, I'd go with the 306, a lot easier to clean than a 510.

Actually, someone commented today? yesterday? that juice in a tank actually steeps and airs out faster than what's kept in the bottle, hence the quicker difference in taste change when you put some juice in a tank or clearo.

It makes sense: the alcohol from flavoring has more air contact to evaporate off. And the the heat from the coil warms the liquid in the tank (not a lot, bit it will get warmer than the liquid sitting in the bottle on the shelf). Put the two together and BAM you get a tank of juice that tastes better than the bottle (but give the bottle time and it should catch up).

So it's not that juice tastes better in a tank, necessarily, just the fact that being in the tank and getting used causes it to steep/mature faster.