need a sticky on here: Boiling wicks and cotton
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This thread (does not = ) sticky material. Still clueless as to how to complete the boiling process and why I should even bother...will continue to use cotton balls out of the bag until further notice, or until the bleach kills me. In the event of the latter, it's likely I won't be back to warn all y'all. Apologies in advance...
Actually, it's water and oxygen, due to it's composition (H2O2). See Hydrogen peroxide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I just tried boiling my rolled cotton. There's less time you need to let it sit to have it saturated fully.. probably cuts the time in half in each liquid I've used. I'm tired of cotton though.
I'm sure there's more health risk in boiling sterile cotton... perhaps even non - sterilized cotton. Don't boil a lot at once. You can chunk yarn in a dryer, but I don't know if rolled cotton would do well in a dryer.
I don't know if I'm going to continue doing this. I use to boil my cotton balls when I first started using it. I boiled a weeks worth.. weeks worth if I go crazy with changing wicks/flavors.
I'm sure there's more health risk in boiling sterile cotton... perhaps even non - sterilized cotton. Don't boil a lot at once. You can chunk yarn in a dryer, but I don't know if rolled cotton would do well in a dryer.
I don't know if I'm going to continue doing this. I use to boil my cotton balls when I first started using it. I boiled a weeks worth.. weeks worth if I go crazy with changing wicks/flavors.
I've been convinced of this for many years. However I recently got a bag of organic cotton balls, sterile, at Walgreen's, because they cost only a little more than the non-"organic" kind. I figured I'd swiftly find little to no difference. I was wrong. The organic cotton balls DO taste better as wicks. There's no chemical taste whatever, even if you don't boil them. There is a very short "break-in" period, maybe 4-5 puffs, and in those puffs you do get a slight cottony taste, but it's not foul, and if the wick is the proper size, it doesn't taste burned or anything, it's just a faint cotton taste, sort of like the smell of jeans when you take them clean from the dryer. After a few puffs, you don't taste it anymore, but you do get the cleanest clearest taste of the e-juice; it's truly amazing.
I was convinced it was hype, like the other "organic" stuff, but I was wrong, and proved it to myself. I won't use anything else from now on -- this one bag of 80 cotton balls should last over a year!
They even make T3S's and Protank coils taste better -- very good taste even from those tiny coils.Andria
I watched a documentary about organic veggies from 5 different places in the world, non English speaking workers were asked what the organic sticker said and their replies varied from "on sale" to "fresh" as they stuck the "organic" sticker on every other veggie that passed by.
Marking something as sterile that's isn't however.... I think that's a pretty big deal let alone liability.
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Marking something as sterile that's isn't however.... I think that's a pretty big deal let alone liability.
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not exactly... you don't go around eating or smoking band-aids do you?
anyway, the point of using organic cotton is to have as few chemicals on it as possible (or at least unharmful ones) & not have to boil & dry your cotton, possibly introducing unwanted contaminants in the process.
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not exactly... you don't go around eating or smoking band-aids do you?
anyway, the point of using organic cotton is to have as few chemicals on it as possible (or at least unharmful ones) & not have to boil & dry your cotton, possibly introducing unwanted contaminants in the process.
IDK, word is that Dora the Explorer band-aids make for the best wicking material.
But to answer your question, no, but I also don't eat or smoke residue from evaporated hydrogen peroxide neither.
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not exactly... you don't go around eating or smoking band-aids do you?
anyway, the point of using organic cotton is to have as few chemicals on it as possible (or at least unharmful ones) & not have to boil & dry your cotton, possibly introducing unwanted contaminants in the process.
Apparently that's *exactly* the point of being so specific about it being organic cotton -- I taste *nothing* except, at the very start of a new wick, a very faint cotton taste, and after that wears off, clear, clean taste of the e-juice. That has not been the case for *every other* thing I've tried as a wick -- silica, ekowool, cotton yarn, or cotton from the end of a Q-tip, even after boiling -- there was *never* this clarity of taste from any of those.
Of course you don't eat cotton balls or any other sterile product; the point of sterility is that it won't introduce any micro-organisms, even when in contact with open wounds; you wouldn't eat sterile cotton balls, but you *could* use it to sop up soup or any other liquid and then drink what dripped from it; it wouldn't taste bad, and it wouldn't make you sick. So I think it's pretty safe to vaporize the liquid it sops up and inhale that vapor, provided that the liquid itself is safe to vaporize and inhale -- such as e-liquid!
And I did in fact boil one of these cotton balls, and it did NOT taste as good as straight-from-the-bag, so I think it's entirely likely that *something* was absorbed by the cotton during the drying process, odor for example, or that fungus grew in the cotton due to the moisture, before it was entirely dry.
I still won't buy "organic" vegetables, mostly because they look like crap, and because I truly believe that in most cases, it's 99.99% hype; but in this case, where the *smell* is so much a part of the entire vaping process, it's absolutely NOT hype; organic really does make a difference that you can taste and smell -- you DON'T taste or smell anything except cotton and ejuice.
But of course it's entirely up to the individual, and if you think it's BS, you won't try it, and you'll deprive yourself of an amazing vape experience. Your loss.
Andria
This is so stupid.
My new hobby, or activity for lack of better things to do is to tell stupid people to boil their cotton... And buy organic veggies...
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My new hobby, or activity for lack of better things to do is to tell stupid people to boil their cotton... And buy organic veggies...
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I've never boiled cotton, I just wrap sub ohms and throw some organic cotton in. I'm pretty sure the heat of the coil(s) would pretty much kill anything nasty, and cotton is way less harmful than anything in traditional cigarettes.
To dry your cotton use a lingerie / delicates bag and throw it in the dryer for a couple hours.
ok, maybe not sticky worthy, but seemed worth discussing. The people that do boil it seem sure it is the right thing to do, and that's fine. Myself, and others see no benefit to it, and purposed questions on how to dry it properly, or safely. We vaping to get away from garbage, not to introduce new garbage (bacteria).
If you boil it, and "you" find it is better, then have at it. But in so many threads i see people telling others they "should boil", is nonsense to me.
If you happen to fall off the wagon, and go back to the cigs, hope you don't. But if you do, you shouldn't eat the cigarettes either
If you boil it, and "you" find it is better, then have at it. But in so many threads i see people telling others they "should boil", is nonsense to me.
If you happen to fall off the wagon, and go back to the cigs, hope you don't. But if you do, you shouldn't eat the cigarettes either
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