Still new, where do you get your cotton

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eazye99

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Peaches and creme yarn. I tried cotton balls. Yes they work. But the yarn is so much easier. In the time it takes to pull the cotton off and make a wick. You can cut the yarn. Twist the end and have it in the coil. Also if u get leaking. U can pull a string out of a fresh piece of yarn to use as a flavor wick. The rolling and sizing is pretty much done. They call it yarn. I call it pre made cotton wick. I got mine from Walmart. They have a web site also. Do a Google search I'm not sure how posting links works here. Not for Walmart lol unless u want to.
 

Rickb119

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I use cotton cooking twine that I get at BBY. It's natural unbleached cotton so I do boil it, twice. However, it is not organic cotton. I like twine (as opposed to balls, rolls, etc.) because I can use a bead threading needle (hobby lobby) to easily pull it into the coil.

One of these days I'll probably get some organic cotton twine. I read about someone using an organic cotton/hemp twine that lasted longer that just cotton so maybe I'll check in to it. The downside to using cotton is that it needs to be replaced much sooner than any other type of wick. The upside is that it tastes sooooo good.
 
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