Tasting cotton?

[GrandSam]

I've been using cotton wick for the last 6 months. Every time I swap out the cotton my first 1ml of juice has a strong cotton taste. It slowly goes away until it is nonexistent. I always thought this was normal, until a few people mentioned that they taste their juice (normally) as soon as they rewick. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[ScottiePumalate]

Yeah I've heard you just gotta get through it.


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[AveryW]

I've been using cotton wick for the last 6 months. Every time I swap out the cotton my first 1ml of juice has a strong cotton taste. It slowly goes away until it is nonexistent. I always thought this was normal, until a few people mentioned that they taste their juice (normally) as soon as they rewick. Am I doing something wrong?

Do you boil your cotton, I've read that it helps. I have a big Tupperware bowl of cotton that I boiled a while back that I pull from. I don't have much of a cotton taste upon rewick.

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[catilley1092]

Are you priming your coil with 2-3 drops of your favorite e-juice before use? I suspect that being this is a 6 month issue that you are, otherwise you'd be getting dry hits that are very unpleasant.

But thought I'd ask anyway, sometimes the basics are overlooked.

You may wish to change your source of cotton if this continues.

Cat

 

[kachuge]

LOL... I get that taste..... sorta like cotton candy or caramelized sugar........ I like the taste, but it can't be good...lol

...and actually, after reading someplace that cotton starts to break down around 200 degrees, ive gone back to silica....

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[Noble Gas]

I use cheap, unboiled sterile cotton balls from CVS Pharmacy in my RDA, and I don't taste anything but the juice (unless I burn it). However, besides not being a Kayfun, I always use the same juice. Are you dry burning your coil when changing wicks?

 

[Dusif]

I get the same annoying taste as well... I just chain vape the hell outta that wick and problem solved


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[GrandSam]

Thanks guys, to address the questions:
-No, I am not dry burning my cotton (tried it once, caught the cotton on fire...)
-I am priming, with tons of juice.
-I have 2 bags of cotton. One has been boiled, the other has no; but I get the taste from both.

I'll try CVS's cotton. I'm currently using Walmart's 100% organic cotton.

 

[Sl4gathor]

I get the taste from the cotton balls I boiled, I also use Peaches and Creme yarn, I dont get the taste from the yarn at first, so thats what I been using...

 

[Minnaz]

well believe it or not ive been to 6 Chemists/Pharmacys and none of them had nither organic cotton nor surgical cotton... clostest i found was jhonsons 100% pure cottonballs do u think they would be ok or not?

 

[Kr3wsk8er]

To my knowledge and from what I have read here, most often cotton including organic cotton is "bleached" with hydrogen peroxide, to give it the white appearance. Since hydrogen peroxide is a disinfectant and can be used orally I do not find any risk with it. By no means am I a scientist, nor do I know if we are getting any residual exposure, or if that would be harmful inhaled. IMPO I stay away from ekowool as well as silica after reading an article that claimed it may pose health risks. Lastly I personally would advice against boiling any cotton as the chance for bacteria simply from our hands, and other surfaces it touches, finds a prime warm wet environment in the cotton after it has been boiled. Just my 2cents on that note. As for the taste, I have not had any luck ever NOT getting that taste after rewicking. It is just something that I have gotten use to, First 1-5 hits I will have a slight "new cotton" taste and it diminishes.

 

[coalyard]

I get the taste for the first few hits using RiteAid organic cotton balls. I do not boil them; it is a PITA, and probably opens an avenue for bacteria to develop due to the moisture introduced, but boil or not is an issue that has been beat to death in other threads on this forum.

You may be using too much cotton to wick with, which usually will give you dry hits or not fully flavored hits. I store my cotton balls in an air tight glass mason jar, and I take the cotton balls from the center of the bag. The rest of them go to the bathroom for general use. Cotton absorbs anything from the air, especially the plastic flavor from the bag they were in. Perhaps that is what you are tasting. Some people are more sensitive to it than others.

 

[jp_cfc09]

lol same here, I thought it was normal and changed back to slicia wick. might try different cotton but the two bags I got where 100% unbleached cotton but didnt say organic on them, cant find the organic cotton that easy. I found the taste was there with my fruity juices but tobacco flavours and mint didnt, they overpowered it I suppose but after a while on the fruit juice it did subside.

 

[6spdsurfer]

The quickest and easiest solution to this that I've found is when you rewick, wet the cotton with your juice and burn it while blowing on the cotton till it becomes dry. Then wet the cotton again and burn again til it becomes dry. Do this a couple more times to get rid of that flavor before actually using the build. Just remember to wet it again before filling up a tank!


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[Mr.Mann]

The way that I think remedies this (or at least it did for me) is to make sure when you're wicking the cotton that you don't have the cotton rolled too tightly (or rolled at all). My theory is that you will taste cotton IF the wick is bound too tightly. So essentially, while the wick may look to be fully saturated, if you take it out, you may find (like I did), and upon VERY close inspection, that certain parts of the cotton were not as saturated as others. Now I don't even roll the cotton -- I just make sure it is the perfect size, twisted at the end for feeding though the coil, and then I open up the intro-twist so that there are no aspects of the cotton that are closing itself off from optimum absorption.

 

[zahzoo]

These cotton threads seem to be popping up like weeds lately... I've come to the conclusion there is no 100% "right" method for cotton usage. Also I suspect many of the concerns voiced may not be worth the time invested or mitigation efforts some of you are advocating.

If commercially sold cotton balls were some highly contaminated product either chemically or bacteria laden... don't you figure the medical community or "green" proponents would have raised a flag somewhere in the last decade? Maybe published something warning of ill heath effects from a product used pervasively in wound treatment or topical applications..? Think about it?

Maybe consider how much pesticide or chemical residue may be in a single cotton ball? Then figure conservatively you could probably make a 100 wicks from a single ball... so 1/100 would seem we're talking trace or maybe even unmeasurable minute amounts of risk...

Do what you're comfortable with... but can we avoid raising fear or concerns where no known risks have been identified. I'm far more concerned with juice being mixed in someone's kitchen, garage or in the back of a strip mall without proper clean room and quality controls and no ingredient disclosures...

 

[Downtownjeffbrown]

I've got a bag from Walgreens of sterilized cotton balls and I get that taste for the first 10 or so puffs. Its slowly goes away and I just puff through it as I taste it whether I boil my cotton balls or not.

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[PaulBHC]

These cotton threads seem to be popping up like weeds lately... I've come to the conclusion there is no 100% "right" method for cotton usage. Also I suspect many of the concerns voiced may not be worth the time invested or mitigation efforts some of you are advocating.

If commercially sold cotton balls were some highly contaminated product either chemically or bacteria laden... don't you figure the medical community or "green" proponents would have raised a flag somewhere in the last decade? Maybe published something warning of ill heath effects from a product used pervasively in wound treatment or topical applications..? Think about it?

Maybe consider how much pesticide or chemical residue may be in a single cotton ball? Then figure conservatively you could probably make a 100 wicks from a single ball... so 1/100 would seem we're talking trace or maybe even unmeasurable minute amounts of risk...

Do what you're comfortable with... but can we avoid raising fear or concerns where no known risks have been identified. I'm far more concerned with juice being mixed in someone's kitchen, garage or in the back of a strip mall without proper clean room and quality controls and no ingredient disclosures...

Meanwhile I never worried about what my cig filter was made out of or if it even filtered anything. Sure did stink when I lit one by mistake though. Cotton taste ain't got nothin' on that one.
I'll bet all of us have dropped a smoke on the ground and picked it right back up and stuck it in our mouth.
I'm pretty old for all the dumb things I've done in my life. I'm not going to worry about cotton now.

 

[zahzoo]

Meanwhile I never worried about what my cig filter was made out of or if it even filtered anything. Sure did stink when I lit one by mistake though. Cotton taste ain't got nothin' on that one.
I'll bet all of us have dropped a smoke on the ground and picked it right back up and stuck it in our mouth.
I'm pretty old for all the dumb things I've done in my life. I'm not going to worry about cotton now.

Exactly...

Worried about a trace amount of hydrogen peroxide in cotton... but never thought twice about the carpet glue being burned in the fire safety boloney forced into cigarette manufacturing a few years ago.

We've all eaten dirt at some point... either purposely or just out playing/working in it. Yikes consider all the bacteria, molds, yeast and chemicals in dirt... LOL Surprised we're all alive given the silly stuff folks worry about these days...

 

[jp_cfc09]

the op wasnt worried about chemicals or anything like that or to put fear into people that cottons bad, neither was any replys really. the point of the thread was because he took the taste as normal but he heard ones say they dont get it and thought he might be doing it wrong for the last 6 months and getting the cotton taste at new re wicks unnecessarily by his own error.

ive seen people cliam they dont get any taste and I thought I messed up but after a bit I found some juices dont give the taste such as my tobacco or strong flavours, light fruity flavours tend to give me it more but leaves after a while. its no bigger really but maybe its the juice we use to thats a factor. I also think theres more threads as everyone seems to be getting into rebuildables now days with all the taifun, kayfun, russians etc.