Vanilla flavors leave bad taste after dry-burn?

[j3illy]

I vape mostly thin juice in CE4's, and it's mostly hassle free. I dry-burned a few after cleaning them out, and noticed how a blueberry/vanilla clearo now has this slightly burnt / silica taste. The coil wasn't even that gunky, but some residue did burn off. The gunkiest coil was from a blackberry VG based juice, but that 1 doesn't have a lingering bad taste, nor do any other clearo's I've cleaned. I don't clean them w/ alcohol or anything, just some solid rinsing w/ hot water and then full air-drying. Could it be an issue w/ vanilla flavors?

 

[Mark Anthony]

Did you rinse the coils after dry burning them?

 

[Jonathan Tittle]

I've never had an issue with vanilla flavors, though I have had issues with vanilla flavored alcohol being added to a mix which resulted in a very off-putting taste when switching between flavors. I ended up having to rebuild the coil on my IGO-L to get rid of the taste, which would be akin to simply dumping the head on an existing atty and putting in a new one if you don't rebuild.

What blueberry vanilla flavor were you vaping?

 

[j3illy]

Yea I forgot to mention I did rinse again afterwards, but w/ the CE4's I use primarily, they're not rebuildable so I can't take them apart. I don't kno how much water is really able to get into the center hole to rinse the coil.

 

[Jonathan Tittle]

If you don't want to use PGA to soak, you can get some boiling hot water and just drop the unit in and let it soak. That should help quite a bit and that's what I did when I was using the CE4's before moving to larger rebuildable tanks. The only flavor it didn't work on was a jager like flavor and that's because licorice is a potent, strong and nasty flavor .

Yea I forgot to mention I did rinse again afterwards, but w/ the CE4's I use primarily, they're not rebuildable so I can't take them apart. I don't kno how much water is really able to get into the center hole to rinse the coil.

 

[j3illy]

Yea I'm gonna try a more thorough soak on it after I drain the juice out. When I dry-burned, I remember seeing some dark specs that weren't glowing, which must be the gunk.

 

[j3illy]

What blueberry vanilla flavor were you vaping?

That clearo had an extra blueberry / vanilla ice-cream B&M flavor in it, and something different before that, so it's a clearo that had seen a fair amount of usage. I had another clearo take on the slightly burnt silica taste today too while I was using it (DIY 24mg Red Bull clone), but this is my oldest clearo. I assume this is just how they get eventually, cuz vaping 2+ months rotating w/ 11 CE4's, I've still yet to throw 1 out. I'm gonna try boiling those 2 at some point, but I'm not counting on them or anything. I ended up ordering 7 more last night for $9.50.