Why are people still dripping?

[PoliticallyIncorrect]

Despite all the improvements made with cartomizers, tanks, ce2s, and so on, I still see a ridiculous amount of people who drip...I know some of you are going to say the taste is what it is all about. I've done some dripping and I find no real difference between dripping and say using a ce2 clearo.

I've tried pretty much everything, wanting them to work—and yes, it comes down to flavor. The best cartos cut it in half. CE2s by whatever incarnation have improved from the very bad old days of burnt flavor, but they continue to mutilate it, drowning tobacco tones, pushing sickeningly-sweet tones forward.

I agree with ya... I use a bottom feeder and it tastes the same to me if I drip...

A bottom feeder with an atty is dripping; the liquid is simply entering the atty from the bottom up.

 

[Optimo]

Taste, flavor and quality of the vape. Can switch between similar tasting flavors all day. Drip 4 drops of caramel vape for a while then drip some butterscotch vape for a while...then drip some cocoa....you get the point. Tried it all nothing beats a good atty. No matter how good the juice is I can't vape it for long at all before I get bored with it and need to change flavors so that makes tanks or anything that holds alot of juice worthless for me and did I mention flavor?

 

[BHam]

I like how "fresh" it taste from fresh juice.

NO CARTO has the taste of a regular atty IMO. They either SUCK or taste like FILLER. No thanks.
Why drip? Because I like to change flavors. Because YOU GET THE BEST FLAVOR THAT WAY. I don't flood my atty either.
I think its preference but there's no RIGHT WAY TO VAPE.
However in my opinion, Cartos have a weird taste to them and I change flavors too much to use one of those big and silly looking tanks. Using a mod is enough, I don't need to look like I'm sipping on a microphone everytime I want some nic....

 

[MiamiMom63]

A Ce2 tastes nothing like juice dripped on a good atty. In fact, there are huge differences in flavor when comparing attys as well.

And, there is a difference between the flavor bottom feeding vs top feeding too. I don't know why, and I've never read an explanation I believed. But here I am right now with a VVPV with a 2.0 ohm hh.357 and a VV REO Woodville with a 2.0 ohm hh.357 in front of me - both with juice from the same bottle and both set at 4.3v - and they taste different from one another. I like them both, but there is a difference in flavor. And, that's just fine with me, btw. The VV REO will be getting an i06 permanently by the end of the week when I expect my i06 sleeve to arrive. The VVPV will never have anything on it but an hh.357.

If I'm not using a feeder, I'm either using a carto on a tube mod or I'm dripping (depends on what my hands need to be doing other than vaping). I still occasionally use my MAP tanks as well, so I'm very familiar with CE2s having been using them for over a year. I like them, but they sure don't taste the same as a high quality atty.

One of the reasons I drip is because I like a lot of different juices. I have more flavors than baskin robbins. Dripping affords me the ability to enjoy as many different juices as I want to on fewer devices just by segregating my active attys by what flavors I've been using lately. When I start getting tired of a few of my flavors, I clean a few attys and start out fresh with a few different flavors.

I totally agree with the flavor of a juice being different in whatever you are using. Also, I was sorely disappointed when I finally got a bottom feeder and it did not taste as good as dripping did to me. At home I enjoy dripping a few drops at 5v while I watch t.v. I can get a good 10-12 puffs off of it and I'm fine. Then next time I can grab a different juice and do the same thing again and I'm fine for awhile again. I rarely have to blow out or clean my atomizer, and the flavors only slight blend just at first. But then again, I only love a few flavors and they tend to blend okay with each other anyways.

For my car and at the office, I use clearomizers. I do not like the way the filler in cartos taste at all. I have tanks and duals and singles, and I just don't care for them. The clearomizers are fine when I'm running around and busy, but when I want to relax and have a nice toke, I DRIP, VAPE, REPEAT! yum!

 

[joelongwood]

Since I had been hand-rolling my cigs for the past 20 years or so, I'm guessing that dripping has replaced the ritual of rolling. I never rolled cigs in advance......I rolled when I wanted a smoke. Tanks just make vaping far too easy for me......kind of like reaching into a pack of cigarettes for a smoke. Cartos I can live with because they do require topping off occasionally, but the flavor (IMHO) is not as good as with dripping. What can I say........maybe the effort of dripping makes the reward more enjoyable?

 

[tj99959]

Basically I find cartos & tanks a lot like chain smoking, it just keeps going -- and going -- and going.
Dripping is like smoking a cigarette. Drip three drops vape it and then set the thing down for a few.

I'm a gadget freak, so I can vape most anyway I want, but when I just kick back to relax it will be with a dripping atty every time.

 

[Jammin]

Despite all the improvements made with cartomizers, tanks, ce2s, and so on, I still see a ridiculous amount of people who drip. My question is this, don't you find this completely tedious? If I had to drip some liquid after every 5-6 puffs, I'd have quit vaping a long time ago.

I know some of you are going to say the taste is what it is all about. I've done some dripping and I find no real difference between dripping and say using a ce2 clearo. And I mean, the atomizer itself is always going to sort of vary as it ages. Am I completely missing something?

I agree. If I had to drip, I'd have stopped vaping a long time ago. In fact, back when I first started a couple of years ago and was using cartridges, I got fed up because they were very high maintenance and lost flavor quick. Then I started dripping. Better flavor, but so much hassle. It's fine if you have nothing else you are trying to do and can sit there and devote one hand to dripping joose and the other holding your pv. When I started with cartos...that was it for me. They worked fabulous and I am still using them today with no interest in box mods or bottom feeders, tanks, etc.

I can see the value of dripping, however, for trying out new joose. I still have my atties and I use them for that. I do not find the taste of dripping to be any better than the taste I get from a carto or a vision stardust.

The beauty of vaping, however, is that there is no one size fits all method, and just because you can't understand why someone is doing something that you are not does not make them wrong.

 

[Jammin]

Dripping is like smoking a cigarette. Drip three drops vape it and then set the thing down for a few.

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All the more reason I don't want to vape. I hated cigarettes and don't need my vaping to simulate it.

 

[Robin Macri]

I too like the ritual of dripping.Iam so used to it by now, why change something that works for you.

 

[the_vape_nerd]

I too like the ritual of dripping.Iam so used to it by now, why change something that works for you.

I'm not being critical, just curious.

 

[jplanet]

The beauty of vaping, however, is that there is no one size fits all method, and just because you can't understand why someone is doing something that you are not does not make them wrong.

Absolutely! I tend to recommend dripping when I find new vapers who likely started out with cartos and don't realize it is an option, and are also disappointed in the flavor, etc. But, I also work at home, and am a passenger in our car more than I am a driver, so it is very rare that I am in a scenario where dripping isn't convenient, but that could easily change...

 

[BiffRocko]

Every carto I've tried has tasted terrible, and I'm very partial to Cisco 306 attys. The coils in them are just outstanding, and I love the heat they produce.

I don't understand why some people think dripping is such a chore. After dripping for almost two years, it's so second nature I don't even think about it. I also use a 306DCA (a drip shield for 306s) and I can get 5-7 drops in before it starts flooding. That's more than an analog worth of vaping even with my Darwin set at 12.7 watts.

 

[Mr.Mann]

Absolutely! I tend to recommend dripping when I find new vapers who likely started out with cartos and don't realize it is an option, and are also disappointed in the flavor, etc. But, I also work at home, and am a passenger in our car more than I am a driver, so it is very rare that I am in a scenario where dripping isn't convenient, but that could easily change...

This is very true, sensei! I am an artist full time and a wannabe musician, so I am generally at my vape station. Only recently have I been working at my alma mater, but that is just temporary. I know that dripping isn't necessarily the most travel friendly, but I still would trade performance over ease of use, but that is just me!

p.s. I call jplanet sensei, because he is the one that finally convinced me, through his relentless call for people to try attys, to make the switch. I am grateful

 

[sawitall]

One more added benefit is when im dripping, my liquid use is half of what it is when im topping carto's

 

[Mr.Lev519]

i like drippn better, drippn is da best i get full flavour and it only need 3 drops and i can vape for hours, and i have a spare bottle of blueberry juice in my car at all times so i wont run out! drippn ftw! with drippn too nothing goes to waste i feel like i get the most out of my juice!!!!

 

[base234]

Because it works. Cartos taste burnt to me, tanks leak and look like junkie gear, etc...I've tried all the widgets and the only widget I still use is a bonut. Works fine, plain and simple.

 

[cement]

I drip because their are some very nice atomizers made these days, and an atomizer is the only thing I like on a tube mod. I don't drip and drive, for that I use a bottom feeder.

 

[GeminII]

I started vaping a bit over a month ago as an exclusive carto user. A week ago I bought my first Cisco 306 LR. The difference is night and day for me in terms of flavor and vapor. After getting over the learning curve, I almost exclusively drip - and it's not nearly the inconvenience I though it would be. I also have a good pyrex tank (no leaky, no cinnamon/banana issues), and I rank that as second in quality of vape/flavor. I've got an HH.357 custom on the way (although I don't know how much one can improve on the Cisco - I'm blown away!). Excited about that.

I am a little disappointed to hear some of the comments that bottom feeding doesn't produce the same results as dripping - I'd thought this would be like the holy grail for me in terms of keepin' the vapor pumpin' at the luxurious level to which I've become accustomed LOL. I'm probably still getting a Reo Grand at some point

 

[Boston_Florida]

I love dripping i get such a better flavor while dripping. You get to taste the juice the way it was created and not filler from a carto. i do use carts but only while out and about when dripping becomes impossible.

 

[the_vape_nerd]

Here's a thing I've been wondering about. I think i've read before that the 306 atomizer will fit a 510 connection with no adapter, is that true? If so, I may have to try one. They make them in low resistance?