All those flavours

hi everyone,
As I am new to all this and have a few different flavours coming my way, my question is " what is the best way to sample them all?" Someone mentioned a bridging atomiser where you only use a few drops, try one flavour, then put in a few drops of another. I just know I won't be able to use up one before I move onto the next. Your thoughts, hints and experience would be appreciated.

Thanks OG.

 

OG my process was step by step, if it failed at any point I would put away for another month.

Smell - if you/your family can't cope with the smell you won't vape it
Mix & steep if necessary - record or note what mix recipe is.
Test in a dripping or bridgeless atomizer. I still have some old 510 atomizers and a few biansi imists that I use. if liked move on.
Test in a small carto tank over a week. If liked migrate to a larger tank and include in daily vape rotation.


Once you understand what you like its much easier to buy new eliquids

 

the easiest way is a bridgeless atomizer and os what I first used when I started vaping also you could get a hh357 atomizer basicaly the same thing but better I'm sure there is an canuk vendor still stocking the bridgeless ones the more advanced way is a dripper like an igo-l then you need kanthal wire cotton wick and a resistance meter and know what your device can handle

 

I should mention that you should try to taste a similar flavour group in one session. Different flavour groups can cancel each other out on your tastebud and you end up with a steamy nothing. Finish your tasting session. Let your taste buds recover before moving to the next flavour group.

And always use an inert driptip. Delrin was my preferred and I used a clean driptip for each new Eliquid I tasted.

 

Excellent suggestion Crisscross, I will keep that in mind.
DeathguyJ I will lookup the items you mentioned, it will need to be fairly tech easy for this newb *grin*

 

That link - http://houseofvape.com.com/vape/cartomizers-atomizers/smoktech-dual-coil-atomizer/

Works very well for testing new juice - WARNING - contains some kind of juice when shipped - rinse before use !! - Although it doesn't taste half bad - as I discovered ! LOL !

 

How do they actually work?
(One thing I have never tried and still don't understand is carto's )
I'd be interested in that for the same reasons as oldgamer....

 

These atomizers are just bare coils. Drip some Eliquid on the coils and fire. Rinse and repeat. When they get funky just fire and burn off the gunk. Rinse ash, dry and start again.

Cartomizers have a polyfil material that wraps around the coil. This fill soaks up the Eliquid and keeps the coils wet. I consider them disposable.

Cartomizer tanks are just a way to deliver Eliquid to the polyfil. The cartomizers in this case have holes punched in them and the vacuum created in the tank holds the Eliquid in. As you vape the polyfil uses a capillary action to soak up more Eliquid from the tank through the holes. Tricky and tedious for some, fuss free and brilliant for others.

 

Thanks XX - always wondered....
So the same effect (for tasting) could be achieved with an RDA without wicking?

 

Not experienced at that. All the drippers I have used have a ceramic cup that does not like to be heated up so whenever I have used one I wick with silica. IMO any wicking material will have some sort of impact in the taste so you need to find a wick that is palatable to you and the flavour you are tasting.

 

There's no real short cut to tasting a heap of different flavours that I've found. Even with a dripper, you're going to need to dry burn between flavours or you risk not being able to discern the true flavour, be.comse each one will be contaminated by the previous one, and there are definitely some flavours which just don't work, one on top of the other.

 

Exactly. Well said. One of the reasons I use carto's in small tanks. I have a gazillion.

 

I generally use super cheap stardusts for testing. I haven't had much luck with drippers. I don't mind spending about $1 per taste testing. Stardusts are pretty crappy, but you will get an idea if the flavour is worth pursuing, and I don't feel terrible throwing away a stardust if my concoction is a fail.

 

Bender's thoughts on variety, expressed in A Big Piece of Garbage..

 

I always use a dripper. rip out the cotton wick, rinse, dry burn, re cotton wick and bingo.

horses for courses. depends on what device you will put the juice in if you like it. flavour profile on a dripper will likely be very different to the flavour profile in an evod. the same juice in different devices just tastes different (due to heat, air, wicking material, time of year, god, etc....)

 

You really do have to be careful not to mix too much of the different flavors together because like some of the other users have said it really does tend to cancel out the flavors and you are just not really sure what it is that you are tasting. In my experience I have always just used one up entirely before moving on so that I can create a new taste profile...but that is just me of course.

 

Not only are there different flavors but each flavor will have a different taste depending on what rig your going to use. I suggest doing them one at a time and not mixing as that will just screw up the taste all together. Best thing I ever did for myself was buy a start-up kit which had like 20 different flavors. Found that I liked a couple the most and stuck with those.

 

While there are a number of different flavours to try, and it seems more and more coming onto the market on a weekly basis, I'm not even sure I'd want to try them all to be honest.

Obviously any flavour you don't like you'll avoid anyway, so in my case that narrows the options down, also I tend to try and stick with the ones I know I like. If I get the chance to try others I will, but I wouldn't say I'll go out of my way to do so.

 

My favorite one is cherry. My friend handed me his e-cig and urged to give it a try. Since then I'm using it.

 

I am also not always excited to try new flavours. I stick to the ones I like because I have not had many good experiences with other flavours. They tend to make me feel nauseous. Luckily the vape store (only one) in Shenzhen allows you to try new flavours for free or take sample drops home which is pretty cool.