Ready to try cotton

MooseMan · Sep 21, 2014

Hey all.

Been using silica for several months and am getting tired of reading how everyone just loooves cotton wicking. Today I stopped at walgreens and picked up a bag and a gallon of distilled water to boil them in. Going to dry them in the oven after that. Is this what everyone is using from walgreens?

fq06 · Sep 21, 2014

I just boiled for 30 min and set it out to dry on paper towels. I have seen many more steps suggested by others though.

Zombiewoof · Sep 21, 2014

Just let them sit out over night spred out on some paper towel. I personally wouldn't put them in MY oven

not unless you want to come over and clean it for me

MooseMan · Sep 21, 2014

i would say at about 200 degrees it would be fine. No mess I mean. I just worry about not drying them in case of mold or somthing. Maybe I'm just paranoid. lol

Is this the same brand anyone else uses? Studio 35 from walgreens in the picture above.

M5amhan · Sep 21, 2014

MooseMan said:
i would say at about 200 degrees it would be fine. No mess I mean. I just worry about not drying them in case of mold or somthing. Maybe I'm just paranoid. lol

Is this the same brand anyone else uses? Studio 35 from walgreens in the picture above.

yep thats what everyone uses. make sure and unroll it like a cinnamon roll so all the strands are aligned

MooseMan · Sep 21, 2014

Okay thank you M5.
Anyone tried unrolling before boiling? Or is that what everyone does?

M5amhan · Sep 21, 2014

you could unroll before boiling but i meant when you were ready to make a wick

MooseMan · Sep 21, 2014

Yeah i thought maybe it would dry out quicker if unrolled first. I will try it and see.

Zombiewoof · Sep 22, 2014

You really don't have to be that paranoid. Air drying your cotton will be just fine, after all you're going to put it inside an atomizer and vape it, even at a higher ohm rating you're gonna fry anything that could live on you're cotton. Think about it, you're going to saturate your cotton with fluid anyway, if some microbial thing was gonna make itself a home...well you're born dying, vape on.

Roger Schaeffer · Sep 22, 2014

So organic cotton is often whitened with Hydrogen Peroxide in stead of Bleach like regular cotton Balls. You can use Hydrogen peroxide you buy at the supermarket as mouth wash. Hydrogen peroxide when exposed to air breaks down into oxygen and water. So the boiling is to do what? And if you spend 50 cents a pad for Japanese Organic cotton[unwhitened] would you boil that also. There is a Facebook Group named -To Each His Ohm -first rule of the group No Boiling Allowed

Lefty · Sep 22, 2014

The boiling is to remove the taste left by the peroxide. The distilled water is so that you don't add whatever taste your tap water might leave. And yes with the peroxided stuff I personally tasted the difference boiled or not boiled - particularly right after wicking. IDK where you get your Japanese cotton but mine was $10 for 200 pads. No I don't boil it as it was never peroxided. Neither did I boil any of the nearly 500ft of Cellucotton sitting on my shelf. Now to figure out a use for it...

MKPM · Sep 23, 2014

Sun dried Japanese cotton from Sephora here

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M5amhan · Sep 23, 2014

i boil my organic cotton balls but not japanese. seems like you get a cleaner taste and softer cotton when you boil it

VapedCrusader · Sep 23, 2014

No weird cotton taste with rayon cellucotton.. stuff is way better.

MKPM · Sep 23, 2014

I've heard good things about rayon, but it is basically plastic....so I'll pass

UncleRJ · Sep 23, 2014

Still digging Ramie fiber myself

But cotton is easy to dry in a toaster oven set to about 120 deg F or so.

And one heck of a lot quicker than air drying anyway.

Lefty · Sep 23, 2014

I don't dislike the CelluCotton and no it's not plastic it's cellulose. I just prefer the Japanese organic at the moment. I have a bag of what's pictured in the OP as well - boiled and air dried - and don't dislike it either. I've got the wicking thing covered for a while - at least until something else strikes my fancy. I've had the mod and atty thing covered for quite some time too but... oohhh... shiny....

MooseMan · Sep 23, 2014

Okay everyone, I'm vapin away on some butterscotch soaked cotton and it is pretty good. I'll have to play around around with it some more to decide if I want to move away from the silica.

I unrolled my cotton first and then boiled it. I then squeezed as much water out as I could and put them in a glass dish in the oven at about 200 degrees. Worked like a charm.

LaurenG823 · Sep 28, 2014

I buy Koh Gen Do Japanese Cotton on Amazon. I don't boil it as my water is horrible and vaping costs enough without having to buy distilled water too. Comes in pad form, just cut a strip, wick it, and go. I tried organic cotton balls and found that I didn't like it. The Japanese stuff is ultimately better.

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Zombiewoof · Sep 28, 2014

This whole thing about boiling your balls is getting, um, a bit creepy, and uncomfortable. Could we talk about something else?

danjc · Oct 8, 2014

I dont boil my balls just by organic, I dont really see the point Ive had no adverse effects (COUGH!! COUGH!!)

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but seriously I dont see the point (never boiled my cigs before I smoked em) nor can I be bothered
I haven't noticed any funky flavors or anything else as long as its organic ie not factory washed in chemicals bleaches and such its not like were aiming to actually vape the cotton its self is it LOL just transport the juice to our coils

Zombiewoof · Oct 9, 2014

So check this out,http://www.amazon.com/Cotton-Labo-ORGANIC-Puff-200pc/dp/B000TCD51A take that Kho Gen Do

SusanP4 · Oct 9, 2014

I bought a big pack of Sheseido Japanese cotton at Sephora for 9.50.

Lefty · Oct 9, 2014

Zombiewoof said:
So check this out,http://www.amazon.com/Cotton-Labo-ORGANIC-Puff-200pc/dp/B000TCD51A take that Kho Gen Do

Hmm, price hike. I bought the exact same listing Aug 11 for $11.60. Apparently neither of us noticed the "other sellers" listings at $9.37 free shipping. With 200 I think it will be a while before I need to comparison shop.

Zombiewoof · Oct 9, 2014

Interesting that you bought this as well, I would guess it performs well for you? I did see that they had other sellers, it's just if it says "Prime" ( since I have a Prime account) I usually don't look at the other sellers, maybe I should

Lefty · Oct 9, 2014

I've been quite happy with it. Pretty much all I'm using ATM. Took about three weeks to arrive if I recall correctly. No noticeable taste, wicks great, easy to work with.

nightshard · Oct 17, 2014

Cotton is not like silica, it expands when wet so don't over stuff you coils, keep it nice and loose.

Eric DeCastro · Oct 21, 2014

I have been using cotton straight out the bag for almost two years (same bag too) and I haven't died yet.

but I'm the opposite, i want to try silica in my kayfun (using cotton right now)

dmska · Oct 22, 2014

If you've never tried silica, when you do I'd think you'll notice it has a taste that it adds to your liquids.

MooseMan · Oct 22, 2014

I don't know, I have tried both cotton and silica and I enjoy both. Cotton in my opinion is best in drippers so I can just rewick and dryburn. It looks hard to rewick a protank coil so I still use silica in those.

Ready to try cotton

MooseMan

fq06

Zombiewoof

MooseMan

M5amhan

MooseMan

M5amhan

MooseMan

Zombiewoof

Roger Schaeffer

Lefty

MKPM

AMG

M5amhan

VapedCrusader

Custard Junkie

MKPM

AMG

UncleRJ

Will write reviews for Beer!

Lefty

MooseMan

LaurenG823

Zombiewoof

danjc

Zombiewoof

SusanP4

Lefty

Zombiewoof

Lefty

nightshard

It's VG/PG not PG/VG

Eric DeCastro

dmska

MooseMan

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