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DonSteve

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Hello ladies and gents,
I've read on another forum about that. Will paste a quote below and I am asking for your thoughts on this one because to me it seem counter intuitive at best. But then again there are far stranger things that work when all logic stands against it.
So the other day I found a post online (can't remember where, probably Reddit) where someone suggested burning your cotton with a lighter before wicking. I spent the next couple of days searching the internet, and couldn't find anyone else talking about this, but today I went ahead and tried it on a whim... and wow.
My flavor is popping like you wouldn't believe, and I'm picking up notes that I didn't know were there. Cloud production seems to have improved a bit, nothing to write home about. And I am dripping less often... I never would have thought of doing this.

Has anyone else heard of/tried this?
If you're interested, be careful. Cotton catches fire (duh), so be ready to blow out that flame right away, and try not to burn yourself. Or your house...
I'm using organic cotton balls, boiled once. I unroll it from the ball first, then twist it just like I would normally before I burn it. I use a much thicker piece than I normally would, because it loses a lot of density. Just quickly run the lighter near it. If it catches fire (it will), blow it out quickly before it spreads and you ruin the whole piece of cotton. I just burned it enough to get rid of the stray fibers and brown the outside.

You're up.
 

Teresa P

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I'll be the first to tell you I don't know everything, but this puzzles me a bit. I've been trained with the mentality that we should keep our wick from burning, so I'm interested to hear what benefits (if any) this may have. My logic tells me it would keep the cotton from absorbing the liquid as efficiently.
But, like I said, I don't know everything..... ;)
 

DonSteve

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I've been trained with the mentality that we should keep our wick from burning
that's exactly what I thought as well and the whole burning part is contrary to my whole thought process but well...
I`ll be sure to give it a try the next time I am changing the wicks.
How bad can I mess things up?
 

Teresa P

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If it's gonna ruin anything, at least cotton is the cheapest part. Lol!
 

lordmage

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back in the day people would use a form of silica which is now known to not be so good, when using that stuff people did pre-burn it which helped temper it and keep it from falling apart. to date the only wick meant to be burnt is ready x wick.
 

SirRichardRear

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I don't get it personally, but i will say that back in the day, if our battery was low and we wanted to change flavors (like at a vape shop when sampling) or if you didn't like the flavor and wanted to get it off, we would light the cotton on fire to burn the juice off. but it has to be wet with juice. The flame just dried the juice off the cotton then blow it out when it looked dry.
 

DonSteve

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back in the day people would use a form of silica which is now known to not be so good, when using that stuff people did pre-burn it which helped temper it and keep it from falling apart. to date the only wick meant to be burnt is ready x wick.
That makes sense. Perhaps someone didn`t get the memo that we're now using organic cotton ?!
 

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As a young vaper I was always taught that burned cotton is a bad thing:cuss2:

And I am not going to be changing my mind about that anytime soon
 

bondo

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Doood,loook,......if it's on tha intarwebs then it gots to be true...
Reddit Is like tha new wiki an all dat...
 

Synphul

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Yea idk about all that. If using a lighter I'd imagine organic cotton would flame up and be gone faster than you could blow it out. If referring to singing the cotton wick while it's in the coil I don't see how that would be any different than vaping with too much power/too hot of a coil and burning the wick. Burnt wick tastes like shit in my opinion, the vaping version of smoking the butt but then each to their own I suppose. Oh yea, the flavor pops alright but then so does the odor of an outhouse on a 105F day. Doesn't mean 'popping' is a 'good' thing.
 

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