For months, I've been trying to decide if I should invest in more hardware or go through the tediousness of constantly changing wicks and/or testing between multiple atomizers. Today, I mistakenly came across my new method for multiple flavor testing.
It's atty cleaning day for me and all but one of my atties are currently going through a 25min cycle in an UC. That atty is the iJoy Combo RDTA.
So, typically, I vape an 80/20 unflavored mix between flavor mixes when I don't want to go through the hassle of changing wicks 5 or 6 times. Today, I filled my RDTA with VG so my palate would be nice and ripe for the flavor coming off of my cleaned atomizers.
Then, it hit me. I can just use this RDTA for testing my flavors! Drip a new mix directly onto the wicks, take your notes, and then just vape the unflavored mix until remnant flavoring has bled off of the wicks. It was a real "duh" moment, but I haven't seen anyone else say that they do this before. I loathe the tedious process of testing new mixes and I'm sure some of you do as well. Hopefully, this helps someone get over their test-day woes.
this is genius. Maybe for squonkers, fill your squonk with unflavored.
The problem with this is when you feed juice to the coils the excess sucks back down through the BF pin and would contaminate the liquid in the bottle.
Depends. If you just drop a couple of drops at a time on the wick, on top and vape, it wouldn't seem down. Then squonk once the flavor is almost dead, clean with unflavored base. I've had some good experience with it. Just gotta make sure not to drown your wick with your tester.
Hey, nifty idea! I hardly ever use my RDTAs anymore, and I usually just drip over another flavor when doing “speed dating” testing. Gonna try this out tonight.
With all of the tobaccos you mix up, I'm sure you've come across some interesting pairings during speed dating.
There’s been a few times that it’s given me some ideas. Like INW Dark Chocolate Tobacco sweetened with SC Virginia Flue Cured to taste almost like sweet chocolate. Actually, that one hasn’t been tested any further than drip mixin’.
Great find man, 100% sounds like the way to do it.
I'm gonna be working on the help section of tfw and I'm gonna definitely reference this idea.
Thanks man
No prob. Most of us do this for a hobby so finding a way to quicken the process without having to spend any extra money is key for a lot of us. Besides, most of us have at least one RDTA lying around from when they were all the rave lol. Now that extra money can be spent on more extracts!
I was just wondering about how to do this, I was thinking about putting a couple drops on my drip without any wick to get just a hit or two then using a drop of vg to clean it off. This would be way better for coils though so thanks for the idea!
I did wickless testing until I inhaled fire lol. Then I switched to rayon for testing since it doesn't ghost flavors as much as cotton. Then I finally settled on flavorless to clean out the last bits of the previous flavor since the rayon was holding on to way too much VG and slowing me down between tests.
I have a bottle of unflavored PG/VG/Nic that I call "Coil Cleaner" for the same purpose.
missed opportunity for ccleaner
Just saved a gig of hassle.
dude my 250gb ssd made an image of the 125g of data i had on it. So my entire ssd was filled with half the data x2. couldn't find the image the drive had made of itself, shit was so annoying.
idk if it was ccleaner or me that eventually found it but i was not happy until i got my space back.
good show last night.
Just gotta get an rdta out so you can autofeed it.
You can take that a step further by adding a little FAA Magic Mask, FA MTS Vape Wizard, TFA Smooth, or FW Toner/Enhancer to your Coil Cleaner. The triacetin will clean your coils even better than flavorless.
here's a faster method:
Use no wick.
Drip directly on to the coil.
take two to three pulls.
either vape unflavored or burn off the excess.
test mix #2 in the same manner.
larger coils like juggernaut, alien, clapton - these can all hold quite a bit of juice. definitely enough to get an idea of your mix.
on top of that no wasted cotton.
I'm not really a fan of wickless coils. I used to use that method though.
/shrug
I just think it's faster and tastes cleaner. maybe it's not a totally accurate representation but if you're testing 10+ mixes it's gonna be a chore and a half to do it any other way.
> but if you're testing 10+ mixes it's gonna be a chore and a half to do it any other way.
Gonna have to disagree with ya there. A lot of people have been dripping VG between mixes forever now. The RDTA just makes it more seamless. I'll agree that wickless is definitely faster though.
This could work with a squonk on the same idea, shouldn't it?
Yeah I'm pretty sure it'd be the same. Similar theory. Just a different concept.
This works for quick and dirty testing of a flavor, but you don't get the benefit of the flavoring steeping as a single flavor test if it isn't mixed and steeped. This way you only get the immediate unsteeped taste. That can have a major impact on how many things taste and may not be at all helpful in the long run of developing a recipe with it if you don't know how it steeps out. But some people only want shake and vape, so it if doesn't taste that great using this method of testing then it probably won't be that great as a shake and vape and likely needs steep time.
What are you talking about? I'm using this method for testing stuff that has been sitting for weeks. Nothing in my original post indicated that I was testing unsteeped flavors and mixes, because I'm not. I'm a custard guy so shake n vapes are practically foreign to me. Hell, I even let my fruity mixes sit for about a week before I touch them.
I didn't quite understand what you were saying. I reread it and I realized what you meant. I've known others who use just premixed plain base in their RTAs and literally drip a drop of flavoring onto their coil through the air hole as a quick testing of a flavoring, rather than mixing single flavor testers. That was all I meant, was that it is okay for getting a general idea of a flavoring, not so great for knowing how it steeps out without doing the flavor testings. I thought that was what you were talking about, but I see that I was mistaken and read too quickly.