This has been me for a long time. Regardless of which recipe I tried I could never really taste the flavours, and certainly not after the first couple of hits. I've tried adjusting recipes, increasing flavour levels, adding sweetners, and none of it worked.
Then I bought a new mod and tank, and the difference is insane. Firstly, I can taste the flavours of everything, even the subtle notes. Secondly, the recipes I created where I added additional sweetner or greater volumes of flavour concentrates in an effort to actually taaste something, taste awful!
It seems it's all down to the kit you use for vaping. I started with some kind of vape pen, then tried an aspire nautilous and some other variation. Close to giving up I spent a little more moeny and purchased a Vaporesso Switcher with NRG. And my god what a difference!!!! All the original recipes I made, following recipes from others with sensible amounts of flavour concetnrate, taste fantastic! Mustard Milk went from meh to feeling like I'm pigging out on the finest quality sweet treats, my big foot clone tastes fantastic, I can finally taste apple!
So there you have it, buy a good quality kit and those flavour problems dissapear. Well, they have for me anyway, so hopefully this will work for anyone else with similar problems.
Wait till you upgrade from the NRG tank to an RDA or RTA. You will taste even more flavors! :D
I’ve went from a guardian tank to a serpent rta, NRG tank then wasp nano. From my experience, the flavor from the guardian still has the best flavor.
and the nano? my RDA is in the mail
Yes. Maybe you’ll have better results than me. I’m into MTL as the chamber is narrowed and directed to hit the tongue. I find coil building to be too tedious and has too many variables(cotton density, absorption rate, coil spacing),.
The Rda didn’t feel safe when my mouth is over the coil.. especially, the spit back and popping (most likely cotton wicking issues). I’m into chain vaping and it has dry hits but let me know how it goes.
It's more a case of olfactory fatigue when none of your 10 different rda/rta/rdtas have flavour.
No it’s not
Dripping and squonking are also mind blowing in the leap of taste
I have I idea what those things are.
Dripping is using an RDA (basically just an open coil with no tank and almost no chimney), and squonking is using a special setup that allows you to use an RDA without dripping. Watch a a video on YouTube about squonking, it’ll all make sense when you see it.
Sure the taste is there but having to constantly take the cap off and re-drip is ridiculous. I spend enough time making liquid that spending more time making coils and changing cotton seems like such a chore. Tanks are just so easy to deal with. How do you drip and drive? What happens when you go camping and there’s dust in the air, dark at night? High on acid trying to drip wandering around in the desert is a bitch lol. You live you learn. I’d like to get back into dripping at home, saves money definitely. I think I must suck at building coils because I can never get a satisfying hit like I can with the Smok beast tank. Coils are addicting fat asss clouds!
then you squonk :) holds loads of liquid depending on what Squonker you get, and if you drop it normally the tanks are all metal so a bigger chance it wont break, right now i am using a modded gbox (switched the squonk bottle and cut the metalpipe so i could use softer bottles). For driving and dripping i used to have a dripper bottle that had a suction cup so you could mount it to the windshield. Do you pierce the cotton of the beast coil with a pin if not give that a go it helps to avoid dry hits.
If you diy ejuice it’s really impt to learn how to build so you can sft...( single flavor test).. you can’t possibly be efficient and sft in a tank or pen or anything other than a dripper and it gives the best flavor to taste your concentrates too... ( I didn’t read down I’m sorry if someone already said this) 😬
You don’t have to take the cap off to drip. Once you get used to the RDA, you’ll be able to taste when it’s almost dry. Then just drip through the drip tip and keep going. It was a pain when I first started because every few hits, I’d pull the top cap and check it out. It’s just part of gaining confidence and learning your rda. I still use tanks as well, but if you can’t get better taste from an RDA than a Smok tank then you’re definitely not wicking it correctly or not getting the coils installed in the right place for the rda you’re using.
Idk man. I have the ijoy limitless rdta. Threw some claptons on last night, vaping at 120w. Nice clouds but just not nearly as satisfying as the tfv8 Q4 smok coils at 90w. Dripping takes so long for the coils to heat up! Appreciate the input and feedback. I guess it’s a longer slower method of inhaling when dripping. Maybe I’m missin something. Hard to get into when I’m used to big drags the deliver quickly. God damn coils are expensive tho! 😫
Right now I use a vandy vape mesh with nichrome mesh and they heat up so damned fast, but beware of dry pulls they are an extra level of nasty on a mesh mod:) The beast was my first tank that I felt happy with I loved it dearly but the cost of coils was ridiculously high in the end
You can get a nice vape without dripping. I am.currently using Vaporesso NRG tank, and also the Steam Crave Aromamizer Supreme V2 RDTA. It comes very close to drip flavor levels but with a tank. And when wicked right near impossible to dry hit! If I'm in a hurry the NRG with the GT8 coils works great, very good flavor for bought coils.
Some of the newer subohm tanks have closed the flavor gap bigtime with rebuildables. I think stricly RDA guys love to gloat it up while not trying anything else.
Not really. There's still a gap.
Maybe with RTAs, but definitely not with a good rda. Don't think anything could really come close (even rdtas don't give you that really saturated vape dripping gives ya).
That said, definitely the subohm tanks have improved a lot, and if you vape on a tank daily, then mix with a tank in mind!
The first normal tank that made me realize how good juice could taste was the Arco 2. Now I have the Digiflavor Themis RTA and it gives me similar flavor but the benefits of being a rebuildable, it really did change things up in a good way for me.
The Themis is pretty great. I won one in a contest a while back, and was pleasantly surprised. The thing is built solid and performs great. I'm getting one with a mesh deck when I have more money to throw around.
If you ever get the chance check out the Falcon with M1 coils. I own both and the difference is crazy, it's almost as good as my Drop.
Almost...
I have to disagree with you on this one. Some time ago I lost suddenly the taste for strawberry. Ive tried multiple tanks and RDA with different coils and power with the same result. I can smell it but I get no flavour. Ive tired the different methods discussed here to no avail. Btw I can taste the real strawberries (I love them) is only when vaping and as far as I know it only happens with strawberry. I used to vape a lot of strawberry flavours in the past, for the record.
I find the mod makes a huge difference. And quality batteries
The mod and batteries have no effect on flavor unless you can taste Sony
I'd say there's little difference assuming your mod/batteries can meet the needs of your tank. But if you're trying to power two massive fused claptons with a low power pen mod you're not going to get a great vaping experience.
I think the OP above is just confused about what he's talking about. But some mods def hit alot "harder" than others. I.e - a Smok Alien at 55 watts isn't going to hit nearly as hard as a voopoo drag or better yet a DNA mod. Simply because the latter has a chip that is more accurately rated. So it's going to "feel" like your getting more flavor but your simply getting more power overall.
I’m really confused how mod or batteries would effect taste assuming the basics are being met of, you know, vaporizing the juice.
Someone that can explain technical stuff better than I can hopefully w chime in, but it has to do w the coils as far as the mod goes just a good chip is required ( not required but is nice) and being regulated helps, but the tank it has to do w coils and air flow so design is impt. It really does matter though. I see what is being said about the mod itself and batteries I don’t think that makes any difference in flavor obviously, lol, it’s just good to look at reviews and maybe get a reliable one.