Introduction
If you are a courageous vaper, who is constantly looking for experiments with your taste, vape, and E-Juices then you have landed on the right page! Everyone who vapes these days is mostly because of the flavor or someone trying to quit smoking cigarettes. Vapes have been debated to have less damage to the human body and no doubt more people are leaning towards it.
Vaping is a unique experience and if someone develops a liking for it, they are most likely to try different flavors and for that reason, they will have to change the flavor of the E-Liquid. This is where this article comes into play, stick till the end to find out how to change the flavor of an E-Liquid.
Understand your Pod or Tank
Before changing the flavors in your Pod or Tank you must check whether you have used all your E-Juice or not. This is a very common mistake as beginners will waste their E-Juice if they do not check the Pod or Tank. Once you are assured that you have used all of the E-Juice, you can follow the following steps
- Dismantle your Pod from the rest of the body
- Check whether you need to replace your coil or not (as per the design)
- Now, carefully open the Pod (generally on the side there is opening
- Make sure that your Pod or Tank does not have any water (it negatively affects the taste)
- Take your E-Juice and add drop-by-drop into the Pod or Tank
- Wait until the Wick is saturated
- Enjoy your new flavor.
Now, that you have changed your flavor by following the above steps keep one thing in mind once you are done with the same you should wait for at least 10-15 mins so that the cotton wick in the coil is completely saturated and doesn’t harm the coil.
Adding E-Juice to existing Flavor
Adding new flavors or mixing with the old ones are two different things. If you want to add a completely different flavor, you should clean your Pod or Tank. The mixing of the juices is a completely personal process, you can blend according to your liking but there are a few precautions you need to take.
Make sure that you wish for your Pod and then let it dry. Yes, let it dry completely. If the water is left in the Pod or Tank, it may affect the flavor very negatively leaving a harsh throat hit. Once you have confirmed that the Pod or Tank has been washed effectively you can add a new flavor. (Let the wick saturate as it may lead to the destruction of your coil.
But if you are a mid to advanced vaper, you already know this. Now comes adding E-juice to the existing flavor. This is a pure experimental aspect of vaping, you will know what flavors to mix with what so that the result is a very unique flavor.
For example, if you have previously vaped menthol in a particular Pod or Tank you can add any comparatively milder flavor as menthol is very strong and lingers around for a long time. If you add Monster Vape’s Pineapple Grapefruit in a pod that previously had Menthol, it will result in a very “Fruity Mint” flavor. Moreover, mixing E-Juices is something that vapers learn over time after consuming considerable amounts of E-Juices.
Do you have to change Coils?
A vaper’s tongue happens when a vaper is so used to a single flavor that he/she cannot experience the E-Juice to its fullest potential. This is mostly where most of the vapers change their E-Juices because the previous one is now not meeting expectations.
It is very important to wash your Pod or Tank because an inexperienced vaper may end up making something not so pleasing to the taste. Most of the lingering flavor is in the wick so you might want to change your coil. The coil is the most crucial part, (without it the vape won’t work)
But if you are planning to change your Pod or Tank regularly you will need a handsome amount of coils which is not pocket-friendly and certainly bad for the environment. But the good news is that you don’t have to change coils. There are many options now available on the market which allow experimentation with flavors without having to change the coil every single time.
Cleaning the Coil and Wick
There will always be remaining traces of the previous E-Juice because of obvious reasons. The previous E-Juice was burnt or vaporized there. So if you want to have a unique flavor from your previous Pod or Tank, you will have to buy a new coil, simply said!
Coils must be changed every two weeks, they are not that pricey in the first place. This is because you don’t wanna pay extra when you change flavors or when you complete your usual coil changes.
It is advisable to wait for several minutes before you start vaping from your Pod or Mod. There is a cotton wick placed between two coils and if it heats up without being completely immersed in E-Juice, it may end up damaging the coil.
Conclusion
Experimentation has always been Mankind’s thing. Whatever we have invented came from experimenting with things. In this Era, people have started experimenting with E-Juices to come up with their unique touch.
Now when changing the flavors, one should know about various areas of the Pod or Tank that will come into consideration. Washing the Pod or Tank is the most important step as most vapers will leave some traces of water in the vape leaving a negative impact in terms of taste or harsh throat.
To sum it up, changing the flavor of an E-Liquid and mixing it up with new flavors so that you can come up with your flavors is completely up to you. But what precautions to take and factors to consider have already been stated in the article.
