If you’re a vaper, you know that changing juice flavors isn’t quite as easy as it seems. You can’t just use all of the e-liquid in your tank and then refill the tank with a different juice because you’ll still taste the remnants of the previous flavor. People call this phenomenon “flavor ghosting,” and it can drastically reduce the pleasure of vaping for people who enjoy trying many different e-liquid flavors. If you change flavors often enough without doing anything to mitigate flavor ghosting, you’ll eventually reach a point where you can’t taste much of anything other than a sort of generic sweetness when you vape.
So, should you clean a vape tank when changing juice flavors? The answer is a definite “yes,” but this process might not be quite as easy as you’re hoping. In this article, we’ll explain everything that you need to know – and if doing a bunch of extra work every time you want to change flavors isn’t exactly your cup of tea, we’ll also provide some alternative suggestions that might work better for you.
If you love changing vape juice flavors and find it impossible to stick with one flavor for long, this is the article for you. Let’s dive in!
Why Should You Clean a Vape Tank when Changing Juice Flavors?
As we explained in this article’s introduction, the reason why you should clean your vape tank when changing juice flavors is because of flavor ghosting. Even when a vape tank appears empty, a small amount of e-liquid is still in it – and vape juice is so strongly flavored that you can taste it even at low concentrations.
Cleaning a vape tank is actually quite simple. When you’re ready to change e-liquid flavors, just disassemble the tank and remove the coil. Rinse the components other than the coil in clean water and dry them thoroughly before reassembling the tank. This process will take care of much of the flavor ghosting, but rinsing the tank won’t eliminate the flavor of your previous e-liquid completely because some of the e-liquid will still be in the coil.
We’ll explain how to deal with that next.
How to Clean a Vape Coil to Eliminate Flavor Ghosting
If you really want to eliminate flavor ghosting when changing vape juice flavors, you need to deal with your tank’s coil because the coil’s cotton wick holds a good amount of e-liquid. Even if you rinse the tank thoroughly, you’ll still taste your old e-liquid when refilling the tank with a new flavor because of the e-liquid that’s still in the coil’s wick. You might need to use a full tank of e-liquid before the old flavor will be completely gone – and by then, you may want to change flavors again.
If you want to eliminate flavor ghosting almost completely when changing vape juice flavors, you’ll need to clean your coil to remove the e-liquid from the wick. To do that, you’ll need a spare coil that you can use while you wait for the first coil to dry. Here’s how to do it.
To remove the old e-liquid from a vape coil, fill a bowl with very hot water and place the coil in the bowl. Stir the contents of the bowl well to provide agitation and draw the e-liquid out of the coil’s wick. You’ll probably see vape juice floating on the surface of the water at this point. If the water looks very dirty, replace it with fresh water and stir again. When the coil seems clean, remove it from the water and allow it to dry for about 24 hours.
You’ll need to install and use a new coil while the first coil dries. If you change flavors often, though, it’s worthwhile to establish a rotation of coils. That way, you’ll always have some coils that are ready to use while you’re waiting for others to dry.
Tip: Do you find that cleaning your coils in plain water doesn’t quite remove every trace of the e-liquid? Try cleaning the coils with vodka instead. Being a powerful solvent, the alcohol does a much better job of removing the residue from the coils. After cleaning the coils, rinse them in fresh water and allow them to dry thoroughly before using them.
How to Change Vape Juice Flavors the Easy Way
As you’ve learned from reading this article, using a vape tank is actually quite a bit of work if you’re the type of person who likes to change flavors often. If you don’t want to taste the previous e-liquid every time you change to a new flavor, you need to clean and dry the tank. You also need to clean the coil or replace it – and if you replace your coil every time you fill your tank with a new e-liquid flavor, you’ll end up paying a lot more to vape than you really should. So, what can you do as an alternative? The answer depends on how often you typically change flavors. Here are a few suggestions that might work for you.
- If you prefer the big vapor output of a sub-ohm tank and only use a few different vape juice flavors, you should consider buying multiple tanks and devoting each one to a single flavor. That way, you won’t have to clean your tanks so often and can simply switch to a different tank when you want to change flavors.
- If owning multiple sub-ohm tanks sounds a bit too expensive for you, you can switch to a pod-based device instead. Vape pods cost significantly less than tanks, so it’s easy to devote a pod to each flavor even if you have a very large e-liquid collection.
- If you’re such a major flavor addict that devoting a tank or pod to each flavor wouldn’t be practical, it’s time for you to consider switching to disposable vapes. Some of today’s disposable vapes hold so much vape juice that a single device can last almost as long as an entire bottle of nicotine salt e-liquid, which means that you can use each device for quite a while before replacing it. Switching to disposables really is the best way to experience the widest variety of vape juice flavors with virtually no effort required on your part.
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