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One of the biggest selling points of vaping is the fact that an e-liquid can taste like almost anything you can possibly imagine. A cigarette, on the other hand, can never taste like anything other than a cigarette. When people try vaping for the first time, they’re usually blown away by the realization that they can completely satisfy their nicotine cravings without the harshness and foul smell of smoke. Even if the idea that vaping is less risky than smoking is still open to debate, there’s no debating the fact that vaping is infinitely better from a flavor standpoint.
At least, that’s the case until juice comes out of your vape when you hit it. In vape juice, the flavors and nicotine are extremely concentrated. You don’t notice the high concentrations of those ingredients when you vape, partially because the vapor is dispersed over a wide area of your palate and partially because the vapor is diluted by air. If your vape spits e-liquid directly into your mouth, though, it tastes absolutely horrible. Needless to say, this is a situation you definitely want to avoid.
If juice comes out of your vape when you hit it, the problem is usually caused by the way you vape. We’ll cover that first, and then we’ll continue the guide by discussing some possible configuration issues that could cause your device to spit e-liquid into your mouth. When you’re done reading, you should understand what’s causing the problem and what you need to do to fix it.
You’re Inhaling Too Firmly When You Hit Your Vape
In almost all cases, the reason why juice comes out of your vape is because you’re puffing too hard. New vapers often encounter this issue because the amount of air pressure that’s used in vaping is much less than that used when smoking a cigarette. Being very narrow, a cigarette has tight airflow characteristics – and because of the nature of combustion, there’s really no limit to how hard you can puff on a cigarette. If you puff more firmly, it simply burns down faster.
A vaping device doesn’t use combustion like a cigarette, so you can’t get it to produce more vapor by supplying more air. When you vape, you’re essentially boiling a liquid – and the only way to get the liquid to boil more quickly is by supplying more power. Puffing too firmly on a vaping device will only pull e-liquid out of the device’s reservoir and into the airflow channel – and when that happens, juice will end up in your mouth.
If you want your vape to produce bigger clouds, you have two options. You can buy a more powerful device, or you can take longer, slower puffs. Either way, your goal when vaping should be to only use the amount of air pressure necessary to pull the vapor into your mouth. If you’re using a device with an automatic puff sensor, just watch the indicator light. If the light turns on, the device is working. That’s as hard as you need to puff.
You’re Using the Wrong Type of E-Liquid for Your Device
The second reason why juice may come out of your vape when you hit it is because the e-liquid that you’re using isn’t appropriate for your device. When you shop for vape juice, one of the things you’ll often see in the product description is something called a “VG/PG ratio.” Every vape juice requires a base liquid. The base dilutes the nicotine and flavoring agents to the correct concentrations, and it’s actually the majority of what’s in any bottle of vape juice. At the most, the flavors and nicotine only comprise about 15 percent of the bottle. The “VG” and “PG” stand for vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol, and most e-liquids contain a mix of those two compounds.
The reason why an e-liquid’s VG/PG ratio is important is because VG and PG have different properties. For instance, VG is much thicker than PG. It produces bigger clouds and feels a bit fuller and more substantial in the mouth. PG is thinner, but it’s a better carrier of flavors and delivers a stronger throat hit. The companies that produce e-liquids try to select VG/PG ratios that best highlight the strengths of their products while working with as many different types of vaping devices as possible.
Mainstream e-liquids
It’s common for a mainstream e-liquid to have a VG/PG ratio consisting of 50-60 percent VG. This results in an e-liquid that combines the strengths of both VG and PG but isn’t so thick that it won’t work with smaller vaping devices. It’s possible, though, to find e-liquids consisting primarily or entirely of PG. These e-liquids are very thin, and they’re designed solely for use in very small cigarette-shaped “cigalikes” and pod-based vapes. If you use a PG-based e-liquid in a large vape mod with a glass tank, the extremely thin liquid will seep through the tank’s wick and flood the coil assembly. When that happens, some of the e-liquid will end up in your mouth. To prevent this from happening, you should use an e-liquid containing at least 50 percent VG if you have a vape mod with a large glass tank.
You’re Using an Outdated Vape Tank
The final reason why juice might come out of your vape when you hit it is because you’re using an outdated vaping device with older technology. Every vape tank uses a metal heating element to vaporize the e-liquid. In the past, most tanks used heating elements made from coiled resistance wire – but that design has problems. The coiled wire has areas of high and low relief. Vape juice tends to collect in the areas of low relief, and this can cause popping and spitting when you try to vape. That’s why few vape tanks use traditional coiled wires as their heating elements today.
Instead of using coiled wire as a heating element, a modern vape tank has a heating element made from thin metal mesh. The mesh is almost perfectly flat, so it doesn’t have areas where vape juice can pool. Mesh coils are extremely quiet in operation. They don’t pop, and they don’t tend to spit e-liquid into your mouth. If you aren’t using a vape tank with a mesh coil, you should buy one right away because it’ll give you a much more enjoyable experience.