I got my
SiC and
sapphire cups in over the holidays. I've had some time on them and so have a few other people I know and we've done some blind taste tests comparing it to
Eternal Quartz extra tall insert. We did not compare to the stock cups. Each person had fresh like-new cleaned inserts and dabs from the same package that were the same size. Each person took 2 hits @ lvl 6 and lvl 16. The different level hits were on separate days. Hold time was set at 15 seconds rather than the stock 30 seconds and several hits were taken over that 15 seconds. We used the
Bubble Carb Cap with the
stock peculator.
2 of these people have never used the Switch before and did not believe that hits could be flavourful. Seriously you can get very distinct flavours. Some of them have been very citrusy, one breed tastes like a grapefruit, another we call grandma's house because it always tastes like our grandparents house smells. By that it has a very distinct musky flavour. The flavours also come through alot stronger on the Switch's low temp settings compared with using a torch with a normal dab rig. It's just so much easier to get repeatable results as well.
Both of them beat the Eternal quartz insert for flavour and size of the cloud. I did not expect this, I thought that the quartz insert would taste similar but it ended up unanimous between 5 people.
The sapphire cup definitely had more flavour than the SiC but we had some debate on the size of the clouds when at lvl 16. The flavours definitely came through alot stronger with this cup. Cleaning this cup is a chore. You can't torch it and long Iso soaks won't get everything neither will just a q-tip. It took a long bath and then multiple scrubs with the q-tip to clean it if it had baked on product. One thing that I did find helpful was scrubbing it under running water because that would flush it as I scrubbed. Worked better than using a dry or iso soaked q-tip. I wonder if a silicone tipped tool would work well as a scrubber.
The SiC cup works very well at low temperatures. It works so well at low temperatures that it compares with other cups set maybe 5 levels higher. Now this is at a 15 second hold time so maybe over the stock 30 second hold time the less thermally conductive cups would be acting similar but if you're just taking 1 or 2 hits right when the Switch turns green the SiC will vaporize more product. We found that the SiC would be completely smoked out over 1-2 lvl 16 cycles while the sapphire cup would require 1-2 more cycles to use all the product. This cup will get you the most cycles per your battery charge because you can use lower temp settings. The fit inside the titanium cup was also very impressive. It sealed well enough that it was like an air spring which meant great thermal contact. It also means that if you get something on the rim and it gets in between the 2 cups they will be very difficult to get apart.
The quartz cup was the worst of all of them. It required the same temperature settings as the sapphire cup but had the flavour profile of the SiC cup. It also took the longest to cool down so after the cycle finished you could get more hits from it. That could be a plus or a negative.
Also I've got to give a shout out to
@DabberChase and the Dr Dab support. Super impressed all around. Great quick responses back when I've had an issue. After 11 months I was having some battery issues where even when plugged it in wouldn't indicate full charge and would never indicate a full charge. Replaced it no problem. I also ordered in a fumed carb cap and it had bubbles in the glass.
