Picture credit: Storz and Bickel
$669 seems a lot for a lump of metal that only really contains a heater and a fan as well as a temperature control on the front. Don’t be fooled into thinking that you could make a Volcano Vaporizer from parts found at your local hardware store though. Years of design have gone into constantly improving this and the parts are designed to be very high quality.
Storz and Bickel who make the Volcano Vaporizers are based in Tuttlingen, this town in South West Germany is the centre of Germany’s medical technology industry and is particularly famous for its history as a producer of surgical steel. 50% of the world’s surgical instruments are made here and it is surgical grade steel that is used in the Volcano Vaporizers.
As well as surgical steel on the outside, on the inside parts are primarily surgical steel as well where possible with a ceramic heater. The ceramic heater not only gives off an even temperature and is easy to clean but importantly it won’t give off any fumes like hot plastic might.
Anyone who has ever used a cheap vaporizer may have found that rather than just vapors they actually got fumes and even smoke from cheap plastic, this of course gets into the back of your throat and ruins the flavor of any vapors. This is just one reason why if you are going to have a vaporizer it pays to get one like the volcano vaporizer that is made from good materials. Good materials, put together by hand also guarantee that the volcano vaporizer will last for many years making the price look much better value, and incase something does go wrong there is a three year warranty included with every volcano vaporizer.
It is the digit Volcano Vaporizer that is more expensive than the classic and this is because it includes much easier to use controls. With no temperature control or inaccurate temperature controls you can easily find that you over heat your herbs and burn them or under heat them and get little or no vapors while still using up your herbs. With the digit you know exactly what your temperature is though and it reaches the right temperature in seconds rather than minutes. Then you simply turn on the fan and fill up a balloon with vapors, which take about 30 seconds.
You can fill up multiple balloons for friends or easily pass the balloon round. The balloon in fact makes this heavy table top device almost like a portable vaporizer as you can fill up a balloon and have it last sometime: or even take it with you when you are heading out and simply fold up the balloon into your pocket or bag when finished.
So the volcano vaporizer is very easy to use, it will last and it is healthy, especially with certain herbs that can easily be vaporized to give off health benefits. Whether this makes it worth $669 is down to how often you will use it and of course how much money you have to spend.
