Lost Mary BM600 Pods

Swapping a pod takes about ten seconds, and you never touch the liquid.

The pods come in a 30-strong line-up that overlaps almost entirely with the kit, drawn straight from the flavours people already liked on the disposables: cold fruits, sodas and lemonades, straight fruits, and a couple of menthols. A few that walk out the door fastest:

Three 600-ish-puff prefilled pod systems get mixed up constantly, and none of their pods cross over. Buy the pod that matches the name on your device.

The BM600 and the Elf Bar 600 are close cousins in size, puffs and price, so choose on flavour: the BM600 list leans into cold fruits and a few oddities like Marybull Ice and P&B Cloudd, while Elf Bar keeps its classic line-up. If you are going through a BM600 pod a day, the BM6000 gives ten times the puffs per swap and works out cheaper per puff, at the cost of a bigger device.

A fresh pod that will not fire or tastes wrong is nearly always a fitting issue.

The BM600 pods are 20mg (2%) nic salt across the board. There is no 10mg or 0mg option on this one, unlike the bigger BM6000 pods, which do run a lower-strength and a zero-nicotine version. 20mg is the UK legal maximum and the strength most people lean on coming off cigarettes.

Salt nicotine sits smooth in the throat, so 20mg satisfies without the harsh catch you got from old freebase liquid. If tapering the nicotine down matters to you, that points you towards a refillable pod kit you fill yourself rather than these sealed pods.

Yes, and that is the whole point of the BM600 being a kit rather than a throwaway. Once you own the device, you only ever buy the pods, which works out far cheaper per puff than replacing the entire thing each time the liquid runs out. At 10 for £31.99 that is about £3.20 a pod, and the device just keeps going.

Put numbers on it. A pod costs about £2.25 when you buy the pack of twenty, and a whole BM600 kit costs about £3.90 in tens. Someone who gets through a pod a day spends roughly £16 a week on pods against £27 on kits, a saving of around £600 over a year, and they bin a small plastic pod each day instead of a device with a battery in it.

The honest caveat: if you are down to one pod every two or three days, the saving is smaller and a pack of twenty pods will last you six weeks or more, so watch the use-by on the box and store unopened pods somewhere cool. If you are going through two or more a day, it is worth stepping up to the BM6000 instead, where one pod-and-tank set replaces about ten of these.

Independent reviewers rate the BM600 system for exactly this. Independent testing praised the snug magnet fit and bold flavour, with the fair caveat that pods can be fiddly to change once there is juice in them, so swap before one fully dries rather than mid-flavour. Not got the device yet? Start with the BM600 kit and come back here for refills.