Okay, so this probably could have gone in General too but in the end, it applies very much to my own juice making and I thought the fine folks who hang out here would have a better handle on this.
This was a conversation I had with someone on another site. The issue at hand was that someone had juice that had 2x more nicotine in it than they wanted.
Him: Just cut it with PG or VG. If you add another 30mL [to a 30mL bottle], your nicotine will be cut in half.
Me: ... yes that's true, but if you double the volume and don't add more flavoring, you're going to lose a lot of the initial flavor. Some people might rather have the full flavor from a $22+, pre-made bottle.
Him: No you won't lose any flavor if you just let it steep.
Me: [yadda yadda yadda] I don't think that's how it works.
So this is not a matter of me going back and saying HAHA YOU'RE WRONG, if he even is. Maybe I am completely missing something. I steep my juices but I've never noticed them double in flavor from day one, no matter how long they sit. Some of them don't change much at all. Some of them change quite a bit, but I wouldn't necessarily say the flavor intensity increases much across the board. Sometimes with certain flavors I guess it does... but I don't think it doubles, and I think of it more as a profile change and a blending/richening than anything else. I know I'm not telling most people here anything new.
But, am I off here? Could I be using a certain amount less flavoring by letting all my juices steep for X amount of time? I allow different types of flavors different sit times; I thought this was pretty normal. Any insight would be super rad.
This was a conversation I had with someone on another site. The issue at hand was that someone had juice that had 2x more nicotine in it than they wanted.
Him: Just cut it with PG or VG. If you add another 30mL [to a 30mL bottle], your nicotine will be cut in half.
Me: ... yes that's true, but if you double the volume and don't add more flavoring, you're going to lose a lot of the initial flavor. Some people might rather have the full flavor from a $22+, pre-made bottle.
Him: No you won't lose any flavor if you just let it steep.
Me: [yadda yadda yadda] I don't think that's how it works.
So this is not a matter of me going back and saying HAHA YOU'RE WRONG, if he even is. Maybe I am completely missing something. I steep my juices but I've never noticed them double in flavor from day one, no matter how long they sit. Some of them don't change much at all. Some of them change quite a bit, but I wouldn't necessarily say the flavor intensity increases much across the board. Sometimes with certain flavors I guess it does... but I don't think it doubles, and I think of it more as a profile change and a blending/richening than anything else. I know I'm not telling most people here anything new.
But, am I off here? Could I be using a certain amount less flavoring by letting all my juices steep for X amount of time? I allow different types of flavors different sit times; I thought this was pretty normal. Any insight would be super rad.