Aged Like a Fine Wine?

[maxx]

I have seen mentioned in a few threads here and there....about letting a carto sit for a day or two after refilling. This is to boost flavor as many feel that prefilled cartos seem to be more flavorful. Anyone doing this and is it working?

I also find pre-filled to have richer taste than the refills if vaped immediately.

 

[deadman31299]

Hmmm?

For giggles when i read this, i jumped up grabbed my stash and tested it out. I had 3 different sets of premium refills. Premium Cowboy, Premium Mt. Do, and Premium Watermelon. All the carts were refilled one month ago, and have been sitting, sealed inside my tackle case, with condoms on of course.

For comparison, i happened to have a fresh Premium Watermelon, factory filled, a fresh factory filled Premium Cowboy as well. No prefilled Mt. Do premiums left though.

Honestly, the RE-filled Premium Watermelon did taste sweeter, the RE-filled Cowboy tasted more robust as well. Honestly though, for me, with all the juice changes and differences going around as of lately, this is really hard to set as something solid. 8v( But certainly an interesting question!

 

[maxx]

Normally I am vaping a carto seconds after filling....and thinking there is something missing sometimes. If juice has an ammount of water...even if tiny....then maybe sitting around allows time for it to evaporate and concentrate flavors.

 

[Nilius]

Maxx, I let my refills sit overnight before vaping, some will sit for a week. I like to be sure the juice has soaked into the poly.

Test it one night, refill a blank before bed and let us know if you see a difference. It may be a mental thing for me.

 

[maxx]

I filled one. Only had one clean and ready to go....I am behind on cleaning cartos.

Going to let it sit on it's side for about 24 hours....without condom and plug.

 

[Nilius]

You gotta plug them up man. Your juice will evaporate and kittens will lose their whiskers!

 

[Belletrist]

Not the whiskers!

 

[miss MiA]

Honestly though, for me, with all the juice changes and differences going around as of lately, this is really hard to set as something solid. 8v( But certainly an interesting question!

...hahaha for a second there I thought well it's certainly not helping matters to vape them at 8V!!!

 

[maxx]

One day won't hurt. And I want to test the theory that it is excess water in the juice that is diluting the flavor...so need the caps off. Was reading that nicotine is hygroscopic....attracts water.....

Wild theory....the manufacturer adds water to the juice bottles so they flow better and are easier to use when refilling. I recall folks saying that a past generation of juice was very thick and sticky.

 

[Nilius]

Just wondering as I've not seen your cleaning/refilling method, why is there water in your cartos?

 

[maxx]

There's no water in the carto. I am suggesting there is excess water in the juice bottles that might account for perceived diluted flavors that people are reporting.

 

[jdvorr]

I've never found much of a difference between immediately vaped cartos and those I let sit, except the tendency to get a little more juice in my mouth on the freshly filled ones.

 

[yanks21]

I do try to fill cartos and let them sit and I do believe they taste better as a result but if I do not have time I believe doing the Taryn spin 2-3 times (8 drops, spin - 8 drops, spin - 8 drops, spin) is almost as good.

 

[timothy]

i've found letting them sit for a while makes them vape like a new carto it lets the juice soak the wadding evenly. but it dont help the flavor out very much

 

[SR219]

I posted on this quite a while back as I was stumped. I let 2 new blank cartos sit for a month after filling them trying to get the pre-filled factory taste. Never could get it to be the same. I gave up. Now all I do is fill blank ones so the flavor is always the same.

 

[maxx]

SR219.....where yours capped all that time?

 

[SR219]

Yes Maxx, after filling, put both caps (one with plug) on. Never disturbed them as I was testing. I figured a month was about right for the "from time the factory fills them to when I would open one" time period.

Again, I was using new blanks (not refilled pre-filled). Even went so far as to test 2 blank carts with the exact same filling/storing method, same juice. They matched each other in flavor, but did not match a factory pre-filled.

 

[BuddahMonk]

Has anyone tried removing the juice from a factory filled cart. and refilling it into a new blank? Or even refilling the same factory filled cart. you just got the juice from, just to see if there is a diff. in taste and hit..?

 

[Sherrick]

Has anyone tried removing the juice from a factory filled cart. and refilling it into a new blank? Or even refilling the same factory filled cart. you just got the juice from, just to see if there is a diff. in taste and hit..?

I've never even considered it. In fact, I'm not sure how you would reasonably approach such a task. I'm sure someone will have some insight or experience, though.

 

[BuddahMonk]

Reverse Taryn spin on a new cart and plunge fill a new blank. If someone tries this, can you try and see if there is a difference in the look and color of the factory filled cart juice compared to the juice in the bottle.