Hi all!
Many thanks for the wonderful contributions!
@IDJoel As a matter of fact I loved all the questions and assumptions, and found none argumentative at all (to me), as they really help with lighting up the dark spots in my mind about this to start thinking over all the factors that need to be considered.
@man00ver, Yes, all questions I asked are related to figuring out the best practice for using the MW method with optimum safe results.
@Hightech Redneck, I'll watch the video shortly. Many thanks for that.
@All, please accept my apologies for not being able to respond quicker than some of you might've hoped. I noticed that I asked questions without explaining what I'm getting at, and I do apologize again for that.
I'll find the best time soon hopefully to break down what I'm trying to figure out, but in a nut shell for the sake of brainstorming together, the key factors I'm thinking of (in no specific order for now):-
- PG/VG + Really high temperature = Carcinogens
- Best temperature for quick steeping (or to help with that) = 150F (safe temperature)
- Boiling point of VG/PG vs. heat point causing carcinogens
- PG/VG evaporation point vs. heat point causing carcinogens
- To shake or not to shake the mix considering the fact that it's a mix of both VG and PG (with different ratios) that have different figures of temperature points mentioned above. On that, the videos I previously shared said shake, while Visus' MW method (URL shared earlier) said not to shake. Interesting, right?
I think there's more but I cannot recall them at the moment. The above should shed more light however on what's been going on in my head.
So I ran out of juice yesterday, as well as one of the flavors I use in my ADV recipe. I ended up replacing it with another flavor I have hoping it would taste good although I didn't like that replacement as a single recipe that much, and just finished the MW method using the latest adjusted I made to the process (posted earlier), and now the bottle is sitting with the cap loosened in a cool dark place. The recipe is tobacco based.
I mixed peanut butter, butterscotch, and graham cracker about 3 weeks ago, each as a single recipe, and tried the peanut butter and graham cracker, but I can't imagine vaping more than 2-3 mls max. before switching back to tobacco flavors. To me, I just enjoy vaping the most when I'm vaping tobacco flavors, and according to many feedback from different people that are way more experienced than me (with years worth of experience and reputed to have a very decent level of wisdom about DIY e-liquid, tobacco flavors are probably the ones with the longest steeping time required, and so the challenge to get this right using the MW method is very interesting to me, yet my only pain point here to test results in terms of taste is that I don't have a fully steeped tobacco recipe using natural steeping (time) to use as a baseline for proper judgement on the outcome and overall quality of the taste of a mix that's been steeped using any of the speed steeping methods whether MW or otherwise (like the milk frother method which I'm also really interested in as well).
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