Curing e-juice

[Zusamna]

Hi, I've been vaping for about 5 years. I recently ran across articles on curing e-liquid. This involves heating water and sitting your bottles in the pan with their tops off. Or sitting bottles on a shelf for a week with their tops off.

this is supposed to evaporate the metallic and/or chemical taste.

Can you enlighten me on this process?

 

[Mlgibson494]

Breathing the liquid is taking the cap off, but if you do it for days you can lose nicotine. As Rip Tripper (a youtuber) put it, think of it as a coke. It will eventually go flat. Do it for 12 hours or less. I don't normally do it longer then 6 hours.

Steeping, or aging, is sitting it in a cool, dark place. When you heat it, it is quick steeping. Your juice does this naturally if you have it for a while, even if you are using it.

You only need to breathe or quick steep if the flavor is off.

Rip Tripper explains steeping and breathing:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dgKfKctOMQI

Quick steeping: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sIo-umtTrTo

 

[ssglimmer]

I haven't heard this called curing, but I am familiar with the process called "breathing". The only time I've known this to be useful is if you get a juice that has that chemical, perfumey smell. Some flavors come in an alcohol base. If you remove the cap from the juice the alcohol will evaporate. I have also had this process weaken the flavor of juice before so I personally rarely do it. For most juices, the best way to mature them is put them in a cool dark place and be patient. Time will always make it better