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This is an excerpt from SteamMonkeys 4-19-2013 Monkey University article on DIY juice. Anyone looking for a good, FAST way to "steep" their juice should give this a try.
Now... you mixed your juice and you want to try it NOW... not in 3 weeks. But what's a vaper to do, fresh juice tastes like satans perfume. No problem little timmy, Monkey has the answer. I call it "relaxing" the juice. Steeping is a bad term because steeping means extracting soluable components from a solid into a liquid. We aren't doing that.
So... Relaxing the juice... what does that mean? Hell, what is actually happening when you 'steep'
Juice 'flavors' are actually scents primarily. There is little actual 'pleasant' flavor going on. most of our flavor experience with liquid comes from our olfactory senses and not our 'taste buds' so to speak. These 'smells' require an evaporative medium to be carried to our waiting noses. The problem with this is, some of those mediums taste like hells flowers when you burn em up. So, that 'alcohol fume' or perfumey or floral note you're getting that you don't like... when a juice tastes like hairspray or mouthwash or rubbing alcohol.. that's volatile components of the flavorings that need to go away. When you follow a 'Timed' relax process where you let the juice chill open in a dark space what you're doing is letting it breath, the volatile components are evaporating leaving behind all the yummy goodness that you want in your liquids. So, when you want something to evaporate what's a way to speed things up?... that's right, heat.
Now, as noted in another post on here, too much heat is bad. I'll explain how I do 'my' juices. My results to date have been that a bottle I made of My Sweet Irish Nuts (arguably the most perfumey flavor I make) that sat for 3 weeks in a drawer and a bottle of MSIN I made and then treated in the following method tasted almost identical. In fact, the heat treated tasted better because over a long period of time and exposure to oxygen, some nicotine in your mixtures can oxidize into a number of harmless things that don't quite vape the same and tend to give a much stronger 'peppery' taste than our good ol friend Nick O'tine. So, what's the method? Apply heat and agitate.
I take a coffee cup and put the hottest water that'll come out of my tap in it.
I then take the top and dripper top out of my bottle and carefully set it in the water so the water is the same height as the juice in the bottle.
I wait until the water gets down to around room temperature and I take the bottle out, put the dropper and top back on and shake it like a baby that won't stop crying1.
If it's a juice i'm not familiar with I'll taste it now to see if it needs more relaxin. If it's still a little funky I"ll throw it in the bath again. basically repeat the above steps until the juice is perfect.
If I've done this 5 times and the juice still tastes like ... I used to stick it in the drawer to try later and see if 'time' fixed it. To date, it never has, after about 5 treatments if it still tastes bad, that's just what it tastes like, sorry, you got skunk juice.
Now... you mixed your juice and you want to try it NOW... not in 3 weeks. But what's a vaper to do, fresh juice tastes like satans perfume. No problem little timmy, Monkey has the answer. I call it "relaxing" the juice. Steeping is a bad term because steeping means extracting soluable components from a solid into a liquid. We aren't doing that.
So... Relaxing the juice... what does that mean? Hell, what is actually happening when you 'steep'Juice 'flavors' are actually scents primarily. There is little actual 'pleasant' flavor going on. most of our flavor experience with liquid comes from our olfactory senses and not our 'taste buds' so to speak. These 'smells' require an evaporative medium to be carried to our waiting noses. The problem with this is, some of those mediums taste like hells flowers when you burn em up. So, that 'alcohol fume' or perfumey or floral note you're getting that you don't like... when a juice tastes like hairspray or mouthwash or rubbing alcohol.. that's volatile components of the flavorings that need to go away. When you follow a 'Timed' relax process where you let the juice chill open in a dark space what you're doing is letting it breath, the volatile components are evaporating leaving behind all the yummy goodness that you want in your liquids. So, when you want something to evaporate what's a way to speed things up?... that's right, heat.
Now, as noted in another post on here, too much heat is bad. I'll explain how I do 'my' juices. My results to date have been that a bottle I made of My Sweet Irish Nuts (arguably the most perfumey flavor I make) that sat for 3 weeks in a drawer and a bottle of MSIN I made and then treated in the following method tasted almost identical. In fact, the heat treated tasted better because over a long period of time and exposure to oxygen, some nicotine in your mixtures can oxidize into a number of harmless things that don't quite vape the same and tend to give a much stronger 'peppery' taste than our good ol friend Nick O'tine. So, what's the method? Apply heat and agitate.
I take a coffee cup and put the hottest water that'll come out of my tap in it.
I then take the top and dripper top out of my bottle and carefully set it in the water so the water is the same height as the juice in the bottle.
I wait until the water gets down to around room temperature and I take the bottle out, put the dropper and top back on and shake it like a baby that won't stop crying1.
If it's a juice i'm not familiar with I'll taste it now to see if it needs more relaxin. If it's still a little funky I"ll throw it in the bath again. basically repeat the above steps until the juice is perfect.
If I've done this 5 times and the juice still tastes like ... I used to stick it in the drawer to try later and see if 'time' fixed it. To date, it never has, after about 5 treatments if it still tastes bad, that's just what it tastes like, sorry, you got skunk juice.
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