Do you guys steep your juice? I was reading a bit about that and wondered when or if I should do it? Thanks
How to Steep E-Juice and Get Better Flavor from E-Liquid - Vaping360
How to Steep E-Juice and Get Better Flavor from E-Liquid - Vaping360
My all day vapes are pretty much shake-and-vape. They'll improve a bit with a day or two, but tend to be fine right away.
Recently I started mixing a few custard blends, with 6 and 7 flavorings. Those definitely benefit from some steeping.
I have an ultrasonic cleaner, one of the classic ways to accelerate steeping, but don't bother with it. I'll generally give these more complex liquids about a week, shake the bottles up in the morning and evening.
I also tend to run about 50% pg, which overall requires less steeping than high vg eliquids.
I'm not a fan of snv so I always steep. Before diy I also ordered ahesd and steeped my commercial juices as well. Bit me in the .... a couple times with a fader though. If using commercial juices taste when delivered and if it seems week give it 10 more days before using; if good vape it.
I find tobacco or dessert flavors tend to benefit more from steeping compared to a fruit or mint flavors.
My all day vapes are pretty much shake-and-vape. They'll improve a bit with a day or two, but tend to be fine right away.
Recently I started mixing a few custard blends, with 6 and 7 flavorings. Those definitely benefit from some steeping.
I have an ultrasonic cleaner, one of the classic ways to accelerate steeping, but don't bother with it. I'll generally give these more complex liquids about a week, shake the bottles up in the morning and evening.
I also tend to run about 50% pg, which overall requires less steeping than high vg eliquids.
From the very start of vaping/doing DIY I went thru all of the progressive methods in turn of aging my DIY's (shake and wait, crock pot, etc). But after the commercial ultrasonic cleaner I found what worked best for me and never looked back. With it and some tweaking of some my VG Heavy recipes all 160 of them became stir and vape with a magnetic stir plate I had a gent in Europe make for me. So along with mixing by weight instead of volume I make new batches ready to vape in as little as 15 minutes to less than an hour for the more complex recipes that take longer to blend together completely.
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My ADV is unflavored juice and I mix those in 100ml bottles. I usually mix up a 60ml bottle or two of whatever flavor suits me at the time. By the time I try one of my flavored juices it's a week or so since they were mixed. Some flavors are shake and bake and others need a couple of weeks to blend and age to goodness.