Dripper bottles ruining taste?

[Raguvian]

Hey everyone!

I bought some Space Jam Venus on Sunday. Being my first expensive bottle of juice, I decided to get a $1 plastic dripper bottle with needle tip so I wouldn't have to carry the glass bottle to work (I ride my bicycle to work, and didn't want the bottle to get smashed in my bike panniers). I really enjoyed the taste on Sunday and Monday, but today when I put the juice in the dripper bottle and took it to work, I couldn't taste any of the flavor. I thought it was the cotton, so I rewicked my RDA, but that didn't help much. I thought it could be vaper's tongue since I've been vaping a whole lot lately, but I filled my other RDA with a different juice (straight from the glass bottle) and could taste all the flavor.

Could the plastic be affecting the flavor of the juice? I'm wondering if that's the case because I haven't changed anything else other than that.

Thanks for any insights!

 

[Ryedan]

I have never experienced a plastic bottle change the flavor of a juice, but that doesn't mean that can't happen. IMO it's much more likely that you got used to the flavor of the first juice and now that you've switched flavors you can taste the new one. This is the beginning of vaper's tongue. The longer you vape the first juice the more deadened your taste buds become and the harder it becomes to get taste back.

 

[crxess]

No......10char

Do you shake before filling?
Does the Glass Bottle have a Date on it?
Have you rinsed the Bottle(and dry)

A stable flavor can sit in a plastic bottle for weeks to months before starting to noticeably degrade. I know, I have a few hundred.

 

[edyle]

Hey everyone!

I bought some Space Jam Venus on Sunday. Being my first expensive bottle of juice, I decided to get a $1 plastic dripper bottle with needle tip so I wouldn't have to carry the glass bottle to work (I ride my bicycle to work, and didn't want the bottle to get smashed in my bike panniers). I really enjoyed the taste on Sunday and Monday, but today when I put the juice in the dripper bottle and took it to work, I couldn't taste any of the flavor. I thought it was the cotton, so I rewicked my RDA, but that didn't help much. I thought it could be vaper's tongue since I've been vaping a whole lot lately, but I filled my other RDA with a different juice (straight from the glass bottle) and could taste all the flavor.

Could the plastic be affecting the flavor of the juice? I'm wondering if that's the case because I haven't changed anything else other than that.

Thanks for any insights!

Could the plastic be affecting the flavour: short answer is yes.
It's something I've been looking at myself; but so far my frosted white dripper bottle doesn't seems to be affecting my particular liquid.
I'm less confident in a transparent plastic blunt nose bottle that I also used, but the culprit seems to be the plastic block spacer inside my magma rda.

as for Space Jam, can't tell from the name if that has cinnamon, cirtrus or menthol in it.

 

[deach]

Make sure you shake very well your main bottle before filling your carry bottle. Then if you can make sure to shake the smaller bottle (which means you have to leave some room) before dripping. I "thought" I noticed this too, but now after using the same bottle for a while it seems to have settled down. I'd say depending on the juice and such, obviously a new plastic bottle could make a difference, compared to the glass one.

As was stated wash it out and let dry before filling can help too.

 

[Dj Xy]

It may be a mental thing, a recent study hasshown that people perceive flavors differently based on the container its in (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/09/how-the-color-of-your-coffee-mug-can-change-the-way-your-coffee-tastes/)

 

[Robino1]

Moved to General E-Liquid from General Vaping Discussion

 

[zoiDman]

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Could the plastic be affecting the flavor of the juice? I'm wondering if that's the case because I haven't changed anything else other than that.

Thanks for any insights!

I don't see why the Plastic could not have had an Effect on your e-Liquid? Because all plastics are Not the same.

 

[Raguvian]

Thanks for the replies!

I took a break from the Space Jam yesterday and vaped on some other flavors at night. Rewicking also helped a bit. I think it may be a combination of being a mental thing and just vaping that flavor too much. It seems to be a more intricate flavor compared to what I'm used to so after a while the taste was probably lost on me. I also was using 5ml of it a day which probably doesn't help. It tasted better today, although I did get a creme flavor which really boosted the flavors of the Space Jam when I mixed them together.

Could the plastic be affecting the flavour: short answer is yes.
It's something I've been looking at myself; but so far my frosted white dripper bottle doesn't seems to be affecting my particular liquid.
I'm less confident in a transparent plastic blunt nose bottle that I also used, but the culprit seems to be the plastic block spacer inside my magma rda.

as for Space Jam, can't tell from the name if that has cinnamon, cirtrus or menthol in it.

The Venus flavor from Space Jam is toasted marshmallow with peanut butter, caramel and creme. Like you, I still have my doubts about the bottles, but they are too convenient for me to want to give up. I plan on going on a hike next weekend and really don't want to have to juggle glass bottles around.

 

[DasFriek]

One thing that comes to mind is if the plastic bottle is less than half full all the air going in and out during use can oxidize the juice just like taking a cap off to let a juice breath.
I have found that some juice I've let breath too much loose some punch in the flavor dept.
Try smaller bottles or squeeze as much air out as you can before recapping.
This has never been really proven to occur, but I believe in it.
Another reason why the last few ML's in a 30ml bottle or bigger taste flat to me.

 

[OldBatty]

Extremely new to vaping, but worked in the plastics industry for 12 years and can attest to plastic being porous. Hard ones such as polycarbonate less so and softer ones such as polyethylene much more so. Could be the plastic is absorbing some of the flavor, letting oxygen in which destroys the flavor, or a combination of both.