E-juice storage and questions about steeping.

[atomicferret]

Didn't know if this was the right forum for this question but it seemed the closest. Move if needed.

Where and how do you all store your e-juice? I've been at it a couple months now and I just leave mine in the bottles caps on, on my shelf. Anyone do anything different or keep anywhere different?

Now my other question is about steeping. When you let your juice steep do you just let it sit where you normally do with the cap on? Cap off? Effects of either? Some other magical steeping process I don't know about?

To me if I steep I wanna get more flavor and not lose it. So far just keeping my juices in their bottles seems like they are losing flavor over time and not gaining any.(Have tried on new atomizers and batteries.)

I live in a pretty normal climate, so house is always comfortable room temperatures, juice never gets blazing hot or cold sitting on the shelf.

 

[MagnusEunson]

Cap on, on the shelf or in a cabinet, away from heat and out of the sunlight.

I asked about the steeping myself and since it's really a dissolution situation I tend to pick up and swirl around my various bottles of juice each time I go grab one to fill a carto. I ~think~ that losing flavor is an issue of maybe swirling and mixing bottles better before each use. It's not visibly obvious there is separation in the bottle but it does seem to happen based on what's been said in other threads. Good luck! -Magnus

 

[atomicferret]

Yea I always shake my juice up really good before I use any. Thanks for the reply!

 

[rrayda]

I steep my juice with the cap on in a closet in the basement. It's probably sitting at about 55°F constantly and completely sheltered from light. I have found that some juices benefit from steeping, some do not and others never seem to change. Most of the tobacco juices tend to benefit from steeping, becoming darker, richer and more intense as time goes by. Fruit flavors seem to pretty much stay the same. Steep time to optimum flavor and if steeping even works seems to depend on vendor, flavor and personal taste. It's an adventure every time.

 

[Cranston McCloud]

When I first get a new shipment of juices, I shake them really well, remove the cap and dropper and store them in a cool dark place for 24 hours. Then I put the dropper and cap back on the bottles and store in cool dark place. Shake them from time to time. The juices that really needed to steep usually get clearer and more color to them.

 

[slumdog]

YMMV...of course...I put a pot of water on to boil..then I start my mixing...mix up my flavor then remove the water and put two inches in however many cups I need to accommodate the juice I have mixed, the water has had 5 minuets off of the heat now and is cooler but warmer still than your hot water from the tap, unless you have a super heated water tap these are great..but anyway ...I place the juice into the hot water...cap off....carefully so it doesn't tip over then when the water is room temp I remove it from the water and set on a shelf for a day...then I replace the cap and let sit for 4 to 6 days then I enjoy.....I have found that most juices I make....mostly just plain fruit flavors and a tobacco flavor or two, have the flavor "blossom" better this way....

 

[DaveP]

I shake mine before each fill and sometimes I do the swirl method. Hold the bottle loosely in your left hand and spin the cap slowly to make the bottle rotate. The air bubble in the bottle will move up and down as the bottle spins. Everyone has a favorite mix method. I'd love to have a miniature version of one of those paint shakers they use to mix paint.

 

[TomCatt]

Here's something if you're really serious about DIY. :

http://www.katsci.com/products/benchmixer-vortex-mixer.aspx

I use something similar in my lab at work, it'll mix joose good

 

[mostlyclassics]

Said DaveP:

I shake mine before each fill and sometimes I do the swirl method. Hold the bottle loosely in your left hand and spin the cap slowly to make the bottle rotate. The air bubble in the bottle will move up and down as the bottle spins. Everyone has a favorite mix method. I'd love to have a miniature version of one of those paint shakers they use to mix paint.

Model makers use paints that are about as viscuous as VG. One trick they use to stir paint is to drop a lead fishing sinker or two into their paint jars. Then they get much better mixing when they shake the bottle. I would never[ drop a lead fishing sinker into something that eventually goes in my lungs . But I've seen smallish glass beads at craft stores. Maybe they weigh enough to do the same job as lead sinkers.

 

[slumdog]

I shake mine before each fill and sometimes I do the swirl method. Hold the bottle loosely in your left hand and spin the cap slowly to make the bottle rotate. The air bubble in the bottle will move up and down as the bottle spins. Everyone has a favorite mix method. I'd love to have a miniature version of one of those paint shakers they use to mix paint.

+1 I just said that to someone the other day...but I was talking about making chocolate milk ...I think the juice mixer 2000 needs to happen....where all da modders at..