Fast Steeping?

[Press2Meco]

Hi, all. Nice place you have here!

20+ year smoker. 2 packs/day. Smoke free for 16 days now! Ain't technology grand?!

I've been told to steep my juices for at least a week to bring out the good flavors and subdue the bad ones.

The problem is, I want my juice now, now, now!

So, any ideas on how to speed up the steep process? Warm the bottle up in the microwave a bit? Tape the bottle to my power sander and shake the hell out of it for 10 minutes?

Wait, I know! How about ripping the air pump out of my fish tank and rigging up a "juice-bottle-oxygenator" MOD? To hell with the fishes!

 

[meems]

There are several flavors that I like right out of the box..so you don't HAVE to steep, the flavor just improves as you go..most of Tasty Vapors juices are great from the second they arrive.

 

[Stosh]

Not sure how many flavors you have but try them, some will be good right away, some may take a week, can't tell which ones for sure, but fruit and simple flavors are OK fresh in my experience. Tobacco and double expresso vanilla carmel cream should probally steep, but try them anyway, may be fine. Steeped enough in the mail.

 

[keelalagirl55]

OH all the ones I've tried from Southern Ambrosia were Delectable right out of the mail envelope......

 

[Press2Meco]

I've tried juices from 3 vendors (Halo,Ms T,FSUSA) and didn't care of any of them. All the juices tasted peppery, perfumy, citrusy, or they tasted like Santa Claus's body sweat after his annual midnight delivery.

I suppose it could just be my smoke-disabled taste buds. Or the juices need to be steeped.

So I have a vote for Tasty Vapors and Southern Ambrsioa for instant juice gratification. I'll check them out, Thanks!

Oh, and for now, I'm looking for tobacco flavors. The bakery and fruit flavors seem to trigger a craving for a cigarette, much like I crave one after eating.

 

[Atari]

I will testify that in my experience that all halo and the FSUSA that I have tried, when I got them I felt the exact same way, it was about 2 weeks steep on most of them and about a month before I came around on some of them.

 

[leannebug]

It really depends on the juice. Some are great right from the mailbox (you've got to figure they are AT LEAST three days older by that time) and some taste better after sitting. Same goes for my own juices because I diy.
I have found that cinnamons are better steeped. So is anything with obaoba. Menthol crystals definitely get stronger and some with multiple flavors. It looks to me that the more the drops and ingredients need to merge- the better they are after steeping. Ie: menthol needs to dissolve. Cinnamon oil has to infuse. Etc whatever
Best bet: if it tastes "off" at first. Let it sit a couple weeks and then try again.
And to answer your question: if you remove the top and the dropper, it is supposed to make the process faster.

Hth!


Sent from my pod

 

[CritterBuddy]

Hi, all. Nice place you have here!

20+ year smoker. 2 packs/day. Smoke free for 16 days now! Ain't technology grand?!

I've been told to steep my juices for at least a week to bring out the good flavors and subdue the bad ones.

The problem is, I want my juice now, now, now!

So, any ideas on how to speed up the steep process? Warm the bottle up in the microwave a bit? Tape the bottle to my power sander and shake the hell out of it for 10 minutes?

Wait, I know! How about ripping the air pump out of my fish tank and rigging up a "juice-bottle-oxygenator" MOD? To hell with the fishes!

LOL Welcome to ECF!

Tried the microwave to just warm them (10-15 seconds) but didn't help for me. Time unfortunately is the only alternative I've found that works but can take up to a month. Just can't bring myself to try leaving the bottles open for X days as previously recommended.

 

[Press2Meco]

The only juice I've really enjoyed so far came with the prefilled cartos that I ordered with my Bloog MaxxFusion. Unfortunately, Bloog doesn't sell their juices in refillable bottles (yet) and nobody seems to know which supplier they use. The only hints the Bloog spokesman gave out was that their juice came from China but was not Dekang. If anyone knows who this secret supplier might be and who might sell it, please speak up!

I thought of ordering Dekang but the Bloog guy said they switched to their new juice supplier because Dekang had changed their formula and started tasting like perfume.

I have some Backwoods Brew coming on Monday. It's supposed to be good but their website is advocating major steepage. So now I need to order more juice that I can use right away to get me through the next few weeks.

BTW, I tried to build my juice-oxygenator mod last night with my fish tank air pumps. It didn't work out. Poor little fishies going blub blub blub...

 

[MissKitty47]

Hey, everyone, big TYVM for the info...I have some Ms T's juice that is really perfumey (sp?) and was super disappointed. However, I am owned by a cat and do not want to leave a bottle open. Glad to know I can just deep-six it for a month or so closed. Does it make a difference on steeping time if it's PG, VG, PG/VG? Thanks! =)

 

[cowfodder]

Well, if it truly a matter of waiting for everything to disperse evenly through the liquid one could use something like a paint shaker to speed up the process, but that might be a bit of overkill. Maybe putting a sealed bottle in my ultrasonic cleaner........ I might get back to you.

 

[FreakyStylie]

Wait, I know! How about ripping the air pump out of my fish tank and rigging up a "juice-bottle-oxygenator" MOD? To hell with the fishes!

You could be on to something there. When I want to speed the process along, I fuss with the bottles a whole lot more. Squeeze the air out and let fresh air in, shake shake shake, repeat four or five times a day. It has helped the flavors blend quicker from my experience. I don't see why bubbling it wouldn't help. It would probably be a catasrophe of a mess . . . , but I'm sure it would work if done right.

 

[keelalagirl55]

It would probably be a catasrophe of a mess . . . , but I'm sure it would work if done right.

I am getting a visual.......I see in my crystal ball......Freaky scrubbing.....wait...wait...yep, it is....the ceiling......hahahahah

 

[Soonerfan]

I don't have personal experience with Vaperite but have heard that his tobacco flavors are wonderful. I personally think BWB has good tobacco flavors and I did not let 1 of mine steep. It was great right out of the bottle. Some of Ms. T's tasted perfumey to me as well. Others I liked a lot. My son will not smoke anything from FSUSA because it is so perfumey but I love a lot of their juices. He likes the 555 from Vapor4Life and I have no idea if that is a Chinese made juice???? I'd try some of Vaperite's organic line next if I were you and his tobaccos. I've started mixing my own so I've quit shopping for juice for now. I did try Boba's Bounty from Alien Visions and thought it was good. The next vendor I was going to try was Kick Bass Vapor. They get a lot of good reviews on the forum for dessert and candy, fruit flavors.

 

[Stownz]

Takes longer to "steep" if they are stingy with the flavoring as well. If you mix real weak, takes time for the flavor to spread out and give you the taste you desire. This shows a neat shortcut: mix the flavoring stronger or order from a different vendor that will not jip you on flavor.

 

[SaturnineDenial]

I've read that dairy and cinnamon flavors take the longest to steep. The best advice would be to purchase your favorite flavors (even if they have a longer steeping time) and some basic one note flavors that have lower steep times to vape right away. Places that have premade vapor have less steeping time, but their quality might lack because of it. The companies I enjoy hand mix each order and it lengthens the steeping time, but you can experience different levels of flavor each step of the way. Some of them are vapable right out of the bottle, while others need a few weeks. Build up your stash and experiment and I'm sure you'll be fine.

 

[Stownz]

Microwave is fantastic as well, if your in a real hurry.

 

[pandatera]

When I get juice, I try them fresh off the bottle first. If I don't llike them, I just stick it in my draw for another week and try again. After a month if I still dont' like it.. That means next. Some ppl said that if you leave the bottle cap off overnite, it will be faster. I never tried that, don't wanna leave a open bottlem unattended.

 

[Bradder]

I have had some good success by placing the open bottle in a "wading pool" coffee mug of hot tap water and letting it cool to room temperature. Doesn't seem to do as well with enriching heavy flavors like vanillas, etc., but does seem to help disperse the flavors better and gets rid of most of the "perfume/vapor" experience with many of them. I do this for my diy most of the time before testing them and appears adequate most of the time.

 

[Steelmage]

I had the same problem, burned through the juice to fast to let it steep. I think I have finally solved the problem though. I bought a big supply of juices in big quantities. I'm going to split it into 10 or 20 ml bottles. I then if I keep my stock up so that by the time I get to a bottle it will be at least a week or two old. I've been buying my juice from myfreedomsmokes.com. They have the best juice I've found so far and the service great. Anyway, that is my steeping solution.