Has anyone extracted chai tea?

[HeadInClouds]

I've been disappointed in Chai flavorings, and I'm frustrated trying to get the flavors right.
But I just got a box of (actual) chai black tea that's great. What's your opinion on the safety of doing a PG extraction given that this is the ingredient list on the box: Black tea, cloves, natural flavors, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg.

I know the black tea is all right. Would PG extraction of any of those spices give me oils? I'm most unsure about the cloves. This sure is good chai - it'd be a nice vape flavor. Any opinions or experience?

 

[Aheadatime]

Don't do it. That's too many ingredients. I once extracted a tea with pretty much that same ingredient list and it smelled and tasted like mustard, even at 1%. Your ingredient list needs to be the leaves and thats it. No cinnamon, no nutmeg, no cardamom, no ginger, etc. Just tea leaves/coffee grinds/tobacco leaves.

 

[HeadInClouds]

Don't do it. That's too many ingredients. I once extracted a tea with pretty much that same ingredient list and it smelled and tasted like mustard, even at 1%. Your ingredient list needs to be the leaves and thats it. No cinnamon, no nutmeg, no cardamom, no ginger, etc. Just tea leaves/coffee grinds/tobacco leaves.

Awwwww... Then I'm back to mixing flavorings of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger (etc.), which I can't seem to get combined right. And nobody makes an allspice. gripe...gripe..

 

[Aheadatime]

:/ Sorry man. It's a bummer for sure but I'm glad I was able to warn you in time lol. When I took that first puff of my steeped chai extract at 2%, I literally almost vomited and had to throw away the Nova I filled, the bottle it was steeping in, and the bottle the extract itself was in.

 

[brokepainter]

Yeah he's right. I steeped some chai tea in some pg sometime back thinking it would be just like drinking the tea, but it was mostly cinnamon. Your best bet is to drink the tea and come up with something else. Well at least that's what I did.