Has anyone tried using a microwave to speed up the steeping process?

[hrferic]

I'm fairly new to vaping with liquid. I read a lot about hot water steeping. How about microwaving?
I wonder if it would speed up the process,or somehow ruin the liquid.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. As I said-I'm pretty new at this,so I'm not really confident
that I would be able to determine what results to expect,otherwise I'd go ahead and try it myself.
I thought this experiment would be better for a veteran who would know what results to look for.
Thank you
Hrferic

 

[gthompson]

Heat is not good for e-liquids.

 

[Dougiestyle]

I put my DIY creations in the microwave for 15-20 seconds in a lab glass flask to meld the ingredients.

Be careful. Keep an eye on your nicquid while it's in the microwave. Keep a finger on the stop button. e-liquid boils pretty fast! Use tempered glass or microwave safe cookware. The plastic dropper bottles melt easy, too.

 

[fourthrok]

Personally I wouldn't do that. Heat destroys the nicotine potency. Could do other stuff too. If needed you can heat a cup of water (not boiling) and sit your uncapped bottle in it until the water is room temp again. But I stopped doing even that. Now I just steep it the "old fashioned way"....time and introducing a little air for a little bit ever day or so. And keeping it in the dark, of course. Cool...but not in the 'fridge.

 

[hrferic]

I've been soaking the bottles in hot tap water. Perhaps I shouldn't be doing that either...?

 

[Sunshinefl8788]

I've been soaking the bottles in hot tap water. Perhaps I shouldn't be doing that either...?

I too have heard that heat can degrade the nicotine. I know a lot of people on here use the hot water method, I just decided not to chance it.

 

[Kyi]

I like to rest my bottles with the caps off on top of my monitor or router, anything that gets slightly warm but not hot. The slight heat will speed the steeping without overdoing it. Sometimes I leave them there over night or several hours with shaking every now and then. Works for me.

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[Buggs5347]

I don't know what microwave would do to it. I've always heard heat is bad for the nicotine, but when you think about it, we are using heat when we vape. The atty is nearly burning it to make the vapor.

If you look in the DIY forum, they are talking about using one of those sonic jewelry cleaners to speed up steeping of juice. Just a few minutes for a weeks worth of steeping.

 

[scrappy]

If you don't have anything else to vape and need juice now the hot water trick helps. It doesn't work nearly as well as good old fashioned time, but it will make it usable. The only exception I've found is with anything that has a perfumy taste.

There's two methods I've tried. First is letting your juice sit for 10 mins in really hit water. It helps some, but letting it sit until it's cool works better for me. I also let my juice sit for a couple three days with the cap off. Shaking your juice often after you get some fresh air in the bottle helps too.