How Does Your Local Store Mix e-Juice?

[Coastal Cowboy]

Just for those keeping up, the IPA is in the primary fermenter and the airlock is bubbling away.

To the point of the topic, I bathed everything with a 5% bleach solution, rinsed it and let it dry. Counter tops. Sink basin. Paddles. All equipment.

I also filled a MT3S with Desert Ship and an Evod with Jamocha Haze. Vaped the first during the boil; the second during the cool down using my coiled copper system that takes the wort from ~200 degrees F to about ~75 degrees in about 20 minutes. Pitched the yeast and we'll see in about two weeks.

Kids and SWMBO had pizza.

 

[kushka]

I think I'll pick up some zero nicotine juice to disinfect my counter tops.
Not only will they be germ-free, but they'll smell like butter rum.

No, you want to use a high nic juice, not a zero nic, that way besides disinfecting your counter tops, it will also act as an insecticide.

 

[AttyPops]

Just for those keeping up, the IPA is in the primary fermenter and the airlock is bubbling away.

To the point of the topic, I bathed everything with a 5% bleach solution, rinsed it and let it dry. Counter tops. Sink basin. Paddles. All equipment.

I also filled a MT3S with Desert Ship and an Evod with Jamocha Haze. Vaped the first during the boil; the second during the cool down using my coiled copper system that takes the wort from ~200 degrees F to about ~75 degrees in about 20 minutes. Pitched the yeast and we'll see in about two weeks.

Kids and SWMBO had pizza.

Hmmm. I have a no-rinse oxygen based sterilizer. Is bleach better?

 

[Visus]

Hmmm. I have a no-rinse oxygen based sterilizer. Is bleach better?

Bleach leaves a residue if you dont rinse well.

potassium metabisulphite is better than anything its used industry wide.. he is ol' skol with that bleach lol..
but it works really good but there are some critters that eat the bleach so potassium metabisulphite better best it slaughters erryting'..

 

[2ndfiddle]

They didn't have pink medicine when I was a kid...

^^Funny.

Thanks for all the responses. I feel a lot better now. I will be looking into home brewing one of these days, but I'm still a newbie and need a lot more education first.

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

Hmmm. I have a no-rinse oxygen based sterilizer. Is bleach better?

Bleach leaves a residue if you dont rinse well.

potassium metabisulphite is better than anything its used industry wide.. he is ol' skol with that bleach lol..
but it works really good but there are some critters that eat the bleach so potassium metabisulphite better best it slaughters erryting'..

Yeah, I'm old school. Bleach is cheap and the 5% solution rinses clean pretty quickly. I've only lost one batch to bad actors in the wort in 10 years of brewing.

^^Funny.

Thanks for all the responses. I feel a lot better now. I will be looking into home brewing one of these days, but I'm still a newbie and need a lot more education first.

It's fun and easy and there are as many different levels of complication as you want. But there's nothing wrong with mastering one hobby at a time.

 

[Barbara21]

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Sometimes, IMHO, people go overboard with the whole sanitation thing. I think we are preventing ourselves form developing resistance or immunity to some things and, creating antibiotic and anti bacterial resistant strains of things by being too sanitary. I grew up as a farm kid, out tending or playing with animals, then grab lunch and never wash up, just eat my sandwich dirty hands and all. I rarely get sick, haven't had more than the flu in years, had bronchitis once in my early 20's and, pneumonia at 28. That's it my entire life. I don't catch the cold the grand kids have when they come over, rarely take the flu, even when most of my friends and family do and, are around me. I think it's because my world was never over sanitized and, my immune system is strong enough to handle those minor things and keep me from getting sick.

I agree with you 100%. I wasn't a farm kid but grew up in the country. I'm now 53 years old and - other than two one-day stomach bugs - haven't been sick in 45 years.

I'm right there with you! Let the kids eat the dirt. They'll be sick today, but not 20 years from now when it really matters. I grew up in the same manner as you, just on the MS coast and not the Mobile area, and in my whole life I've had 1 hernia at 5 yrs, 2 cases of flu as a teen, some tonsil issues (likely from smoking a ppd+ since I was 12), and a one week bug last summer. Other than that, I've never been sick. I don't even catch colds most years, just severe smokers cough in the colder months.

I liked the 'let the kids eat dirt' line. That's the only thing I ever had a fight with my in-laws over. The boys were 3-4 years old. It had been a warm rainy day and they were outside playing. Needless to say, they were filthy. In-laws stopped by and had a fit. I feel the same way you do - told them that dirt wasn't bad for them and helped build their immune system. They were not happy, complained to my husband about it but he backed me up.

The boys are 23 and 24 now. They each had a single ear infection as babies. That's it.

Oh, forgot. I deliberately exposed them to chicken pox when they were around four-years-old. But that doesn't count.

 

[HDVaper]

No but they charge like they made it in a solid gold bathtub.

EDIT: I misread the title, missed the word :How". But the above statement is still true.

 

[tj99959]

 

[scotton]

Try not to pay attention to how much most servers hands touch the top part of your plate at most restaurants.

 

[zoiDman]

This is how my Grand Pappy makes e-liquids down on the Farm. The Old School Way.

 

[Sero]

One of these days an eliquid maker is going to get sued for big money and lose. I mean they are selling poison as it is....That's why I would never sell eliquid.

 

[Butters78]

I mix my juice in my boxers and my t shirt that says juicy! In big pink letters. Sterile enough for me.

 

[zoiDman]

I mix my juice in my boxers and my t shirt that says juicy! In big pink letters. Sterile enough for me.

So you were the one who Out Bid me on those T-Shirts on e-Bay.

 

[J-ShaZzle]

If the FDA bans ejuice then we will return to the days of old.

 

[GetVaked]

At one of my two local stores, one of the workers does at least part of the mixing out in the sales area in front of the customers. No gloves, no mask, etc. That concerns me, as being a nurse, I'm always looking for infection-control measures and sanitary (sterile) facilities. As it is, a customer (or the employee doing the mixing) with a cold or flu or other respiratory illness could conceivably contaminate a batch of e-juice with their coughing. Also, I did not see the employee wash her hands before mixing up some juice for me.

Is this an accepted way of mixing e-juice in B&M stores? Should I be concerned?

Thanks for your advice.

Say something to them. If they get offended, than forget them and take your business elsewhere.

 

[VV_James]

Yeah, the only exclusively vaping B&M I've ever been in had pre mixed bases in a variety of pg/vg ratios and strengths, and just added the flavor at the counter. They would let you taste after every mix, until they got it the way you wanted.

No gloves, or any other protection...

But the place WAS CLEAN! Probably less chance of contamination than when I DYI

Once they get it right they'll use those ratios to make whatever size bottle you want.

What a lot of people DON'T understand, is that once that juice has steeped a bit it's going to taste totally different!