How much does steeping matter?

[Mr Pickle]

I'm pretty new to DIY, and I've made around a dozen bottles with different flavors. I can't really vape them yet, because of my cartomizer drought, so I've been letting them sit on my counter (open top) for the past week or so.

I have a few questions:

1. Does steeping make a discernible difference in flavor?

2. How long does steeping take?

3. Should I steep the flavor bottles, or just the finished e-juice?

Thanks.

 

[MrBeo]

I have a few questions:

1. Does steeping make a discernible difference in flavor?

2. How long does steeping take?

3. Should I steep the flavor bottles, or just the finished e-juice?

Thanks.

1. Yes - A great deal for most mixes and Flavors!

2. If your doing Tobacco flavors at least a week but two weeks is best with some needing even more time. Fruit flavors can be 3 days to a week and some capella's are nice in 24 hours. Few are good fresh made but there out there! 24 hours to 2 weeks is normal...

3. Just the finished mixes and leaving the Top off is not done from everyone and done for 1-2 days tops!

Others will pop in with there thoughts...

 

[Mr Pickle]

I've had the tops off on some for at least a week. What happens to them if the top is off for too long? I would guess than the alcohol would evaporate out.

 

[AzPlumber]

I'm pretty new to DIY, and I've made around a dozen bottles with different flavors. I can't really vape them yet, because of my cartomizer drought, so I've been letting them sit on my counter (open top) for the past week or so.

I have a few questions:

1. Does steeping make a discernible difference in flavor?

2. How long does steeping take?

3. Should I steep the flavor bottles, or just the finished e-juice?

Thanks.

Sounds like steeping is being confused with letting a liquid air. Leaving the lid off of a liquid will allow the alcohol from an alcohol based flavoring to evaporate off. This can have a positive effect an a finished liquid if the user does not care for the alcohol taste. Leaving the lid off your alcohol based flavoring will probably ruin it. Leaving the lid off a freshly made liquid with nic will only allow the nic to oxidize, good or bad for taste I'm not sure I don't do it. Steeping is actually capping and leaving a fresh made liquid in a cool dark place for a prescribed time. This has a positive effect on most liquids, some liquids only require a few hours while others may take a few weeks.

 

[icebob]

^Amen to that!

 

[Mr Pickle]

Yeah, I had no idea what steeping was. I probably just ruined all these liquids.

 

[Hoosier]

Yeah, Az has it. I'm not sure when breathing got lumped in with steeping, but it is like trying to separate black from a tire to get it as a separate concept again.

If you have a background taste kinda like a penny covered in sardine juice, it has gone too far. Otherwise they should just be a bit more bitter. Most folks don't notice that bit of bitter. (I call it the dregs as it shows up near the end of a bottle of juice for me.)