Question about storing the daily vape juice

[Kabooma]

So I get most of my DIY stuff from WL. I've been creating batches of 30ml for my ADV recipe, and just using the basic plastic 30ml bottles that I had ordered with my base from WL. Long story short, I've been having a love affair with my cinnamon flavor for at least two months now, it's really great, but one morning, I just wanted something less sweet and a little more brisk, so I pulled out my 30ml bottle of menthol, which was also an ADV for a while. I load up a new mini nova and vape away.

But.. it tastes off.. there's something in the flavor that's kind of sweet and sickly.. I know this flavor but cannot place it. It dawns on me later that it tastes like burnt plastic smells. I load a different carto that I previously used (in good condition), and same thing.

So I'm looking at this WL bottle, and it hits me.. If my juices crack tanks, what do they do to the bottles? Having that menthol sit for 2+ Months and my best guess suggests that the bottle literally is melting on the inside and I've been vaping it(?)

I had a similar issue when I broke out the licorice flavor, but instead of burnt plastic, it just lost most of it's flavoring.. so on a wholly different topic, do flavorings (non-tobacco) lose their potency over time when stored?

I would love others thoughts on this. Thanks

 

[dannyv45]

Store the tank cracking juice in glass bottles in a cool dark place. Flavor will fade over time it's part of the steeping process. Some flavors improve over time others fade.

 

[DetraMental]

What ^^^^Danny says. I could only find 15ml bottles so I make double batches.

 

[Hoosier]

Ya' know, mercury and iron are both metals, but nobody expects them to act the same. Iron has a fairly high resistance to electrical current while mercury conducts electricity pretty well. Iron is a great material for covering access holes to manholes in the road while mercury would just fall in and pool in the bottom of the manhole.

Yet, when X happens to polycarb plastic, they expect X to happen to polypro plastic. For some reason people who know that not all metals are alike also think that all plastics are alike and react the same.

Since I don't know what your juice bottles are made of, you may be having issues with leaching plasticizers into your juice. The only way to tell for sure is to make a fresh batch in a glass bottle, store it for the same period of time with about the same environmental conditions, and if it tastes different, then it is certainly the plastic bottle. If it was melting the plastic, it would be obvious by sight and feel. Leaching could happen and it wouldn't be necessarily obvious.

Another thing to consider is that too much flavoring may result in less flavor. Some mixes can strengthen over time. So there is a chance that a mix that tasted great the first week after mixing, could change after 6 weeks. Granted, it's not real common in my experience, but I have a few recipes that strengthen after a few weeks of steeping. I have one that tastes completely different after steeping for a week from what it tastes like fresh....and another week later it changes again to another different flavor. (It then stays that flavor for at least 8 weeks, but since I've never had a bottle sit around any longer than that, I don't know for certain that it will not change, but I seldom let it go for more than 4 weeks before I've vaped every bit I had made. Except for the bit I use for seed steeping the next batches.)

Don't vape juice that tastes bad. Life's too short for that kinda' stuff. Make up some fresh batches and run some steeping tests in glass. See what happens...errr...taste what happens.

 

[Wingsfan0310]

There out of stock atm, but this is what I use for all my DIY juice (30ml)
30ml Cobalt Blue Glass Bottle w/ Glass Dropper Top

Cheers,
Steve

Edit Those and my old 30ml glass Halo bottles