Would using the term/s "ripe", "ripen" and "ripened" be a more colourful way to describe the curing process of D.I.Y e liquids ?.
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When i think "ripe" i think of nice things.
The term "muted" always got on my nerves. Been used as long as "steep", but unlike steep, muted means something completely different and in no way describes flavour/taste at all. But everyone uses it and everytime it comes up i cringe.
The term "muted" always got on my nerves. Been used as long as "steep", but unlike steep, muted means something completely different and in no way describes flavour/taste at all. But everyone uses it and everytime it comes up i cringe.
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Steep makes me think of tea and the next stage of that process, which is "stew". I just don't like the sound of it.
I prefer steep. Sounds just right. Actually that is exactly what it is. Similar to making tea, coffee or wine (and a plethora of things actually. Even leaving curry for a day or so, is steeping).
Ripen makes me think of whether that pear lying on the kitchen top is juicy or still on the hard side
Ripen makes me think of whether that pear lying on the kitchen top is juicy or still on the hard side
I prefer steep. Sounds just right. Actually that is exactly what it is. Similar to making tea, coffee or wine (and a plethora of things actually. Even leaving curry for a day or so, is steeping).
Ripen makes me think of whether that pear lying on the kitchen top is juicy or still on the hard side
Yep. Plus, we already use ripe with many fruit flavors, along with sweet, candy, Wild, etc. It makes sense to say I’m using a ripened strawberry, or peanut butter is good until it mutes. Sounds weird to me to say my juice is ripe, rather than my juice is properly steeped.
No sorry, ripe(en)(ened) doesn't do it for me any better than steep(xx) does. None of these words are IMO accurate.
I think of it as aging and that is what I talk about to someone who has never heard the term steeping used for juice.
Over aged, because for that juice it was aged too long.
Keep in mind too that aging is not always good for a juice. I mix mine for immediate use so they are pretty good for me from the get go. A few get slightly better with some age, a few get slightly worse. I don't mix enough at a time for the nic to ever degrade and become more peppery so I don't have to worry about that. I can say that my nic doesn't do that in six months at room temperature so that would take a very long aging process for me.
"Steep" is an old Scots word meaning to soak; that said it's not one of my favourites as it has unfortunate connotations for me ( and I suspect others of my vintage who were kids back in the early 1950s )
Friday night was bath night back in those days, and by 8.00pm in our living room, in front of the fire with the radio playing a concert on the Home Service would be found my parents - faither with his troosers rolled up to his knees displaying his white legs with suspender marks round the calves and his feet in a basin of hot water and mither sat opposite in her dressing goon and nightie also with her feet in a basin of hot water - they were "steeping their feet" so that they could cut their toenails. Beside them in glasses on their side tables sat their "wallies" ( false teeth) also steeping in dilute beach solution.
I think I prefer the word ageing or maturing even soaking to "steeping"!!!!!
Friday night was bath night back in those days, and by 8.00pm in our living room, in front of the fire with the radio playing a concert on the Home Service would be found my parents - faither with his troosers rolled up to his knees displaying his white legs with suspender marks round the calves and his feet in a basin of hot water and mither sat opposite in her dressing goon and nightie also with her feet in a basin of hot water - they were "steeping their feet" so that they could cut their toenails. Beside them in glasses on their side tables sat their "wallies" ( false teeth) also steeping in dilute beach solution.
I think I prefer the word ageing or maturing even soaking to "steeping"!!!!!
Aged or matured are the only terms I occasionally use rather than steeped. Like all slang it's a term you just get into the habit of using, like mods. Very few of us mod yet we still call our devices mods.
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