Steep times

[Dlmdavid]

Hello, I've decided I'm gonna try my hand at homemade juice, I picked up some glycerin today, still need to track down the propylene glycol and flavouring, probably not gonna bother with nicotine at the moment, if I find I need it I will deal with that later. My question is how long do you guys like to leave your homemade juice to steep before vaping it? Do you find different flavours require different steep times?

 

[ckquatt]

Fruits are usually shake and vape. Bakery/tobacco flavors tend to benefit from some aging. I usually age my bakery/tobaccos about 3 weeks or more before I consider them ready to vape. But that's just my opinion.


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[Susan~S]

In addition to what @ckquatt said, there's a bit more to DIY then adding flavoring and steeping. There are many additives and flavor combinations that will enhance a mix. A little research goes a long way in perfecting your blend.

Things like creams, custards, caramels, marshmallow and graham cracker are very common components in a lot of recipes, and are good to have on hand, especially if you start to get confident and want more complexity in your flavors.

For all things DIY head on over to the DIY ELiquid Forum. Below is the information I often give to members new to DIY.

• Dannyv45's blogs will give insight into all aspects of DYI, from steeping to what supplies to have on hand to a basic walk through mixing your first E-juice. => dannyv45 - Blogs
• Hoosier's blogs concentrate on fine tuning your mix and give insight on additives. =>Hoosier - Blogs
• For a juice mixing calculator consider using eJuiceMeUp
• If you are interested in mixing by weight (vs volume) here are a couple of great videos
  1. How to Use an eJuice Calculator and Mix with a Scale
  2. Mixing by Weight (a DIY Tutorial)

Here are some threads you may like to read through for different flavoring companies. Many of the posts include recipes and comments about a specific flavor.

• Flavor Arts (FA) - Flavour Art Thread => When you reach the end you can continue reading about FA by googling "FlavorArt Club" => Also see HIC's "My notes on FA Flavorings"
  
• The Flavor Apprentice (TFA) - The Flavor Apprentice Flavoring Thread => Also see Bill's Magic Vapor's Blog & TFA Flavor % Recommendations
• Inawera (IW) - Inawera Thread
• Capella (CAP) - DIY Capella's Recipe Thread v2.0 & List of Capella Flavor %'s & Reddit Reformatted Capella Recipe List from Sidebar
• Hangsen (HS) - The Hangsen Thread
• Flavor West (FW) - Flavor West Thread

DIY Recipe Sites & Misc Links

• E-Liquid Recipes <= Feel free to post your recipes here for all members to enjoy and comment on.
• TPA/TFA Recipes only! <= ECF Thread
• FlavourArt.uk Recipes
  
• Le DIY Pour Les Nuls - Great French site (in English)
• Reddit Recipes - Read the Sidebar
• EcigExpress Archive Cookbook
• EcigVape
• UK E-Liquid Recipes
• kritikalmass - E-Liquid Recipes
• One Stop DIY Shop - Recipes

 

[sofarsogood]

Try your diy immediately after you give it a few shakes. If you like it vape it. If it improves before you used it up, fine. Giving the bottle a shake before you refill your dripper bottle is a good idea because ingrediants can settle and separate. The same goes for nic concentrate in the freezer. Shake the bottle before you draw from it to be sure the nic is evenly distributed. Nic has a tiny bit higher specific gravity than the surrounding liquid so it will tend to settle in the bottle.