Hello, I hear a lot of members say to "steep" your eliquid, but what does that mean & how do you do it exactly? Thank you for your help.
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It's really easy to steep juice. There are several ways but, the most common way is to leave the cap off the bottle. Place it in a dark and cool place. Like a drawer or something and let it sit for a few days, weeks, or a month. You do have to shake the bottle up every now and then to let the juice meld together (w/ the cap on obviously).
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Forgot to mention the reasoning behind steeping. With newly mixed juices. They tend to not have the full flavor that it was intended to and steeping helps bring the flavors come out. With some, you can actually see the color of it change. It's especially important if you get yours from vendors such as BWB.
It's really easy to steep juice. There are several ways but, the most common way is to leave the cap off the bottle. Place it in a dark and cool place. Like a drawer or something and let it sit for a few days, weeks, or a month. You do have to shake the bottle up every now and then to let the juice meld together (w/ the cap on obviously).
Hope that helps
Forgot to mention the reasoning behind steeping. With newly mixed juices. They tend to not have the full flavor that it was intended to and steeping helps bring the flavors come out. With some, you can actually see the color of it change. It's especially important if you get yours from vendors such as BWB.
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Thank you for the help...I must now order some more ejuice, since I have to let my current batch steep for a few days. This way I will always have a batch ready to vape fully steeped.
madvapes did a blog on juice steeping it was pretty helpfull for me, just go to their site & check out their blogs, might have to search their help section hope this will help you as much as it did me
P.S sorry for bad spelling i went to hillbilly high school lol... {;~{)
P.S sorry for bad spelling i went to hillbilly high school lol... {;~{)
I liken steeping to Spaghetti. It's always better the next day after the juices mix and mingle. Steeping just gives a freshly mixed juice time for the components to mix at the molecular level. Some juices don't need it and others benefit from it. If it tastes good out of the mailbox, vape it. If not, set it aside in a dark place for a week and come back to it.
And, always shake your juice before you fill your ecig.
And, always shake your juice before you fill your ecig.
Steeping traditionally means letting the juice sit for a period of time. Just letting the individual components to fully difuse throughout the entire bottle.
At some point folks started adding on the bit about leaving the cap off, which is something else and does something else, but it has become canon despite us grumpy old timers saying letting it breathe is different.
I imagine by next year steeping will involve paint mixing machines and hairdryers as canon.
At some point folks started adding on the bit about leaving the cap off, which is something else and does something else, but it has become canon despite us grumpy old timers saying letting it breathe is different.
I imagine by next year steeping will involve paint mixing machines and hairdryers as canon.
e-juice is a chemical solution, not a suspension, not a colloid, not a mixture of solid and liquid like spaghetti. the molecules are all distributed in a completely diffuse manner the instant that they enter the state of solution. no further mixing occurs after this point. it is not like soup that continues to distribute flavors as it sits, etc.
if there is anything to steeping, and the majority of juicers swear that there is, it would have to do with the degradation (which could possibly be a positive, taste wise) of the various molecules, or some sort of bacterial or yeast action (both highly unlikely) like fermentation.
if there is anything to steeping, and the majority of juicers swear that there is, it would have to do with the degradation (which could possibly be a positive, taste wise) of the various molecules, or some sort of bacterial or yeast action (both highly unlikely) like fermentation.
or it could be similar to the very real and powerful "placebo effect" well known to the medical world.
or something psychological due to waiting and retasting, like frequently some music you originally didnt like gets much better after you listen to it after not hearing it for a while, or after listening many times. or a combination of these factors plus some kind of mild actual molecular change. who knows. when e-cigs become more common the big e-cig industry will probably commission a study to find out.
or something psychological due to waiting and retasting, like frequently some music you originally didnt like gets much better after you listen to it after not hearing it for a while, or after listening many times. or a combination of these factors plus some kind of mild actual molecular change. who knows. when e-cigs become more common the big e-cig industry will probably commission a study to find out.
LoL I don't know about paint mixers or hair dryers, But if you can be a grumpy old timer I guess I'll take the risk of being a grumpy new timer: When you mix liquids together and allow time for them to develop flavor it is called "mending" or "curing".
"Steeping" is what you do to a teabag.
With tongue tucked firmly in cheek, I wish all happy vaping!
Try this, it's an easy thing since you DIY. Mix PG and VG, plain stuff, together, say 70/30, in a clear covered container. Make a mental note of the way it looks right after mixing. Now look at it again a few day later.
Initially it looks like a suspension and a few days later it looks like a solution. At least mine does.
I call elderberry scented mothers on your diffuse in an instant.
You could try the quick steep method and see if you can tell any difference.
Put a cup of water in the microwave for 60 seconds. Take it out, make sure your eliquid cap is firmly screwed down, and put the eliquid bottle in the cup of water. Let it sit until the water cools. Presto.
Put a cup of water in the microwave for 60 seconds. Take it out, make sure your eliquid cap is firmly screwed down, and put the eliquid bottle in the cup of water. Let it sit until the water cools. Presto.
Ah, but you have to go back to the days of the pyramid tea bag mod and the mindset then. We could call it hydrating for all I care, but the term was coined differently. I don't even like the term e-cigarette, but I'm stuck with it.
youre right, i was thinking of a solute dissolving into solution,
with two liquids of differing viscosity it could take a few minutes, reduced considerably by some shaking.
once mixed into solution however, further time or agitation will not further the degree of distribution.
with two liquids of differing viscosity it could take a few minutes, reduced considerably by some shaking.
once mixed into solution however, further time or agitation will not further the degree of distribution.
Here is a link to Madvapes current experiment on steeping nicotine.
http://www.madvapes.com/Nicotine-Concentration-Over-Time_b_55.html?referer=mailid:51
http://www.madvapes.com/Nicotine-Concentration-Over-Time_b_55.html?referer=mailid:51
I just put them in the back row of my juice container,why do people take the covers off?
Taste is hopelessly subjective. We can argue what our own buds are telling us until guns are drawn and the shooting becomes general—and get nowhere.
That said, something very objectively measureable that occurs when e-liquids of color are allowed to sit on a shelf is that their color deepens, sometimes dramatically. For this to occur, something chemical must be afoot. If so, the likelihood that the flavor is changing also is less unreasonable to suppose—and that the proponents of steeping are not of a necessity soft-minded victims of their own grey matter.
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