Steeping e-liquid tip

[Colonel]

The 'aged' look your going for is going to vary from flavor to flavor. Because most of these liquids are PG + VG + nic + flavor, the ingredients are in every bottle from every vendor. The different is mostly the flavoring. What's the base of the flavor? Is it oily? Eatery? Does it get help from a sweetener? Is it a suspension? All of these additives will react differently to sunlight, oxygen and movement.

Point being, if your wondering why people post success with so many different methods of steeping, it's because they all work for different reasons.

If I were you, I'd just leave the caps off for a while. Maybe even over night. Let that stuff breathe. All those ingredients just met 3 days ago and have been locked up together ever since. After you put the cap back on, just let them sit.

I put a few ml's of a flavor into a small bottle and left it in very hot water for a while, and left the rest on the counter with the cap off. It didn't speed things up. That doesn't mean it doesn't work for some juices. The idea that there is a weird tasting additive in your juice that evaporates at a Much lower temp than other stuff is very good (ps, that means you should leave the cap off when you heat it up).

Anyone every try microwaving? Get those water molecules all jacked up.

 

[ShannonA]

If steeping works, then keeping it in that little plastic squeeze bottle can't help. I wonder perhaps i should squeeze out all the juice and put it onto a dish and heat it up a bit??

I want to order my juices from FreedomsmokeUSA but i want them.. aged. Any idea on how to do this effectively?

I find that many of my juices improve just by being left alone for awhile. If I let them sit a week (for most of them) then give the bottle a good shaking and load up my pv that's all it takes for me. I haven't noticed much difference from leaving caps off so I no longer do it.

 

[Chornbro]

I find that many of my juices improve just by being left alone for awhile. If I let them sit a week (for most of them) then give the bottle a good shaking and load up my pv that's all it takes for me. I haven't noticed much difference from leaving caps off so I no longer do it.

Same here... I don't bother, just leave the caps on... let them sit, shake here and there... perfect!

 

[FreakyStylie]

Well, we missed the rapture over the weekend, but this thread sure was resurrected.

My input:
One cannot have an opinion on steeping unless they have purchased freshly made e-liquid, or made their own. Stuff that sits in a warehouse for months can obviously not be included in the steeping debate.

 

[Caddyman]

this is true freaky

for fresh stuff i get (that tastes bad "out of the box"), i shake well, leave cap off overnight, recap, let sit a week (if i can stand it), shake well, vape.

 

[justwaaaa]

I guess I'll add my own experience to this thread. Most juices I receive from vendors are great straight out of the mailbox. But, recently got a couple of juices that had a very strong chemical-like smell to them and the taste was just "off" for what they were supposed to be. I'd heard so many great things about these particular flavors from this vendor so I didn't want to just toss them aside without at least trying a bit of steeping. So, I took the caps off, squeezed out the old air to let in new, then put them high up in a kitchen cabinet that is rarely opened. The next day, I did the squeeze thing again and let it sit for another day. I was blown away when I smelled the juice next and then vaped it. Whatever that chemical smell was, it was gone and now the juices are delicious. Do I give a crap about the color of a juice? No. In fact, I'd prefer there to be no added coloring. But, steeping actually did help me in this one instance.

 

[Chornbro]

Good point freaky... I think thats why this doesnt seem to apply to all juice vendors... because sometimes what you get from the mailbox has already been steeping for months!