Steeping question

[Completely Average]

there is no such thing as steeping.steeping is emersion of a substance in fluid to infuse elements
of the substance in to the water.
there is no aging as there are no organic processes as in wine or spirits.
if your juice is not good when you get it that means it wasn't mixed,agitated,or shaken enough to
properly blend the ingreidients.
do you notice allmost all the steeping advice you get here requires you to shake it up
at least daily.

You're wrong. The "aging" or "steeping" or whatever you want to call it of ejuice requires BOTH agitation and aging.

Allow me to use a demonstration here:

If you take a glass of water and pour in a tablespoon of salt, some of the salt will dissolve, but most will fall to the bottom of the glass. Shaking or agitating the water will help the disperse the salt more evenly in the water, but it still takes time for the salt to fully dissolve before it can be mixed into a proper solution.

Now, take that glass of water and add the tablespoon of salt and a tablespoon of sugar at the same time. The salt will dissolve rather quickly but the sugar takes a LONG time to break down fully. You can agitate it and get the sugar dispersed enough to taste good, but the moment you stop shaking it starts separating. Leave it alone for a day and you end up with a layer with very little salt, a salty layer, and a sweet layer with some saltiness to it. You have to shake it again to get the solution more evenly mixed. More of the sugar will dissolve, and when left alone for the same amount of time there will be less separation of flavors. Shake, rinse, and repeat until you get a fully dissolved and fully mixed solution.


It's the same thing in ejuices. Some of the flavors dissolve and form a solution very quickly, but some take a lot of time to break down and dissolve. Shaking alone only mixes the ingredients together temporarily, like shaking an oil and vinegar salad dressing. You have to give the different ingredients time as well to break down and fully dissolve into the solution.

 

[AmandaD]

just curious...what brand of flavor do you make your RY4 from? in case you are secretive i'll tell you mine first LOL!

my base is TFA asian 70% and TFA RYtype 30%. then of course you get into those "ancient chinese secrets"
always looking to improve/discover a new taste.

TFA RY4 double - I'm absolutely in love with it! I haven't tried the others, though, but it sounds as if I should

 

[skoony]

You're wrong. The "aging" or "steeping" or whatever you want to call it of ejuice requires BOTH agitation and aging.

Allow me to use a demonstration here:

If you take a glass of water and pour in a tablespoon of salt, some of the salt will dissolve, but most will fall to the bottom of the glass. Shaking or agitating the water will help the disperse the salt more evenly in the water, but it still takes time for the salt to fully dissolve before it can be mixed into a proper solution.

Now, take that glass of water and add the tablespoon of salt and a tablespoon of sugar at the same time. The salt will dissolve rather quickly but the sugar takes a LONG time to break down fully. You can agitate it and get the sugar dispersed enough to taste good, but the moment you stop shaking it starts separating. Leave it alone for a day and you end up with a layer with very little salt, a salty layer, and a sweet layer with some saltiness to it. You have to shake it again to get the solution more evenly mixed. More of the sugar will dissolve, and when left alone for the same amount of time there will be less separation of flavors. Shake, rinse, and repeat until you get a fully dissolved and fully mixed solution.


It's the same thing in ejuices. Some of the flavors dissolve and form a solution very quickly, but some take a lot of time to break down and dissolve. Shaking alone only mixes the ingredients together temporarily, like shaking an oil and vinegar salad dressing. You have to give the different ingredients time as well to break down and fully dissolve into the solution.

we are not talking about salt and sugar.in water.aging is an organic chemical process caused by microbes
as in meat and wines and spirits.what you just desribed is if its not mixed well enough you have
to keep mixing it.get a bottle of coke made in mexico.its made with real sugar.do you see any sugar
on the bottom of the bottle?
if anything is going on its the settling of the ingriediants as in paint left sitting for a long time.
most of these so called steeping methods described on post's here also requires one to shake it up also.
i'm sticking to the shake the snot out of it.

regards
mike