Steeping

[AzPlumber]

Oh boy, you opened Pandora´s Box again Steeping vs. not steeping is an all time classic in the vaping community I guess!
So here´s my take on it, based on my 1 year DIY experience: I did NOT have any significant change in taste through steeping (talking about several weeks), neither with my NET tobacco juices nor with my fruity juices. In the meantime I really "dirty mix" all my juices: take a 100 ml bottle, use syringes to put in the right ml amounts of the concentrates or drop in some addons like sweetener or peppermint, then pour 20 ml of base (50/50, I always keep it at room temperature) in and close and shake very well for 30 seconds. Then add base until 100 ml bottle is nearly full and shake again furiously for 1-2 minutes. Then I´m ready to go/vape.
It´s important to me that base and extracts are at room temperature to mix well, but I´ve never heated any mixture. I also shake my 100 ml "to go" bottle everytime before I refill.

Also keep in mind that vape taste is HIGHLY depending on the status of your mouth flora and mouth/nose mucosa... what you ate or drank before, if your mouth is dry ... and so on. So tasting now and compairing the taste of the same juice after 4 weeks of waiting it to steep might not be a good idea, what you´d need to do is taste both (one steeped and one freshly made batch of the EXACT same mixture) at the same time, under the same conditions.

K.

I agree that most fruit mixes don't benefit from much if any steeping. However, more complex mixes like desserts, coffees and synthetic tobaccos will change with age.

 

[MarkRNY]

Whad'ya know? It came out great the 1st try. I expected to mess up the fist few times. I just let it sit for about 18 hours and it tastes great. Now I can mess around with other flavors.

No more paying through the nose for e-liquid, having them take forever to ship, being out of stock, etc. I don't know why everyone doesn't do this.

I want to thank everyone for your help. This is a site for all seasons. It's THE go-to vaping site.

 

[MarkRNY]

I used weight, AZ and this calculator-- http://..................../create . It might have been my screwup. I'm going to try 30 ml tonight and see if the bottle will hold it (I'm using 30 ml bottles).

 

[zoiDman]

Whad'ya know? It came out great the 1st try. I expected to mess up the fist few times. I just let it sit for about 18 hours and it tastes great. Now I can mess around with other flavors.

No more paying through the nose for e-liquid, having them take forever to ship, being out of stock, etc. I don't know why everyone doesn't do this.

I want to thank everyone for your help. This is a site for all seasons. It's THE go-to vaping site.

That's Great MarkRNY. Nice to get something Vapable on the First Go Around.



But now comes the Steeping. LOL

Because lots of People will give you Advice on how to Accelerate the Steeping process. And some May or May Not work. But I have Never Read about anyone who came up with a way to Stop and e-Liquid from Steeping.

So as we Speak, that e-Liquid is Steeping Away.

Now the Good News is that if an e-Liquid is Good Freshly Mixed, it will usually be Good after a Few Days. But it will Almost Always be slightly Different.

So be sure to Document EXACTLY what you made. And when you made it. So after 4 or 5 days you want to Tweak it, you know where to start.