The not so great smell escape........

[SLIPPY_EEL]

How do the good people of the diy community store and treat ther concentrates for minimum flavour/smell leak and contamination from each other(also in storage), I would like to hear.

i've been what I thought of as being very careful not to cross contaminate flavours from one bottle to the next
the only issue I see is that all my flavours are sat in the same container(big empty butter container)
so far I can only smell flavours on the outside of others but one thing leads to another and I don't really want to have 40 or 50 flavours separate and spread out across the whole house

My process when making juice is as follows, single sheets of toilet tissue in a pile for ease, shake bottle.. take cap off and insert a screwed up piece of tissue into cap to soak up any spillage... add my flavour to my base, pull the tissue from cap, wipe nozzle... screw cap on and bin tissue... if I get any on hands which I don't normally then the sink is right next to me... then move onto next additive

the only place I can see I can improve is by washing the outside of the bottle and letting water run into the closed cap gap after every single time I use one, what a pain in the royal arss

almost forgot to mention that some not all of the flavour/smell leak is from concentrates I haven't used for a long time, I have just separated these flavours which are things like hot cin candy, Danish swirl, dark cherry, grahams cracker... if it was to do with the flavours melting through the bottles then I would have thought I'd smell the two dif banana's I have ....

 

[Ohms Lawbreaker]

Sure is a battle. Had my stuff in a drawer in the living room and had to move it, smelled like a church, or a "cheap whorehouse" as someone else said. Even when I have ordered well-packaged flavorings through the mail, I could smell them coming through the package, and that is not supposed to happen, postal carriers have a bug up about that, understandably.

 

[Hoosier]

I keep my flavorings in bins. The bins are inside my grandmother's kitchen cabinet. (Craftsman style made with 4 different woods that I tightened up by disassembling and putting oak inserts in all the places where screws go and reassembled using all the original hardware.)

So, it has plenty of airflow since old craftsman style cabinets are not known for being sealed in any way, shape, or form. There is no odor that is notice by me, my family, or the guys who come over for game night. (The game being in the same room as the cabinet in question.) So, I'm unfamiliar with the issue. Maybe you need better sealing bottles?

The only flavoring that is sealed beyond the bottle it came in is the Kona Coffee and it's inside a ziploc baggie which is inside a vacuum sealed Food Saver bag...and I swear it is still trying to get out and murder my nose. I'd throw it away, but I'm afraid I'll just make it angry and it will come back and stink up my spice rack as it murdered every last smell receptor I have.

Some flavorings can settle. Cinnamon is a well known settler. I've got no idea what's up with your cherry though...

 

[HeadInClouds]

Mine sit in rows, upright in a box. There is no room for any to tip over. A row is the width of a zip lock bag. Everything is in zip-locks grouped by general flavor. Especially smelly ones are individually bagged inside that.

I've learned to always shake flavorings before I open and measure. So with dropper tops I rinse out the lid and sometimes the outside of the bottle before I put it away. It's not that much trouble. Using glass vials, I find no need to rinse things. I mix stuff by the kitchen sink and have paper towels handy.

 

[dannyv45]

I store my bottles in tackle boxes upright and caps screwed on tightly. I also have a smaller partitioned box that sits on my work table that I store my most used materals that I clean out often. Odor does not seem to be an issue. I made a purchase of 144 gross 10ml glass viles with poly caps and transfer my flavors shipped in plastic to these bottles. I also buy my occasionally used flavors in small bottles (10ml's) so if they do leak it's not such a hardship if I toss them out. My everyday flavors I use a lot of I buy in no more then 30ml's and take extra care to store them correctly also in 30ml glass bottles with poly seal caps. After each use I wipe them off with a damp cloth before storing them back where they belong. As flavors tend to sit for long periods of time in the common DYI household I feel the investment in glass is worth the extra expense. The 10ml also make great test mix viles.