to steep or not to steep!

[han78]

Hi everyone, I am day three of vaping and no ciggys and woke up this morning and DIDNT WANT A FAG WOOOO HOOOOO! so really really really chuffed............but as usual I have more questions for you all! I have read lots of posts on steeping your juices and was wondering.....

do you steep every liquid you get even if you like the flavour, or just steep the ones you think are a bit crap and could do with some help lol?

how long do you steep for? I have seen alot of articles saying one day with the lid of your e-liquid to air then a week in a dark cool place with the lid on........do you agree or do it differently?

thanks and really look forward to reading your views on steeping

[boo]

I never steep, I know you're supposed to, but im far too impatient to wait.

[blakey]

Everything goes in a dark cupboard for a week before I put it in the fridge ready to use.

[han78]

Boo I am with you there, I have quite a few new flavours coming..........hopefully tomorrow (i'll be so annoyed if they are not here till tuesday lol and I have no idea how I could put them away.......but if it really makes a difference to the flavour I am going to have to get some patience from somewhere!!!

[han78]

blakey I just saw a write up that said it could ruin your e-liquid putting in the fridge? is that true for some e-liquids and not others?

[Peter]

It's away to the dark cupboard for at "least" 10 days for my

taste......

But I do shop about a month ahead with my juice

[blakey]

Oct 7, 2012 19:19:37 GMT han78 said:

blakey I just saw a write up that said it could ruin your e-liquid putting in the fridge? is that true for some e-liquids and not others?

I've never heard of anything like that, all refrigeration does is slow down degradation. It'll get vaped long before anything goes wrong with it

[Bluefish]

steep, not as such, if it's a new juice it'l get tried more or less straight away, if i've had it befor it'l get tried straight away cos it means i've ran out of it, and will be missing it

[theinhaler]

i make all my own juice now so always steep for a week , maybe more depending how much i make , i does make the flavour better for me

[OneDay]

Han steeping allows all the flavour molecules to blend with the nicotine base and is a necessary part of making juice. However (there's always at least one 'however' to this vaping malarkey) if you buy mass produced juices like hangsen or dekang they have already sailed the seas so are well steeped by the time you get them. Juices mixed to order, eg Griz, Pixie, etc may benefit from a few days in a cool dark place. Pixie actually puts the "date of birth" on every bottle and recommends a steeping period.

But - if you can't wait, it aint going to kill you

[booblay]

Some juices might only need a day or two, some might want a month.

you can speed it up, apparently, by placing your bottles in some hot (but not boiling water) for 20 minutes a day.

[Brian]

I stick to the same juice all the time. I make 200-300 mls at once and always make sure i have a new batch made up before im below 50mls.

As 50mls will last me 2-3 weeks thats plenty of steeping time.

[han78]

oneday ty that really explains it...........so if you got a juice you thought was a bit yuck and you didn't get on with, would you then consider steeping it to see if you could improve it?

[OneDay]

Yes, I have found that if I don't like a juice and I put it away in the cupboard it may have improved considerably when I come back to it, sometimes weeks later. Some juices though are just bad and no amount of steeping will make them into a good vape (for my tastes)

[han78]

ty for the info oneday, I have one very strong tobacco one that is really quite disgusting! but I have mixed a few drops of a choc and caramel one in with it and it's really quite nice now........day 3 and I am mixing my own juice already.......well kind of the kiddy version of mixing! but i might try steeping it.....to see what happens.