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Had to look at the address bar to check this wasn't on the onion. These busy bodies and 'goody little two shoes' happily dictating what people can and can't do and whining about the slightest thing that doesn't fit into their perfect little world view will be the first lot against the wall come the revolution.

The short answer is simply no.

The long answer would be, unless you are making your liquids with yeast:-


There would be no process biological or chemical taking place that would provide the necessary conditions for the formation of diacetyl. I suspect, as I have only witnessed the 'darkening' effect in liquids containing much higher concentrations of nicotene (18mg/ml compared to my usual 3mg/ml) that the darkening is part of the natural degredation of nicotene over time. This phenomenon is well documented within the vaping community and has been directly attributed to a natuaral yet unexplainable degrading of nicotene over time, causing it to gradually loose its potency and darken in colour. Although other factors may be at work, as some chemical based flavourings tend to react with each other in unexpected ways and I have seen organic vanillas darken significantly after steeping for long periods of time.

As I understand it, by for the largest contributing factor to diacetyl content in e-liquids are artificial flavours which, as a deliberately added component of their flavour signature contain chemical diacetyl. For example artificial popcorn, butter, strawberry flavours all contain/ed diacetyl to give a buttery taste and only due to the recent concerns of the vaping community have e-liquid companies been looking for alternatives that are completely diacetyl free.


By far the largest body of research into the safety of flavours this side of the pond so far has been undertaken by FlavourArtUk, so if you have any questions in this area I would highly recommend those guys as a good place to start. John is a really top bloke and I'm sure he would be more than happy to help you address any concerns you may have in that area or at least point you in the right direction.

Hopefully I haven't overlooked anything and hopefully some other folk who know more than me can bring something to the table.

Also adding this link as the information seems coherent enough (Maillard Reaction - Colour and flavour) :-

forum.e-liquid-recipes.com/t/hidden-science-behind-normal-and-accelerated-e-liquid-steeping/21024

It kind of looks like you have giant hands

I've got the authentic one and I've found it to be pretty disappointing as well. Kinda wish I'd bought the clone, much cheaper and I would have thrown it in a drawer by now and happily gone back to my faithful bellus. Honestly doesn't have any redeeming features, and for how often you have to fill the bloody thing you may as well be using a dripper.

I think your drip tip needs a rinse Tease-smiley

Why not just grab yourself a K1 bvc? They're great little tanks for out and about and cheap as chips We keep a couple in a draw for emergencies.

I'd rather be a vaping tw*t than a fat, single, middle aged man who owns a 2004 smart roadster toaster.