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Could sunlight be an recipe ingredient?

µDavid

Member For 3 Years
Hello.

Half a year ago I mixed a bottle with a recipe based on Chocolate Therapy, the exact recipe I mixed was:
4% INW Milk Chocolate
2,5% TFA VBIC
2% TFA Sweetener
2% TFA Milk Chocolate
1,5% FA Marshmallow
1% TFA Double Chocolate(clear)
0,3% TFA French Vanilla Delux
0,25% FA Meringue

For some reason I lost interest(or was never really that interested in the first place) so the bottle never got vaped, the first chapter of my DIY e-liquid mixing has been closed as I now continue on the second chapter.

What defines the first "chapter" is that although I from the start took noted of and set up a dark storage place I kept everything including all my flavours and mixes in the open on my desk/table. The bottles was hardly ever struck by direct sunlight since I more or less always had my windows covered with blinds, but blinds hardly makes a room dark. And now due to a reallocation of my person I have gotten used to always keep all of my e-liquid things behind doors in a kitchen cabinet(I live alone so I can be very careless with my nicotine bottles without anyone ever being in any danger).

And a couple of month ago I mixed another bottle of that adjusted Chocolate therapy recipe posted above but it doesn't taste anywhere near as good as the first bottle did, sure the first bottle probably had a couple of weeks longer steep but I think the largest difference is that the first bottle was exposed to sunlight from the moment of mixing until it went down into my atomizer while the second bottle has probably seen less than a full hour of sunlight exposure all in all.

So this leads me to the thought "could the sunlight(which everyone agrees is a bad thing for e-liquids) have made the recipe better...?"

I don't know why sunlight is bad other than increasing or rushing the nicotine oxidation process(I think at least), if someone know I would appreciate being told.

But back to the reason for this thread, do you think that sunlight could be used to advantage is some cases?

I don't see it as anything but reasonable that if sunlight exposure have a negative impact on the flavor of e-liquids then maybe we should say that sunlight have an affect on e-liquids because as we all know it is impossible to state anything really about any single flavor given the subjective experience of individuals.
Thus why couldn't some people think that the sunlight's affect on e-liquids is a good thing?

Or at the very least say that sunlight could in some instances be beneficial even if it generally is bad, I won't erase what I have written but perhaps I shouldn't try to arrive at a conclusion about sunlight untiI actually know what it is that sunlight supposedly does to an e-liquid.

Regards
 

brandon555

Member For 3 Years
All of my liquid that has sat out in the open usually turns orange and ends up tasting weird. So yes, maybe you got lucky and found a recipe that tastes good after a nice long steep, or your perception of taste could have changed a bit. I've gone back and vaped juice that used to be my adv after not vaping it for a year, and sometimes they taste a lot different than I remember.
 

µDavid

Member For 3 Years
I think that the change of perception of taste is peculiar, before starting to vape(this increased my experimentation with flavors enormously) I thought that my perception of flavors was sort of constant. But then I noticed a great change is perception of taste during the first few month of vaping and mixing e-liquids and for some reason I expected that the changes would come to a halt, but perhaps ones perception of taste should be considered as never the same.
 

zaroba

Gold Contributor
Member For 5 Years
Probably just the steeping, you did say it was a few weeks.

Heat from the light could have sped up the steeping as well.
 

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