New E-Juice tips please

[cdcee]

Newbie here.

Received my juice from vapeshack808 and would like to know what you guys do to enhance the flavor before using it. I've had it for a week and a half now, and its sitting on my desk in the envelope it came in. Haven't took the cap off yet. Getting my mod & tank hopefully next week. Any general steps you guys like to put your juice thru before vaping it?

 

[Model_A_Ford]

shake it up, let it sit.

As far as I can tell, all the other voodoo stuff people do, the only thing that can happen is evaporate the flavoring.

 

[SMOKIE]

Newbie here.

Received my juice from vapeshack808 and would like to know what you guys do to enhance the flavor before using it. I've had it for a week and a half now, and its sitting on my desk in the envelope it came in. Haven't took the cap off yet. Getting my mod & tank hopefully next week. Any general steps you guys like to put your juice thru before vaping it?

No need to add anything if you bought juice ready to vape. Sometimes by letting it sit for 10 days brings out more flavor which is called steeping. But not all juices need steeping, some are ready full flavored ready to vape. You will catch on quick.

 

[VAPEROXX]

Me personally, I'm a shake-n-vape kinda guy.

 

[SMOKIE]

Me personally, I'm a shake-n-vape kinda guy.

You know what they say, If you shake it more then 3 times, your playing with it, lol

 

[VAPEROXX]

You know what they say, If you shake it more then 3 times, your playing with it, lol

Lmao! Hell, I shake while I vape! And I figure if I wasn't supposed to play with it; it would have been mounted where I couldn't reach it! Lol!

 

[danblas]

If you are waiting on a mod anyway I would say to take the cap off put it in a cool, dark place and let it sit. Put the cap on and shake it up twice a day, the longer is sits (steeps) the more flavorful the juice will be

 

[cdcee]

Interesting suggestion. Anyone else try this method?

Whats the longest you guys would keep a liquid before deeming its no good to vape?

 

[AmandaD]

I wouldn't take the cap off for more than a few hours to prevent degradation of the nicotine! It'll probably be ready by the time your mod arrives

To answer the above question, it depends on the juice. The only way to be sure is to vape it! Some flavor go flat after a while, others have a longer shelf life.

 

[Timmerz]

taking the cap off really only helps evaporate alcohol if the flavor was extracted using alcohol. ive never seen any value derived from letting eliquid "breath" that didnt have alcohol extracted flavorings. Some juices need a week to 10 days to steep, some need 90 days to reach prime flavor. Some manufacturers pre-steep, some make to order...

 

[CrazyChef]

I would say to take the cap off put it in a cool, dark place and let it sit.

Who told you to do this? The cool, dark is fine, but why in the world would you take the cap off?

 

[cdcee]

So for the 4 bottles I have, all I did was squeeze some air out, shook it, squeeze more air out, shook it once more, capped it, and stored it in a drawer until I get my mod next week. Hope that does something positive. Lol.

 

[Barbara E.]

Who told you to do this? The cool, dark is fine, but why in the world would you take the cap off?

Some flavorings used in eliquids contain alcohol (most don't). By leaving the cap off for awhile (24hrs?) and squeezing the bottles occasionally, it allows the alcohol evaporate off. (At least how that's it was explained to me.)

 

[CrazyChef]

Yes, but they're so few and far between that leaving a new juice uncapped would be far from standard. Only on certain rare occasions would you need (?) to do this. To offer it up as standard procedure to someone new to this is just idiotic. That's why I asked where he got his information from.

 

[danblas]

Yes, but they're so few and far between that leaving a new juice uncapped would be far from standard. Only on certain rare occasions would you need (?) to do this. To offer it up as standard procedure to someone new to this is just idiotic. That's why I asked where he got his information from.

Sorry for being "idiotic" new to DIY ejuice and I got it from this website http://www.zodist.com/how-to-properly-steep-your-eliquids/

 

[freemind]

Sorry for being "idiotic" new to DIY ejuice and I got it from this website http://www.zodist.com/how-to-properly-steep-your-eliquids/

Meh...
Chicks dig scars. Just consider it brotherly love around here.

Anyhow, taking the cap off is only beneficial for flavorings that are alcohol based. You'll notice in the article that oxygen oxidizes the nicotine. Hence, leaving a bottle open will make your nic "peppery", so any extra air should be avoided unless you love peppery nic.

P.S. I abhor the term "steeping" with e-liquids. It's not steep, it's age. You steep a tea bag in hot water, or steep tobacco in PG for nets. You are not taking something from one thing and adding it to the e-juice. You are allowing the mix to blend and refine itself, like whiskey in a keg. You age whiskey or cheese, to bring out flavors, like you are doing with e-juice.

 

[Barbara E.]

Sorry for being "idiotic" new to DIY ejuice and I got it from this website http://www.zodist.com/how-to-properly-steep-your-eliquids/

No need to feel idiotic. When you buy liquids, there's really no way for you to know if it has alcohol in it or not. Just for the heck of it, I went through most of my TFA/Capella flavorings and these had alcohol in them - lemon, butterscotch, peach, cranberry, tangerine, apple pie, white chocolate, ripe banana, blackberry.

I DIY but I leave the caps off for a day or so as a matter of course. (I cover them with a tissue during that period.)