Hidden science behind normal and accelerated e-Liquid steeping

Iā€™ve tried enough of my juices after mixing and waiting 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks etc that I know they are the best for my taste after about a month. I do just a thorough shake, then store the bottle in a cool dark place upright for a month. I did not care for the results i obtained on all my juices with a frother, so I quit using it. I vape sweet fruits and wish I liked creams haha, but i donā€™t really. Iā€™ve just learned to do it the way I do it, Iā€™m not going to quit even if it drives you nuts :slight_smile:

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Love it!:grin: You put the time in, you found what worked for you, and you are now able to apply it for repeatable satisfying results for you! I have no problem with that what so ever and wouldnā€™t dream of trying to change your mind.:+1:

You also demonstrate nicely that one method can work well for one person while not working for another (my wimpy paint stirrer works for me; you didnā€™t care for your results with a frother and rightly moved on to something else). I do not fathom how 4 weeks can benefit a fruit mix (and yes I have tried); while that is precisely the sweet spot for you (and I respect your results 100%). I firmly believe that DIY has room for any and everyone who wants to invest the time to find there own ā€œsweet spot.ā€

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Thatā€™s what Iā€™m aiming for have the knowledge of my established mixes. That I know exactly when itā€™s ready to be picked from the tree.

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wellā€¦ iā€™m making fruit juices only with 3 mg nicotineā€¦ as long as i know itā€™s shake and vape juicesā€¦ but i always feel a strong hit in my liquids while i vape 9 mg liquid from the shop without any problemā€¦ what am i doing wrong ?

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most probably the PG/VG ratio, try 50/50 as that is the ratio most vape shops use.

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The vape shop most likely has been steeped/aged

Give your mix a week. If itā€™s still sharp add 0.5% marshmallow FA. Or 0.25% fresh cream FA. Or other cream on a low percent.

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Great post. Thanks :+1:

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Currently unavailable, but keep your eye on it, they may just get one in.
https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor

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AWESOME!!! to bad its not for sale

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So if you jumped 2 mo. into the future to grab some juice then crossed back to the present would your juice get younger or would it be steeped? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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Damn well better be steeped!

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I think the question is whether having the same juice from two different times in the same place would cause a quantum event.

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Iā€™m secretly working on my ELRhaydron E-Juice Collider as we speak
ā€¦Muhaha Muuuhahahha

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In industrial mixing and steeping operations (yes there is Industrial Steepingā€¦ this is how cosmetic and pharmaceutical cream and hundreds of other products are made. )

There is no ā€œsecret scienceā€ā€¦ Industrial scale mixing operation have been explored in detail.

Here is a link to a company that knows all about it. This link is a vast resource that will help the vaper and DIY mixologist explore the ā€œscientificā€ process of micro-mixing and blending of flavor molecules at the micron level.

http://www.silverson.com/us/process/

Click around at this site, it is very extensive and you can get lost for hours exploring the subject.

ā€œsteepingā€ is just dispersing the flavor components at the micron level in a uniform manner thoughout the liquid carrierā€¦

if you need to blend liquids of differing viscosities, emulsify, homogenize, disintegrate, solubilize, disperse powders, reduce particle size or accelerate reactions, ā€¦ a High Shear mixer can do this and more, cutting your mixing time by up to 90 percent.

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@50YearsOfCigars awesome! your rite I totally got lost. I want.

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@UncleJoe
Iā€™m assuming you mean water is a catalyst and anticatylist? Just asking. Steeping is a chemical reaction correct? Or is it homogenization? I think the system you are speaking of is a buffer system when using just a little water? Itā€™s been a long time since chem 1 for me but H20 can be an acid (H+) and a base (OH-) at the same time in the same solution.

I know that distilled water can also be both an acid or base in a solution at the same time. I donā€™t remember if you will see a chemical reaction go to completion using water as a catalyst though. I know water is used as a catalyst though in many equations.A low amount of water wouldnā€™t act as a buffer system if a bond between the 2 catalyzed chems released oxygen or hydrogen as a byproduct.

I also remember when I was 16 working on pools youā€™d play hell keeping the pH balanced if you didnā€™t dump a ton of potash (alkali) into the water first, then add chlorine (Hypochlorous acid) until the pH balanced itself. At that point, it was a buffer system. Both the acid and the base were in such high concentration in the water that the pool became (becomes) a buffer system as H20 is constantly ionized to offset each chemical.

Ok, Iā€™m super tired so Iā€™m using the text as thought process notes. If Iā€™m wrong about all of this. Iā€™m going to bed now anyway so no need to tell me to just go to bed roflmao.

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I known this thread isnā€™t still ways awayf rom anhabut?

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Whatā€™s an anhabut? :smile:

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ā€œIā€™m going to bed now anyway so no need to tell me to just go to bedā€
Yet here i am more confused than the last

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Gee where have I seen this beforeā€¦oh yeahā€¦same link Iā€™ve posted at least 50 times. (He was likely first)

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