Accurate Flavour Weight Measurements

[Mr Ripple]

Mine has a slightly dryish and slightly chemical after taste.

So can anyone work out how the thread went from this^^^^^

My theory would be that the heat from the coil increased the speed of chemical reactions in the liquid (steeping) rather than evaporating volatile chemicals from the concentrates.

To this^^^^^^^

 

[Rickster]

Mushrooms

 

[zouzounaki]

So can anyone work out how the thread went from this^^^^^




To this^^^^^^^

Can you not keep me on ignore please? It’s bad form otherwise.

 

[zouzounaki]

Mushrooms

From leaving the top off?

 

[memzey]

Sorry folks - posted this in the wrong thread. Moved it here to prevent confusion: https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/...reads/how-to-reduce-steep-time.191155/page-11

 

["Misfit"]

Ok then apes, I have some results to report. As a reminder, here’s what I did:
On the 3rd of Feb I mixed up enough flavours and 72mg nic for 50ml each of v5 and custard donut (two bottles, two sets of concs and nic, no vg/pg). I left them to do their thing until Monday the 10th but did change the air in the bottles at least once a day. On the 10th I mixed in the vg and pg and gave them both a vigorous shake to mix the potion up and tried them the next day. Both were delicious but I thought they’d benefit from a few more days to settle down. I can’t exactly pin down why I thought that they needed that, apart from the feeling that the actual custard notes themselves were a bit muted. I tried them again on Friday and have finished the 50mls of donut since then. A properly delicious liquid. I’m no longer thinking about buying a short fill because my mixes are cack. Result.

But I felt like this wasn’t quite clear enough though on whether this technique was really working or not and to what extent it is different to “normal”, all-in steeping.

Slight interlude if you don’t mind; there are two methods/techniques/actions being discussed here - the mix steeping without the pg/vg base and the removal and replacement of air in the bottles. These descriptions are a bit wordy so I’m naming the techniques “pre-steeping” and “venting” respectively. Nobody else has to use these terms but if you read some none sense from me with those words in then that’s what I mean.

Anyway in order to get a better understanding of what does and does not work I’ve mixed up another two bottles of each (100mls each this time as I know I like the mixes). One of each steeping, one of each pre-steeping. Both being vented on a daily basis at least. I mixed them on the 12th. Here’s what they look like now:

I plan to try both on Saturday so a week and a half after first mix. I’ll post back as I get my results if others are interested.

Those bottles look about a foot tall.

 

[MarylinC37]

One thing I did notice today is that the slight chemical taste I noticed before I think is coming from the bases rather than the flavours. I've got two brands of PG and VG base but I don't want to slag off a particular brand until I've done more figuring out because I'm not certain of anything at this point.

To use Memzey's term, I think it's venting which is what will hopefully be the way to deal with it. I've been venting first every day before shaking the bottle I made on Monday so hopefully, by the time I'm ready to vape it in about a weeks time, it'll be fine and give me a gorgeous vape.

 

[Richard Winter]

Ok then apes, I have some results to report. As a reminder, here’s what I did:
On the 3rd of Feb I mixed up enough flavours and 72mg nic for 50ml each of v5 and custard donut (two bottles, two sets of concs and nic, no vg/pg). I left them to do their thing until Monday the 10th but did change the air in the bottles at least once a day. On the 10th I mixed in the vg and pg and gave them both a vigorous shake to mix the potion up and tried them the next day. Both were delicious but I thought they’d benefit from a few more days to settle down. I can’t exactly pin down why I thought that they needed that, apart from the feeling that the actual custard notes themselves were a bit muted. I tried them again on Friday and have finished the 50mls of donut since then. A properly delicious liquid. I’m no longer thinking about buying a short fill because my mixes are cack. Result.

But I felt like this wasn’t quite clear enough though on whether this technique was really working or not and to what extent it is different to “normal”, all-in steeping.

Slight interlude if you don’t mind; there are two methods/techniques/actions being discussed here - the mix steeping without the pg/vg base and the removal and replacement of air in the bottles. These descriptions are a bit wordy so I’m naming the techniques “pre-steeping” and “venting” respectively. Nobody else has to use these terms but if you read some none sense from me with those words in then that’s what I mean.

Anyway in order to get a better understanding of what does and does not work I’ve mixed up another two bottles of each (100mls each this time as I know I like the mixes). One of each steeping, one of each pre-steeping. Both being vented on a daily basis at least. I mixed them on the 12th. Here’s what they look like now:

I plan to try both on Saturday so a week and a half after first mix. I’ll post back as I get my results if others are interested.

Good one Memzey, looking forward to hearing the result.

 

[zouzounaki]

@MarylinC37 have you tried puffing a wee bit of the pg and vg by themselves to verify if that’s where the chemical taste is coming from? I would bin it if that’s the case, it’s not worth using it if it’s tainted with some sort of impurity.

 

[memzey]

Those bottles look about a foot tall.

Lol! No they are these ones:
https://www.ibottles.co.uk/products...ottle-tamper-evident-child-resistant-cap.html

I realised I posted my findings in the wrong thread so copied them over to the correct one (how to reduce steep time). Sorry for the derailment Marylin!