les pickings best custard misteak on my part

[Lee James 27]

but then how come the fruits he mixed at the same time taste okay?

OP uses 10ml Nic shots so there’s every chance that he might have got one or more dodgy ones.

 

[zouzounaki]

OP uses 10ml Nic shots so there’s every chance that he might have got one or more dodgy ones.

what would be the chances of him only putting the dodgy ones in the custard, but none of the fruits?

 

[zouzounaki]

i wonder if the OP’s custard has somehow become contaminated.

 

[Lee James 27]

fill it to the top this time. leaving air for that long in contact with any nicotine would cause oxidation.
best before is for sealed bottle only.

Some experienced mixers that I know don’t recommend this because you can’t shake and mix all of the ingredients properly, you need that little bit of extra room in the bottle to move the components about when shaking. When I have filled my bottles to the very top I have noticed that the juice takes a lot longer to steep due to the lack of oxygen.

Well I’ve ballsed this post up alright and there’s no delete option, sorry guys.

 

[Lee James 27]

but then how come the fruits he mixed at the same time taste okay?

Maybe it’s because he didn’t steep the fruity ones so long and the Nic went off during the long steeping time or the Nic shots were from a different batch like I mentioned earlier. I know that flavours don’t go bad very often as they just fade and lose potency so I think we can rule that out. PG has a much longer shelf life than VG which can go off especially when not kept refrigerated.

 

[Rich92]

i wonder if the OP’s custard has somehow become contaminated.

its definitely not contaminated, eventually i will source nicotine thats 72mg and measure by weight, personally I think everything everyone has put has been right so far but other than me adding an extra 2.5 percent of flavouring my only weak point is the nicotine and i say this only because i have experienced quite a few not so good nicotine shots from various companies over my time vaping and mixing ejuices (both shop and online) also ive had good nicotine shots from these same companies aswell so its hard to pin point or blame and on that basis i have to assume its an error on my part and be more vigilant woth my practices such as flavouring percentage, I will say if they go bad after five months again I will consider new vendors.

I have a bottle of mountain dew ejuice that i mixed in 2022 (same company) and the bottle still hasnt oxidised and the juice is fine maybe just starting to fade flavour wise slightly.

I do fill bottles to the top so theres no air but if there isnt enough to fill a big bottle i decant the juice into the appropiate size bottles within a few hours of mixing.

I am determined to continue my journey in mixology no matter how many times i need to try again.

 

[Rich92]

Maybe it’s because he didn’t steep the fruity ones so long and the Nic went off during the long steeping time or the Nic shots were from a different batch like I mentioned earlier. I know that flavours don’t go bad very often as they just fade and lose potency so I think we can rule that out. PG has a much longer shelf life than VG which can go off especially when not kept refrigerated.

arrr this information is brilliant fortunately my juices are 50/50 pg vg and i mixed them soon as the parcels arrived but i didnt know about the Vg needing to be refrigerated so I have wrote a note with your advice for vg refrigeration luckily its so cheap ive been buying it woth every order using what i need and then buying more when i make more because i was paranoid opening up the bottles amd then leaving them might create a degaradation in flavour.

Again thankyou the vg refrigeration advice is golden.

 

[Rich92]

Well I’ve ballsed this post up alright and there’s no delete option, sorry guys.

yes i fill my bottles up to the top, i ise am electric tiny whisker reccomended to me by a member of the vape community on youtube so hopefully filling to the top still could be ok ?

 

[zouzounaki]

Maybe it’s because he didn’t steep the fruity ones so long and the Nic went off during the long steeping time or the Nic shots were from a different batch like I mentioned earlier. I know that flavours don’t go bad very often as they just fade and lose potency so I think we can rule that out. PG has a much longer shelf life than VG which can go off especially when not kept refrigerated.

ah, k read it as he still has all of it. the fruity ones and the custard. and the fruits are okay, but custard tastes burnt.

 

[Lee James 27]

yes i fill my bottles up to the top, i ise am electric tiny whisker reccomended to me by a member of the vape community on youtube so hopefully filling to the top still could be ok ?

I’m glad that you found the VG refrigeration tip useful mate. Now please don’t go overboard with the electric mixer as too much and you lose those precious flavour molecules and also introduce too much oxygen (think oxidation) I know that some people mix it up until the liquid looks cloudy like milkshake which is too much, just use a few short bursts to get things moving and then get that cap on. Years ago some mixers used to “breathe” their juice by leaving the cap off which stems back to when some flavours were alcohol based but now most aren’t and know that it’s the worst thing to do as it just losses flavour and is also risking the introduction of bacteria, they also used to nuke their freshly mixed juice in the microwave thinking it sped up the steeping process but nothing beats a cool dark place and old Father Time.
I am not an accomplished mixer by any means and I’m only reporting what I have been told by some very knowledgeable and experienced mixers in the community so I hope that I don’t sound condescending in any way, I just want to pass on what I have learned from them over the years and of course it’s all very subjective as they say