Steeping the holy grail

[Mr Ripple]

I've often wondered about the dark place or Cupboard advise but never bothered to question it.
Who am i I'm no expert but I've never really considered it the right or wrong method.
I have though often left my juice newly mixed in the light often on the window sill in the back bedroom where it gets the sun late afternoon.
In my experience high temperatures ruin juice but I've been convinced that sun light gets the juices flowing.
Anyway this got me thinking so here goes.......

Me
I've cracked speed steeping.
Forum.
Yea yeah we've heard this before many many times.
Me.
No seriously I've cracked speed steeping.
Forum.
Looney toons here check this muppet out spouting bollox again.
Me.
Honestly i kid you not I've cracked it. Six weeks steep in 2.5hrs i tells ya.
Forum.
Prove it!
Me.
Okay!

I mixed a 100ml bottle of latest version of Tinned Custard in a brand new 100ml bottle.
Made sure it was 100% mixed then seperated it into two identical brand new 50ml bottles.
The bottle on the left i left on the same shelf in the conservatory as in the pictures.
The bottle on the right i placed in a drawer at 09:30hrs this morning with a UV torch shining directly at it and shut the drawer.
At 12:00hrs i took it out to check it and placed it on the shelf next to the other one and took the picture below.
I've been vaping the one on the right just to make sure and no shit sherlock it works.

 

[bellyman]

Hummmm

 

[SirLugg]

Sorry Ripple laaa but I don't agree.
The reason steeping is a drawn out process is because time is the factor. You can't replace time, unless you have a delorean.
In leaving a UV lamp on the juice what you've done is simulated it being left in the sun for a number of hours. Now back to the steeping over time malarkey, have you ever heard people say they leave it in a dark drawer/cupboard?
The reason behind this is that it's common belief that the sun/UV light degrades the juice, particularly the nicotine. You've not steeped it, in simulating it be left in uv light for x amount of hours you've simply degraded it.

I think if speed steeping were genuinely a thing then the plethora of juice manufacturers around who sell pre made juice would've cottoned on by now, but they haven't. They themselves leave it sitting on a shelf/cupboard etc for x amount of time before they sell it to you, which is part of what you're paying for - the rental of that space in their business for that amount of time.

Tl;dr
Bollox. [emoji6]

 

[Tootlevape]

I concur with the above regarding the degradation caused by sunlight which is why I mix in dark brown glass bottles even though I steep in a drawer.

 

[Tazz]

Is that a mix with Nic? If it is you may have just sped up the nic degradation. Title "How to kill nic with a UV light". Nothing steeps like time.
But, we experiment, we try, we test, and in the end, if that suits you and doing that you like above all other methods then I can't argue with that.