I recently saw a video showing the inner workings of a big time juice vendor. They use commercial blenders to mix/aerate large batches of juice. I decided to give this a shot with a baby bullet I never ended up using. Definitely aerates the juice. It's been 6 hours and is just now starting to look more like juice and less like mayo. Smells much stronger than my previous methods.
> It's been 6 hours and is just now starting to look more like juice and less like mayo
Hahaha!!
How's it vape?
Damn good. Got impatient and gave it a hot bath. Cleared the bubbles up in like 20 min. Tastes like it's steeped for about a week. This is my go to adv so I've made it about 20 times so far. Only downside is the 100ml minimum for the blender to do its thing.
Did you find you lost any flavour? Every time I've used a blender the flavour has just been a little more flat than if I hadn't blended.
I quick steep and cut tons of time off my juice by using a crock pot and a milk frother, heat it to 120 use a thermometer, froth it up a few times while warm with a few minutes in between each, last time take it out and let it cool repeat if necessary and sit for a day and you'll be just about as good as its gonna get imo but that's just me.
Ah, the Good Life Vapor video pbusardo did!
Yes, I do it and it works well. Jeremy suggested you could "watch" it steep but that's a bit of an exaggeration; it just aerates the hell out of it and as the bubbles rise and pop the color of the juice becomes apparent as a gradient from bottom to top. Only practical for larger batches though. However, if you're making a 120mL a consumer grade kitchen blender would work just fine...I just wouldn't bother for 30mL bottles, etc.
I use a milk frother, but I suppose bigger batches would do better in a blender. No matter how much I make I always just do 60 ml at a time in a small tall form cylinder and use the milk frother. I just enjoy mixing so if I do 60ml at a time I can do it more :)
Not a bad idea. Assuming you mean like the small handheld ones. Does that aerate the juice pretty well?
Yup, got mine off amazon, I think from IKEA. Like 10 bucks, it takes a sec to get that froth when I mix it before giving it a heat bath. Damn VG! but after the heat bath, ohhhhh boy, it mixes her up real good! And in my small batches it starts to whirlpool and looks really cool :)
This feels like a fitting forum for a question I've had for a while. In some DIY I saw (l think it might have been new Amsterdam) he warned about "over airating" the juice. l never heard of it before, is this something you have experienced?
I used a magic bullet once making a Pint for a friend. Had to sterilize everything and make sure I could transfer to a bottle efficiently. I'll probably never do that again since the acquisition of a hot plate with stirrer. But it was fine for that one use. If your serious about Mixing, I would invest in a hot plate/ stirrer. It homogenizes perfectly, easy to sterilize. Also I always use it to mix everything minus nicotine, once I hit my set time, I then add the nic, froth it with a frother, and spin it with heat for about 10 min, then turn the heat off and spin it for a few hours.
Hyperdecanting works well for wine and I imagine it would work well for e-liquid also. I say keep testing and keeping notes of your results.
I keep all my recipes/notes on an app I dl. Been very helpful. Finally got this recipe where I'm happy. Just trying to find a quicker way to steep as it takes about a week for the flavors to blend.
i use a blender when mixing a large batch of a few hundred ml's and it works great, havent noticed any muting of flavor but that may be because its a larger batch than what you mentioned.