I couldn't find anything posted about this. I've recently made about 120 ml of absolute piss. I've since dumped all of my failed attempts down the drain and have some real flavors coming from TFA. My question is what do you all do with the used bottles? What solution would you recommend to clean them out with?
I use hot as fuck tap water and a lot of rinse and repeat.... Don't want to use soap because residue. I'd imagine ethanol would work well and rinse thoroughly.... Try vodka for any persistent smells.
Came here to add vodka! Definitely works!
No way I'd waste vodka for that. You are all mental.
I've always been under the impression that tap water for cleaning vape gear or bottles can leave bad stuff in there.
I use once boiled water, hot or room temp (but previously boiled if room temp), or distilled water. I use pretty much nothing but glass, so I don't really have to fight with them all that much. A good shake, squirt squirt, shake, squirt squirt, shake squirt squirt usually does the trick. Empty and repeat if necessary. Any scent that is left in there after that gets covered up by what goes into them next.
I reuse them. I don't know if there is a better way, but I just run some soapy water in them, shake, then rinse. Sometimes if you are using a strong flavor, the scent can carry over a bit.
Glass or plastic?
I got so sick of the time it takes to clean even a dozen glass bottles. So, I just buy LDPE bottles in various sizes and dispose of them after use. They are cheap enough when you buy 50-100+ at a time.
If it's a blend I enjoy, I will reuse the bottle for the same mix.
Clean and reuse them. If you're like me, you've accumulated drawers full of varying bottle sizes. Though if I was selling juice, I would most definitely do the right thing and purchase new bottles, but for my own personal use, I reuse them all the time.
I half fill the bottles with HOT water, shake thoroughly, and rinse with distilled water. Doing that process a few times gets them clean. For glass, you can lightly boil them on the stove, and again rinse with distilled water to finish up. I know some folk use the Star San product, but I've never bothered with it.
Use rubbing alcohol or some kind of solvent to get the sticky stuff off that the labels leave behind. Hydrogen peroxide will work too. Just be careful with plastic bottles as some solvents can eat the plastic. I never use anything like naptha, but that's just me...
boil, rinse with distilled, air dry, reuse. Only time I toss a bottle is if it's damaged or the dropper is stained with a flavor.
Imwith Wayne on this one. I wait till had about 15-20 bottles (A lot usually donated by friends). I start with removing lables, and then quick rinse of both dropper and bottle. Then I put them all in a pot of boiling water for about 8-10 minutes, then air air dry.
The only issue I have had is sometimes the adhesive from some bottles labels are absolutely awful to get rid of.
I reuse but have been afraid to hit my bottles with tap water. The main feed to my house from the street is galvanized pipe. I'm patient with tipping the bottle so that all but 2 or 3 drops comes out. Sometimes I'll add pg and shake but only if the old juice was especially pungent.
Buy a gallon of distilled water for like 89¢
True. That's a lot cheaper than PG. I don't really like the idea of water of any kind in my juice but I could fashion a little bottle drying rack. I need to, it's a little ridiculous around here. I probably have 30 or 40 half empty bottles that are around a year old.
I have a 120ml glass dropper that I refill with my adv. Works wonders. Been doing it for about 3 months now. The only trouble is my own impatience waiting for it to steep.
Been lurking for a while, figured I'd chime in on this one. Just for me, I will rinse the glass bottles out a few times with hot water. Pull the droppers out of the caps and put in a bowl full of hot water and some distilled white vinegar. I leave them sit over night. After a few hot rinses, all the smells from the previous juice are gone. I dry them on a Boon Grass Countertop Drying Rack (baby bottle drying rack)
Works like a champ. No issues with flavors remaining in the bottles at all. The vinegar also helps most labels come off easier.
I mix in glass bottles that I rinse out with hot water and put in my dishwasher before reuse
Thorough rinse, then a 5 minute boil, air dry. Usually gets rid of all but the toughest of flavours. I also do this with fresh bottles from Fasttech, just in case.
I'll also take a lazy route if I am mixing the same or similar palette, and just rinse them.
If I am selling, new bottles 100% of the time though.
I rinse them then let them sit in a diluted vinegar solution for 10 minute two a few hours. Then I rinse them again and blow them dry with an air compressor. The Vinegar really gets all the previous smell/taste out well and doesn't leave any of it's own. I don't use much, just a couple glunks for the jug in a plastic container full of bottles. I'm guessing here, but maybe 1/3 cup per quart of water.