Shacking my juices is a recurring painful process for me due to some physical issues I have atm. I've posted before that I have experimented with an abandoned Power Plate in my GF her gym (after closing time), but that didn't really turn out to be very practical.
Either way last week my sis was on a vacation and thus I had to do the laundry for mom (who is in a nursing home), and used my sis her washing machine for this (a practical thing, easier than mine). Anyways while I was watching my mom her underwear getting wet and going around in circles I somewhat got in a trance, and I all of a sudden I got this brilliant idea: this is like the ideal 2-in-1 DIY machine, 2,5 hours on 60 degrees while constantly shacking. Went home and picked up a 5ml plastic bottle of juice I made the night before and put it inside 2 sealed plastic bags, then wrapped it inside a few old sheets and gave it a 2 hour try. I was really impressed with the outcome.
Now I'm considering testing it with a 100 ml bottle. Unfortunately I'll have to use my own washing machine to test it, so I'm a bit less keen. So maybe someone has tried this already and can share his / her feedback. Or maybe someone isn't as big of an idiot like me and could inform me of what can potentially go wrong? And is the steeping something I just imagine (and the taste is only improved due to the shacking), or is there indeed some potential in there?
>While I was watching my mom her underwear getting wet
What is happening????????
since she has late state Alzheimer's I figured she would never read this so I could be a bit colorful (though I'd give all my money and Strawberry Ripe in the world for her to be able to read this again one day)
Congrats on being the first time a comment in this sub made me actually LOL. I lost it with the strawberry ripe.
On a side note, your comment gave me a good reason to try it beings it's been in my arsenal since Saturday. When I started, I ordered a 120mL of CAP Sweet Strawberry so I haven't ventured out to any other strawberry flavors until last week's order.
I'm sorry, but this thread is making me laugh like crazy because of "shacking". It should be shaking.
I didn't notice that at all. Found the meaning of to shack on the urban dictionary and have to admit it's quite the typo
if you are going to mention it, consider first fixing it and then putting the link to the UD entry in here so the lazy among us can laugh too :-)
Man when I first read /u/aphelax his comment I figured it was just a typo in the title, not much I can do, right? But when re-reading my OP a couple of hours later it turns out I write it like this all the time. And somehow I must have been writing it like this since like forever, and my spellchecker doesn't seem to give a shit. So yeah, why bother correcting it if I both can't edit the title and when there are some jokes about it already in this thread. Might as well leave it like this to be shamed forever.
Don't. Heat ruins a juice's shelf-life, and doesn't produce a vapeable product any quicker.
Please consult this thread for in-depth reasoning as to why heat and other "speed-steeping" is bad mmkay.
Over on ELR I see SO many recipe posts recommending juice be heated, sometimes for hours, leaving uncapped for days, etc etc just to speed up the aging process. It drives me fuckin crazy! I was leaving comments about it but realized the majority of those newb mixers are too stubborn, just plain ignorant, or too lazy to take advice. `Course these are the same people that add 10% sweetener to a recipe and call it a success. <sigh>
My New Recipe
Guyz, I sell this at my local vape stores all the time. I'm a real mixer, I swear! This is my tip-top premium juice and I'm giving it away for free.
- TFA Honey @ 8.5217643%
- TFA Honeysuckle @ 1.4782357%
- 24k Gold @ .001g/ ml
- CAP Super Sweet @ 10%
- Total flavoring: 20%
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Someone on ecr did a huge write up about testing with a washing machine. I think the conclusion was that it's not worth while. The bottles leaked a lot and heat is known to hurt mixes in the long run. I think some people have had success attaching bottles to power tools and shaking that way. Do a search and you should find a few posts about it
> attaching bottles to power tools
I've toyed with the idea of dragging out my sawzall (reciprocating saw) and making a bottle attachment.
How about a magnetic stir plate? I use one myself, works well.
Also, you may want to check these out:
I shake mixes for like 10 seconds, tops. Then I let it sit for a few days before trying. This is more than enough to let everything come together. Obviously more time may be required for heavy flavors like custards to come out, but a day or 2 seems to be plenty to get everything homogenized.
The only things that really require shaking are nic base and flavors right before you use them, everything else, time takes care of it.
Manually shaking is a PIA so I've begun placing my juices on the seat of my Harley for about 2 minutes. The vibration works great.
MY GOD, WORDING!
Seriously, consider reading and revising man, that all sounds like a really good idea but I just can't get past the fact that it sounds like it was translated into and then back out of some sort of lemur language by asylum inmates.
Well I do my best to spell properly, but since English is only the 3rd language I learned I admit that it's far from how a native speaker would write. And somehow I have been spelling shaking as shacking since like forever, without any spellchecker giving a shit.
Good job anyway you got your point across better than many native English speakers. You know at least three languages and the guy complaining probably only knows one!
I need to revise my original statement:
Good job considering English is your 3rd language, but make sure to use a good spellchecker and read for grammar after typing it out so that way you don't have to slow down the laying down of your ideas. After that, reread one more time for context, meaning and clarity.