Blending your juice can be easy, cheap, and extremely effective with one simple tool...

submitted over 9 years ago by Daddydante88

Hello DIY, I would like to bring to your attention the badger model paint mixer. For a mere $10 online , you can have perfectly Blended juice. http://imgur.com/U22E1gA

Edit: just a note, the mixing tip is small enough to fit into 30 mil glass bottles.

Comments

7 points

by PM_Me_Your_Clonesover 9 years ago

Have you tested how the aeration might affect volatiles? Like, make two batches, control and test, control just gets a shake and then shelf, test gets Badgered the fuck out of then shelf, wait two weeks and see how they both age?

3 points

by iLLNiSSover 9 years ago

Pretty sure the people who have done all this use stir plates. I've been under the impression introducing oxygen into your juice more than necessary is bad (shaking, aggressively stiring with crap like dremels and cheap spinning tools DIY'ers find at Walmart).

4 points

by PM_Me_Your_Clonesover 9 years ago

This is also my impression, why I asked. I shake the everloving life out of my mixes, shake them like a fifties housewife, like a noisy baby, but I don't aerate and I don't "breathe", caps stay on.

1 points

by Daddydante88over 9 years ago

Now im confused. Everything i have read states the contrary. Here is where i got the information from. http://forum.e-liquid-recipes.com/t/hidden-science-behind-normal-and-accelerated-e-liquid-steeping/21024

14 points

by Paleone123over 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

That post is bullshit conjecture. The author is making assumptions that are incorrect and running with them. This spread of misinformation is really starting to get irritating.

Aeration of your liquid will indeed cause you to lose volatiles. However, every bit of your flavor is made up of volatiles, so that's not really a good thing. The heavier (by actual molecular weight) volatiles that make up the denser, "darker", "heavier" flavors will mostly remain, but your light, "bright" flavors (like fruits) will be seriously diminished. This typically makes for nasty tasting juice. The whole business about the Maillard reaction is also probably BS. That primarily deals with carmelization and similar processes that are extremely complex and probably don't occur in ejuice under normal conditions. I am not a chemist or food scientist tho so if one reads this, please correct me.

TL;DR

Steeping by aeration == nasty juice If you want to steep, mix up a batch, put the cap on the bottle, give it a good shake, put the bottle in a cool dark place, forget about it for (at least) a few days, longer if dealing with creams, custards or tobaccos.

Edit: after some cursory research, I am even more sure the Maillard reaction is not occurring as suggested in the linked article. The Maillard reaction is defined by the involvement of amino acids, which should not be present in most commercial ejuice flavoring

3 points

by ruok5over 9 years ago

That's certainly an...interesting...take on steeping. :/

I've only been mixing for about 11 months, and by no means an expert, but this Maillard business, I'm not so sure about. Pretty much everything in that post is contrary to my understanding.

1 points

by tardoutover 9 years ago

It's like all these people taping their bottles to a drill to "mix". Congratulations, you just made a centrifuge which will act to SEPARATE your solution.

6 points

by probywan1337over 9 years agoI will rip you a new one if you don't use the sidebar & search.

Or you could just shake it... for free. :P

2 points

by BendroRodrigoover 9 years ago

Shake it all the time!

3 points

by senrakuover 9 years ago

I use a bent up zip tie in my drill

1 points

by Lauralanaover 9 years ago

I do a similar thing. I put a piece of 26g kanthal with a loop on the end into the chuck of my dremel.

2 points

by SolanaceaeEnthusiastover 9 years ago

thoughts /u/abdada?

1 points

by Codmireover 9 years ago

Okay, so I've read the replies and the links provided in them. That being said, I'm still a little unsure of what the conclusion might be. Is using this Badger paint mixer a good idea, or not? I have one in my eBay shopping cart and would like to know if it's worth the bread.