Some of my bottles have to be 5 or more years old lol. I know my one remaining Nicotine River flavor is from 2018 and my Ecig Express ones are even older. They still work fine, I haven't noticed a decline in flavor or any changes other than slight oxidization. They're kept in a box in a cool room, so they should be in a good place.
I have since learned that I don't really need 60mls of anything no matter how much I love it....
How long do you keep your flavors, til the last drop or the date?
I have flavorings as old as yours. I put my flavorings in double ziplock bags and store them in Sterilite file folder containers
genuine question: how is a container like that sterile after it’s been opened? doesn’t that defeat the entire purpose?
I have flavorings older than 4 closer to 5 years. I keep mine in a cool dark place also. I haven’t tried all of them lately (440+) but the ones I have are perfectly fine. I heard the fruits start losing potency first but so far mine are fine. Some of the cookie flavors started to darken but so far so good
No old bottles yet, I'm too new to the game.
I don't regret buying my 120ml of lime at all. Down to 50ml and I'll probably need to reorder it.
Any good lemon recommendations? Pink lemonade lemon type?
Lemonade Natural from Flavor West is my jam, 5% mixes with any fruit. 5% each of Lemonade and TPA Sweet Tea is a great Arnold Palmer juice.
Lemon Sicily by Flavor Art is a classic good one. Juicy Lemon by Capella gets a lot of love too.
I have some going on 10 years old. Seem absolutely fine. I’ve also mixed stuff thats over 5 years old, pretty much black as the nic has aged. Vapes ok still, taste is over steeped but wouldn’t say it needs binning at all.
With chefs now gone I’m likely to try and make a lot of it last. Especially the RY whore as it’ll be a sad day when that’s all gone.
My oldest flavors are 7 years old and I haven't had any issues. The colors become odd sometimes, and for others they rarely start to get a bitter taste.
They sit in a drawer-style Tupperware containers. Not completely air tight but it gets the job done.
I recently made it a goal to use them all up and have succeeded quite well. Down to 6 flavors or so! Looking forward to order time. So I'd say I keep them to the last drop unless the taste is off or the color looks like it would ruin my coils after a day.
I need to make that a goal myself. I did order on Black Friday because it's the cheapest time of the year, but I just stocked up on basics I know I use a lot and only got 3 new ones that I've wanted for a couple years. They sent me a 3ml sample of Carrot, that'll be fun!
Tbh when I first started I was too broke to not just use them to the last drop, also learnt earlier on that the only flavour I really liked was menthol. Got a 10ml sample of 28 flavours at the beginning and the rest were just meh for me.
Interested to see if there's an optimal time to steep them for though, is a month ideal or do they get better after longer periods?
Keeping my e-juice in the fridge these days, the bulk stuff anyway. Started putting some of the bases in smaller bottles now so that I'm just opening/lowering the temp of the small ones. VG especially is a pain to draw at fridge temp.. Mostly it's the nic salts I care about though, not sure when things will change and I'll be able to get more.