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Juice caramelizing too fast?

I'm mixing my own juice and started about a week ago with the nude nicotine 100USD kit, great value for what it is. My problem is that my juice seems to caramelize within 1 day or 5ml of juice used. my mix right now is a 70/30 mix. The juice is nice and clear but after a day of heavy vaping my cotton is dark brown and starts to taste funny.

Exact mix

6.80~ ml VG

.8 ml PG

.3ml 100mg/ml base nicotine

.5ml flavoring (Happens with both Butterscotch TFL, and Natual Strawberry TFL)

.5ml sweetener (10% sucralose 1m PG )

Edit: I realise it's not quite 10ml like I normally mix but I top it off with VG if there's any room (I'm not too careful with my PG / VG mixing only the nicotine)

Posted Apr 12, 2015, 11:29 PM UTC · edited

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SlimeQSlimeball•

I have the same problem with vape wild's mojito. Turns dark brown halfway through the day. I actually had to rewick it mid day.

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aaa___OP•

Yeah, idk wtf is up, no other juice does this to me and I'm upset I used some of my japanese cotton on it when I'm running so low (new order on its way!) .

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SlimeQSlimeball•

I'm using Rayon and the last time it happened I just rinsed it and let it dry overnight since it was too late for me to be bothered. I thought I had the heat up too high or I wicked it badly but there were no scorch marks on the wick so it's something in the juice. Other juice from them doesn't do it so I guess it's something specific to that particular mix. Probably the sweetener if I had to guess.

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smoakleyyyMixologist•

Could be the sucralose perhaps?

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aaa___OP•

That's what I thought too but I've had the issue with Ethyl Maltol too I'm pretty sure (Haven't used ethyl in a few days).

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SerpentDrago•

Its the sucralose , don't use sweeteners in juice unless you like it to gum up your coil !

Ethyl Maltol also does this

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aaa___OP•

Is there a noticeable difference without the sweeteners?

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LurkTr0n•

Try it without it, it's all preference.

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SirTimmyTimbit•

You're using about 5% sucralose in your mix. That's a little too high in my experience.

Try replacing that in the butterscotch mix with 3% TFA Marshmallow. It should bring out the sweetness in Butterscotch without caramelizing the juice.

If that's still not sweet enough try adding 1-2% sucralose along with the marshmallow.

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