Hey,
@jinx'd ! I am glad you tried it! 9 out of 10 dentists recommend it to!
I can say with confidence GOC is one of the most tried recipes in DIY history. Does that make it good? na not really but luckily it is the bomb
my point is I have heard thousands of comments and reviews on GOC and what I can say is you have to let the GOC talk to you and tell you when its ready
like Hucks said I prefer it shake and vape I like that fresh bite but it does blend out very nicely over time. Thats just a personal preference thing not eveyone likes that fresh custard bite. GOC was a labor of love and literally took years of developing my skills as a mixer and personal quest of an all-day vape so for me its good start to finish day 1 to day 100 because I made it with my taste in mind and it just happens to be something fans of custard vapes love as well. So long story short there is no right steep time.
On the topic of steeping, I'll throw my 2 cents in because I love making steepers cringe and one of my favorite debatable DIY Ejuice topics
There is no such thing as stepping ejuice there just isn't. We can let it age or oxidize but we don't steep anything. I make my own beer also and when I make 5 gallons I start by taking 10 lbs give or take of grains and put it in a bag and steep it in hot water and pull the bag out and I am left with my wort just like tea or anything else that steeps you put solids in to soak and pull them out and you are left with the liquid.
Flavors do not get better or change just because they sit in a bottle or every flavor you have bought would have changed in the past 3 months and fresh flavor from the factory would taste nothing like it did on manufacturing day by the time you even bought it and that turn around time might be a month or so tops. Point is why would it magically change because it touches VG? and as a matter of fact, the longer juice sits untouched the more it will separate that why vapers sit around shaking their juice all day while they talk about how well steeped it is lol. My goal has always been to make something that tastes great any day of the week, either its good or not and if it's not then its back to the drawing board.
The other funny thing about "steeping" juice is all the trouble people go through to preserve their juice but the nicotine is just sitting there oxidizing away and I am pretty sure that is the taste or change that people are waiting on when their juice is steeping because that is literally the only thing that will change in taste under normal conditions of all the DIY ingredients one would use. An easy head to head test anyone could do is make some zero mg juice and some 6 mg juice and tell me if they taste identical and then taste those same 2 juices in 3 weeks and find out which one has changed in flavor. Lastly, why does juice need to steep to taste good anyway? Where did that idea even come from?
I make it by the gallon so I can enjoy all the stages of GOC from fresh to 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks haha and then repeat