Storage
The best way to keep poppers fresh is to store poppers at a dark and cool place with constant temperature. Just keep poppers in the basement of your house.
Poppers love it cool and dark. And very important: Poppers don’t like extreme temperature fluctuations at all. The poppers substances start to disintegrate with too many extreme temperature fluctuations. And since poppers only work at room temperature, the freezer is definitely the wrong place to store poppers. See also our blog post: “ The myth of poppers in the fridge ”.
If a poppers bottle has gone through too many temperature fluctuations (e.g. x times in the freezer compartment and out of the freezer compartment), then the nitrite breaks down into various decomposition products. The result is a brown, smelly and sticky broth. Then at the latest it is time to dispose of the poppers bottle and order a new poppers bottle.
Yes. Poppers are flammable liquids. Particular caution is required when smoking or handling a lighter.
Yes. This is actually very useful. The basement is cool and dark and the temperature is constant. This is exactly what the poppers like very much.
Anyone who has ever forgotten a poppers in the glove compartment of the car and parked the car in the sun knows very well how quickly poppers react to extreme temperature fluctuations. The poppers decompose very quickly because of the warmth of the sunlight and the poppers turn into a brown, smelly and sticky broth. So keep poppers out of the sun.