You can microwave it too, easiest,fastest method of heating gear there is. Obviously wont mess up your labels either. Works great for warming up an inject as well.
Stick your bottle in the microwave, near the rim of the turntable ( dead center of a microwave oven is a null zone ), start off cautiously, like for a full 10ml try 5 seconds to start. Grab the bottle and squeeze it, you want it to feel like the outside of a cup of hot coffee. If its not there yet, go another 3- 5 seconds or so until you get the temp you want. You can nuke multiple bottles simultaneously too. As the level drops as you use it up, adjust your time accordingly. After a while, you will know how long it will take and wont have to do the short burst and check thing.
For crashed gear, once its hot, just shake the shit out of the bottle, should go right back into solution. Least for a while, sometimes it will stay that way for good, sometimes for a week, sometimes just a few hours, but its no biggie to nuke it for every shot. In fact, if you give this a try, Id almost guarantee youre gonna want to nuke your gear for every shot anyway, makes it way easier to pull, as well as inject, pushing 3 cc thru a 25 g is no fun with cold gear, but nice and smooth when its warmed up.
Yes you can put metal in a microwave, so dont worry about the metal seal on top,its not even gonna be warm when you pull the bottle out. NOTE ! metal in a microwave is only safe depending on its SHAPE, smooth, rounded shapes wont arc, which is whats dangerous. You stick a fork in there, or worst of all a rough wadded up ball of aluminum foil, and youre gonna get a fireworks display. I wrote a very detailed, incredibly boring post about this very subject many years ago, but I will refrain from subjecting you guys to a repeat lol.
There is no need to vent the bottle either, Do NOt stick a pin in to vent ! A metal pin is just the kind of shape that can cause problems. If you overdo it and get it too hot, yeah it might shatter the bottle, but you would have to really really screw up, Ive accidentally hit the wrong button and nuked a bottle for over 40 seconds, full power, stuff was BOILING inside, rubber seal was bulging,but that was it. A typical vial can withstand about 150 psi before it blows btw, little trivia for ya.
Ive been nuking my stuff for years guys, Im telling ya, its the way to go.
One last thing, theres always a chance your gear hasnt crashed at all, but water contaminated. If its cloudy, without little crystals, might be just some moisture in there. Doesnt hurt anything, just looks ugly is all. It doesnt take much water either, if the gear was bottled in a high humidity environment, that can do it, even a syringe full of humid air pumped in there can do it, like say a bathroom right after a hot shower.
