This is my first go at DIY and i just placed orders for everything i am going to need. The only thing is i am a little confused as to how to mix by weight. Can someone please help me out and give me a good rundown with some sort of example? I have already read the God Of Steam post about it, but it still doesnt completely make sense to me. Im getting thrown off by the whole different weights. This will all probably make more sense when i get the everything and have it in front of me.
Also, any recipes you have to suggest please throw them at me!
The flavors i ordered are:
One Stop DIY Shop: Cinnamon Roll
LorrAnn: Banana Cream, Black Walnut, Pistachio, Pineapple,
TFA: Brown Sugar Extra, Graham, Pie Crust, Key Lime, Black Tea, Blueberry (Wild), Creme De Menthe, Dragonfruit, Strawberry, Coconut Extra, Malted Milk, Pineapple,
Capella: Lemon, Coconut, Mango, Peach, Fudge v2,
FlavourArt: Meringue, Vienna Cream, Black Cherry, Apple
FlavorWest: Blueberry, Salted Caramel,
Look for /u/Sandman0 's guide to mixing by weight. It is how I learned, and that means it's very simple.
https://godofsteam.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/getting-started-diy-102-mixing-by-weight/
Yea, i read that before i made my order. So every time i make an bottle of juice, i need to weigh out my ingredients?
im just a little confused by the conversion from percentages to weight, since the weights will all be different.
The calculator linked in that guide will convert all of that stuff for you, it just takes a little bit of fiddling about to get the correct values for vg and your nic.
I've used the weights I've seen around here for VG (1.26 grams per ml) and left the default value of 1 gram per ml for PG/flavorings.
I wish I could remember where in the settings all those check boxes and shit are, but as I'm not in front of my PC I can't look at my copy of the calculator.
When mixing by weight, you have a primary choice to make: weigh every flavoring so you can assign exact weight values, or just pick a weight and use it for every flavor (most go with 1g/ml).
As long as you use correct weights for your PG, VG, and Nic it won't really matter which you choose.
Just as percentages are different for each flavor, the weight will also be different.
The key to mixing by weight is consistency. Because we have a specific desired NIC content and PG/VG ratio, we must use correct weights for those ingredients.
Flavors in the other hand, don't really matter, except the ratio of one flavor to the next, hence the true weight value doesn't matter, as long as you always use the same value for the same flavoring.
Hopefully that answers your questions?
I understand how to mix by weight, had plenty of chem experience, easy for me to do conversions. But lets say im always mixing/creating recipes from %s (how i currently mix) how can i just say the flavors are 1g/ml? Is the difference just negligible between flavors? I mix a 10ml, 14% flavor total, thats 1.4ml flavor total which = 1.4g. But is this truly 14% of the total volume if you assume the density? What if the density is more like .2g/ml? Itd be way off from the actual recipe, potentially changing the flavor. Am i just missing a fact that most are roughly near 1g or something?
I see that I missed one of your questions in my response.
Every time you mix you will weigh out the required amount of each ingredient, but you're not deriving the weight of each flavor each time, you're simply adding the required quantity of each ingredient.
For instance if Ingredient A calls for 3.21g, you just add 3.21g of Ingredient A to your mix.
You don't need to know that 1ml of Ingredient A weighs 0.992g/ml, because you aren't measuring in ml at this time. If your recipe called for 1.4ml of Ingredient A, you'd have to convert that to weight before you could continue mixing by weight.
Make sense?