Yesterday I announced a new functionality, but I realised that the title and text could be better. Therefore this new thread...
So, what can I make, with the exact flavors I have? That has been a problem for all recipe databases that I know of.
As of yesterday, you can now do exactly that on e-liquid-recipes.com
Let me take you through what you need to do, to start trying the new recipes that you can make!
- Sign up if you don't have a user
- Sign in
- Click "My flavor stash"
- To make it easier, open a new tab, go to my page and click "Flavor list"
- Start adding flavors to "My flavor stash" - As you type, existing flavors are shown below. Make sure you choose the right (or best) one. If there are more results, you can check with the other tab, the flavor list, to see which of the flavors has more recipes. For example "Coconut (TPA)" is the correct one, instead of "Coconut flavor (TPA)". Unfortunately there are lots of duplicate flavors, due to the freedom that I give to users on naming their own flavors. This is a problem I will attack another time. The point here is, that you want to choose the flavor with the most recipes!
- When you have finished adding flavorings click "What can I make" and revel in all the deliciousnes!
Now if you're looking for new recipes, and don't mind getting recipes with flavorings that you don't have, you can use the old Search by flavor stash-functionality.
I hope you find this useful!
Holy wow, I only actually asked you about this a week ago and already you've delivered!
I've been looking for this functionality for months now and I'm sure others have been for much longer, so let me be among the first to provide a strong and heartfelt
####THANK YOU SO MUCH! YOU ROCK!!
You're very welcome! I hope you find some awesome recipes!
I've been meaning to do this for more than a year, but it was a bit of a challenge, that I just pushed in front of me. Yesterday I decided to give it a crack. I have to admit, I did not expect it to perform so well - It's much faster than I anticipated!
It would be super cool if you could make it so when you are adding flavors it tells you how many recipes there currently are for that exact flavor on mouseover or in-line with the flavor.
Those are pretty good ideas. I will let it sit in the back of my mind - I do believe it needs it.
Thanks for your feedback!
About to go all mod crazy batshit on this post until I realized who posted it. You rock daath, keep up the good work.
Great idea and thanks. It needs a little more tuning though.
I typed in 35 flavors got 6 single flavor results. =/ For this to really work, I'd suggest cross referencing generic flavors and not making my type in all the different types of one flavor, eg chocolate.
Yes, everyone needs to use the exact same flavor names for it to work. I am thinking about linking flavors to each other, as "similar" - but that is a lot (and I mean a lot) of work!
With my own flavor stash I get 129 results, and a lot of them aren't single flavor recipes :)
I think a lot of it is mostly the users problem. Getting the correct flavor added isn't that difficult in most cases. I think the best way to resolve it is to make adding a flavor more intuitive for both the user and the sites code. Vendor first, then flavor name (so your auto search is focused on a vendor to pull up similar names). Outside of that, user linking might be easy enough to implement. Another table to store similar items using a base ID and tying it to a secondary ID. Then everything to pull that data during a what can I make call could be done in SQL alone... For additions, not allowing overwriting would work though the below is probably better.
Extend that a bit by having a user added similar items list, tying to a user ID for example. Sort of along the lines of a private recipe... Then you can have a 'multiple users added this check' during addition and see if X number of users marked this similar, then you remove all of the user added listing and make an overall listing (using user ID 0 for example). This will simplify things like the signature line at ecig city matching the tfa/TPA lines.
It's 1am and I've been drinking :-) Love the site. This feature makes my life so much easier... Or harder maybe since the list is huge and it all looks so delicious.
Publish an extract from the database of all the flavours, dare I say 90 percent of the doubles can be merged with a couple of sql queries.
I would disagree with this since there really isn't much in the way of "generic" flavors except for flavors of a single type (e.g. menthol, AP, EM, citric/malic acid), most everything is a proprietary blend of several different molecules and the result can vary widely from one manufacturer to the next. Perfect example, try comparing TFA Strawberry to Strawberry Ripe to Cap Sweet Strawberry. Worlds of difference on their own much less mixed!
I would love to see something along these lines inasmuch as there's a "substantially equivalent to" cross-reference going on where it flags the ingredient, but I'm not gonna push hard for it - I can work with what's been given here, I'll just add duplicate flavors to my stash and see what it gives me!
I agree that one peach is not necessarily interchangeable for another peach, but it might work, of you know it's just similar :) But as I said to user808a, it's a lot of work to link flavors as similar!
You know yeah, you're right, I guess I'd just like to see the manufactured flavor names standardized or linked and there be a substantially equivalent cross-referencing setup before (or concurrent with) a mere "similar" setup is all. Really either way or neither works for me, though, you do what you want, this site's your baby & it's a goddamn beautiful one as it is!
And I figured it'd be a lot of work, why I said I'm not gonna push hard for it. In fact closest I'm coming to pushing for it is merely suggesting it as an idea for the distant future like I did - more than happy working within the current system's constraints! :)
I think the answer to standardization is in restricting flavor inputs. If people chose the maker (ie. TPA) from a dropdown then the flavor (ie. Strawberry Ripe) from a second dropdown, you wouldn't have 50 versions of TPA Strawberry Ripe to look for. Existing recipes would probably need converting but it's the best way I can think of, not allowing PASR when they mean TPA Strawberry Ripe.
This is wonderful! Thanks a lot for making this!
It is kind of annoying that all I'm getting is single flavor recipes (well I do need to expand my flavors). Perhaps in the future you could implement a way to filter single-flavor recipes from the results. Those are tasters, not recipes.
I love your database, thank you!
Do you have any plans for saving allowing downloads of files for import into ejuicecalculator?
I really like your calculator but, these days I mix by weight.
Me too! Log in, go to your profile, and set your preference to weight instead of drops! :) I love mixing by weight! It's so much faster and cleaner!
Nothing to add, just wanted to say thanks for an amazing resource. I can't wait to finish nights and get involved with this feature. Once the standardized flavouring manufacturers issue is sorted this will be undoubtedly the most useful resource for DIYers anywhere.
Is there any way that I can use this so it only shows me recipes that I have the ingredients for? I keep getting hundreds of recipes that I don't have all of the flavors for
The "What can I make" should show you only what you can make (whereas "Search by flavor stash" will show you recipes that contain flavors you don't have). Maybe you adapted some recipes? When you do, flavors are automatically added to your stash.
Go to your stash and see what flavors you have...