Holy crap. I just made my first batch of ejuice, and it was extremely easy to do and tastes AMAZING! I'm seriously going to be hard strung to find reasons to ever buy a bottle of premium stuff again. This subreddit is awesome. Thanks everyone!
rip ur wallet m8
> yeah but's not about saving money...it's a hobby
Source: everyone who needed to justify spending so much money on DIY (myself included)
I don't think I've spent that much more than I would have if I bought premade juice, but instead of having a bunch of empty bottles I have enough supplies to make a few months worth of DIY. Also it helps that I can make and sell juice to friends to recoup some of the costs.
Don't worry, happens to the best of us.
Starts off with, look ma, made this £15 juice for 40p!
Oooh, I like the sound of that recipe, the concentrates are only cheap....
Oh wow, they do a "Chocolate Chip Cookie with Maple Syrup and Unicorn Dust Concentrate"? I'll have to try that out.
Yeah, I'll just try these 5 recipes and make a decision on which I prefer as an all day vape.
Before you know it you'll find yourself with 40 odd concentrates, a big pile of syringes and sauce bottles for your PG and VG because mixing less than 100ml just doesn't make sense any more. A cheap scale because you wanted to try mixing by weight, and an expensive scale from when you realise that weight based mixing is exactly as easy and awesome as everyone makes it out to be.
TL;DR: Welcome to the vapers' rabbit hole :)
Do you use a scale? If not, try that, and you'll be even more amazed :)
I have the scale, but I'm not honestly sure why it's easier than using the syringes/counting drops?
I mix directly into the bottle - so there's virtually no clean-up at all. Before, I had to really pull myself together to start mixing, because of the preparation and the resulting clean-up. Now, if I feel like mixing, I just do it, because it's so fast and easy! :)
When I first started mixing, running tests on flavor percentages and ratios, I couldn't for the life of me figure out why sometimes two bottles of the exact same batch didn't taste exactly the same. The answer was the volume (aka drops/plunger) method. It's a method of mixing that is very prone to variation in the end result, which isn't what you want.
Mixing by weight, you measure and weigh the ingredients going into the bottle, and that way if you find something amazing, you can take the weights of each specific ingredient, multiply it by however many bottles you'd like, and now you have a batch of juice that tastes exactly like every other bottle in the batch.
I'm just about to make the plunge, is messuring by scale easier/better than by syringes?
I mix directly into the bottle - so there's virtually no clean-up at all. Before, I had to really pull myself together to start mixing, because of the preparation and the resulting clean-up. Now, if I feel like mixing, I just do it, because it's so fast and easy! :) I was a bit angry with myself for not starting using the scale earlier! :)
Hey man that's great news! I've been stalking this sub for weeks now reading and rereading, and I finally ordered a starter kit last Wednesday. I'm still waiting for it to arrive, but I think it should be here tomorrow! I am so excited and I hope that I have the same result you did. Keep it up!