How good is home-baked bread compared to store-bought bread?

I bought some juice today because I'm waiting on some vg and right when I took a puff I thought fa bilberry fa cookie and some kind of lemon, I can make it. These juice companies are doing the same thing as us. I prefer my juice over those damn $30 "premium" juice bastards.

After about a year of DIY, I can honestly say it's ruined premium juices for me.

I can now taste and identify almost all the flavourings used in a pre made juice and it kinda sucks lol

I jumped right into diy when I got my vape. Never even ordered a premade juice.

I have tasted juice my friends bought and liked it. But I prefer the stuff I have made myself. When my friends tasted some of my diy they immediately handed me money to make them some. So I guess it's good lol

It really depends on the recipe. If your first batch is following a good recipe you found online then you should be good. If you are just winging it and making up your own flavors it can be much more difficult to create something that tastes good right away.

I did not have any good recipes in mind when I started so I kept it simple and went with single flavoring juices (sour apple was my first). It's a good way to get a feel for each individual flavor and figure out what percentages they taste best at by themselves. After you get a good feel for how each one tastes it's a bit easier to start mixing and matching flavors together to make a much more complex juice.

Just be patient and open to a lot experimenting and you will do great. Good luck! :)

Depends on your ingredients, the recipe, and how you mix. If you go with the well known vendors here, high quality nic etc. then as long as you mix well it'll come out just as good or probably better than most store-bought juice. I've been using a heated magnetic stirrer and that makes a nice even mix...using max VG it would be a little thick to get away with just shaking it.

The only good juice companies I've ever tried have started from someone heavily into DIY. Vapor Chef, BIRD E-JUICE, Bombies to name a few. Screw the companies like Suicide Bunny that know nothing about juice and charge almost $1/ml.

When I first started DIYing over three years ago, there wasn't so much info online as there is now. In fact i had to learn most of my mixing the hard way. Most of the times i just mixed single flavors, half of them were a hit or miss for me. Nowadays however you can find some amazing recipes that are on par, or even better then commercial juice. There are naturally a shit-ton of bad recipes out there as well, but you'll have to try it out for yourself.

I still prefer bought juice but that's because none of my recipes have turned out very flavorful. But that'll soon change with more work and experimentation.

The thing about it is that we have access to everything that the juice companies have, it's super easy to get the ingredients. However businesses get loans to get a shit ton of different flavorings and tinker with the recipes, to get it just right. That's the hard part.

I started DIY about a month ago and I haven't bought any juice from vendors. I know the flavor profiles I like. Found about 10 recipes I think I would enjoy. Bought the flavors, PG,VG, nic, scale, and a couple of syringes. Probably spent about $150 total.

I would spend about $100 a month on juice. Every sale posted on ECR, I would take advantage of.

Getting a scale saves you so much time. Highly recommend getting one from Amazon as well as your PG and VG.

Edit: Juice I make is incredible, they are all recipes posted on here and ELR.

I made the sherbet clone that was posted on here, freakin delicious stuff comparable to unicorn puke by so and so. It was so good in fact I've made like 3 batches of 90ml for storage because I seem to go through it faster than I make it. So once you do find that delicious juice be prepared to make large batches for the full cure effect.

i havent bought store juices in ages... went in a few months back and tried a bunch and didnt like anything. stuff i was making i enjoyed far more... then again, i am making what i want. of course when fall comes i will get some azeroth from coval.

I've been doing DIY for over a year now. I haven't bought juice, aside from the occasional bottle when I run into something really new or unique from a commercial vendor, since then. Prior to doing this I've hombrewed beer, I'm an avid foodie, and DIY kinda guy. I can bake my own bread, salt, can & cure food, and reload my own ammo. . .

When I first started, I was mixing mediocre juice. Started off with simple mixes. I'd say it was on par with house juice etc.

Now I get compliments from professional mixers for juice companies and people at B&M's asking me if I am interested in selling juice, which I am not (time, ask me for anything but time).

It's a matter of practice and learning your ingredients. If it doesn't make sense in food, it won't make sense in a juice. I recommend a flavor pairing book for cooking/culinary use like "The Flavor Bible" for ideas, especially when starting off as randomly mixing stuff will amount to random tasting juice. Mixing from highly regarded recipes from here, ECF, VA etc can help you learn how flavors interact with each other. What works & what doesn't.

As for ingredients, most companies out there are using TFA, CAP, FW & increasingly FA. Some Lorann's and some of the odd flavor houses creep in there too. I mostly use FA flavors because I like their strength, realism (in the fruits esp. I heart FA Fuji, White Peach and Strawberry) and due to learning them better than TFA. I am not as well versed in TFA, FW, or CAP although I use them on occasion, esp CAP VC v1.

Technique, just as in cooking, is important. Shifting to mixing by weight has been a big aid in repeatability in my mixes. Note taking, especially using a mixing calculator that lets you save recipes is important. Revisiting mixes and modifying one thing at a time is important. Multi month testing and revising is common in commercial juices.

Steeping is important. Your commercial juice is not freshly mixed. It sits in a warehouse for an undetermined time and is then shipped all over the country in the back of UPS/Fedex/etc. trucks before it gets to your B&M then it sits on the shelf. It's steeped a lot more than people think. Thorough blending is important. A lot of juice companies use commercial blenders & mixers to combine the juice at mixing, vs the DIY method of measuring it all into a bottle and shaking like hell. Time is another factor here. Like I mentioned above, notes are important and it's important to revisit a mix after it's had time to set and mature, for good or for ill. Speed steeping (crock pot, ultrasonic etc) is a shortcut but there is no substitute for simple time.

Lastly, it's DIY. Emphasis on the Y as in yourself. Juice recipes like in cooking are just guides to get you there. You can change them or make substitutions based on availability or personal preference. When you are doing DIY you are doing it for yourself and your tastes. Fuck commercial "for the masses lowest common denominator" juice. If I taste one more fruit cereal and milk juice it is one too many now.