I just recently got into juice making (made the mistake of ordering TFA Tiramisu) and made my first juice I truly love. Turkish ground Daz Bog Organic Sumatran (my favorite), 2 heaping tablespoons in ~50mL of VG, set in ceramic cup in simmering water and stirred for about 40 minutes. Let strain through a doubled up coffee filter overnight. I got about 30 mL out of it.
I mixed it at 7% with 7% TFA Vanilla Swirl 2mL 48mg VG base VG added to 30mL
It is everything I love about the coffee, rich, creamy, and earthy, with that extra hint of vanilla. Excellent after a quick warm water bath and shake. I'm sad that it took me a lot of digging to find coffee extraction, it is incredible.
Edit: If you don't want the PG from the Vanilla Swirl you could still do the extraction, it's quick and at least in this case very true to the original coffee flavor. Tested on fused clapton mutation x v4 @ 60 watts, wicked with organic cotton.
We've gone over this, coffee extractions contain lipids; these are bad m'kay? One dude on here was coughing up black shit after vaping it.
Suddenly I am reminded of this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/3h0bas/first_time_having_a_problem_with_wicks/
"Don't vape that anymore. At all. What you are doing is extremely dangerous. Vanilla extract is not used in e-juice, and never should be. In fact, very few actual extracts are used in vaping. A lot of our flavors are made from different chemicals that mimic something's taste."
Are there any 'natural' extracts actually empirically safe to use? I really like the idea of making organic DIY juice but don't know much about chemistry etc. As someone looking to start making my own is it best to avoid extracts completely and just buy store bought flavours?
I find it odd that with all the precision scales available and widely used by DIYers that all the coffee extraction methods use tablespoons as methods of measure instead of weight. As a baker by trade, I find measurement modifiers like heaping, or scant to be even more problematic. Then you get into things like leveled, or firm packed, etc. I'd love to know simply the weight of those two tablespoons and whether or not you find this method to be completely adequate for your uses.
Amusingly, I think I might be the guy who started the coffee extraction thing four years ago and I don't think any DIYer measured by weight back then. See this post from ECF back in 2011 -
https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/threads/extracted-my-own-coffee-this-morning.228470/
I will say that I quit recommending microwaving carrier liquids shortly after that as it was a lousy idea but the rest of the process holds up pretty well today ;-)
edit: Deleted my other posts in this thread. Did my own research on coffee and lipids and National Institutes of Health did a pretty interesting study. Arabica beans are about 15% lipids by weight and although most of the lipids remain in the grounds or are trapped by the filter, people might want to make an informed choice. Here's a link to the extract -
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8477916
I am concerned about the compounds contained in the coffee and the health effects of heating them up and inhaling them. Also, heat can cause chemical reactions, creating new compounds. I saw this method months ago and after much research decided to buy 10ml of FA espresso. 0.5% gives a strong coffee flavor. That's .15ml per 30ml batch, or 4 cents. I just want people to be aware of the possible risk and have an alternative.
EDIT: FA Cappucino is a smoother, less bold coffee flavor, but it includes cream. If you add extra cream flavors you will have to be careful not to add too much.
This. I'd like some more info on this, since I'm a coffee fanatic and have been gearing up to do a VG coffee extraction. Can anyone shed some light on lipids and coffee extractions?
I tried doing this before but the flavor was ridiculously weak.
- Now did you just have the coffee grounds in VG in the ceramic cup?
- Did you stir frequently, every 5 minutes, once after 20?
- Those heaping Tablespoons, would you say that you were getting on 3 or 4 packed tbsp?
- What type of ceramic cup is it? Just a coffee mug?
Yes all I had was VG and coffee grounds, I thing the fact that it was turkish ground (finer than espresso) contributed to the strength.
I stirred every minute or two, by the time it heated to the temperature of the water around it the consistency was about that or room temp PG.
I was sadly rather unscientific about it, I thoroughly washed a spoon from the drawer and took two big scoops, basically the amount of coffee I would use in a pour over.
I used my favorite coffee mug (I thought it was fitting).
>I'm sad that it took me a lot of digging to find coffee extraction, it is incredible.
... sidebar?
> idebar?
The sidebar information (which I did read) simply mentioned that it could be done, it didn't mention just how spot on it is.