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How can I be sure I purchased a bad batch of nicotine? This is my first purchase so I have no frame of reference to base my opinion on. It's a 50/50 mix of 48mg. When I open it and place it a few(6) inches from my face and waft the fumes in my direction there is an immediate almost tobacco/nutty smell. The taste is a little peppery and spicy in my 3mg mixes. The color is not quite as clear as my PG but I attribute that to the VG. There is no pink color. I keep it stored in glass in the fridge and shake before use. Is this normal or just this particular brands nicotine is a little spicy?
It could be either older nic, or it could just be that brand. I'm not sure who you bought from but like everything, some places are better than others.
What you could do is mix up a couple ml of just VG/PG and taste that to get a baseline, then mix a couple mil of 3mg with no flavoring to see what kind of flavor the nic is giving you.
Im a mix juice with no flavoring, and say 3mg or 6mg or so nic. What kinda flavor if any SHOULD I be getting from the nic?
Really good nic will be clean (clear) with little to no flavor. Some of the lower qualities can impart a slightly peppery taste. If the taste is really strong, I'd start by contacting your vendor and asking if their nic is normally really strong tasting. Depending on where you got it, it could have been sitting on a shelf for a while and be pretty oxidized.
Nic is one of the things that I don't like to get from a re-seller. Even if it costs a bit more, I'll buy it from the source and know that I'm getting a fresh product.
Along with what Dave said, it could be that you're not shaking well enough. It's VG base, stored in a fridge, used by a new mixer. These 3 statuses usually lead to mishandling or misuse. To be clear, VG nicotine needs to be shaked VERY vigorously for AT LEAST a minute, double that for refrigerated VG. I'd suggest buying PG nic in the future since it's much easier to handle properly.
Also I'm a little nervous about only PG nic, I have a low throat hit tolerance, I was worried going 50/50 lol.
Most practical way to taste batches in progress and flavor test batches? I don't have an RDA available yet, I've been using a broken sub tank mini (pyrex got rekt) as a ghetto RDA, but seems like a waste of cotton, as I just started DIYing and I've bought like 20 TFA flavors.
Read somewhere that a cotton-less Clapton coil could do the trick, tried it with a twisted coil because I don't have wire for a Clapton and it just isn't good enough, any tips?
Get the cotton good and wet with your test flavors/recipes, then before you try a new flavor/recipe drip straight vg or a vg/pg mix (I just use vg). Then move on to the next flavor. The vg/pg cleans out any residual flavor very well, sometimes you might need to "clean" it out twice for certain flavors.
Also get a couple good RDA's from fasttech for $2-$10 and you can use this same method.
Seriously? Thanks! Never would've thought about doing that.
Already bought a couple of good RDA clones from Fasttech, but shipping just takes forever.
After watching a lengthy video on creams, I bought about a dozen different kinds. They haven't arrived yet, but looking at the TFA component lists, I feel like a few of them overlap so closely that I may not have needed them all. For example: Dairy/Milk and Vanilla Swirl.
Did I waste money or is there a difference between all of the flavors?
There is a big difference between the 2 examples that you have listed. A regular part of my approach is to try EVERY new flavor standalone, at diff %. If you do the same, you should begin to pick up on how to use/pair them with. It is a PITA, but has helped me a lot.
I hope that you picked up FA Fresh Cream, it is by far the most versatile cream IMO.
I mix my juice with a Dremel and a stainless steel rod. Besides introducing air into the mix that might cause oxidation, are there any other possible deleterious affects that this method might cause?
So the first place I bought my flavors from was Wizardlabs...i noticed that they are lacking in a few producers though...they dont sell FA for example.
Im looking for a website that sells EVERY major flavor producer. Does a website like that exist?
Bull City and Gremlin DIY both have pretty much all of them. Because of stock issues you're going to wind up ordering from multiple sites anyway though. For my first orders I used Bull City, Gremlin, and ECX and I still wound up not getting one flavor I wanted because all three sites were out.
Malted Custard with Marzipan? I cannot decide on specifics for %s and I keep second guessing this recipe. Any thoughts?
MCwMZ :
Ingredient|% :---|---: Cream Fresh (FA)|0.5 Custard (FA)|1.5 Malted Milk (TPA)|3 Marzipan (FA)|0.5 Meringue (FA)|2 Vanilla Custard v1 (CAP)|2.5
Flavor total: 10%