Today I'm expecting most of my DIY supplies to be delivered. I did get my income tax return in before purchasing my supplies.. and I went a bit overboard on flavors. Everything was from Liquid Barn, GremlinDIY, Bull City Vapor, Amazon, and TPA/TFA. THANK YOU to the sidebar of this sub and the many posts I read about product reviews, tips and tricks. I'm looking forward to growing and learning in this community, and as a mixer. Hopefully I got everything necessary to make a few batches tonight after I get home from work. Here's the list of what I ordered. Did I leave anything out?
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American Weigh Scales LB-501 Digital Kitchen Scale
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Liquid Barn - The DIY Starter Kit 1x 500ml bottle of PG, 1x 500ml bottle of VG, 2x Twist-Open caps, 250ml bottle of 48mg Nicotine
Flavor Kit: -10x Flavor Extracts (15ml each)
Labware Kit: Labware Kit Manual, Safety Gloves (5 pairs), Graduated Cylinder (25ml), Graduated Cylinder (10ml), 100ml Beaker (2x), 10ml Luer-lock Syringe (2x), 5ml Luer-lock Syringe (2x), 1ml Luer-slip Syringe (10x), 15ml LDPE eLiquid Bottle (10x), Electric eLiquid Mixer
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2x Vestil BTL-RC-8 Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) Round Squeeze Dispensing Bottle with Removable Red Cap, 8 oz Capacity
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Flavors
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Absinthe (FA)
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Acetyl Pirazine (TPA)
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Almond (FA)
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Banana (LB)
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Bavarian Cream (TPA)
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Biscuit (Inawera)
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Blackberry (TPA)
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Brown Sugar (TPA)
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Brown Sugar Extra (TFA)
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Butter Pecan (FW)
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Butterscotch (TPA)
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Cake (Yellow) (FW)
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Cake Batter Dip (FW)
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Cantaloupe (TPA)
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Chai Tea (TPA)
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Cheesecake (Graham Crust) (TPA)
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Chocolate Glazed Doughnut (Cap)
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Cinnamon Danish Swirl (Cap)
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Cinnamon Danish Swirl v2 (CAP)
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Coconut Milk (LB)
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Cookie (FA)
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Cotton Candy (TPA)
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Cream Fresh (FA)
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Crispy Bacon (Cap)
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Custard (FA)
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Dairy Milk (TPA)
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Double Chocolate (Clear) (TPA)
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Dragonfruit (TPA)
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DX Banana Cream (TPA)
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dx Bananas Foster (TPA)
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DX Bavarian Cream (TPA)
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DX Caramel Original (TPA)
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DX Hazelnut (TPA)
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DX Peanut Butter (TPA)
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DX Red Velvet (TPA)
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DX Sweet Cream (TPA)
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DX Vanilla Cupcake (TPA)
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Earl Grey Tea (TPA)
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Elderberry (TPA)
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FA-MERINGUE
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French Vanilla V2 (TPA)
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Fudge Brownie (TPA)
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Fuji Apple (FA)
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Glazed Doughnut (Cap)
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Graham Cracker (Clear) (TPA)
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Greek Yogurt (LB)
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Green Apple (LB)
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Gummy Candy (PG) (TPA)
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Honey (TPA)
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Honey (FA)
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Honeysuckle (TPA)
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Huckleberry (TPA)
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Jackfruit (TPA)
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Joy (FA)
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Kentucky Bourbon (TPA)
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Key Lime (TPA)
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Koolada 10% (TPA)
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Lemon Sicily (FA)
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Malted Milk (TPA)
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Maple (TPA)
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Mary Jane (TPA)
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Menthol (LB)
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Meringue (FA)
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Meringue (TPA)
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Molasses (TPA)
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MTS Vape Wizard (FA)
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Nectarine (TPA)
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New York Cheesecake (Cap)
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Papaya (TPA)
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Pear Candy (TPA)
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pear flavor TFA
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Phillipine Mango (TPA)
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Pineapple Sherbert (LB)
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Pizza (TPA)
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Raisin (TPA)
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Raspberry (Sweet) (TPA)
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Raspberry Concentrate (INW)
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Red Oak (TPA)
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RY4 Double (TPA)
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Smooth (TPA)
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Sour (LB)
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Strawberry (Ripe) (TPA)
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Strawberry Sweet (TPA)
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Sugar Cookie v2 (Cap)
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Sweet Strawberry (Cap)
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Sweetener (LB)
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Sweetener (Sucralose) (TPA)
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Tiramisu (TPA)
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Toasted Marshmallow (TPA)
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Torrone (FA)
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Turkish (TPA)
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Tutti-Frutti (TPA)
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Vanilla Bean Gelato (TPA)
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Vanilla Ice Cream (LB)
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Vanillin 10% (TPA)
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Waffle (Belgian) (TPA)
Titration kit: missing
Otherwise, awesome! Welcome!
Out of curiosity why the titration kit? Now I'm thinking my setup is incomplete.
Because the first rule of nicotine is always titrate new batches of nicotine.
It will tell you right away if you've got an accurate nicotine level.
I usually do 3 titrations right off the bat of every batch of nicotine -- I take a sample from the top third, one from the middle and one from the bottom of the bottle BEFORE shaking it.
If all 3 titration are equal, I don't bother to shake it much after that.
You said 3 months you've been dating, how long did you wait before you had actual sex?
Damn, when I started DIY, I didn't buy even half the number of flavors you did. It totally limited me creatively at the start. You're gonna have a blast!
So... whats your plan :)? First recipie to try?
I'm a Sous Chef, so I'm always on the lookout for unique flavors in the kitchen and with my vape. Here are a few recipes I put together to try out first.
Baked Alaska
11.25% Flavor
- .75% (INW) Biscuit
- 2.5% (FW) Yellow Cake
- 1% (TPA) DX Sweet Cream
- 2% (TPA) Meringue
- 2% (TPA) Toasted Marshmallow
- 3% (TPA) Vanilla Bean Gelato
Baked Alaska is Yellow Cake & Ice Cream with an oven toasted Meringue top crust. It's one of my favorite desserts to make for my customers, and I'd love to perfect the recipe to match real Baked Alaska flavors.
Bandanna
13.75% Flavor
- .5% (INW) Biscuit
- 1% (TPA) Brown Sugar
- 5% (FW) Cake Batter Dip
- 2.5% (TPA) Bananas Foster
- .75% (TPA) French Vanilla v2
- .75% (TPA) Kentucky Bourbon
- 1% (TPA) Meringue
- 2.25% (TPA) Vanilla Bean Gelato
Bourbon Bananas Foster Cake with French Vanilla Bean Gelato.
Jango Island
15% Flavor
- 1% (TPA) DX Sweet Cream
- 1.5% (TPA) Graham Cracker (Clear)
- 1.5% (TPA) Jackfruit
- 6% (CAP) New York Cheesecake
- 1.5% (TPA) Pear Flavor
- 2% (TPA) Philippine Mango
- 1.5% (TPA) Sweetener (Sucralose)
Philippine Mango & Jackfruit Cheesecake. Adapted from ENYAWREKLAW's recipe for 'The Real: Strawberry Cheesecake REMIX'. I wanted a smooth and mysterious flavor profile to go along with the very nice base of cheesecake that ENYAWREKLAW set up. I picked Philippine Mango (TPA), Jackfruit (TPA) and Pear Flavor (TPA) in lieu of the strawberry in the original recipe.
/u/skiddlzninja /u/abdada /u/thirdworldorder
take a look at this new wave of newbies. We're makin some good progress in this bitch. Great work /u/tobraham you'll do just fine here.
Thanks /u/Enyawreklaw! I thoroughly enjoy your YouTube channel, and plan to mix a few of your recipes in the coming weeks (Rhodonite, my version of your Strawberry Cheesecake Remix, a banana & custard version of Bronuts, and Raspberry Apple Macron). Thank you and the rest of this community for being such an invaluable resource. I truly am lucky to get into DIY at this point in the game.
You'll want to up the bourbon on that one recipe. The banana flavor overpowers it a bit. Also, you should check out my Bangin' Bourbon Bread recipe if you're into the bourbon + dessert profile.
Oh damn... already got recipes and everything!
Finding and refining recipes is my daily job, and I love it. Hopefully one day I'll be able to contribute some solid recipes to /r/DIY_eJuice for the community to enjoy. Here is a list of recipes I've put together to try out in the coming weeks. Some are adapted from popular recipes, and some are my own concoction.
Wow for a beginner, you seem to have an understanding of what flavors go well with each other. I'm jealous! It took me sometime to grasp how melded. Then again I'm not in the culinary line... All the best! If you whip all your flavors in the same route, you will end up making some delicious Ejuices.
Oh btw I noticed you using TFA meringue. You may want to opt for FA meringue sometime in the future. TFA meringue is incredibly light and fluffy, and doesn't give the same frosted sugar effect that FA does. Also... I usually ask beginners not to use sweetener when they first start out. If you love sugary goodness,cake the recipe without it first and taste it. If it needs sweetening, you can always add it after.
I did read about the lightness of flavor on e-liquid-recipes.com in the "Notes" section of TFA Meringue. Fortunately I remembered that when I was ordering more flavors to make Rhodonite and Bronuts. In a few days I'll have a 30ml of FA Meringue to add to the batch. I believe I already added it to the above list, though.
Thank you for your tip on the sweetener. That was a concern of mine, but it also seemed to be added to a few cheesecake recipes I was interested in... so I thought I'd try it at a low percentage to see how sweet it really was. I'll take your tip and mix a batch with no sweetener first and see how everything goes. Also, thank you for your kind words. I'm sure whichever job you have would be confusing for me to grasp for some time, so don't feel bad about not knowing which flavor profiles compliment each other.
I disliked Liquid Barn's flavorings. I still have my original 3 that I started with almost half a year ago, nearly full.
Going to recommend some pipettes over the syringes. You also only got two (unless I missed it), so you will be cleaning them a LOT.
Or put your flavorings into LDPE dripper bottles and just squeeze them in (my preferred method). Would still use pipettes for the nicotine though, I hated cleaning syringes.
I'm really impressed with the research and prep work you've done before getting started! One thing i would add is getting a set of 10 glass bottles, because you can reuse them. Plastic is fine, but unless you are refilling with the same flavor, i wouldn't recommend reuse. It's also possible i didn't read your list well enough but i saw only 15 x15ml plastic bottles.
Anyways, its awesome that you did your homework beforehand and i can guarantee it will payoff. as for the comments about the nicotine titration, i would say that depends on your budget and on your sensitivity. Me personally, i have a pretty low budget and i'm pretty sensitive to the amount of nicotine, so i can discern if something is up. for ex, one supplier sent me a bottle of 100mg instead of 60mg, and i new within the first bottle that something was up, and after a few more hits, i speculated it was 100mg. Confirmed with the supplier (they checked cctv and confirmed there was a mixup, and contacted the person shipped my bottle of 60mg, who confirmed it was weak). That also brings up the importance of good suppliers of nicotine.
Finally, I have no much clue how much you vape, but 1000mls of vg would last me ~10 weeks. you may want to look into essential depot, they sell gallons of VG for pretty cheap
I go through about (2-3) 30ml bottles per week. Essential Depot looks like a great place for future VG orders. Maybe I'll order some glass bottles this week to reuse. Currently i have about 20 used/empty/clean plastic 10ml bottles and a few glass to start out with. Thank you for your advice and kind words. I'm very much looking forward to participating in this community.
I've purchased these a couple of times. Good price and quality.
Edit...there were 5 left in stock when I posted....down to 3 now.
Holy cow! I thought I was bad today when I was creating my wish list/cart on one of the sites! I was up to about 75 and kept telling myself to take stuff out :) But I know I wont :) Ive got a bunch of recipes tagged that I want to try and its interesting that you have already figured out percentages without mxing yet. This is the part that I think I will find most daunting about creating my own mixes. Looks like some great tasting mixes you have planned!
All the recipes I made haven't been tested yet, so I don't know which percentages will taste best yet. Many of my recipes are adapted from good recipes that already exist. For example, the Jango Island recipe is an adaptation from /u/Enyawreklaw recipe for Strawberry Cheesecake. I took the fruit flavors out of his recipe and subbed in fruit flavors that I wanted to use, which I know work well with each other in real world desserts. The percentages I used for replacement flavors is based off of mixing percentages I've seen in other recipes on e-liquid-recipes.com and a few other forums. The recipes are sure to change, but are a solid base for me to work from.
I had the same thoughts as you when I was ordering from TFA. I had 52 items in my cart when I checked out .. and I was looking for some to take out.. but I never did. Shortly afterwards I ordered 30+ more flavors from different vendors to try to make recipes I had found or had adapted.
It's awesome that on your first order you got a pizza flavor!
I work at a restaurant that serves pizza, and many of the employees vape. My girlfriend is also a big fan of Hawaiian style pizza (pineapple and canadian bacon), plus she also vapes. She didn't think the Hawaiian Pizza e-juice would be anything she would enjoy, but I like a good challenge. For now the only pineapple flavor I have is from Liquid Barn, but I plan on mixing that with TFA Pizza and CAP Crispy Bacon to make Hawaiian Pizza.
Hey if its your daily, would you like to help me out? :) im more of a simple mix type guy. So i got apple and strawbery and i realy like it but i would like to get more sweetnes without losing taste of those two. Have any ideas?