This thread is now a magical train ride or wreck. I'd like to call
~Juicin~
The DIY experience
I ordered marshmallow and rice crunchies earlier this week from gremlin, which literally arrived the next day. Proceeded to mix up some rice crispy treat, went decent, tastes better than the last six commercial juices I bought so I've already ordered 8 more flavors 240ml of Vg and measuring supplies. *I also found out I'm in the same town as gremlin, so I can skip shipping costs and time and go pick it up from them directly. So fucking stoked on that.
Huge thank you to every one here for being inspirational and so very helpful.
pt II (inb4 buy a scale.)
http://i.imgur.com/unKjx1L.jpg
I loved it so much I ordered from gremlin at like 2 in the morning or something stupid if I remember correctly, submitted for pickup instead of shipping, went and picked these supplies up, and got a cool bag for free before noon. I had no idea DIY was going to be so easy :D
(actually the brushes and bottles are cleaned and reused from retail juice i've purchased in the past.)
pt III (bro, you should have used ____% of ________) **
Let's watch me make a juice.
First, my recipe I'm stealing from someone off the internet! (with some premature alterations cause fuck that guy I've never met, I can already tell I'm better at this than him)
http://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/145261/Looper-Esque+Cereal
My new, better recipe than some other dick heads recipe:
http://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/516015/So+artisanal%252C+what+craftsmanship.
Alright, now let's grab our Erlenmeyer flask:
http://i.imgur.com/kOyVphm.jpg
and let's grab our digital scale, accurate to .000001 of a gram.
http://i.imgur.com/lFKRWIB.jpg
Now since I'm a highschool graduate (hold your applause) and an adult man I'm aware I can use the syringe, pop out the spout and use a blunt tip needle to suck out the juice, or cut this cap thing and Dock like Spaceships. I now realize, that's probably what they're made for.
http://imgur.com/a/eitkQ
Can't decide between space docking for fast flavor measuring time, or go with needle for super surgical precision. Speaking of precision, I am instantly aware that for making such small test sizes, I bought far too imprecise of a syringe for this. I will have to get at least a 1ml syringe.
I'm going to measure out my recipe into a beaker and get back with an update when that's done.
http://imgur.com/TiPxe9y
We're all flavored up, I'm going to give this x1 rub outs and give it some vg and shake again
http://i.imgur.com/JLjcuVy.jpg
here it is all separated. lets rock this bitch like a hurricane.
http://i.imgur.com/PbWAPJl.jpg
here's about halfway full and mixed up a bit, I'm going to top it off and give it another shakeweight full body workout.
http://i.imgur.com/3lFNiui.jpg
Labeled, full, shaked, no time for the vape:
http://i.imgur.com/ZaXJ3K6.jpg
Fuck me Fred Flinstone, This is delicious.
~Le fin~
I just ordered everything I need to start diy, except flavors. Anything you can recommend, or tips for me at least?
I like cereal, custard, and dessert juice, but I don't dislike anything but menthol. Thanks a ton in advance!
What I did was went to E liquid recipes.com found recipes I wanted to do then order those specific flavors . I figured if I ordered specifically for certain recipe I would be able to do exactly what I wanted and then have flavors left over to experiment with, versus ordering a bunch of random flavors that sounded good and might not possibly work together well
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it was very cheap too
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B&M "premium juice" is usually about $25 for a 30ml.
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online retailers is ~$20 for 120ml give or take depending on depth of recipe
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DIY was ~$30 so far for $360ml of ejuice with 10(!) possible recipes. not Counting the differences in strength you could do. (I can't do the math, there's a lot of possible recipes here.)
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That much retail juice would have cost $300 and you can only find so many variations.
Dive into the rabbit hole that is the monthly recipe threads. There are over 2 years worth of them with many delicious recipes. The more you look at, the more you can see common flavors used in each one. Jot them down on a piece of paper or a file on your computer. Any recipe you see that you may like, store away for your personal use.
How I've built my flavor collection was I took the money I spent on vendor juice per month and bought any flavors that I wanted. Most were from recipes I saw here, others were just flavors i wanted to work with. Literally 2 or 3 months of that and you are set for a very long time.
Start off with little bottles, unless it's something you just know you're gonna use often (like TFA's Ripe Strawberry for example, can never have enough of that) until you can see what flavors you use the most.
Seek the sidebar for all the information you can ever need. Also use the search bar for common questions you might have. I was a lurker for awhile before I posted anything here.
Wow, just a giant heap of great advice. I appreciate all the feedback. I feel a bit overwhelmed by all of it, but I'm just going to take it little by little until I'm comfortable. I'm very excited to start experimenting, but I'll probably stick with proven recipes for a while.
Thanks again, a lot of useful information and its very appreciated!!
I bought 45 flavors to start for different recipes and a few I just wanted to try. I'm up to 60 something now with a waiting list of flavors to get as money allows.
Acquire at least 10, preferably more, 5ml bottles for testing. Don't add nicotine to your tests until you are sure it's how you want it. Experiment, have fun with it and you'll learn what works and what just plain sucks.
Check out the Best Recipies of 2015 here on r/DIY_ejuice, it is literally a list of the best recipies that were published on here last year, and buy all ingredients for the recipies that sound like they best fit your profile plus everything needed to make Rhononite . Also when you search ELR make sure you search by rating (just click where it says rating)that way you know if a recipie has been well received by multiple people.
idk if im the majority, but I switched to clone my favorite commercial juice. Then based my flavors off that flavor profile (peanut butter, no banana). After that, I ordered exotic fruit flavors to cleanse my palate of the peanut butter mixes. That way if I get used to my ADV then I switch it and everything tastes new again. My trick is to go on opposite sides of the spectrum to get my palate used to the opposite flavor profile and then switch.
"with some premature alterations cause fuck that guy I've never met, I can already tell I'm better at this than him"
You, get out of my head. That nailed it. "Recipe calls for banana nut bread 3%, I should probably substitute strawberry (ripe) at 9% either because I don't have what was called for, or because I fucking feel like it." Afterwards I realize the original recipe was probably way more on point, but at least I can vape my mistake.
Sounds good, what percentages did you use?
for the rice crispy i tried three different mixes:
- 8% Marshmallow
- 8% Rice crunchies
~too much flavoring, tastes like plain VG
- 9% Marshmallow
- 3% Rice crunchies
~marshmallow should be called mutemallow, can't taste anything
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3% Marshmallow
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9% Rice crunchies
~very good, has a very silky mouth feel, can taste the rice crunchies but don't really get the flavor of MM, maybe after more steeping it will become more pronounced.
Ive tried similar recipes. None of then seem to have a true rice crispy taste. Im thinking it needs a butter flavor. That's the only thing I feel is missing, but I haven't tried to find a good butter yet.
Good shit! Got a recipe?
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/49ykd2/im_on_the_train/d0vwf14
If you like that flavor profile you should really check out this recipe: http://diyordievaping.com/2015/12/25/cereal-marshmallow-strawberry-milk-diy-ejuice-recipe/ Can't format on mobile sorry.
Definitely pick up the ingredients for this one, I can't get enough, mixed up a 120 ml 4 days ago and half of its gone already!
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