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" The combination you selected is out of stock"
This hurts me on a deep, frugal level. Using another site for additional shipping feeling like a gigantic kick in the knackers.
I had to order 3 10ml bottles of a flavor from bcv once because they were out of 30ml ones.
Thankfully I put off on finalizing the order and they had 30s in stock by the end of the day and I happened to check.
Goddamnit, bullcity, get your shit together.
"PREMIUM EJUICE"
Yes! That's the word I was looking for. Premium.
Hi guyz, I already posted this question on the main sub but does anybody have a clone recipe for Premium Man juice vape pen oil I can mix using pure nic, fructose, and vanilla extract?
'oil' drives me up the fucking wall.
I've noticed that people from Asia tent to use it the most which makes me think it's a regional thing or translation error but the number of people who vape in the US and call it oil drives me nuts.
I've got a friend that's been vaping for a few months who called it oil up until like three weeks ago.
Paid $30 for a 30ml bottle of juice and didn't realize that was expensive.
Edit: sorry, I got a little excited
My friend refers to them as "oils" and it really (irrationally) irritates me too! We had a local B&M that had "Oil" in their store name until another B&M nearby posted on facebook that they only sell "liquids and not oils" which was clearly a jibe at them, after that they changed the "Oil" part to "Vape Cafe".
Drives me nuts as a B&M employee. People asking if we have stuff for "oil" is a crapshoot because half of them just want cannabis related products, which my shop stays far away from. The other half just don't know the terminology and happen to pick the worst word possible for it.
Ok serious question here :
I buy juice from 3 local shops. They all have their own recipes and other "premium" juice lines.
There does seem to be a quality difference between places. One brand of juice seems to dry my mouth out, in every flavor. Another brand makes my throat itchy for a few minutes after using it, all flavors. Another is smooth and nice. But .... None taste as good as the "premium" lines like Kilo cereal, The Milkman, apple crack, sweet stash, etc etc.
So what's the deal? How can 3 different 70/30 mixtures deliver such different experiences?. Then also flavors not being nearly as good? I know I am not the only one to experience this. Most of my friends only buy "premium" because they are reliably smooth and tasty
Someone please explain why one isnt "premium"
The nicotine, the bottle, and the amount of sweetener used are usually the difference between "premium" and "jank ass juice"
Yeah I've heard this a lot and don't buy in to it at all. Nicotine isn't hard to get with decent quality and if sweeteners made such a massive difference every DIYer would be using them.
Me thinks it's more that 'premium' juices invest in higher quality flavourings and can mix everything under lab standards. No DIYer can emulate this, despite how much they tell themselves they can.
DIY is for poor people.
Thinking of starting a juice line.
Does that make people mad? So much juice is bad you can do a mediocre job and still sell.
It hasn't happened in a while, but is has happened. Someone will come in here, with no experience, just looking to make money. Looking for recipes to sell and asking questions about starting a business.
Try my new super-premium juice line, only $25/30ml!!!
Flavors include: Rhondanite, Mister Milk, Honuts, and Strawberry Eclair Bar!!!
"You have to mix by weight"
Damn, what a death-cult. Yeah, I like having to wait for my scale to measure each drop, only to learn I've over-shot my target.
Lol I love this one. I mix by volume. Sure I have a little variance. Do I care? Not when I pay two bucks a bottle.
Same.
Sorry to everyone who keeps saying "you have to mix by weight", but I'm never mixing by weight. It's not happening. I'm fine mixing by volume, and honestly, it doesn't take longer than mixing by weight if you have the supplies readied and know what you're doing.
Idk. This one really annoys me for some reason rofl.
Yep. And they're always hounding the new folks who are looking to just get started. Yes, I get that the scale isn't that expensive, but it's still a barrier to entry for people who aren't sure about taking the plunge. And how many flavors are they mixing that washing the syringes is such an incomprehensible chore?
I just make 30ml at a time and remember how many drops of what flavorings I put in i.e.
25 drops Fudge Brownie
10 drops Frosted Donut
10 drops Joy
5 drops EM
I don't make for anyone but myself, and while I used to be a stickler for absolutely accurate measuring, now the only thing I don't sight-measure is my nic. All my flavors go in by what seems like a good amount based on what I know of the strength of the flavoring and it's purpose in the mix. I have only ever made one unvapeable mix and 2 meh mixes in the 3 years I've been at it, and those were all when I was still measuring obsessively. I mix up 120ml at a time, too.
I'm new and very thankful everyone death-culted me into mixing by weight. There is no cleanup! I just drip into my bottle and shake. The scale is only 25 bucks on Amazon so not much of a barrier to entry. If you like going by volume that's cool tho. Just offering a 'mix by weight' point of view.
Get scale that do percentage.. make life much easier.
Whuh? Can you explain?
I was shopping for scales for our shop and find that some of the expensive scales have % weighting option.
how I use it. I have big bottle of pg/vg/nic with 10% short on PG for Flavor.
- Put scale on gr weighting
- put empty bottle on scale.
- Zero it out.
- fill with PG/VG/Nic base to how full you want, don't even worry about how it weight.
- switch to percentage weight mode
- now it will show you base as 100%
- add flavor to 110% (most flavor are PG)
I know not all the flavors weigh the same.
but your 1% is going to be 1% no matter how big or small the batch is.
If you want to follow other people recipes it may little off but not by much.. the point of DIY is to customize your juice the way you want!
Use recipes for reference, write down the percentage of each flavors that work you in small batch. When you're ready to make big batch the scale will do all the math for you and it will be perfect all the time!
http://www.optimascale.com/index.php/laboratory-balances/high-precision-balances/oph-t-series-precision-electronic-balance-detail#specs
We got the T602 version.
Can you put weed in that
I would hear that comment often when I went to vape shops. Why do people think "Vapor = Pothead"
Part of my comment from the ecr thread:
I'm going to get 1000mg/ml nic and dilute it myself to save money.
And
McCormick vanilla is the best vanilla on the market and I don't have to wait for shipping.
Oh god haha. That first one is bad, but man, that second one really does get to me lol
I've seen both in threads. The first one happened recently. His username was basically his name and when he got mad at people for pointing out how dumb doing that would be he posted his real name and a popular juice mixing group he's on. I smile whenever I see him post in there.
I don't use nicotine myself(by the time I started DIYing, I didn't need nicotine no more), so I have no idea what's wrong with what he said. Would you not save money when buying a higher concentration of nicotine solution? or is it that with the density of nicotine, it's impossible to get 1000 mg/ml?
How can i perfectly recreate the flavour of a burning pall mall blue firm filter ?
Wick with said filters, hit while dry.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/4pjdpv/sugar_cookies_and_cream_recipes/
I'm confused what's wrong with asking for recipe suggestions?
It's removed now but if I remember right he said he wanted a recipe for a cream but that it should include specific flavorings which were basically all he needed for the base so instead of trying stuff out he asked us to do it for him.
Maybe I'm old fashioned but asking people who have experience in something about said something so you don't have to repeat the same mistakes is pretty common. The DIY scene has a bit of a stick up it's ass about it.
There is really no good way of going about it other than asking other people, with DIY eJuice being one of the better places to do so.
ELR is full of absolutely terrible things which should never have been made public. Half of it is people just playing with recipes because why not.
Making your own mistakes is both costly and massively time consuming - first you need all the prereqs and then you need to mix the stuff.
After that's done I hope you have another hobby because you've got to wait a few weeks to a month to see if what you made will be any good. That means if you want to do anything but wait you need to buy more bottles, or buy ejuice (which is counter productive to the reason people start DIYing.)
You could try asking somewhere there is a bunch of DIYers to get current, relevant and good information. Information which is just bad, like half the ELR recipes, would get people pointing that out. The only downside is how people react to you when you ask.
"We went through it so you have to, too." Seems a bit spiteful really. This isn't a dig at you, or anyone really. This is a rant. So there.
I just lurk here. No clue what is going on and weirdly curious
I asked for suggestions on a recipe combination, more aimed at additional concentrates to the ones I listed as well as percentages of each to mix.
I'm still relatively new to DIY and still have questions I wanted to ask before wasting my supplies on bad recipes etc.
It seemed I annoyed our friend though. Whenever I've asked for help around here before people have always been really friendly and open to helping others out.
Hey guys, here's what I just bought, what can I make?
TFA Honey TFA Cranberry TFA Caramel Cappuccino TFA Waffle TFA Bubblegum
TFA Caramel Cappuccino is awesome tho.
LOL yeah IDK how some people come up with their first concentrate orders
The waffle would probably go good with the cappuccino and a little bit of honey. Then obviously you make cranberry bubblegum
I only vape organic.
Not really a one liner, but people that walk by covering their face like I was smoking a stinky cig.
I had a girl behind me on a particularly windy day, I was standing on the edge near the street and my cloud went behind me, not on purpose just how the wind blew. The girl freaked out and did a ninja move to avoid it and was all pissed off. I laughed my ass off, but it was the strangest thing to me at the time.
Some people don't want your vapor in their face? Dont laugh. Apologize and let the person know you'll try not to do it again?
Anytime someone refers to me as a "VapeBro".
It's not that the VapeBro stereotype isn't a real thing. A guy talking about flavor theory for the liquid he makes isn't one of them.
Double points anytime one of my boardgaming/wargaming friends does it. "What a fucking nerd, having a niche interest! I'm laughing so hard I can barely freehand paint this Chapter symbol on my Space Marine!"
Ye but the stuff they sell at the store is lab tested and it doesn't have all the bad chemicals! "but they use the same flavors as I do and those flavors don't have the said chemicals so they will test the same in a lab" - me. Ye but when they mix in the lab those chemicals go away and stuff! "ok"-me
I've never seen that but
'bath tub juice's bugs me.
You wouldn't prep food on a carpet so why would we be sloppy?
What chilli peppers do Nude Nicotine use to make their nic?
What? Where did the chili peppers thing come from?
"I heard that those electronic cigarettes put holes in your lungs because it's made from oil"
Been hearing this one a lot lately.
Edit: Spelling
"I hear that brushing your teeth makes holes in the tongue since the toothbrush is made from oil". I mean, probably like 60-70% of everyday items has a derivative of oil of some sort.
Not really vape related, but the one that really get's me though is "Chemicals are bad for you!". EVERYTHING is made of chemicals... Man, the stupid people these days.
"Why bother ordering flavorings from the internet when my supermarket sells McCormick extracts!"
Every time I hear something like this, I have a sort of cringe seizure.
Weighing by volume is better than using a scale.
You haven't really seen that, have ya? Too stupid to diy, know?
When I put TFA vanilla in my coffee not too long ago "That's so gross, are you so addicted to nicotene that you put the liquid in your coffee???"
You drink Starbucks don't you? Hmph.
I'm surprised no one mentioned this one..
"Can i sub ______ for _______?"
Seriously...I get sick of seeing this one. If you have to sub, then sub. It won't be the recipe intended by the creator so don't ask the person sharing the recipe what can be subbed and at what %, blah, blah, blah. Figure it out if you don't have the ingredients ;)
After my 10th clone attempt, "It's still just not sweet enough."
Yea, because I kept the flavoring under 15% (20% for you) and didn't use any (2% for you because you already bitched) sweetener. Your coils would thank me if they didn't look like charcoals after 1 day of your shitty $1/mL corn syrup infused juice.
I have 1 friend who refuses to like any DIY juice, but the 20 or so others that enjoy the shit out of it make up for him.
Set up a candy DIY booth not long ago...
"Why would you put nicotine in candy?!?"
"It's not nicotine, it's candy! You can put it in water or coffee too if you don't want candy"
"You put nicotine in coffee???!!!"
"IT'S NOT NICOTINE YOU STUPID TWIT!" (actually said in my head as I smiled politely and started talking with someone else)