So, I've been working like a fiend recently, and have found myself with very little time to mix. I'm trying to be efficient (lazy) with my time, and thought of something.
If I were to mix up flavourings for say, 1200mL of juice, could I use 10% of that mix (each time) to make 10 120mL bottles of that particular flavour? I mix for friends too, so it's not uncommon for me to make 4-5 120mL of the same flavour between my habits and theirs, so it wouldn't sit too long.
Wondering if that would be how this works, or if there's a better way to go about it? Cheers and happy vaping.
This is known as a flavor base, which are pretty common now days. You mix all the flavors in a bottle and then just do a one shot of that concentrate mix into a base and you're done.
Alltheflavors and ELR both have calculators to mix flavor bases for the purpose of one shots.
Would my method work in theory also by chance? I have all my recipes saves as eJuice Me Up files and really don't want to transpose all of them. If not, I guess I'll get to work!
You can make the base as large as you want to. The percentage used is totally different depending on the recipe though. You could use more or less depending on the total percentage in a finished mix.
For your example that would work if the total amount of flavoring for a finished mix was 10%. Keep in mind 1200ml of a flavor base is an assload of flavoring. If you hate mixing that much then it could be worth it for you to have that much flavoring ready to go but spending 10 minutes a couple times a week to mix more flavor bases up isn't that big of a deal.
I did that by mistake, once.
I intended to mix a 10 ml bottle of juice. I didn't realize I had my calculator set for a 30 ml bottle. And, at that moment I only had little 10 ml bottles ready. So, I poured the flavors, to realize I had poured three times the flavoring I needed. For some reason, I had not add nicotine to that mix just yet.
So, what to do?
Nothing. I shaked the bottle with mixed flavorings. I got another 10 ml bottle. Adjusted the amount to make 10 ml of that recipe on the calculator, and saw what was the weight of total flavoring needed for 10 ml, and poured that amount to the new bottle. Added nic base, PG and VG as needed. Let the new juice bottle steep. It was a berry cheesecake. After a few days, it was good.
But, what happened to the extra mixed flavoring I had?
For one, it did steep on its own. after a few days, it did smell pretty much like finished juice.
However, weeks later, it turned a little bitter. It's still usable, and when I mixed those "flavor shots" with VG/PG, it only needs an overnight steep, but this is not as good as the bottle I mixed with PG/VG right away.
My conclusion about my accident/involuntary experiment is that it might work, but whether or not the pre-mixed flavor goes off may still depend on the individual flavorings and how well they hold over time, so you would have to experiment and see which mixes work and keep well following this method and which just don't hold.