I imagine many of you did what I did, and bought a few flavors in the beginning of your DIY journey that you thought would be good, then after more research, found there were much better ones. Now they just take up space. What do you do with those? I have a hard time throwing them away! Do you have a basket of shame? Try to fix them with other classics? Gonna research notes on each one on ELR first, just to be sure.
Mix them all together, add 5% super sweet and sell it on Facebook
With such lines as "Years of development", "finely crafted", and "premium".
I miss seeing 100% vg
Plus I hate sucralose and got some free from Perfect Vape, whom I no longer deal with. That's another story of waste. This is embarrassing to post but let's keep it real; in my first order ignorance, I ordered a whole gallon of 70VG/30PG 3mg nic pre-mix, oh the grossness and pepper throat hit! Aagghh!! Of course my husband who is a cigar smoker and vapes in the house, doesn't mind it at all, so at least it won't go to waste mixing recipes made for him.
That is so funny that you said that cuz, because I was just thinking of a FRIUT SUICIDE recipe! Ty God they are just 10ml bottles. I will post the later for ya after work and see what we come up with. I have some not-so-good apples, watermelons, pears, and peaches...
Try the mixes out on my nephew, a typical broke college student who vapes. If it makes a cloud he will use it.
Lol! We'll see after I create 'Fruit SUICIDE' .
Just in the beginning?
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I still make this mistake. Don't know what to do with certain flavours, would feel bad about selling them as some are truly horrible.
I now research my flavors completely before I buy them. Say I want a marshmallow, I go and I read the reviews and find the best marshmallows that will fit the types of flavors that I'm building according to at least five or six different tasters. I don't buy strictly according to a recipe that is someone else's unless it's an award-winning I reviewed recipe and it's highly likely that the flavors they use will be something that I can use again. But my first order was hit and miss.
I have a caramel flavour that's terrible on its own but is amazing in small amounts with banana nut bread. I tend to try and use them as minor flavour to add complexity to basic flavours.
Yeah, I have been researching each one and the notes on each one very slowly oh, and I found that actually most of them can be used when blended with others in the same flavor family, in certain doses, and only after certain steep times. So much research but I'm actually really enjoying this!
I still hang onto mine. You never know when some good sounding recipe is gonna call for something you rarely/never use. One of the first flavors I ever bought when I started DIY was Cap Blueberry Cinnamon Crumble, and it was hate at first vape, lol. Haven't touched it since, but I still hang onto it and others just in case.
I have a wall rack I built for often used flavors and a separate group of bins for seldom used flavors. I never toss wierd stuff as I payed for it. You never know when a recipe will need .2 grams of some wierd flavor.
On both ELR AND ATF you can look up a flavor and see the recipes it’s used in. When I’m broke I do that to burn up old stock.
alfred quoted folkart once saying that there are no bad flavors. each one could have a purpose somewhere in some mix. that said, there are more forgiving or eaier to use flavors too. i recently used some off flavors in a what the hell mix with no writing down of what i did and they surprisingly worked very well. now im not so sure i want to go back and try to recreate it! fml
When I started mixing juice the flavorings I used actually damaged my reputation as a juice master (as I tell my friends cause they are always stoned too the bone and get a laugh out of it). Most of the flavorings arrived to me off, so I just discarded them. No point in keeping flavors that fuck up your shit. Nowadays, if a flavor doesn't sell I just drop it from the line. All of my flavorings taste great, no need to throw anything out anymore. Someone will buy it eventually. I got 5 constants, and 4 that change depending on what people think. Also, depending on how much extract is left, I usually just bang out as many bottles as I can to steep and then I'll just order more flavorings. I try not to waste them if no one does like them. Everything is an investment so you gotta make everything count
Thank God I am not selling, yet. I will make everything count. Ty so much to you and everyone for the feedback. Good information and some entertainment too.
I go through Liquid Barn for flavors and Delosi Labs for nicotine. Reasonable prices, and quality extracts that keep people coming back for more (I don't get payed to say this).
May I also suggest using syringes to measure out your ingredients. Most don't go past 3ml and thats ok! It'll take a little longer to fill bottles but it's worth it. Everything comes out more precise. I used to use beakers but i always had either too little or too much and had to waste alot. Now its 3ml at a time, a lot slower, but alot better quality within the finished product too
You could use them for what they were initially designed for - food. Mix them all together, add sucralose at 10% and 3% nic for a nice nicotine laced pancake syrup. Mmm..
Well, I just made my first purchase of flavors, bases and nic for DIY, so while I don't know yet I'm sure they're be some in there that are more miss than hit.
As a vaper though, I've bought plenty of juice that ended up being a disappointment. A lot I ended up muddling through and vaping because I paid good money for them, the ones I absolutely couldn't got thrown out. No use keeping things that don't bring you joy lol.
There is a discord which is intended for just this purpose though. Finding other vapers to give away or trade juices and gear with. I belong to it, but haven't personally used it yet since I'd already thrown out all my unwanted juice.