Various Recipes - your thoughts?

[CaptainChaos]

Sorry - this is going to be a bit image heavy - I've got loads of Concentrates & want to mix various flavours to get something worth vaping.

The Concentrates I've got are:

Aniseed (Kandi-Hed)
Black Licorice (Flavor West)
Lemon & Lime (Capella)
Cherry Cola (Capella)
Cinnamon Red Hots (Perfumers Apprentice)
Cola (Capella)
Two Apples (LT-ecigs)
Menthol Artic (Flavor Art)
Lemonade (Flavor West)
Pineapple (Perfumers Apprentice)
Fire & Ice (Flavor West)
Champagne (Perfumers Apprentice)
Anise (Flavor Art)
Absinthe (Decadent Vapours)
Red Juice (T-Juice)
Jack the Ripple (T-Juice)
Lemon Sherbert (Decadent Vapours)

Also 72mg/ml Nicotine in VG
Aqueous Vegetable Glycerine
Monopropylene Glycol
PG Nicotine Base (72mg (7.2%)

I have tried doing "standalone" mixes of the Black Licorice, Lemon & Lime, Cherry Cola, Aniseed & Cinnamon Red Hots, ALL at 24mg Nicotine Strength, PG Nicotine Base, Target PG/VG all 70/30.

They were all really bland & pretty crappy - anyone know why that might have been?

Also anyone know any mixes of the above that might possibly taste nice?

I tried a mix of 3 flavours (Lemonade, Pineapple & Fire & Ice) but it didn't like the percentages or something about it. Any suggestions/changes?






Any ideas gratefully received (preferably with the amounts for each ingredient in ml).

Please don't use percentages because they'll confuse me. Amounts I can do, percentages of percentages of total amounts I struggle with.

And!

If I make something that you suggest that is awesomely awesome, I'll post 10ml to you so you can taste it as well hahahahaha

[smifee]

Nic in PG 3.3ml
PG 2.4ml
VG 2.3ml
Flavour 2.0ml

You can divide the 2ml of flavour according to which flavour you want to be the strongest. If you want equal amounts of each use .7ml of each.

I don't work with drops. Too much faff. Also for me near enough is good enough.

I find I prefer to mix all flavours singly at 20% and after they have steeped mix them together for concoctions that I fancy.

[Postmodern Smoking]

Jun 25, 2014 15:18:18 GMT CaptainChaos said:

I tried a mix of 3 flavours (Lemonade, Pineapple & Fire & Ice) but it didn't like the percentages or something about it. Any suggestions/changes?

The problem is that you're using a total of (20%+20%+20%) = 60% flavouring (in PG), which combined with your PG nic doesn't enable there to be room for enough VG to meet your PG/VG ratio that you input.
I would suggest that you aim for all the flavours added together to be around 20% to 25%.

If the flavour concentrates are of a similar strength to one another and you want them in equal amounts, try them at 7 or 8% each.

[sonicflowjoe]

Looks like you've tried to put 20% of each individual flavour. You just want 20% of flavouring overall.

With that mix of flavours you have there I'd say add more of the lemonade, maybe 10% (1ml), max of 5% Pineapple (TPA stuff is generally stronger in my experience), and don't know what make the fire and ice is but maybe a max of 5% of that...

[jcol]

i am currently vaping Capella Lemon & lime, CCW Forest Fruits with a little DV Absinthe in it, and its quite nice

In a 10ml mix, you should use for 24mg @ 70/30

Nic - 3.33ml
PG - 1.27ml
VG - 3.0ml
L&L - 1.0ml
Absinthe 0.6ml
Forest fruits 0.8ml (i know u dont have any, but u can try Harvest Berry or even Pineapple instead)

[iLardyboy]

For my Eye of Sauron recipe, which I think you said you wanted to try....for 10ml you'd mix this:

Nic - 3.3ml
PG - 0.3ml
VG - 3ml
TPA Cinnamon Red Hots - 1.5ml
DV Absinthe - 0.5ml
FA Anise - 0.5ml
TPA Pineapple - 0.5ml
TPA Sweetener - 0.2ml
FA Menthol Artic- 0.2ml

You can try it fresh and see if you like it, but I'd let it sit for a week for best flavour.

[CaptainChaos]

iLardyboy - is there anything I can use except the sweetener - that's the only ingredient I haven't got in my mix box

[iLardyboy]

Jun 25, 2014 19:18:41 GMT CaptainChaos said:

iLardyboy - is there anything I can use except the sweetener - that's the only ingredient I haven't got in my mix box

There's nothing on your list of ingredients to replace the sweetener, but you could try it without it. It won't be as sweet, but that may be ok for you.

[CaptainChaos]

can I just dissolve some granulated sugar or icing sugar in it?

[iLardyboy]

Jun 25, 2014 20:46:14 GMT CaptainChaos said:

can I just dissolve some granulated sugar or icing sugar in it?

I wouldn't have thought so...try it without it and see how it is. It's only 10ml so you won't be wasting much if you don't like it.

[CaptainChaos]

Thanks, iLardyboy - I will get onto your Eye of Sauron tomorrow hopefully!

[CaptainChaos]

I might also do some Red Astaire with a bit of Hellfire thrown in

[iLardyboy]

Jun 25, 2014 20:58:15 GMT CaptainChaos said:

Thanks, iLardyboy - I will get onto your Eye of Sauron tomorrow hopefully!

Let me know how it goes and what you think of it.

Also I'd recommend you adding Sweetener and MTS Vape Wizard to your ingredient box. They are great additives and very common in recipes on the site and most likely if you try to create your own recipes.

[CaptainChaos]

I can understand what sweeteners would do to a juice, but what is MTS Vape Wizard?

[iLardyboy]

Jun 25, 2014 21:03:25 GMT CaptainChaos said:

I can understand what sweeteners would do to a juice, but what is MTS Vape Wizard?

Here's a link with description:

www.chefsvapour.co.uk/MTS_Vape_Wizard/p1901058_11764203.aspx