Ruffie about to start mixing Q&A thread

[johny5times]

About to begin the tentative journey myself into the mad world of mixing.

coming tomorrow (hopefully) or wednesday (boooo) are 40ml of various T-Juice concentrates, some 50/50 nic base, syringes, and dropper bottles to go with my already purchased VG from boots and de-ionised water to thin it.

planning to make it up in 40ml batches (25% flavour - one bottle of conc per mix @ approx 35/65 PG/VG) using 50ml vodka and whisky miniature bottles as my mixing vessels.

excited.

also been looking at the flavour art website and might have a dabble at one of their 5 flavour sampler offers to make up a couple of other recipes I have had in my head for a while (creamy passion - 8% passion fruit, 8% peach, 4% vanilla custard and Nutella - 8% chocco melt, 8% Hazelnut, 4% Vanilla Custard). Both will be around 60 - 65% VG, so would I need to get some sweetener for either of these recipes?

[chykensa]

johny5times - try the recipes without sweetener first; you can always add it later, but can't take it out once it's in the mix.
25% flavour might be a bit excessive, same principle as above, start on the low side, and add more if you need to. I mix T-Juice concentrates at 18-20% and they are full-bodied and lush enough for me!

[ruffdog]

I did my first ickle mix today, just 5ml peanut butter. Might do some baccy in a bit as I'm now out of shop stuff bar a sample of ry6.
OH says it smells like the old smelly pencil erasers we used to get as kids, except their take on peanut butter lol.

Ruff

[johny5times]

Jul 7, 2014 19:38:47 GMT chykensa said:

johny5times - try the recipes without sweetener first; you can always add it later, but can't take it out once it's in the mix.
25% flavour might be a bit excessive, same principle as above, start on the low side, and add more if you need to. I mix T-Juice concentrates at 18-20% and they are full-bodied and lush enough for me!

I'm a fiend for strong flavours.  I'm more worried that 25% will be too weak, rather than too strong.  

[chykensa]

Jul 7, 2014 19:45:37 GMT johny5times said:

Jul 7, 2014 19:38:47 GMT chykensa said:

johny5times - try the recipes without sweetener first; you can always add it later, but can't take it out once it's in the mix.
25% flavour might be a bit excessive, same principle as above, start on the low side, and add more if you need to. I mix T-Juice concentrates at 18-20% and they are full-bodied and lush enough for me!

I'm a fiend for strong flavours.  I'm more worried that 25% will be too weak, rather than too strong.  

OK, but I stand by what I say - mix on the low side, you can always add more later!

[Perpetua]

Jul 7, 2014 19:45:37 GMT johny5times said:

Jul 7, 2014 19:38:47 GMT chykensa said:

johny5times - try the recipes without sweetener first; you can always add it later, but can't take it out once it's in the mix.
25% flavour might be a bit excessive, same principle as above, start on the low side, and add more if you need to. I mix T-Juice concentrates at 18-20% and they are full-bodied and lush enough for me!

I'm a fiend for strong flavours.  I'm more worried that 25% will be too weak, rather than too strong.  

I'm going to disagree slightly with chykensa, as I find F'arts on the whole from the ones I've tried quite weak and have ended up using 30% of some flavours to get a good taste, for me.

But, you might find that some flavours from the selection you've listed quite strong johny5times - like Hazelnut and it could overpower the others.

Any new flavours I buy, I make them up as a small ' standalone ' sample first, to give me a better idea of their strength and how much I might need to use in a combined recipe.

[chykensa]

Jul 7, 2014 21:12:15 GMT Perpetua said:

Jul 7, 2014 19:45:37 GMT johny5times said:

I'm a fiend for strong flavours.  I'm more worried that 25% will be too weak, rather than too strong.  

I'm going to disagree slightly with chykensa, as I find F'arts on the whole from the ones I've tried quite weak and have ended up using 30% of some flavours to get a good taste, for me.

Quite agree with you there Perpetua, the point I'm making is that you can always add more, but once it's in the mix you can't take it out. Especially if it's a concentrate that you've not mixed before, as you mention with Hazelnut for instance, it's a good idea to get an idea of it's potency first before just adding loads, which could ruin an otherwise good recipe

[johny5times]

it's the t-juice I'm mixing at 25% (all came today, all mixed, small tank of RA already converted into atmosphere ) 25% seems fine to me, it's a VG heavy mix anyway, about 35/65, and I'm happy with the flavour.

I've no idea what strength I'm mixing the f'art stuff at yet, those figures (20%) were just for the first try. will probably do about 5ml of both first, let them steep for a week or so, then see where I am after that / adjust the ratios, volumes etc.

[ruffdog]

I been good, I still have not tries my peanut butter yet lol