About to make my first

[p7willm]

I expect to get all my stuff within the next few days (damn holiday Monday. This is one time I wish I was in Canada) and I would like to go over the steps to be sure I have everything right.

My plan is to use a juice calculator to build a 10ml recipe for a single flavor, probably Cherry, starting at 5% flavor. Vape it in my dripper and decide to end this foolishness and just buy juice. Then steep it in an ultrasonic cleaner and try again. If the flavor needs to be stronger adjust it.

Now I have a simple one flavor juice. I can then continue on and decide it might taste a little better with some Orange in it. When that turns out to taste like c..p I can try some Banana.

Keep going.

I can find a recipe that seems interesting to me and give it a try. If it is horrible to me check who liked it and use them to weed out other recipes. If it is good fiddle with it to make it better and use those who liked it to pick other recipes to try.

Pick a juice I like and see if someone else has a recipe that is close.

Remember it is a journey, not a destination.

 

[Rat2chat2]

Here is a couple of good places to look for recipes.........

E-Liquid Recipes | DIY E-Juice | e cig Liquids

EcigExpress Archive Cookbook | Your favorite e-liquid recipes

E-Liquid Recipes | DIY E-Juice | e cig Liquids

Welcome to the wonderful world of DIY. Lots of good threads on ecf about mixing. Good luck to you and happy mixing. Have fun with it.

 

[Huckleberried]

I think you have a good plan. I started with other people's recipes and was happy with the results, most of the time. I do a little adventuring on my own, but only came up with one really good one, so far. I think it's a good one, lol.

Caution. It's addictive

 

[RocketPuppy]

This sounds like a great plan. However, for 1-2 flavored fruit mixes, steeping is not necessary, Imo.

Let me rephrase, time often makes mixes better, but I personally find that many fruit flavors are good once I mix them.

 

[Heabob]

Cherry suxs, unless you like cough drops...

Start with Banana, maybe TFA Banana Nut Bread @ 10%.
TFA Orange Cream 10%
TFA Blueberry Wild 10%

Keep it simple.

Some flavors will really discourage/frustrate in the beginning.

Just my humble opinion, mind you...

 

[p7willm]

I actually LOVE cough drops. I have heard that a lot of the cherry flavors taste like cough drops and I am stoked.

One of the reasons I am getting into DIY is that the local shop told me that they do not have a cherry is because whatever they try it turns out to taste like cough drops.

I have horrible memories of artificial banana flavor from my childhood, in the 50's, and to this day I love bananas and refuse to try anything banana flavored.

 

[wllmc]

if you like cough drop cherry flavors stay away from flavor art . . FA banana is the same thing. taste like a banana. darn flavor art and their realistic flavors lol....... but on a serious note goodluck ! bet you make some winners pretty fast. just do what feels right. use recipes as guidelines and try to make them better. nothing is set in stone. then share them with me