[h=3]DIY e-liquids from Natural Extractions: Chocolate/Cinnamon[/h]
In a bid to reduce the amount of artificial stuff I usually vape on, I recently began experimenting with creating my own natural flavourings for my e-liquids. Through a process of trial error, I now have a couple of crystal clear extracts, which are highly realistic and very satisfying in terms of flavour-especially considering they were so simple to make.
I tried extracting flavours from coffee, ginger and tea, but these weren't particularly nice; chocolate and cinnamon are the two that really stood out as powerful characteristic flavours, and these two have now replaced my regular artificial flavours as my staple all-day vapes..The chocolate one in particular is the best chocolate flavour I have ever tasted- not like cocoa at all- a really warm and full flavour. Unless you have distilling apparatus (unlikely unless you are a chemist, bootlegger or sorcerer) and are using pure grain alcohol or some other powerful solvent that you can evaporate down to a few drops, the extracts you can make at home are generally a lot more dilute (you might need up to 60% of extract per mix of e-liquid).
However, that shouldn't put you off making natural extracts: I find flavours taste much brighter and stronger at more natural dilutions (all the most realistic commercial tobacco e-liquids contain dilute tobacco extracts) - the only downside is that you have to make them in larger quantities.
Ingredients and equipment:
All you need is some good cocoa powder (NOT drinking chocolate-should just contain powdered cocoa and nothing else-I'm using Bournville Cocoa Powder in UK) or a fresh cinnamon stick, some Propelene Glycol and a clean drinking glass or bowl. You also need a couple of pieces of kitchen roll or regular Kleenex (don't use coffee filter papers-they aren't fine enough). If you have a small funnel or sieve/colander, these will also come in handy, but are in no way essential.
Get full recipe info and mixing details here:
Vapemeup!: DIY E-Liquids from Natural Extractions: Chocolate/Cinnamon
Enjoy!
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| Freshly hand-crushed cinnamon stick |
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| DIY natural cinnamon extract |
I tried extracting flavours from coffee, ginger and tea, but these weren't particularly nice; chocolate and cinnamon are the two that really stood out as powerful characteristic flavours, and these two have now replaced my regular artificial flavours as my staple all-day vapes..The chocolate one in particular is the best chocolate flavour I have ever tasted- not like cocoa at all- a really warm and full flavour. Unless you have distilling apparatus (unlikely unless you are a chemist, bootlegger or sorcerer) and are using pure grain alcohol or some other powerful solvent that you can evaporate down to a few drops, the extracts you can make at home are generally a lot more dilute (you might need up to 60% of extract per mix of e-liquid).
However, that shouldn't put you off making natural extracts: I find flavours taste much brighter and stronger at more natural dilutions (all the most realistic commercial tobacco e-liquids contain dilute tobacco extracts) - the only downside is that you have to make them in larger quantities.
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| Pure cocoa powder |
Ingredients and equipment:
All you need is some good cocoa powder (NOT drinking chocolate-should just contain powdered cocoa and nothing else-I'm using Bournville Cocoa Powder in UK) or a fresh cinnamon stick, some Propelene Glycol and a clean drinking glass or bowl. You also need a couple of pieces of kitchen roll or regular Kleenex (don't use coffee filter papers-they aren't fine enough). If you have a small funnel or sieve/colander, these will also come in handy, but are in no way essential.
Get full recipe info and mixing details here:
Vapemeup!: DIY E-Liquids from Natural Extractions: Chocolate/Cinnamon
Enjoy!
