Creating only large batches?

[Fearalis]

So, i've been mixing for a couple weeks now. I started off with 10 ML's and quickly moved up to 20ml in 30ml bottles. I feel like nothing I was making was "bad" or couldn't be saved by adding in a couple drops of a different flavor or by steeping. I have been using dot1ml.com (AMAZING website.) and not really creating my own unless i'm throwing in minor changes that I think will make it better, IE 2% vanilla, or throwing in some apple to a cinnamon flavor. Nothing i've made has steeped longer than 8-10 days, it's usually vaped right after mixing. I guess I could see only mixing a 10ml if I was to add some crazy flavor combinations to try, but I don't think I would ever do that. I would just mix flavors that sound good. IE banana and custard, apple and cinnamon, watermelon and menthol, huckleberry, blueberry, etc.

Am I just too easy to please or are my taste buds not sophisticated enough? I've heard of people tossing juice out, but I couldn't see how it couldn't be saved with a touch of vanilla, some fruit thrown in, or by being steeped...

 

[Huckleberried]

I've made one unvapeable so far. Like you, I've only been at this a couple weeks. I haven't tossed it, I believe it can be saved, also like you. At this point I'm just getting my feet wet.

I'm playing it safe for the most part and sticking to recipes, til I get my "hip waders". I think I've made ONE that I just tossed stuff together that sounded good. Needs work, but still, pretty good. Easy to please...... sophisticated...... you like what you like and there's nothing wrong with that. If you're like me, you're learning about flavor. It's all good

 

[dannyv45]

Most of my experiments seem to work out with a few adjustments and know how. As you gain experience the mixes get better and better. I've recently dumped about 10 samples not for the fact that they were bad but because I needed the bottles for other test samples. These mixes were OK but nothing I would vape constantly and thus would sit around for a long time.

 

[horton]

Am I just too easy to please or are my taste buds not sophisticated enough? I've heard of people tossing juice out, but I couldn't see how it couldn't be saved with a touch of vanilla, some fruit thrown in, or by being steeped...

Nah...not too easy, consider yourself open to many different taste sensations. I think it's great that you like what you made right out of the chutes. Now you can fine tune those you REALLY like and the sky is the limit.....

 

[The Yeti]

That's not a LARGE batch by any stretch....I make my ADV 1000ml at a time.

By the time I get through it all, the last bottle has steeped for 3-4 months and is AWESOME!


To be fair, I'm thinking of cutting that batch in half next time....4 months may be just a bit too much steep time for this juice.

 

[horton]

That's not a LARGE batch by any stretch....I make my ADV 1000ml at a time.

By the time I get through it all, the last bottle has steeped for 3-4 months and is AWESOME!


To be fair, I'm thinking of cutting that batch in half next time....4 months may be just a bit too much steep time for this juice.

Could you elaborate a little in terms of what juices should not steep for a long time and what ones could steep long term? I'm not looking for super detail, just some broad categories if possible. Just curious which juices would hold up to longer steeping times and which ones would not. Thanks

 

[The Yeti]

Well, for my ADV (TFA DK TAB) it seems like 3 weeks is the sweet spot. After about 3 months it seems to lose a little bit of flavor. My wife vapes fruity juices (VZ SC) and they seem to need no steep time at all. I don't mix up large batches of the fruity juices (I mix up about a months worth at a time) but they seem to taste just the same from day one to day thirty.

That's pretty much the limit of my experience...so far.

I've just ordered up a bunch of new FA flavors from Pure Vapes (in order to expand my DIY horizons a bit) but they haven't arrived quite yet.

 

[The Yeti]

So, just to sum it up - I guess I would say that tobacco juices need to steep for at least a couple weeks, but fruity flavors are good right off the bat. I have no experience (yet) with bakery flavors, so can't help there.

 

[horton]

So, just to sum it up - I guess I would say that tobacco juices need to steep for at least a couple weeks, but fruity flavors are good right off the bat. I have no experience (yet) with bakery flavors, so can't help there.

Thanks for your reply. Every bit of info helps. The fruit and bakery flavors are where I'm interested, so I now have one part of the equation!!