Does diy juice taste better?

[Vapenstein]

For me DIY tastes better. Most vendors add way too much flavoring.

Other way around for me. Most commercial juice tastes like it's 10% flavoring. I like juicy saturated flavor, so 15-20% for me. I endured 4+ years vaping on 306 attys and all the bad vaping days that went with that. Now I sub ohm with juice flavored to my preference, and I never have an off vaping day.

 

[93gc40]

Yes, if you make the juice correctly..... If your DIY juice tastes worse than commercial juice, you did it wrong.. Bad DIY juice at $0,05 per ml, is much better than commercial juice at $1 a ML, almost regardless the taste.

 

[WillyZee]

I use a super clean nicotine base ... so yes.

 

[Caro123]

I also would say having seen tobacco go from .35 cents a pack to $13.00 has caused me to want to be just a tad more independent re the Vaping experience

 

[jpasint]

For me DIY tastes better. Most vendors add way too much flavoring. It's a fun hobby too

It not just a hobby, its a way of life. Lol

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Does DIY taste better?

For me a definite YES! But then I am a bit odd and the artificial ingredients in most bought juices drives my mouth into a funk.

As someone else posted the fruit ones are the easiest to start with and turn out well. I use Liquid Stevia for my sweetener as I cannot handle the artificial ones.

I use no artificial ingredient flavors and like knowing what is going into my juice.

Wish bought juices listed the ingredients on the label...

 

[mattiem]

Absolutely !!!!!!!!!! I broke down and took advantage of a really good sale and picked up a couple of flavors that had really good reviews. Mistake, BIG mistake. They are awful. Ended up not that good a sale after all. I will put them back and see if aging will help but it will surprise me if it helps. Even my goofs taste better than the stuff I bought. Lesson learned. NO MORE Store bought juice for me.

 

[AndriaD]

Other way around for me. Most commercial juice tastes like it's 10% flavoring. I like juicy saturated flavor, so 15-20% for me. I endured 4+ years vaping on 306 attys and all the bad vaping days that went with that. Now I sub ohm with juice flavored to my preference, and I never have an off vaping day.

Ditto that -- to me, most commercial ejuice tastes like they waved the flavor bottle in its general direction. Sorta like waving a bottle of Vermouth at a glass of gin, for a dry martini. I want it strong and sweet, and most commercial ejuice is decidedly NOT. (I discovered TFA's sweetener long before I got into actual DIY -- just sweetening some commercial juices makes them actually taste like something!).

Andria

 

[BrotherBob]

Yes, if you make the juice correctly..... If your DIY juice tastes worse than commercial juice, you did it wrong.. Bad DIY juice at $0,05 per ml, is much better than commercial juice at $1 a ML, almost regardless the taste.

93 gc 40 I agree good post: You might not even need to make the juice correctly IMO. Just sorta close. You can easily adjust upwards--more flavor or whatever, downwards--little more tricky, but doable. Some DIY juices are better than others. Just adjust to your tastes. To date, I have not found a bad DIY batch that I could not recover and make vapable (luck?).

 

[zoiDman]

I've been thinking about making my own e juice as I have grown partial to G2 vapor and just can't justify spending £100 a month on juice. So I'm curious can I recreate the flavors I like to the same standard and will it work out any cheaper should I start?

You Definitely can create e-Liquids that you will like Better than Some/Many/Most Retail e-Liquids. You can/will also create some that Aren't.

Doing DIY is going to be Cheaper that buying Retail e-Liquids. A Small upfront cost to get set-up and to get some Working Recipes going. But after that, it is Nothing but Savings.

 

[Troy Noh]

I've been DIY'ing for a year now. Some of my recipes are hits, others I wish I never wish to endure on anybody heheh.
That and the price of vender juice is insane, 30ml of Craft Gravel pit is running $22. An half the time the one vape shop that carries is OOS

 

[Bob Chill]

I was never able to vape a single premix for more than 120mls before getting burnt out on it except for 1 that I still buy a big bottle of every 6 months or so. I think most premix are too sweet or have too much flavoring.

I have several DIY recipes that I've vaped 500mls and still love them. Will probably never grow tired of them. I was unable to do that with any premix and I tried plenty.

 

[dannyv45]

I've recently broke out my vender juices and vaped some of what used to be my ADV's. I quickly put them down and back in storage because I found what I make is far better.

 

[AndriaD]

I've recently broke out my vender juices and vaped some of what used to be my ADV's. I quickly put them down and back in storage because I found what I make is far better.

I had to go buy some, a few weeks ago when USPS was not cooperating to bring my flavors... and discovered much the same. I *CAN* make-do with store-bought if I just have to... but geez it's nothing like as good as my own. Plus I have to add some WTA and try to fiddle it to get my high-PG... huge PITA which is really not worth it, unless I really have nothing else I care to vape.

Andria

 

[VNeil]

How can you beat making exactly what you want, knowing exactly what goes in it, for 5 cents per ml??????
Commercial can only be better by accident. After all, it was optimized for someone else's taste buds.

 

[juicynoos]

I've been thinking about making my own e juice as I have grown partial to G2 vapor and just can't justify spending £100 a month on juice. So I'm curious can I recreate the flavors I like to the same standard and will it work out any cheaper should I start?

Hey Matt, funny thing, I also got hooked on G2's caRnY4, Mr Cookies and El Blacco..premium juice is very pricey, especially in the UK; that lead me to DIYing. You will save money after the initial setup cost and will need to research which flavors, recommended %'s and supplier's meet your needs. I can say that I have created some good substitutes for flavors like the one's made by G2 but have never come up with identical clones. Some attempts I prefer to the originals and as said already, you take full control over all aspects.

Give it a try.

 

[Igor Novak]

Sorry to say Matt but after one month of diy-ing and 6 months of vaping only Premium juice like Suicide bunny, Alpha vape-sweet tooth and G2 Carney and Mr.Cookie (by the way moon sugar from Mr good vapor is not premium juice) I can say you will have to pass a long way before you even get close to mr. Cookie. And maybe you will never get there. I tried about 70 recepis till now and I tried only recipies that other people saying they are great. Except two fruit recipes everything else went down the sink.
If I vape I will vape good thing. So that is that about making what other say is good. Till now I didn't manage to get even one good dessert recepis . G2 vapor Mr.Cookie is premium liquid and as it is i suspect they have at least one flavor extract made by them and that's why it's premium and that's why it's better and different from others. Everybody saying how diy saving money, I still have to experience that, I hope. But knowing how vaping saving money I think that will stay just one big hope. I have now 200$ of flavors which I need to try something out of them. Trying means, overvaping till sickness, changing cotton every second, washing syringes, endless paper towels rolls and that cost. And of course endless time which I don't have and in the end you question your self do you even enjoy vaping anymore or you vaping because you need to finish those flavors.
I say, if you can stay at 4ml at day(it is possible with kayfun) I will let pip overvaping instead of me.
I have all Tfa flavors and now I order Capella, if that don't give me any premium dessert recipes I think we will call it a 300$ loss.
Maybe I try someday again when I go to retirement

 

[Mrdaputer]

In a word YES. You can tweak it to your liking.

 

[Kaoself]

Depends on what you like. If you compare your DIY to a vendor that makes juice out of the same TFA/TPA flavourings then of course you can make better!

Slightly off topic, but what would people use to get a more rounded sweetness? Sucralose or ethyl maltol won't do it. I've never tried stevia.
The only comparison I can use is is a flavour that is away from artificial sweeteners and white sugar, and more like demerara sugar. Would you use a caramel without acetoin and acetyl propionyl?

 

[zoiDman]

Depends on what you like. If you compare your DIY to a vendor that makes juice out of the same TFA/TPA flavourings then of course you can make better!

Slightly off topic, but what would people use to get a more rounded sweetness? Sucralose or ethyl maltol won't do it. I've never tried stevia.
The only comparison I can use is is a flavour that is away from artificial sweeteners and white sugar, and more like demerara sugar. Would you use a caramel without acetoin and acetyl propionyl?

To Me, Sucralose is a Much Sweeter Sweetener that Athyl Maltol (EM).

You can Only go so far with EM. And then things start to taste like Chemical Meh. But you can make a e-Liquid taste like Liquid Sugar if you want with Sucralose. And Sucralose needs No Real Steeping Time.

Just make sure to buy Pure Sucralose in a PG Solution from a Place that sells DIY e-Liquid supplies.