how do i mix em into my juice the stuff i have from tpa is crystal form do i melt it or what?
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Be aware that it may take a long time to blend. It took my em about 3 days with me shaking twice a day, but it's fine now.
The suspension creates faster if you use some heat. I renovated a part of my kitchen to make a juice mixing area (still under work) and included this Japanese ceramic stove thing. You can set the temperature, point the laser at the contents and it will keep the contents at that temperature. I set it up for fast mixing new juices but it works great to create suspensions.
I set it for around 90-95C, put hot water in. Then I put a bottle half to 3/4 filled with PG in the water and let it go. When it reaches the temperature, I just start putting crystals in the bottle. I dump some in and wait a few minutes and put some more. When the crystals start to build up on the bottom of the bottle, I add more PG and let the whole thing sit for 15 minutes or so. If there are no crystals on the bottom when I come back, I add a bit more and let it sit. I repeat till there are only a few crystals on the bottom (usually once or twice more). The result is a completely saturated suspension of whatever the crystals were. Have used it with EM, vanilin, suralose, stevia and methol. Seems to work really well and can be used immediately.
I set it for around 90-95C, put hot water in. Then I put a bottle half to 3/4 filled with PG in the water and let it go. When it reaches the temperature, I just start putting crystals in the bottle. I dump some in and wait a few minutes and put some more. When the crystals start to build up on the bottom of the bottle, I add more PG and let the whole thing sit for 15 minutes or so. If there are no crystals on the bottom when I come back, I add a bit more and let it sit. I repeat till there are only a few crystals on the bottom (usually once or twice more). The result is a completely saturated suspension of whatever the crystals were. Have used it with EM, vanilin, suralose, stevia and methol. Seems to work really well and can be used immediately.
So does this mean that you use more than 1/4tsp of em in 10ml of PG? Are you still able to mix small batches with your stronger em? About how much em do you end up adding to 10 ml of PG?
EM is used by major manufacturers to sweeten and improve the taste, it is also useful with VG as the addition helps to thin it which is required.
Like any additive, ethyl maltol is probably best kept to a minimum as we don't know the implications of ingestion by inhalation.
Like any additive, ethyl maltol is probably best kept to a minimum as we don't know the implications of ingestion by inhalation.
Here we go again... damned if we do and damned if we don't. I really DON'T want to go back to traditional cigarettes but we really don't know if we are doing more harm than good.
Honestly I have no idea how much EM I put in the PG.
This method doesn't require measuring, so have not done so. One of these days I should measure it.Very good question on the small batches and the answer is yes, but qualify that with a 'for me'. I like my juices sweet. However, my friend (who I turned on to vaping recently) seems to think some of my juices are too sweet. However personally, I have switched off of EM to sucralose for my sweetener. I like the taste better (probably pretty obvious since I like sweet taste) and can get high purity imported from Singapore to me for cheap.
When I was using EM, in production mixes, I did 2-2.5%. I use Juice me up so don't keep track of per quantity measurements, just percentages. The difference was between fruit juices where I would use in the lower range and desserts, candy and drinks where I would use in the higher range (I don't really vape tobacco flavors and I don't like coffee, for reference).
Just as an aside, with my sucralose suspensions, I don't go over 1.5% really. 2% is too sweet even for me.
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