I have around 40 recipes that I keep in rotation. For those I do a marathon "refill" mixing session maybe once a month or less. Averages around 400-500 mls. I like to stay a month ahead, so stuff I make now is getting put behind another full bottle of the same stuff that's already steeped. When I empty a 30 ml bottle, it goes into the refill queue. I like to wait till I have 12 or more empties. Last time was larger than usual, a 2 hour, 500+ ml session, all refills.
I have a dozen simple tobacco recipes that I also keep on hand. Most are single flavor mixes. I replenish those separately, on demand, depending on what I've got steeping/ready to vape. Those are fast and easy, maybe 120 mls at a time (split into 30s) half an hour.
A 30 ml bottle of Old Standby goes with me everywhere. It is nothing more than TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream 12%. I refill it when it's empty, about once a week. I've done it so often that I don't even use a scale anymore, I just eyeball 3.6 mls of flavor and top up with pre-mix in 30 seconds. I'm so used to vaping VBIC fresh that it tastes strange to me if it's been sitting around longer than a week.
Experiments and new recipes, I do when the whim strikes me, or when my stack of printouts becomes tall enough to piss me off. I've been doing less new stuff lately, though. I used to love trying new recipes, but now I'm pretty satisfied with my regular rotation. I have a drawer full of 10-15 ml testers/experiments that I'll probably end up trashing after they've sat another year. I think I have more fun mixing than sampling. Stuff I'm really hot to try, I make and vape right away. Bad habit.
Even though it makes the mixing process more arduous, I still favor 30 ml batches. I do 60 ml on a few that I use constantly, but I still put them in 30 ml bottles. I have a very restless palate, and something mental going on with large batches. If I'm sitting on more than 60 mls of any recipe, I tend to lose interest in it. 120 mls of a single flavor would last me way too long anyway, since I'm constantly switching between liquids. I made 120 mls of Unicorn Milk 6 months ago and still have some. It'll end up down the drain, but at least I learned from it that TFA Strawberry Ripe starts to fade at around 4 months. Strange thing is, I have 2 30 ml bottles of Unicorn in regular rotation. It's those 30 mls I reach for, the 120 ml is just sitting there like it's hexed. I'm mental.
Why did I write so much? Life story.
I have a dozen simple tobacco recipes that I also keep on hand. Most are single flavor mixes. I replenish those separately, on demand, depending on what I've got steeping/ready to vape. Those are fast and easy, maybe 120 mls at a time (split into 30s) half an hour.
A 30 ml bottle of Old Standby goes with me everywhere. It is nothing more than TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream 12%. I refill it when it's empty, about once a week. I've done it so often that I don't even use a scale anymore, I just eyeball 3.6 mls of flavor and top up with pre-mix in 30 seconds. I'm so used to vaping VBIC fresh that it tastes strange to me if it's been sitting around longer than a week.
Experiments and new recipes, I do when the whim strikes me, or when my stack of printouts becomes tall enough to piss me off. I've been doing less new stuff lately, though. I used to love trying new recipes, but now I'm pretty satisfied with my regular rotation. I have a drawer full of 10-15 ml testers/experiments that I'll probably end up trashing after they've sat another year. I think I have more fun mixing than sampling. Stuff I'm really hot to try, I make and vape right away. Bad habit.
Even though it makes the mixing process more arduous, I still favor 30 ml batches. I do 60 ml on a few that I use constantly, but I still put them in 30 ml bottles. I have a very restless palate, and something mental going on with large batches. If I'm sitting on more than 60 mls of any recipe, I tend to lose interest in it. 120 mls of a single flavor would last me way too long anyway, since I'm constantly switching between liquids. I made 120 mls of Unicorn Milk 6 months ago and still have some. It'll end up down the drain, but at least I learned from it that TFA Strawberry Ripe starts to fade at around 4 months. Strange thing is, I have 2 30 ml bottles of Unicorn in regular rotation. It's those 30 mls I reach for, the 120 ml is just sitting there like it's hexed. I'm mental.
Why did I write so much? Life story.
