How to add saltiness?
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We weighed our 'table salt' (Himalayan pink) to come up with that figure, and on our jeweler's gram scale 1 gram measures an extremely scant 1/4 teaspoon (more like a slightly heaping 1/8 teaspoon). So..., HOLY ....., you're absolutely right - I put the decimal in the wrong place in my head! .9 gram would make 100mls, not 1000ml :::shaking head - I can't believe I did that::: Thank you SO VERY MUCH for pointing that out. Hopefully I'll be able to find & edit all my posts to correct them!
I have to wonder if there's going to be a thread later that says, "My cartos are rusting ... why?".
Ah no problem. It would've been worse if you'd accidentally told people to use 10 times too much
That's exactly the first thing I thought of, too! Then I read the following (from this thread http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/diy-e-liquid/268760-diy-master-techniques-flavor-add-ons-em-vw-bw-mts-acv-ect-2.html post #53):
I have use preservative free NaCl in my DIY for 3 years with out problems. I mix like I cook. When you bake, a salt lifts the chocolates, vanillas and adds depth. NaCl does the same. I have 510,901 and 801 attys that are older than a year and I use tanks with Boge and DC cartos without a problem. When a mix seems perfect except it seems to be "just missing something" it is the salt. My experience has been the opposite of your assumptions about NaCl. This can be purchased at any medical supply or pharmacy and I use generally a dropper 5mls for bakery/sweets and higher for choc coveed petzels or other salt needed mixes. Pie crust is not pie crust without salt IMHO.
We haven't noticed any problem with the Boge's in our tanks - but we don't use them unless we're 'on the road' where we can't easily refill our mini-glassomizers.
Never afraid to experiment on myself, here goes.....
I pulled out the bacon specimen. I used too much hickory smoke and it still tastes like bacon would taste in something else, not a good standalone bacon flavor (yet), but that's all irrelevant. It's not salty. At all. And that's a problem.
On a lark, I made a super saturated salt solution. Heated about 15ml of DW and dissolved as much salt as I could get it to take. Filtered out the remaining crystals and let it cool, then applied 6 drops to the 3ml specimen I was creating.
No salt detected in the flavor. Nothing. Zero.
I haven't broken down the coil to see what snowy white mess I suspect it's in from this, but disturbing is the lack of detectable saltiness. With the concentration I used, I expected something. Anything. Using more will affect the flowability of the e-juice itself, and without any detectable flavor, there is no indication that using more will do anything other than make a bigger mess. Apparently salt won't work for creating saltiness, an alternative will have to be found such as EM is a sub for sugar. It is sodium that tastes salty, perhaps a sodium alternative that will vaporize readily?
Time to hit Google....
I pulled out the bacon specimen. I used too much hickory smoke and it still tastes like bacon would taste in something else, not a good standalone bacon flavor (yet), but that's all irrelevant. It's not salty. At all. And that's a problem.
On a lark, I made a super saturated salt solution. Heated about 15ml of DW and dissolved as much salt as I could get it to take. Filtered out the remaining crystals and let it cool, then applied 6 drops to the 3ml specimen I was creating.
No salt detected in the flavor. Nothing. Zero.
I haven't broken down the coil to see what snowy white mess I suspect it's in from this, but disturbing is the lack of detectable saltiness. With the concentration I used, I expected something. Anything. Using more will affect the flowability of the e-juice itself, and without any detectable flavor, there is no indication that using more will do anything other than make a bigger mess. Apparently salt won't work for creating saltiness, an alternative will have to be found such as EM is a sub for sugar. It is sodium that tastes salty, perhaps a sodium alternative that will vaporize readily?
Time to hit Google....
We have plenty of sweet dessert flavours. Now we desperately need to get some salty snack flavours as well. I no longer get the excercise of going outside for a smoke so I need to find something to replace the potato crisps I'm devouring
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