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Is your DYI juice as good as premium/boutique/gourmet juice?
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Read your post to her..she's sitting in her chair a few feet away with her ipad and her vape, and she laughed and said "EXACTLY!"
DenainWyo said:
"And yes, I have daydreams of having a wonderful vape shop someday, but they are just that, daydreams. What would be more likely for me someday is to have a few friends and friends of friends that want to buy ejuice from me to help support my hobby. That's way down the road though. Just think, if the FDA drives us down to black marketing, I could be like a drug dealer or something... "
PERISH THE THOUGHT!
(only about the FDA, I mean).
50 year old grandma gets 3-5 for selling 2 ozs of strawberry cream. News at 11.
Thankfully the terrible ones I mixed didn't cost me as much as the terrible ones I bought. I don't want to do the math but think it would take in the area of 10 equal volume bottles of DIY duds to equal what I spent on one premixed and, actually, those 10 duds of mine would probably be at least vapable unlike bad premixed stuff because I don't use flavorings that taste like chemicals/perfumes. Now, have I been able to clone my three favorite premixes?... nope... probably never will either... just too many variables and raw ingredient sources.
This is a VERY Good Point.
Even in the Beginning when I was Making Many Bad Mixes, it was Still Much Cheaper than All those Terrible Tasting or Lack of Taste Retail e-Liquids that I had gone thru.
I've come across a couple of my own mixes that are at least as good as the higher end juices I still buy from time to time, most of my attempts are based on the more talked about recipes I find here and there tweeked a little or a lot to suit my fancy. Sometimes you hit a good one that you feel can get better with a bit of effort other times its just good enough to vape and let go.
I'd love to nail a perfect Balaklava, and a vape that tastes like a good pipe tobacco smells, a chocolate that is to die for would be spectacular, and a mint with complexity. Is it so much to ask for?
Maurice
I'd love to nail a perfect Balaklava, and a vape that tastes like a good pipe tobacco smells, a chocolate that is to die for would be spectacular, and a mint with complexity. Is it so much to ask for?
Maurice
The main reason I started DIY was the consistency...No matter where I bought from the next time I would order the flavor wouldn't be the same. That is because a different mixer is making your juice every time.
With DIY it is only me and so far I am pretty consistent with my juices.
With DIY it is only me and so far I am pretty consistent with my juices.
I don't know if my DIY juices are as good a premium/gourmet/or boutique ejuices. I haven't tried all that's out there but the one's I have tried just didn't do it for me. I enjoy creating my own and using some of the recipes offered on this site. When I get a free sample from a vendor and I like it I just get the ingredients and make my own. My first recipe was a 3 flavor tobacco juice and I had to fine tune it. Took about a week and lots of tasting. I finally got it right for me and my housemates and they have been happily vaping on it since. Me, I like to experiment and try new things so I moved on from that initial recipe. I do have them try the new stuff and they like it alot but they are still fighting the want for a cigarette. I believe it's because they insist on a tabacco flavored juice, jmo.
Whoa..what an interesting thought: The whole search for the tobacco like juice might be the reason some have a hard time quitting cigarettes completely. Like an alcoholic trying to fight cravings with a bunch of odouls sitting around (that's non-alcoholic beer). Wonder if there might be something to that.
I'm a tea fan. Love Lapsang Soochong, Pu-erh, Darjeeling, Earl Grey, Oolong, Tibetan... Much as I stick to varietals, my wife prefers complex blends. One of her faves, Teavana's "Spiced Mandarin Oolong" extracts into a great ejuice. Ditto "Amandine Rose" which I don't drink as I find it outrageously sissy but is a super refreshing vape.
DIY is the way to go for the long term. A little time, patience and research and it's not that hard to put a quality vape together!!!
Now the real trick is the dreaded wait for it to be ready. Steep times can be a killer wait!!!! LOL
Now the real trick is the dreaded wait for it to be ready. Steep times can be a killer wait!!!! LOL
Yes, Mine are better!
Have slowly phased out almost all vendor juice purchases.
Mine are:
Cheap (ahem after finding the best flavors from each vendor, so initially about the same)
Customizable
Fresh ( do not go bad nearly as quickly as store bought, which also tend to change flavor and have inconsistent flavor profiles from one order to the nest).
and...
No guilt when I have to dump a bad batch.
Plus my friends love my flavors.
Have slowly phased out almost all vendor juice purchases.
Mine are:
Cheap (ahem after finding the best flavors from each vendor, so initially about the same)
Customizable
Fresh ( do not go bad nearly as quickly as store bought, which also tend to change flavor and have inconsistent flavor profiles from one order to the nest).
and...
No guilt when I have to dump a bad batch.
Plus my friends love my flavors.
can you share your recipe of tribeca's clone pls???
It's not mine, I got it from PapaGeno, but here it goes:
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Ok so I have tried EVERY "clone" recipe out there on this and other boards, and after trying all of them none seems to really be to where I cannot tell the difference, and some are just way out of the ball park in my opinion.
After trying out so many variations, and seeing what people are using here is where I am at.
Personally, I feel this needed a 3 week steep. And now I am happy as I can be with it. Tastes great in my Aspires and the Kayfuns.
I did it at 70PG 30VG, 6mg nic
RY4 Double (TFA) 10%
Tobacco Blend (TFA) 1%
Cotton Candy (TFA) 1%
Acetyl Pyrazine (TFA) 0.4%
That is it.. That is what makes me happy, and if it is close to you then I am happy to have helped a little, if it is not then maybe my taste is just poor.
To me it is the Tobacco blend that really makes this work, I got that from MyFreedomSmokes. I was hunting for Tobacco absolute and could not find it so I grabbed this instead.
The AP I used was the Acetyl Pyrazine at 5% in Propylene Glycol that you get direct from TFA, I did not do any further dillutions. I just did .4% using it from the 4ml bottle I got from them.
Have fun!
Not bad manners really, for the most part we all have opinions, and best to take all with a view to "everything is subjective". What I did in that regard was to research the forum ( i haven't found a more comprehensive forum for DIY than ECF) as much as possible, but will confess i was so anxious to start I went with what seemed the more talked about vendors and flavors, to find that there were better vendors and flavors as I actually tried as many as i could.
I've tried most of the vendors and will say that TFA while my first, is not my favorite in general.
Thats the thing, there are so many vendors and flavors to choose from, you will find that certain flavors from different vendors (brands) will be preferred for a certain flavor.
I suggest that unless you already know what flavors you want to DIY, go to the DIY sub forum and look fro threads like "what is the best (or your favorite) tobacco" (or blue berry) flavoring? If you don't find one, start your own and you will get lots of feedback.
I don't even vape tobacco, and the only juices I am interested are fruit flavors; particularly tropical fruits. Its a small niche and I know quite a bit about it.
Funny thing; there are so many juices being sold and marketed with cool names today.... and when you get the description, its so simple. Some of the most talked about juice are just easily accessible flavors.
My favorite fruit flavor brands are:
Hangsens
Inawera
Flavour Art
(some Capellas)
I've tried TFA but in general don't care for them too much. Not that I don't like a few of theirs, but for the most part they just weren't as clean tasting as the above.
That said I wouldnt be surprised if an expert DIY'er made me a fruit mix with TFA and it blew my socks off... ymmv.
Got to add: all the above that I posted said, where i am at today is that I have a couple mixes of tropical fruit flavors that I really like and vape all the time,
BUT my favorite professional juice, Bamskilicious Lychee, and a couple of other brands too, just can not be imitated. IMO.
What i do is take my favorite Lychee flavoring and make a mix with it, and some TFA Sweet Cream ( i like that TFA flavor for my fruits) and then add about 20% of the professional juice. BINGO. fabulous ADV and lots of $ saved!
I vape about 10 to 20ml of low nic juice a day.
BUT my favorite professional juice, Bamskilicious Lychee, and a couple of other brands too, just can not be imitated. IMO.
What i do is take my favorite Lychee flavoring and make a mix with it, and some TFA Sweet Cream ( i like that TFA flavor for my fruits) and then add about 20% of the professional juice. BINGO. fabulous ADV and lots of $ saved!
I vape about 10 to 20ml of low nic juice a day.
I think since its tailored to the individual , Like my self I love my Custard with its heavy custard eggy notes something not mixed by a lot of vendors due to the ingredients needed for that eggy note..So yes mine is better than the vendor bought custards I bought in the past...gl hope you find your favorite flavor and savings..Like a lot of us here have done..
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