Making small flavor test samples

[Harrygrowth]

I mix up 3 or 4 bottles of 15-20 ml of unlfavored nic juice with VG to make my desired nic concentration. I add no flavoring to these. When I want to make a test sample I just take from one of those bottles using the 20 drops per ml method. I add flavoring to that sample. That way I'm not using up a bunch of pipettes are dirtying up syringes when i do my samples. Anyone see a problem with premixing without flavorings? I mean that's what the unflavored nic juice is anyway right?

And as for flavorings, I think you really need to start out by using a drop per ml of flavoring to get to your liking. I used apple at a 20% rate on a batch I recently made. It tasted pretty good (pretty sour though) but holy smokes, after vaping that all day the back of my throat was so fryed and I couldnt taste anything. I just whipped up a 2ml sample with 1 drop/ml of peanut butter as well as caramel. That has more caracter and flavor then the good ole apple. Learned a lesson there. Start out lean and go from there. I realize each flavoring may be stronger then others.

 

[silkakc]

Harry,

I make up a big bottle of stock of 15 mg- 18mg and use that same bottle for 3 weeks. It holds 60 ml of juice. I was never interested in making a bunch of little bottles every couple days I pour my stock into lil 6ml bottles and add whatever flavoring to those for the day.

To test flavors, I use pure VG only to test ( that's what I vape anyways- 100% VG). I pour about 1-2 ml of VG into a 6ml bottle and add 3-4 drops of flavoring, shake and vape. If it's weak, I add a couple more drops and test and repeat if necessary. I have so many flavorings that I didn't want to waste any nicotine juice on the ones I didn't like! VG is so cheap that I don't mind throwing it out if a flavoring isn't to my liking

 

[pixiedust]

I do something slightly different. I mix 3 or 4 five ml bottles of 70/30 each about 10% flavoring, each bottle with a different flavor. Then I mix them in very small quantities, enough for a carto and try them in varying combinations until I find a flavor mix that I like. (I know what flavors I like when I start, but I just don't know how they will react with different flavors and this seems like the easiest way for me to determine that)

 

[Zal42]

When I want to make a test sample I just take from one of those bottles using the 20 drops per ml method. I add flavoring to that sample. That way I'm not using up a bunch of pipettes are dirtying up syringes when i do my samples. Anyone see a problem with premixing without flavorings?

I don't use nic at all in my taste testers. The nic is the most expensive part, and I'm not going to waste it on stuff that is likely to be tossed out.

Also, I don't do it this way because I'm a bugger for accuracy in measuring. It's particularly important when making small batches, where a tiny error makes a big difference in the ratios.

In any case, the only problem that I see is that the flavoring takes up a nontrivial % of the juice. If you've premixed unflavored liquid and don't use 100% pg or vg, then adding the flavoring will throw your pg/vg ratio off. This may or may not matter in the end, but I like my testers to be as close to the desired end product as possible.