Here's my kitchen-utensil method for making some DIY e-juice:
1. I mixed 6 oz (volume) of loose American Spirit Certified Organic tobacco with 3 oz boiling hot (microwaved separately) distilled water in a french coffee press.
2. Mixed everything up good with a butter knife, then poured in 8 oz NOW brand USP VG and mixed again.
3. Placed an extra paper coffee filter under the mesh on the press to filter out more particulates.
4. Placed in fridge, waited about 24 hours with the press above the mixture, cap on with aluminum foil sealing up the plunger and cap from fridge-flavor MMMM!
5. Took it out after 24 hr, let it warm up enough to thin out the viscosity, then pressed the plunger down slowly until bottomed out on the solids.
6. Re-filtered with the cleaned press again, using another coffee filter to get out more particulates.
6. Filled up a sterilized stainless liquor flask and some dropper bottles, and stored in my cool dark closet.
There's very little particulates in the liquid, and they settle in the bottles anyways. The process was not stinky at all, and didn't make a big mess in my kitchen. I accidentally breathed some steam when mixing it up, and I didn't OD or feel buzzed or sick. Got some on my hands, didn't feel a thing, and just washed it off. It's weak stuff, still good to wash up after contact.
The results:
-The taste is great, like smoking a filtered AS Organic analog, but without the smoke, mild, sweet, and vanilla/nutty tasting. Almost tastes like honey when I dropped a little on my tongue. I tried it out with some vanillin flavoring, and it works nicely together, although the vanillin makes it harsh.
-Stronger pipe tobaccos would work well with this method I think, since the flavor I got was very subtile, just like smoking the organic tobacco. I don't know of any natural or organic pipe tobacco blends out there, but they probably exist.
-It leaves some brown residue in the KR8 cartomizers, and starts to taste kinda stale after 5 refills. I gutted a dead carto, and found that it doesn't completely rinse out of the packing closest to the atomizer, possibly due to tar or particulates getting caught. Maybe the extra alkaloids carmelize on the atomizer packing that gets hottest, it didn't smell burnt, just stale and cooked.
-Mad vapor since it's VG based, it could use a little dilution to make my KR8 draw easier, but not too bad as it is right now. It makes huge clouds of tasty vapor.
-Throat hit is nice and smooth, not harsh like the PG cartomizers I've tried out recently. I actually like this stuff to refill the pre-filled PG cartos, since it mixes flavor well with the Kamel and Coffee flavors quite well, and smooths out and richens the experience. The PG cartos make me cough and burn my throat, just dripping a couple drops into the battery end makes them much more acceptable to my system.
-Nicotine, Idunno. I'm sure there's some in there, but not much since it doesn't buzz me like the 36 and 24mg cartos do, but it does satisfy the urge to smoke so I guess mission accomplished. I never got a buzz off of cigarettes once I became hooked, so I might use this stuff to accent the flavor and dilute my commercial tobacco e-juice and cartos to a level that's appropriate and to save money. I want to go to the pool store and get the chemicals to test the nicotine content eventually, but as it stands now the stuff is definitely safe. I can chain-vape this stuff and not feel sick from overdosing like I do from the commercial cartos. I do, however like the commercial cartos because they provide a quick fix when I'm busy at work (like analogs), so I won't be buying weak cartos or bringing them to work until I can step down my cravings. Inattention and red mist is no good in my line of work, gotta be sharp as a razor at all times to be safe.
-Alkaloids, toxins, tar, impurities? Idunno, I'm a race car mechanic not a chemist. This stuff definitely hits "a" spot, not "the" spot like an analog smoke, but close. This is similar to Tropical Bob's Snus tincture, I got the idea from that and used organic tobacco since I've smoked organic or all-natural cigarettes mostly, as a "reduced risk" measure.
Now I don't have to combust the crap to get the nicotine and flavor I like! [insert image of Spagett soaked in wet tobacco here, "Good News, CIGARETTE JUICE!"], damn noob rules, the picture's so funny!
Like the forum says: Do so at your own risk, this was my positive experience and yours could be completely different or poisonous. You, and only you are responsible for your own actions. This is just my way of trying something out to save money and ride out the ban if it should so happen.
