Online recipe database and calculator

[mauzey]

daath, I would think a mutually exclusive radio button specifying either PG or VG on each flavor would be awesome. I would think you dont have to split the percentage of PG/VG for each flavor as they would probably be all of one or the other.

Thanks,
Jeff~

 

[daath]

I think you might be right, Jeff. Though I am having trouble finding the base for some flavorings. Some say they are undiluted (no PG/VG)... Hmmm!

 

[mauzey]

I think you might be right, Jeff. Though I am having trouble finding the base for some flavorings. Some say they are undiluted (no PG/VG)... Hmmm!

All of my Lorann's , Totally Wicked and Seedmans are all PG based, I am pretty sure all flavoring is based in PG or VG. they have to have some fluid to actually suspend the flavor. some may be suspended in water, but most I believe are in PG.
Anyone else have thoughts?

Thanks,
Jeff~

 

[Uncle Screwtape]

I think you are all over thinking this a bit. When I create a recipe I enter the actual amounts of each ingredient into my spreadsheet. Many of mine look like 75pg 15vg 5pga and 5 flavor. From what I've read on flavors, their base can be pg, vg, water or alcohol. PG+VG does not have to equal 100percent. In reality it probably never does. I prefer to see actual numbers

 

[daath]

Uncle Screwtape, I was thinking the same thing, but when you do a mix and want 75/25 PG/VG and 20% flavor you could have 20% more PG in your mix - that is as much as the VG in the mix...

I can't figure out what's best - The most precise will make the recipe building a bit tedious with so many choices

 

[Uncle Screwtape]

Here's a screen shot of one of the recipes in my spreadsheet. The percentages are there as a result of calculations, an end point for reference.

Also, I have mixed with more than one ingredient containing nicotine, so to get a accurate strength of the final product, there needs to be a place to enter the strength of each ingredient.

JMHO

BTW,don't mix this one as is, it kinda sucked

 

[daath]

I see your point, which is a good one. I might think of adding mg strength to relevant fields... Still don't know if I should just assume that flavor is PG or to have PG/VG/Other radio buttons for each flavor (plus a nic strength field)?

 

[Uncle Screwtape]

I guess I go about it differently than most. When I mix I think about approximate amount to make, VG percentage and nic strength. For example I'll be out to make 20ml of 20mg juice with about 20percent VG with a sweet tobacco flavor. But I don't care if I end up with 22.5ml of 18.3mg .........................etc.

If it works, I'll do it exactly the same again. If it doesn't work I'll tweek the amounts of what I think needs fixing. sometimes I'll get nice round numbers as a result, other times the percentages look kind of whacky.

 

[dee5]

What a great idea! I'll be keeping an eye on this one and have saved it to my favorites. God knows if I try to find it in here again I never will!

 

[daath]

Thanks! Input much appreciated! I've few things to think about!

Everyone feel free to chip in

While I was thinking, I've implemented private recipes, so that only you can see them. That way you can revise until you are ready to share, or just have some private ones at hand.

 

[daath]

I think this is the "DYI e-liquid"-section? I'd love to get someone to use it Don't want to be too pushy though...

 

[daath]

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[mauzey]

Daath, your not over thinking it if you want to make it precise, besides using percentages for whatever ingredients, (PG, VG, NIC, Water, PGA) makes it easier to scale your batches of juice. Most people want to know what percentage of flavors to use, it just makes it easier for the end user. IMO

Good Luck,
Jeff~

 

[mauzey]

I think this is the "DYI e-liquid"-section? I'd love to get someone to use it Don't want to be too pushy though...

There ya go, I just put one up. My new all day favorite TW: M/Borough

Thanks,
Jeff~

 

[Uncle Screwtape]

I just tried to enter my toasted almond recipe. It has many ingredients, some at 0.6 and 0.8 percent. The program changes these to 0 and eliminates the flavors. I kept it private because what it puts out as the recipe is not what I put in. The math doesn't work. I think it might be because it wants to change everything to drops

 

[Uncle Screwtape]

And the private recipe isn't private.

 

[daath]

Sorry Uncle Screwtape, I accidentally changed a field name before I went to sleep, so the private stuff apparently didn't work. It should work again.
I set yours as private.

Even after sleeping a bit, I'm still a bit lost as to what to do about flavor/pg/vg/other

 

[daath]

What's great about this recipe db/calculator is that you can just press "Base new on this" and play with the numbers of someone elses recipe to make it fit what you have in stock

 

[daath]

Uncle Screwtape, It was saving percentages as integers, I've changed the flavor percentage field to accept decimal numbers...

BTW thanks guys for trying it!

 

[nikk4s]

3 radio buttons for pg/vg/neither?