Question with recipe attached/ Yummy Tobacco

[Dougiestyle]

I wanted a sweet, nutty tobacco flavor with lots of vapor, and being a new DIYer, I got through my learning curve somewhat and came up with this recipe, much to my satisfaction, for an all-day vape. I'm unsure of the ratios of PG/VG or nic content, though. Please let me know what I've got. I calculate 30 drops/mL

This is a ~90ml batch-

80 drops Stevia (liquid)
99 drops Menthol (crystals in PGA @2.5mL/7.5ml)
99 drops tobacco (TA@ 3drops- 5ml PGA/4mL VG)
60 drops Champagne (TPA)
60 drops Caramel (TPA)
45 drops Almond Amaretto (TPA)
30 drops Vanilla (Bourbon) (TPA)
48ml Base 48mg/mL (PG)
6mL Base 100mg/mL (VG)
31.2mL VG
6mL PGA
Microwaved for 30sec


It's perfect for me and I want to share the satisfaction with others at the E TN Vape Meet this coming weekend, but want to be able to inform them of the content. Try it at your leisure. It's really good! Any suggestions are welcome. TIA for replies!

 

[MaxUT]

The recipe looks interesting, but your drops and/or your total volume are wrong... at 30 drops/mL, the total comes to 106.8mL, not 90.

If it's 90mL, then your nic strength is 32.2 mg/mL.
If it's ~106mL, then the nic is 27.4 mg/mL.

 

[aprioristic]

That is a crazy recipe. Almond Amaretto is a weird flavor and those are odd combinations. I think one time I accidentally used AA with some sort of fruit blend and came up with a sort of daquiri ice (Baskin Robbins stopped making this flavor).. but this was before I learned to write everything down. I'll try something like this sometime. It's cool when you amke weird combos like this and come out with something you actually like.

 

[Dougiestyle]

Definitely try it! Max, it came out to close to 100mL, so right around 30mg, correct? Exact nic content isn't so important, but I just wanted to be sure. Thanks for the input. Mucho appreciado!

 

[MaxUT]

Here it is with the total quantity at 100mL
I reduced the drop size a lot (now 50/mL) and cut back the VG slightly to make the percentages come out right for 100mL total. This assumes that your measurements for base, VG and PGA were accurate.

80 drops ... 1.6mL ... 1.6% ... Stevia (liquid)
99 drops ... 1.98mL ... 1.96% ... Menthol (crystals in PGA @2.5mL/7.5ml)
99 drops ... 1.98mL ... 1.98% ... Tobacco (TA@ 3drops- 5ml PGA/4mL VG)
60 drops ... 1.2mL ... 1.2% ... Champagne (TPA)
60 drops ... 1.2mL ... 1.2% ... Caramel (TPA)
45 drops ... 0.9mL ... 0.9% ... Almond Amaretto (TPA)
30 drops ... 0.6mL ... 0.6% ... Vanilla (Bourbon) (TPA)
48ml Base ... 48% ... 48mg/mL (PG)
6mL Base ... 6% ... 100mg/mL (VG)
30.5mL VG ... 30.5%
6mL PGA ... 6%

As for the nic level:
48mL of 48mg = 2,304mg nic
6ml of 100mg = 600mg nic
total nic = 2904mg
2904mg divided by 100mL total recipe = 29mg/mL nic strength

 

[Dougiestyle]

Here it is with the total quantity at 100mL
I reduced the drop size a lot (now 50/mL) and cut back the VG slightly to make the percentages come out right for 100mL total. This assumes that your measurements for base, VG and PGA were accurate.

80 drops ... 1.6mL ... 1.6% ... Stevia (liquid)
99 drops ... 1.98mL ... 1.96% ... Menthol (crystals in PGA @2.5mL/7.5ml)
99 drops ... 1.98mL ... 1.98% ... Tobacco (TA@ 3drops- 5ml PGA/4mL VG)
60 drops ... 1.2mL ... 1.2% ... Champagne (TPA)
60 drops ... 1.2mL ... 1.2% ... Caramel (TPA)
45 drops ... 0.9mL ... 0.9% ... Almond Amaretto (TPA)
30 drops ... 0.6mL ... 0.6% ... Vanilla (Bourbon) (TPA)
48ml Base ... 48% ... 48mg/mL (PG)
6mL Base ... 6% ... 100mg/mL (VG)
30.5mL VG ... 30.5%
6mL PGA ... 6%

As for the nic level:
48mL of 48mg = 2,304mg nic
6ml of 100mg = 600mg nic
total nic = 2904mg
2904mg divided by 100mL total recipe = 29mg/mL nic strength

Good point on the math in the last part, Max! I've been using the 2 bases together because I couldn't get the amount of VG that I want into the juice with the 48mg PG base. It seems like something close to 50/50 works best for me to err on the side of a little more VG. I thin it with PGA to achieve a little more TH for the sacrifice of PG. I hope this makes sense.

It seems as though, from your calculations, that I'm close to 10% total flavor. It wouldn't hurt to add some flavor at this point, because the nic level is so "high", right?

 

[Para]

Download Breaktru's Ejuice Software....it's FANTASTIC and will be a big help

 

[MaxUT]

Thanks, but I prefer to calculate by scratching tally marks on the wall of my cave.

 

[Dougiestyle]

el oh el- That's Spanish for haha! ^^^

Para, I have the TW calculator on my Droid for cooking, but it won't let me mix bases, so that's why this post came up. With Max's math, I should have better calculation in the future.

Thanks!

 

[Dougiestyle]

Update: I added-

45 drops Tobacco
30 drops Champagne
30 drops Caramel
20 drops Almond Amaretto

to bump the flavor up closer to 15%. I hope I didn't screw the pooch. :/

 

[Shantia]

Its really difficult to know the ML per x amount of drops because every dropper can be different. Some come in 40 drops per ml, others are 20...some are 23, etc and so on. So its really hard to figure out the exact ML measurement of a recipe based on drops unless the dropper used is included so someone with the same dropper can count them out into a syringe with exact ml markings. Thats one of the main reasons i quit using pipette's to measure my liquid cause they werent accurate enough for the syringe lol.