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@Shadav - It's not hard at all to make a "one shot". I make one with the flavorings used to make Nick's Lemon Meringue Pie eliquid. It's enough flavoring to make 500mLs total eliquid with it. Sometimes I make a 10mL eliquid sample to give to someone to try, or a 30mL to friends who really like it. I make my own 50mL or 100mL regularly.

I know how many mLs of each flavoring it takes to make a 100mL batch of the LMP...because it's the same as the % shown for each flavoring. So I put 5 times the amount of each one into an amber glass Boston round bottle. Determining the total mLs to use from the "one shot", for each size bottle I make, is easy then. Takes just a very short time to make the eliquid that way. No more measuring the 6 flavorings individually any more, every time I make the LMP.
 
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Vanilla Milkshake Base
INW Biscuit 1.50%
FLV Milk & Honey 1.50%
TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream 4.00%
INW Shisha Vanilla 1.50%

Fran, do you think I can substitute TPA sweet cream, TPA Catalan Cream, or Hangsen Cream for the milk and honey?
 

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    Just curious, what vaping equipment do you used for testing new recipes ?

    Another delayed response :rolleyes:

    Hadaly clone RDA, to give it the 'yay' or nay'. The yays go into a doggystyle rta since I can wick that in my sleep for testing. The nays get tweaked ;)

    I'm in the same boat. I mixed a bunch weeks ago and just haven't had the gumption to test them. I tried a few using the "drip onto the coil with no wick" method, but I felt it didn't represent the flavor accurately. But the prospect of cutting little wicks, wicking, testing, pulling the wicks, rinsing/dry-burning the coil, then rewicking, over and over again, tires me out.

    Testing one a day would be a lot easier, but I want to taste all my, say, blackberries in one sitting so that I can compare them. Doing that, though, gets more nic into me than I enjoy.

    It's a pickle.

    But wait--I just remembered I bought a bunch of those cheap Royal Hunters. I could wick up a bunch of them ahead of time and just do all the cleaning at the end! This is a promising plan . . .

    I love that idea of having your setups prewicked - it would help out time wise too. A wise woman @Letitia :wub: gave me the best tip with wicking RDAs for flavour testing - poke your wick through the coil, then cut the tails really short - like a few mm each side. It's quicker and uses less cotton in the long run.

    My own tip - save all the cut off wick tails from your RTAs etc and use them for RDA testing wicks ;)
     

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    Fran, do you think I can substitute TPA sweet cream, TPA Catalan Cream, or Hangsen Cream for the milk and honey?
    You could try any of that but FLV m&H has nothing to do with milk or honey. The name is a reference to "the land of milk&honey".
     

    FranC

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    Fran, do you think I can substitute TPA sweet cream, TPA Catalan Cream, or Hangsen Cream for the milk and honey?
    There's no sub for the Milk and Honey. You can try one of the last two but the result will not be the same. FLV Milk and Honey is an excellent flavor.Everyone should have some.
     

    FranC

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    Well then I guess you definitely won’t need it! I didn’t realize you were moving. I’m obviously not on top of things on this forum. Are you moving far?

    It's a kinda long story if ya want to scroll back. Moving to my Daughters about 45 minutes from here. Renting house to gd.
     

    IDJoel

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    uf this ws-23 is strong.... made 15ml and just put about 1 1/2 drops into it.... man this is more like one drop per 30ml otherwise it's going to be too overpowering.....looks like i need to mix in larger batches when I want to use this....was just trying a smaller batch trying to make a banana milkshake
    For really potent concentrates; consider making a dilution. Take 1mL of the concentrate (like the WS-23), and add 9mL of PG (creating a 10% dilution). Shake thoroughly. Now, you use it just like the undiluted, only ten times the amount.

    This is particularly helpful when you need small, hard-to-measure, amounts. If a recipe calls for adding 0.08mL of the full strength, you would add 0.80mL of your 10% dilution, to get the same result. It also helps with accidental "over-pours," because 1 drop is now only 10% as strong, and much less detrimental to the final recipe. :)
     

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    Still waiting for my BCF order to arrive...tracking hasn't moved past post office acceptance... maybe I should send them an email? Really need that order so I can get some of the liquids I'm making for people done.

    I would email them. Is this an order from the sale? I would have thought you'd have it by now if so.
     

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    This is off topic but I'm considering either boxing up or selling my orions. I bought a dna go and two quests. I have the best performance with the quests but the pods don't last maybe a couple weeks at most and at almost $4 each, that 's not an expense I'm willing to maintain. I bought them in the middle of a buying frenzy and was excited to get them. The dna go just seems to burn up pods no matter where I set it at. I've tried both versions. Honestly, my favorite pod device has been the EQ. It seems like most of the manufacturers are focused on making and selling pod devices. I understand why. It's continuing revenue selling pods just like the cigarette companies had us always buying the next pack. I know it's my choice to buy them or not. I just wonder if box mods/pv's have reached their technological peak? First it was VV and then VW and then TC. There must be some new innovation in the future right? Ok, soapbox speech over. Let's get back to mixing.
     

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    Yeah it's from the sale.

    I would definitely email them then. Maybe USPS lost it. I know their tracking was all messed up this past week. I think everyone that ordered from the sale had tracking issues.
     

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    I would definitely email them then. Maybe USPS lost it. I know their tracking was all messed up this past week. I think everyone that ordered from the sale had tracking issues.

    Was just about to send the email when I got a text the tracking updated. Out for delivery. Gotta love USPS.....
     

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    First rule of mixing - have plenty of nic! :lol:

    Since that's one of the things the FDA may clamp down on, having a lot of it in the freezer is just good planning. Flavorings, PG and VG should still be easily available, but nic may become hard - and expensive - to source.
     

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