Random DIY mixing and More

[classwife]

I just use the nic base I have mixed. Nic strength is no longer real important to me as long as I have enough. I vape around 6mg. I mix my nic base a little over that and good enough for me . You may wish to be a little more precise in your mixing.

I mix my nic base up at 5mg - that way the numbers always come out even without leftovers - be it nic, vg or pg

 

[FranC]

I mix my nic base up at 5% - that way the numbers always come out even without leftovers - be it nic, vg or pg

The only thing I measure is nic. PG and VG are measured by eye.

 

[Redbird11]

I just use the nic base I have mixed. Nic strength is no longer real important to me as long as I have enough. I vape around 6mg. I mix my nic base a little over that and good enough for me . You may wish to be a little more precise in your mixing.

OK, so I generally vape around 7mg. So I would just make my cheesecake base around 8mg to account for the flavors I add later?

 

[uthinkofsomething]

@Redbird11 , I don't like to get too much nicotine so I've always been careful with it, maybe unnecessarily so. But I use a recipe calculator (I assume you do too) and that makes it easy. I write it up with the flavor, but don't add it until later. Which means that without that flavor the base will be slightly off on %'s. It's not done until I add that other flavor.

 

[Redbird11]

@Redbird11 , I don't like to get too much nicotine so I've always been careful with it, maybe unnecessarily so. But I use a recipe calculator (I assume you do too) and that makes it easy. I write it up with the flavor, but don't add it until later. Which means that without that flavor the base will be slightly off on %'s. It's not done until I add that other flavor.

That is a really good idea. I hadn't even considered that. Thanks.

 

[uthinkofsomething]

@Redbird11 , I don't like to get too much nicotine so I've always been careful with it, maybe unnecessarily so. But I use a recipe calculator (I assume you do too) and that makes it easy. I write it up with the flavor, but don't add it until later. Which means that without that flavor the base will be slightly off on %'s. It's not done until I add that other flavor.

At the same time, I don't notice much difference between 3mg, 2.5mg, and slightly less than 2.5mg nicotine. Maybe a tiny bit smoother. I was making everything 3mg, now 2.5, and just recently I purposely added extra flavoring and a bit of vg to a 2.5mg mix.
So that bit of difference when you make your base actually at a certain % may not be very noticeable.

 

[FranC]

OK, so I generally vape around 7mg. So I would just make my cheesecake base around 8mg to account for the flavors I add later?

Yes, I think 8 or 9 would be fine.

 

[Zazie]

I wish.

 

[Redbird11]

I wish.

It could be with the lead pipe instead.

 

[Zazie]

At least I've found all the remains now so I can finally eat.

 

[JCinFLA]

@Redbird11 - It looks to me that people are talking about 2 different kinds of bases: 1) the pre-mixed base (PG, VG, and nic) and then 2) the cheesecake base (all ingredients in the recipe except for whatever fruit flavoring you'll add later). Or maybe I'm just reading it wrong.

 

[FranC]

@Redbird11 - It looks to me that people are talking about 2 different kinds of bases: 1) the pre-mixed base (PG, VG, and nic) and then 2) the cheesecake base (all ingredients in the recipe except for whatever fruit flavoring you'll add later). Or maybe I'm just reading it wrong.

You are correct.

 

[Redbird11]

@Redbird11 - It looks to me that people are talking about 2 different kinds of bases: 1) the pre-mixed base (PG, VG, and nic) and then 2) the cheesecake base (all ingredients in the recipe except for whatever fruit flavoring you'll add later). Or maybe I'm just reading it wrong.

Now I am confused. I was just wondering about the cheesecake base minus the fruit or other flavoring.

 

[*RJ*]

That is a really good idea. I hadn't even considered that. Thanks.

I want my nic exact. I just went from 2 mg to 1.5 and on my way to 1 mg. So I’m careful with my nic as it’s important to hopefully one day get the monkey off my back. Premade bases won’t work for me as my flavor percentages vary.

 

[FranC]

Now I am confused. I was just wondering about the cheesecake base minus the fruit or other flavoring.

Yes just worry about that for now.

 

[JCinFLA]

Now I am confused. I was just wondering about the cheesecake base minus the fruit or other flavoring.

Then just follow the recipe from whatever eliquid calculator you're using...to mix the PG, VG, nic, and the cheesecake base flavorings together and put it aside to steep. Pull off whatever amount you want to at a time, after it's steeped...and add your 1 fruit or other main flavoring to it. I think I got that right anyway.

If it were me though, I'd just mix the flavorings for the base itself...and let them steep. It would be like making a cheesecake one-shot. Follow a recipe then, for whatever size batch you want to make...using some of the cheesecake one-shot, my single additional flavoring, nic, PG, and VG...to get my final nic mg and PG/VG ratio exactly what I wanted it to be. But, that's just how I do it with other one-shots I make ahead and use to make various sized batches.

 

[FranC]

Then I'd follow the recipe from whatever eliquid calculator you're using...to mix the PG, VG, nic, and the cheesecake base flavorings together and put it aside to steep. Pull off whatever amount you want to at a time, after it's steeped...and add your 1 fruit or other main flavoring to it. I think I got that right anyway.

Sounds good to me

 

[Redbird11]

Right, so basically mix everything as I would in a normal recipe. But don't actually add the 3% or 4% of fruit flavoring until later on. Am I understanding correctly?

 

[FranC]

Just to sort of explain. I (and others) premix nic base. This is just nic/pg and vg. The purpose of premixing is convenience.

 

[FranC]

Right, so basically mix everything as I would in a normal recipe. But don't actually add the 3% or 4% of fruit flavoring until later on. Am I understanding correctly?

You are doing one complete mix to vape and also mixing cheesecake base to steep?