What constitutes "a drop" in the recipes?

[Mognar]

Hi and thanks in advance.

I received most of my supplies and want to tinker around. I'm going to be using 1ml, 5ml and 10ml syringes, graduated cylinders for most of my mixing. There are a few recipes that I see that I would like to try, but a few say a "drop"... what constitutes a drop?

I remember seeing something about 40 drops in a ml... but wouldn't that depend on the needle? I have 18, 20 and 13 ga needles... couldn't find any smaller ones...

So if I recipe calls for 5% flavor and a drop of this or two drops of that... how do I determine a drop? lol I want to start with using the exact recipes, then expand on them.

Thanks!

Mog

 

[Wingsfan0310]

I think of a drop like a pinch in cooking. It's really not an exact measurement. I only use drops when it's 1 drop per 5ml or something to that effect. I measured one of my droppers once and think it was ~40 per ml

Cheers,
Steve

 

[Mognar]

Thanks, wasn't sure if they were talking about an eye dropper or a certain ga needle.

 

[keonee]

If using the ejuice Me Up calculator then it's 20 drops = 1ml

Good Luck to You.

 

[DoogieTony]

I usually disregard recipes that are completely measured in drops, its just too inaccurate/inconsistent for me. The exception would be recipes that call for 1 drop per 5ml/10ml for things like AP or MTS, for those I use a 3ml pipette and count the drops.

 

[Elizabeth Baldwin]

I don't go by drops... To me its proven inaccurate! I go by ml.

 

[glasseye]

I use the plastic disposable pipettes when I need a 'drop'. Generally. At one point I measured the ones I had on hand and got 36 or 39 drops per ml...doesn't mean it will be the same with the ones anyone else has.

 

[LucentShadow]

If someone posted a recipe listing drops, the best you can do is make an educated guess. If you think that person had the same dispenser with the same liquid, then you can likely get close. If it's just a couple of drops listed, try it with one, first, then two. See which tastes better.

Drop size largely depends upon the type of liquid, temperature, and dispenser. I get between 12 and 40 drops per ml, depending upon those things.

 

[RocketPuppy]

If the whole thing is in drops, it shouldn't be too difficult to translate it into percentages.

3 drops ry4d.............60%
1 drop bc..................20%
1 drop vanilla swirl...20%

Add drops and divide

Depending on how much flavor you want, you can just add 80%, 90%, etc of nic/pg/vg.

 

[RobertNC]

I post small batch recipes in drops - I consider a drop as a free falling drop rolled off a typical 10 mL plastic flavor bottle. If you are using a calculator that assumes "20 drops/mL" I would seriously reconsider the whole unreliability of drops issue lol. I have measure quite a few flavors etc, get more like 30-36 drops/mL.

Drops are not necessary "unreliable" - they are "indeterminate". Using the same flavor bottles I always use I have no problem at all reproducing a flavor repeated times.

However, I will acknowledge that scaling a drop recipe to say 30 mL from 3 mL and you are going to have to do some work ...

 

[we2rcool]

If using the ejuice Me Up calculator then it's 20 drops = 1ml

Good Luck to You.

Just fyi, eJuiceMeUp defaults to 20 drops per ml - it can be changed But wethinks "measuring by drops" should be outlawed for sharing recipes! (Except for what others have mentioned - like in 1 drop per 5ml, etc).

 

[partyannimal]

I think it just depends on what you are using, and it's important to pick something and stick with it. If you want to use a pipette, measure how many drops from your specific pipette it takes to make a ml. Then stick with that pipette to ensure you can have the same measurement every time in your DIY.

Also, once you know how many drops your specific syringe or pipette takes to make a ml. you can change the default drops in your ecalculator because it probably won't be the same amount that it's set at as default. Drops aren't as precise as measuring weight, but it will be close enough to consistently replicate your recipes time and time again.


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