Why doesnt everyone dyi
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Its not easy at all.
Even reaching a satisfactory point for a 1 flavor vape can be something.
I bet deep down most are satisfied with what they do,but the experts are the experts and have damn good recipes.
This is why I do both,I buy and DIY!
Even reaching a satisfactory point for a 1 flavor vape can be something.
I bet deep down most are satisfied with what they do,but the experts are the experts and have damn good recipes.
This is why I do both,I buy and DIY!
Is a convenience issue for me. I try to make vaping as simple as smoking was.Thats why I use a tank with pre-punched cartos and buy all my juice.
In the mornings before I leave for class or work I just fill my tank and go.
In the mornings before I leave for class or work I just fill my tank and go.
The only flavor I purchased was in the refillable cartos for my first kit and some naaaaaasty menthol from a local shop.
I love DIY and messing around with different versions of the same flavors!
I love DIY and messing around with different versions of the same flavors!
It's not easy when you're just starting to learn about vaping. One step at a time.
DIY is one of those things some people will excel at and others may not. Its a science, like cooking and like cooking not everyone is a good cook.
My newest cinnamon creation is blowing me out of the water. I don't find DIYing for myself, intensivly time consuming or labor intensive. Takes about 5 minutes to mix up a bottle of 30ml. Took me 15/20 minutes after getting new flavors to come up with the cinnamon flavor I liked. I also very much love cooking, so maybe for my personality DIY just fits. The price difference.... I find it extremely difficult to even buy juice, even when I do have the money. It better be some inconceivably, un-re-creatable, simply amazingly tastes like heaven juice.
DIY is one of those things some people will excel at and others may not. Its a science, like cooking and like cooking not everyone is a good cook.
My newest cinnamon creation is blowing me out of the water. I don't find DIYing for myself, intensivly time consuming or labor intensive. Takes about 5 minutes to mix up a bottle of 30ml. Took me 15/20 minutes after getting new flavors to come up with the cinnamon flavor I liked. I also very much love cooking, so maybe for my personality DIY just fits. The price difference.... I find it extremely difficult to even buy juice, even when I do have the money. It better be some inconceivably, un-re-creatable, simply amazingly tastes like heaven juice.
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Agreed..... The only vapable diy juices I've made were out of sheer luck and minimal flavors.
I'm determined to learn but keep retail varieties until then.
My all day vape (vanilla tobacco) takes less than 5 minutes to make 60ml, including pulling the right items from my diy storage unit and cleaning the 1 15ml graduated beaker I use. Net cost is about $2.25/30 ml, for 10mg/ml strength, including s&h on the flavors and nic base.
I've got a decent number of other blends, but I've vaped this eliquid almost exclusively for 2 years, just do the other mixes to give away to friends.
DIY isn't for everyone, but it is stellar when you make a mix that is just right for you
I've got a decent number of other blends, but I've vaped this eliquid almost exclusively for 2 years, just do the other mixes to give away to friends.
DIY isn't for everyone, but it is stellar when you make a mix that is just right for you
I also feel that by spreading my dollar around to different vendors and suppliers that Im helping the industry to grow and that benefits us all with new products and innovations.
DIY can be fun, but DIY using commercially available flavorings takes a lot of trial and error. The initial outlay can be exxy.
If you have a talent for it and the time, great. But most DIY is not as good as a well-crafted retail juice.
If you have a talent for it and the time, great. But most DIY is not as good as a well-crafted retail juice.
A fair number of us post recipes for others to use, so people don't have to reinvent the wheel. A lot of things use only 2 -4 total flavorings, my own all day uses all of 2.
I vape extracted tobaccos almost exclusively. That's not nearly as easy to do as mixing store bought flavors together.
DIY can be simple or complex. I use a very simple DIY system using some Super Concentrates. 12 drops in 10 mL of unflavored nic base, shake and steep. I do single flavors, so it's as easy as that. They even have some fabulous tobaccos, IMO. I make my own nic base up ahead of time, but you can order it from several places already to your nic strength and pg/vg ratio.
I really am not interested in doing complex recipes or trying to recreate any of the vendor's signature flavors. I'll buy those.
I really am not interested in doing complex recipes or trying to recreate any of the vendor's signature flavors. I'll buy those.
DIYing is fun for me sometimes but it is hard to get a flavor perfected, and it can start to get expensive as well. Ive dabbled in a few different flavors and while trying to get them where i liked em, i wasted a ton of juice and flavoring. so, while its fun to DIY sometimes, it is not economically right for everyone, especially those with exquisite tastes like me, AKA funky tastes
As has been stated ad nauseam, tastes are subjective. What if your all-day vape tastes like canal water to me?
If people want to give it a shot, great. DIY with flavorings is not for me. And I'm not against DIY in general. For pete's sake, I started a thread in the DIY forum about my own experiments with heat-extraction of tobacco, tea, fruits, etc.
What gets my dander up is when people suggest that anyone who buys retail juice is a sucker who likes to waste money. That's what we in the snark business call a "DIY Snob". Right GT?
I've found that I am not satisfied with single-flavor juice. I like my gourmet blends, but have no talent in making them myself.
Absolutely. And when someone asks who has a good "XYZ" flavor and 20 DIYers jump in screaming, "don't be a sucker, make it yourself!"
Two other things:
The OP's premise is false. "IF DIY is so easy..." It isn't easy, not if you are looking for something with more complexity than two ingredients.
Also consider that in some parts of the world, liquid nicotine is an expensive imported commodity. I have to get mine from China or the US. So I am loath to waste it mucking around with flavorings.
The OP's premise is false. "IF DIY is so easy..." It isn't easy, not if you are looking for something with more complexity than two ingredients.
Also consider that in some parts of the world, liquid nicotine is an expensive imported commodity. I have to get mine from China or the US. So I am loath to waste it mucking around with flavorings.
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