How do you go about trying out your juices?

I've got stuff in the mail and hope to embark on making my own ejuice within the next 6 days. I'll probably make two different flavors when I get started and I'm curious as to how you folks go about trying your ejuice.

I'm sure if it's a tried and true recipe, you probably don't worry too much about it. However, if it's something new or if you are experimenting with "steeping" how do you try it out?

I only vape on tanks (though I do have an RDA that I played around on a little bit). Do you just have a number of extra tanks laying around to try stuff out on? I'm assuming you just start with a fresh coil when trying your juice? If it needs to "steep" do you just leave the juice in the tank for a number of days and then try again?

I guess I'd just hate to waste coils trying out a creation considering the life of the coil seems to drop if you run different juices thru it. In the end, I'm guessing that the best way to try out juices is to use an RDA?

Badfrog said:

I've got stuff in the mail and hope to embark on making my own ejuice within the next 6 days. I'll probably make two different flavors when I get started and I'm curious as to how you folks go about trying your ejuice.

I'm sure if it's a tried and true recipe, you probably don't worry too much about it. However, if it's something new or if you are experimenting with "steeping" how do you try it out?

I only vape on tanks (though I do have an RDA that I played around on a little bit). Do you just have a number of extra tanks laying around to try stuff out on? I'm assuming you just start with a fresh coil when trying your juice? If it needs to "steep" do you just leave the juice in the tank for a number of days and then try again?

I guess I'd just hate to waste coils trying out a creation considering the life of the coil seems to drop if you run different juices thru it. In the end, I'm guessing that the best way to try out juices is to use an RDA?

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The best way to get the clearest, truest flavor is always going to be with an RDA. However, if you want to know how it's going to taste in the atty you normally vape with... you need to use that atty, or another just like it with the same coil/wick setup. If you taste it with an RDA but normally use a tank, you might taste it, think "oh that's good!" and then when you put it into your tank, you might think "where'd the flavor go?" Or it might taste completely different in a different coil/wick setup.

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I usually do mine in a RDA, easy to change out wicks in between flavors, but sometimes I do get brave and just fill a tank.

I generally sample with a 2ml tank, since I use tanks all the time. I prefer to have an idea of what it's gonna taste like with my normal way of vaping. I used to sample with an RDA, but then it never tasted the same in my tank.

Rda for sure. I couldn't imagine anything else..

Since I vape single coil rta I'm going to order 2ml rta when I start diy. That way all I have to do is change wick & rinse tank. Will not be exactly what it will taste like in 5ml tank, but give me ballpark idea if too strong/weak.

I keep a couple Tsunamis around for fresh taste-testing, but since tanking is my normal mode of vape, I do most of my testing with the same tanks I use day to day (Griffin 25+s, TFV 8s, Aromamizer Supremes, pretty typical stuff). I used to have as many as 8 in service, but nowadays 3 tanks and the two RDAs are plenty for me. All of them have similar builds, various configs of dual SS316 Claptons, 0.15 to 0.30 ohms. I use both Rayon and OC for wicking, though lately preferring OC. I don't generally re-wick for taste testing, because it's not what I would normally do just to switch flavors, but I already rewick every few days, so not really necessary. I shoot for consistency among my builds, have intimate familiarity with the equipment I use, and believe this makes taste-testing enormously more productive and gratifying.

The way I look at it is this...it's impossible to become a competent DIYer without first becoming a competent builder. Not saying one needs to become a coil Geek or master wire spinner. Hell, I use prewrapped coils most of the time. It's more important to be able to master consistent, functional builds that are satisfying vapes for YOU. Once you've got that down, your DIY efforts will be far more efficient and rewarding. DIYing with premade coils might get you by short term, but it isn't going to cut it over the long haul.

Letitia9 said:

Since I vape single coil rta I'm going to order 2ml rta when I start diy. That way all I have to do is change wick & rinse tank. Will not be exactly what it will taste like in 5ml tank, but give me ballpark idea if too strong/weak.

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We vape the same way, LOL. That's exactly me.

Huckleberried said:

We vape the same way, LOL. That's exactly me.

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Glad to know I'm in good company! Took me quite awhile to find my vape groove. Got my 1st Nano and knew I'd found my vape happy place.

Badfrog said:

I've got stuff in the mail and hope to embark on making my own ejuice within the next 6 days. I'll probably make two different flavors when I get started and I'm curious as to how you folks go about trying your ejuice.

I'm sure if it's a tried and true recipe, you probably don't worry too much about it. However, if it's something new or if you are experimenting with "steeping" how do you try it out?

I only vape on tanks (though I do have an RDA that I played around on a little bit). Do you just have a number of extra tanks laying around to try stuff out on? I'm assuming you just start with a fresh coil when trying your juice? If it needs to "steep" do you just leave the juice in the tank for a number of days and then try again?

I guess I'd just hate to waste coils trying out a creation considering the life of the coil seems to drop if you run different juices thru it. In the end, I'm guessing that the best way to try out juices is to use an RDA?

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I use rda's 100% of the time, so rda's for testing too.

A lot easier to adjust flavor in an rda than if you fill your tank and it is sub-par.

I would recommend to any and everyone to start their diy venture with tried and true recipes. Very difficult to make flavorings do what you want them to do without any experience mixing with them. Using strawberry flavoringto make juice is not the same kinda thing as adding strawberries to a fruit salad.

I always give my juice a taste test by licking a small drop from my fingernail before vaping it.
If it tastes strong, it will be super strong.
If it tastes good, but a little weaker than what you like, it will probably vape just right.
If it tastes just right, it might be a little bit over flavored.
If it tastes bad, it is bad.

This is what works for me, anyway. Usually gets me pretty darn close without changing my wick between modifications. Or keep you from filling a tank with a juice that needs modifying.

Since my prefered vape is bottom fed squonkers, I have one with the bottle filled with unflavored. Test by dripping then squonk the unflavored to clean the wick and move on.

BKTOAD said:

I use rda's 100% of the time, so rda's for testing too.

A lot easier to adjust flavor in an rda than if you fill your tank and it is sub-par.

I would recommend to any and everyone to start their diy venture with tried and true recipes. Very difficult to make flavorings do what you want them to do without any experience mixing with them. Using strawberry flavoringto make juice is not the same kinda thing as adding strawberries to a fruit salad.

I always give my juice a taste test by licking a small drop from my fingernail before vaping it.
If it tastes strong, it will be super strong.
If it tastes good, but a little weaker than what you like, it will probably vape just right.
If it tastes just right, it might be a little bit over flavored.
If it tastes bad, it is bad.

This is what works for me, anyway. Usually gets me pretty darn close without changing my wick between modifications. Or keep you from filling a tank with a juice that needs modifying.

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I also use the drop on the finger test, then test in my RDA, then test in each tank. I find that, nor only will the flavor change slightly from RDA to tank, but it changes slightly in each tank as well. I have preferred flavors for preferred tanks. But my RDA usually gives me a pretty good idea of the juice is good or not before proceeding to tanks.

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jambi said:

The way I look at it is this...it's impossible to become a competent DIYer without first becoming a competent builder.

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I managed to DIY as an incompetent builder, lol

Thankfully, have improved in both areas over the years

JuicyLucy said:

I managed to DIY as an incompetent builder, lol

Thankfully, have improved in both areas over the years

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yeah this is true'''I've seen loads of people jump into vaping, and within a month start DIY..it's different for everybody, I didn't start DIY until I'd been vaping for over a year or more...alot of people are better mixers than builders....or perhaps I should say..have more interest in mixing than building.

I bought a few griffins at five bucks per, for testing. I would get more of them but they sold out.