What do you guys consider a batch when making juice? A bottle, 10, more? How long is the process for you…hours?
Just curious to hear what people say and possibly learn other processes. I’m sure we all settle into how we do it…but is there anything in your process that stands out as perfect (for you) or something you’d prefer to change?
i mix a batch flavorless e-liquid 250 ml - 500 ml and keep it in the fridge then I can just rebottle and add flavours very quickly whenever i want
Doesn’t that change the recipe though? Depending on the flavours or amounts of?
it changes the PG/VG ratio, which you can account for by making it 80/20 flavorless
and as long as im within 80/20 60/40 Im totally fine with that and that gives me 20% flavor to play with
I rarely go far above 10% flavoring anyways i tend to not buy weak flavorings im often under 10%
oh yea i guess it changes the nic level too but i just add an extra 10% or so and everythings fine for me
A batch for me is 60ml. I never usually mix a juice over 60, although I wish I did. I think the next “batch” of juice I mix I’m going to do two to 60 ml of one juice. Personally i consider a batch the max amount of liquid you would make for 1 recipe. So Im gonna do a batch of peanut butter, a batch of custard and a batch of conflake dessert. So it would vary greatly between person to person, but it’s the same general idea.
A batch for me is typically a few different flavours @ 100ml. Those different flavours will be 0mg for my wife and 6mg for me. Definitely not a quick process.
Oh shoot. Yeah about the “how long it takes” part. I can spend an hour or more if I’m mixing up a few sometimes, especially if I’m formulating something new.
This is actually part of the reason I procrastinate mixing juices… Unfortunately I have now run out of my delicious juices that take over a week to steep.
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I should have made them last week. I’m about to mix some up this morning though.
Yeah I’m guilty for putting off as well. But getting better. Yesterday…did 6 bottles.
@Oldguynew2diy “batches” or “batching” will vary a lot from person to person, but personally, it can be a run of 120ml bottles, or even 30ml bottles, most common is a “batch” of same recipes. I’ll run a batch of (6) 120’s using a pre-mixed one-shot (flavor only), and just replicate the same VG/PG, and adjust the NIC if needed, before moving onto the next batch.
These days I usually mix 4 or 5 120’s of different things once a month along with 1 or 2 10’s as new samples. Spend about an hour.
I do enjoy the variety that ive accumulated.
I’m still very much experimenting with flavours and percentages etc so I take over an hour to mix up 4 or 5 x 30ml every couple of weeks, but take only about half that actually mixing and the rest of the time faffing with writing up labels and then notes in my book and writing down approximate amounts left of concentrates and drinking coffee!!
I’m enjoying playing with the flavours and percentages. Always interesting to try the next batch.
Yeah me too. Have lost count the number of various combinations of vanilla ice cream Biscuit I’ve tried now!!!
You can easily fix that. Just add “Flavorless PG” as an extra ingredient in the recipe to make the total flavor equal 10% (or whatever % you use).
Base: 70% VG + 3% nic + 17% PG (total=90%)
Recipe A: 7.5% flavor + 2.5% PG = 10%
Recipe B: 4% flavor + 6% PG = 10%
Recipe C: 5.5% flavor + 4.5% PG = 10%
When I mix I have a large bottle of premixed base, flavors and a small (60ml) bottle of PG. Doing it this way means your VG:PG ratio remains constant as well as your nic level.
And to answer the OP’s question . . . Everything goes into 30ml bottles. I enjoy variety too much to make anything larger.
yea i considered having a squeeZe bottle of PG or VG to keep a constant
ratio, turns out i don’t care much if the ratio and nic are off even by 10% although its usually more like 5%
I can’t believe people here take an hour to mix
it only takes me like 5 minutes
It’s hard to recall the last time I made anything more than 25ml (in a 30ml bottle for some shake space.) My taste buds are too easily bored, no matter how good the recipe is. Plus, there’s the old saying about absence makes the heart… I mean taste buds grow fonder
When I refer to a Batch, I usually mean 500ml or more of the same flavour. I make my live easy by mixing a flavour in a 500ml bottle. I sometimes do more than 1 batch at a time, ie. multiple flavours each in their own 500ml bottle.
I mix 125ml at one time. The entire process takes about 30 to 45 minutes although most of that time is just heating and de-gassing. Weighing takes about 3 to 5 minutes and homogenizing takes 1 minute which are the two tasks I have to be present for.