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Weighing liquids far more accurate?

I've actually already got one of these type scales but it uses a flat coin like battery and eats them for breakfast so a rechargable AA seems like a better option.


Edit: Jeez, why has everything always got to be a can of worms? ;)

Mixing juices by weight Percent
 
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Pass... but good luck!
I do my flavour mixing very much like I do my cooking, so a more "there or thereabouts" approach :D
 
Pass... but good luck!
I do my flavour mixing very much like I do my cooking, so a more "there or thereabouts" approach :D

Lol, that's how I cook too. I made a brilliant sauce for salmon once, it involved lemon, olive oil, garlic, a tomato finely chopped, salt, pepper, some basil and a little cream cheese, oh and maybe a splash of balsamic. Everything combined beautifully and was a true delight to the taste buds. I mean, it was epic.

Could I replicate that? Still chasing it. ;)

Don't want to make the same mistake with juices. I guess 5g of something will always be 5g and scalable so whether that is 4.89ml or 5,03ml is inconsequential I'm hoping, as long as it tastes good ;)
 
I thought it was only water at sea-level that weighs 1g/ml? My school days are far behind me though so I may well be wrong.
 
I would think the safest way to use weight is to first calculate your mix the standard ml measurement way. Once you are happy with your recipe, then replicate whilst using the scales and note the weight of each ingredient. Then you have the same recipe in ml and grams?
 
I mix by weight and have done for ages now. It is a constant measure rather than relying on uniform drop size or my eyes judging the lines on syringes. Those scales look perfect as a starting set as they measure to 2 decimal places. It just depends on what concentrates you use. I found with my starter scales they were not great at picking up inawara mixes of 0.2ml and there was a slight delay in recording the correct measurements. They were surprisingly accurate though, very nearly as good as my new set for slightly larger volumes. I only upgraded as I mix abit for friends and wanted to make sure I was giving them the best quality that I could manage. I don't mind being a little slap dash in my personal mixes but when it comes to supplying other people, well that's a different ball game :)
 
Given that 1ml weighs 1gram I was thinking of getting one of these...

https://www.fasttech.com/products/0/10000893/1075703-precision-digital-pocket-scale-300g-max

It's basically accurate to 100th of a ml, seems like a good idea no?


I thought it was only water at sea-level that weighs 1g/ml? My school days are far behind me though so I may well be wrong.

Correct. 1ml of VG must weigh a lot more than a gram, but as long as you stick to one method it doesn't matter.
 
Yes surely liquids of different densities have different metric weights. Say 1 litre of water compared to 1 litre of liquid gold.

Ok, so ingredients involved in ejuice not so exaggerated a difference but wouldn't say it was more accurate than by volume.
 
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weight is always more accurate, when I make cosmetics I weigh all ingredients as density of different liquids is way off. Castor Oil for example is gooey sticky stuff, while Almond Oil is like water. And if it is cold at home, the ml amount makes quite a bit of difference to when it is warm in my house. Also, weighing out something like a teaspoon is highly inaccurate, as sometimes they are filled better, sometimes less.

So yes, weighing would be the best way to do things. But 1ml is not 1g, that is only true for water. Oils and alcohols (PG is an alcohol) have vastly different specific gravities and will weigh more or less than 1g at 1ml. Oil will be less (apart from Castor oil which is more) than 1g, alcohols are even more less than 1g and flavors would most likely weigh more than 1g (I would assume so, as they are water with bits added).

So definitely, if you want to have repeatable results, go and weigh your ingredients. But one tip, it's easier to make a larger batch, than a tiny one.... hence me making body lotions at batches of 1 litre only... just cannot be asked to weigh out micro grams of something (when you buy body lotion in the shop, 70% is water, 25% is oil, and the remaining 5% is all the active and fancy ingredients that are advertised on the front of the bottle, and this is for the expensive stuff...cheaper body lotions have all the fancy ingredients in the last 1%!!!)
 
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