GC Homogenizer & DIY Flavor Chaser One Shots
Right then....I've never done this before at any point during my 4 years as a vape reviewer, never....not once...I don't think....I'm at least 100% sure that I can't remember if I have, but I'm 98% sure I haven't done it with the 5% or 6% of reviews I've done that this could refer to...
First time with a Steampugs review?....Bless your sorry soul, but.... I feel it pertinent that I should clarify something from the very start, and that is....EVERYTHING I am reviewing today is made by friends of mine, well...technically not everything, but the company that is selling them are. SO....before the naysayers chirp up with their eager little beaks and accuse me of being bias, or only reviewing this BECAUSE they are my friends well....I'm definitely not bias. I kinda wanted to rip into some of them truth be told (especially Woftam’s flavours) I know..with friends like me who needs enemies? But if I wasn't friends with these people then I wouldn't have been put in the incredible position I find myself in today...so...you can have that one...but for what it's worth.....I don't really care.
And the reason I don't care is simply this; out of every write up I've ever done over the years, I have never written about something with as much potential to completely change the way one particular community does things as the device I am reviewing today has, and that's not me being my usually over dramatic self either. I mean this really will turn what you think you know into something that you thought you knew, but when you thought you knew that thing you know, what you actually knew was something that I knew too, but now I know that what you knew was something that everyone else thought they knew, until one bloke knew different, and now I know what he knows, and what he knows has changed what I thought I knew into something I used to know....
SO!
Now that I've made my intentions as clear as mud I'd better crack on, because we have LOTS to talk about...and when I say lots...I mean more than a bit, slightly more than loads, most of which I will have no idea what I'm talking about.....sound fun?...(no...not really?)
Shall we?
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Welcome back my magical mixing maelstrom of misty maniacs, back again with absolutely nothing the same, a totally knew and unique set of products that have never graced my usually deficient, child-like attention before, and all....from a very specific part of the vaping community that I hold very dear to my heart.
Now...this may come as something of a surprise, but I wasn't always this award winning, globally recognised reviewer who won some awards.....(wow...seriously?). There once was a time when all I cared about within this incredible vaping universe related to mixing your own liquids, trust me when I say that it's a rabbit hole all of it's very own, and once peered into....
it is very easy to get lost in, and even harder ....to find your way out...not that you'd want to.
I first started mixing my own liquids around 6 or so years ago, a hobby born from the stark reality of realising that actually....going through a £10 bottle of gourmet e-liquid every 2 days wasn't really the financial boost I was looking for when I gave up the stinkies, no Sir! Sure...I could have stayed on the cheap 'candy fruit' shit I'd been vaping for the years previous and called it a day, but....just like thousands of other vapers, I started to get slightly obsessed with everything to do with this new 'vape thing'.....it wasn't just a way of staying away from smoking anymore, this was quickly becoming a hobby, and just like every other hobby, I wanted to get the absolute best out of it. The more I become interested, the more I did my research, and it doesn't take long to realise...that actually, there is another way, and when confronted with the fact that I could vape liquids that would taste so much better, with flavours that you never dreamed possible, which would cost a hell of a lot less...it really was a no brainer....even for me, who didn't have much of one to begin with...
True story.
Even so, it was along this magical, mystical, mixing yellow brick road, that I happened upon a group of people I will forever be indebted to, a bunch of mixers with so much knowledge on the subject you'd be forgiven for thinking they were a group of Michelin Star chefs. In fact...if I remember rightly, I think one of them actually was. Some of these people have remained in my life to this day, and even though I have never actually met them in person, I regard them as closer friends than people I am actually friends with outside of the internet, but...regardless of how many of them I am still in touch with, every mixer I have ever met all share one thing in common, and it's a thing that until this day has been a massive thorn in the side of e-liquid mixing....we all share the hatred and frustration....of long steeping times.
Oh yeah....nothing says frustration quite like crushing a can, and very few things in life are as frustrating as spending over a year or more perfecting that custard heavy e-liquid recipe you've been working on, adding that extra little touch which you KNOW this time is the all important tweak that will bring the whole thing together......and then realising you have to wait a month to taste it and find out....
Exactly.
However...as Bob Dylan once famously sang...'The times they are a changin’"....Enter...one Mr Guitarded...no...that's not his real name, don't be a dick, but Guitarded has been a regular on our forum 'Vaping Community' since the beginning, as well as the ELR Forum we all met on, and what this guy has done....incredibly.....is come up with a solution to steeping that has not only turned the whole thing on its head....but rather grabbed it by the short and curlies and smashed it out of the fucking park.
So what is it?.....you may well inquisitively ask. What indeed is this mythical answer to one of life's most thought about enigmas?....How can we manipulate the complexities of time?....
Again...don't be a dick, no, it's not a time machine. What it is.....isn't actually new, in fact, it's been used in many industries for a very long time, but....it's never been made specifically for the home e-liquid mixing crowd....until now.
So enough with all the pomp and circumstance and me waffling for hours on end, please allow me to introduce you to....
The much anticipated ....highly coveted......Guitarded's GC Homogenizer.
No...it's not BBQ lighter, and let's be honest....it wouldn't make a very aesthetically pleasing time machine either. Regardless, it is no less magical in what it actually does.
Now.....the question I should be really asking you right about now is....what do you know about homogenisation?....Some of you may well know a great deal, after all, it's been muttered about within the e-liquid industry for years - in fact it's widely used by companies who mass produce juice, just on a much....much bigger scale. But...for those that don't know what it's all about, here's part of a video which explains it a lot better than I can.....I'd show you the whole video....but I kinda want you to be awake for the rest of the review....
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That's the technical explanation. My explanation however is this.....imagine Loki is your stubborn e-liquid concentrate, the floor is your uninviting VG/PG base....and The Hulk is the GC Homogenizer....
What it basically does is Hulk smash the fuck out everything you stick it in - on a molecular level.....giving it no option other than to become one uniformed substance....which...with regards to e-liquid....is exactly where you need to be. Something which up until now...could only be done with time.