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How do I make a recipe in to a recipe for percentages

joeyboy

joeyboy

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I saw this on the forum but cannot find it. I have a recipe with several ingredients I want to make in to one bottle so I can use like 3%, or whatever, instead of adding all the ingredients every time. I would want to make a 10 ml bottle but cannot figure how to this. Would I just take the percentages of the ingredients and convert them for 10 mls? Do How much pg would I add? Really confused on this.

Thanks for the help
 
AmandaD

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Yes, as you said! I make bases mixes al the time. So, to make it easy, for instance - if a recipe calls for, say, 2% Strawberry, 1% banana, 3% cream I'll make a base mix using 2mls strawberry, 1ml banana, and 3% cream. The recipe calls for a total percentage of 6%, so for 10mls I'll just add 0.6 of that flavoring base.

You can do the math to make 10mls, keeping the proportions the same, but if I'm not using a recipe calculator for the base and I want to make more I would probably just double all the ingredients for the base and make 12 ml LOL
 
joeyboy

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AmandaD said:
Yes, as you said! I make bases mixes al the time. So, to make it easy, for instance - if a recipe calls for, say, 2% Strawberry, 1% banana, 3% cream I'll make a base mix using 2mls strawberry, 1ml banana, and 3% cream. The recipe calls for a total percentage of 6%, so for 10mls I'll just add 0.6 of that flavoring base.

You can do the math to make 10mls, keeping the proportions the same, but if I'm not using a recipe calculator for the base and I want to make more I would probably just double all the ingredients for the base and make 12 ml LOL
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I think your way is easiest. If you have enough ingredients you would have enough. Going from weight to mls on this. Have to break out the syringe or cylinders for this.
 
AmandaD

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joeyboy said:
I think your way is easiest. If you have enough ingredients you would have enough. Going from weight to mls on this. Have to break out the syringe or cylinders for this.
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No, I do all of mine by weight. Remember if you just use the 1ml=1gram you're all good to go!
 
AmandaD

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Be warned, though, there is one caveat in doing this, as I just learned the hard way. I made up a 15ml bottle of a base that used strawberry. After making 2 separate 15ml bottles and dumping each one I realized my FA Strawberry had lost its strawberry :-( So now I'll have to dump the whole base mix I made!
 
joeyboy

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AmandaD said:
Be warned, though, there is one caveat in doing this, as I just learned the hard way. I made up a 15ml bottle of a base that used strawberry. After making 2 separate 15ml bottles and dumping each one I realized my FA Strawberry had lost its strawberry :-( So now I'll have to dump the whole base mix I made!
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Good point. I know that about FA strawberry. I have no fruits in this so I don't think this will be an issue. I have to try the mix to see how it is, first. I am just preparing.
 
joeyboy

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AmandaD said:
Be warned, though, there is one caveat in doing this, as I just learned the hard way. I made up a 15ml bottle of a base that used strawberry. After making 2 separate 15ml bottles and dumping each one I realized my FA Strawberry had lost its strawberry :-( So now I'll have to dump the whole base mix I made!
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One more question. I have a blueberry cheesecake, it is in the forum, that uses 0.5% bilberry. If I was to make a flavoring bottle of that how do I know how much to put for the same strength as if I was making and adding the ingredients one at a time, say in a ten ml mix? I know 0.5% bilberry in the recipe but am unsure how to add as a whole to my base to get the same strength. What percentage in a ten ml mix?
 
AmandaD

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The percentage never changes. So it a concentrate is to be used at 0.5%, then it's the same whether it's 10ml or 30ml. so 0.5% of 10 ml will be .05 - make sense? .05 of 30 will be .15, and so on.
 
joeyboy

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AmandaD said:
The percentage never changes. So it a concentrate is to be used at 0.5%, then it's the same whether it's 10ml or 30ml. so 0.5% of 10 ml will be .05 - make sense? .05 of 30 will be .15, and so on.
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I think I have this. If the total measured concentration of the recipe for 10 MLS is 8%, you need 8% of the concentration bottle in 10 MLS to equal the initial recipe as if it was made one flavor at a time?

Make since?
 
AmandaD

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joeyboy said:
I think I have this. If the total measured concentration of the recipe for 10 MLS is 8%, you need 8% of the concentration bottle in 10 MLS to equal the initial recipe as if it was made one flavor at a time?

Make since?
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Yes, I treat it as a single flavor! Same percentage of course for 30mls or 200 mls :)
 
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