eJuice Recipe Calculator Online (with save/edit)

[recipeartist]

I'm sharing an online eJuice Recipe Calculator which I have developed to calculate recipes for mixing:

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I've had good success with the outcomes of the formulas and besides being really easy to use and save/edit your recipes, the calculator has the following options:

- Create/Name ejuice Recipe with up to 7 Flavors predefined upon saving or manually named
- Set Amount to Create (ml), Nicotine Base (mg/ml), Target Nicotine Level (mg/ml)
- "Show Calculations?" feature which shows the math behind the mixing
- Save/Edit Recipe using password (with forgot password/password reset function)
- Optional - Ability to add Water & Alcohol as a percentage
- Optional - Set Drops/ml to override default (20drops/ml) in case you know your dropper size
- Optional - Add Recipe Instructions

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I have put some work into this eJuice Recipe Calculator to try and make it as accurate as possible. Initially I was sparked to do this project as Tod Muller's calculator didn't quite meet my needs and I thought it would be really cool to have a calculator similar to his which could save the recipe and be accessible online. It does all of the calculations for you provided you are using the same PG/VG mix for your base and 0mg/ml thinner. All the calculations were programmed by me and can be modified if anything is off.

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I've built the system in PHP and it connects to a MySQL database to save the recipes. The site is hosted off my dev/design portfolio domain; I do a lot of web development and I'm not advertising my services here. This was a personal project which I'm willing to share and I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for checking it out and have fun!

-recipeartist

 

[Cullin Kin]

It looks good! Do you have a way to put in Nic base that isn't in PG or VG alone? Like my Nic base is in a 50/50 mix of PG and VG.

 

[recipeartist]

It looks good! Do you have a way to put in Nic base that isn't in PG or VG alone? Like my Nic base is in a 50/50 mix of PG and VG.

Yes, that is the mix I use. What is meant on the calculator by "PG or VG" is that the mix you use in both those areas should be of the same "PG or VG" type. Essentially 50/50 for both, or any % PG/VG for each of them whilst keeping them the same type.

The calculator doesn't take a specific PG/VG declaration so the PG/VG mixing is up to the user. Obviously flavors can affect this, so adjust manually in those instances if needed.

When I use 50/50 mix for the base and 0mg thinner it works out as intended.

 

[Cullin Kin]

Awesome. So I was just playing around with it. First thing I notice, I would allow for 3 digits. I was trying to put in my 200mg/mL base and couldn't do it!

Secondly, sometimes I modify recipes as I am making them, so I would allow editing of 'Flavor 1, 2, 3,...' To be edited to include the title of the flavor. This was you don't have to save it, then go back in and edit it. The way I make recipes is I put all the info in, then make it and I might actually forget what flavored I used as each one.

The calculator I use is: eJuice Recipes

It's very similar to yours and it's by far my favorite calculator. However, it's not without issues, it tends to change numbers oddly. Like I will put in 2.5% and for some reason it will change it to 2.6% for some odd reason. It does it every time as well. So I like that yours will keep the numbers constant. Also, sometimes it glitches and won't let you save the recipe or you cannot enter a title.

I think if you made a couple features a little more user friendly, you could have a hit!

 

[recipeartist]

Thanks! Please check it again, I've upped it to a 3 digit maximum for base and target.

Can you clarify the recipe flavor naming? I think I know what you mean but if you can save a recipe and then view the edit screen you will see it already exists and I think you are asking for the empty text field/drop down to be populated onto the starting screen where you haven't saved the recipe yet.

That site is pretty neat, it bothers me having to scroll down to see the change reflected but otherwise everything else is good and I like the graph feature. I didn't check the math or percentages out yet for that site but I'm pretty sure I ran into an issue like that when programming mine. If there are requests to create a sort of recipe bank like a lot of the other sites have, I can do that. I didn't plan on it at first due to only creating it for myself but if there is interest I can improve the system further for sure.

 

[Cullin Kin]

Sweet! Good job. Yeah the flavor naming, exactly what you just said I think. Kind of like the link I provided, as you enter a flavor percentage, I would like to be able to enter the flavor name right there as well.

Where I have highlighted yellow, I think it would be nice to have a text box there where I can say: Vanilla Custard V1 - Capella or a drop down menu like you get once you click 'Save.' Just have them both readily available on the first page, and maybe a text box at the top where you can enter the title of the recipe. See, I don't save the recipe until I've fully tweaked everything to my liking, and if all that is available is Flavor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. I may forget which flavor I put in that slot. So if you have everything right there, then I can hit save when I'm done playing around with everything.

Hopefully this all makes sense. Yeah, having to scroll down to see the changes on ELR is annoying, which makes your calculator nice since they are displayed to the right.

 

[recipeartist]

Awesome, that sounds like a good improvement as well. I have that code completed on the save/edit area but it must be implemented and tested for the create/save pass-through. When I have some spare time I'll take a look over the code and try to make adjustments.

 

[Bootiewootsy]

Thanks I will give it a try.. Looks good.

 

[recipeartist]

Thanks, if you have any flavors that you'd like added to the predefined list I can do that as well.