Burst My Candy Vape Juice
Burst My Candy is a sweet shop range built around confectionery flavours rather than fruit for its own sake. The collection holds 4 shortfills, all of them 100ml bottles at £9.99: Blackcurrant Gummy, Sour Watermelon Candy, Strawberry Laces and Orange Tic Tacs. Blackcurrant Gummy is the flavour currently in stock.
Every bottle here is a shortfill, so it arrives nicotine free with space left in the neck for you to add nicotine yourself. These are high VG liquids intended for sub ohm kits rather than small mouth to lung pods. E-liquid is sold to adults aged 18 and over only.
What the flavours taste like
Candy profiles live or die on how the sweetener is balanced against the fruit underneath. Blackcurrant Gummy leads on a dark, jammy blackcurrant with the dusted, chewy finish of a pick and mix sweet rather than the sharp cordial note of a straight blackcurrant. Sour Watermelon Candy pushes a sour coating over soft watermelon. Strawberry Laces goes for the sugary rope sweet. Orange Tic Tacs aims at a hard shelled mint orange. All four are intense, so it is worth keeping a lighter all day liquid to alternate with.
How shortfills work
UK regulations cap any bottle containing nicotine at 10ml. Shortfills sidestep that by containing no nicotine at all, which leaves the bottle size unrestricted. A 100ml shortfill arrives in a 120ml bottle with 20ml of headroom. Nicotine shots are bought separately and the standard shot is 10ml of unflavoured 18mg base. Two shots poured into a 100ml shortfill fill the bottle to 120ml and give a finished strength of 3mg per ml. One shot alone gives roughly 1.6mg. Leave them out entirely if you vape nicotine free.
Mixing and steeping
After adding a shot, cap the bottle and shake hard for a minute until the streaky look disappears. Nicotine base is thin compared with the shortfill, so it needs proper agitation. Steeping matters less on candy blends than on custards and tobaccos, because these flavours are bright rather than layered. A day or two in a dark cupboard at room temperature is usually enough. Keep bottles away from sunlight and heat. Store them out of reach of children and pets.
Which kit to use them in
High VG shortfills are made for coils rated below 1.0 ohm, which means a sub ohm tank or a pod kit taking low resistance coils with reasonably open airflow. Thick liquid needs those larger wicking ports to keep up. Put it in a tight 1.2 ohm mouth to lung pod and it wicks too slowly, which produces the dry burnt taste that usually gets blamed on the coil.
Sweeteners and coil life
Candy liquids are heavily sweetened with sucralose. Sucralose does not vaporise cleanly. It caramelises onto the coil mesh and leaves a dark crust that dulls flavour, so a coil that might run two weeks on a plain menthol may give only four or five days here. That is normal for the category rather than a fault. Running at the lower end of the recommended wattage and refilling before the tank empties will both help.
Buying e-liquid in the UK
Nicotine containing e-liquid must be notified to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, capped at 20mg per ml and sold in bottles of no more than 10ml. Nicotine free shortfills sit outside those bottle limits, which is why 100ml is possible. All sales are restricted to over 18s. UK delivery is free on orders over £20. For flavour advice, call 07827 210361 between 8.30am and 4.00pm.
Burst My Candy questions answered
What is a shortfill?
A shortfill is a large bottle of nicotine free e-liquid that is deliberately not filled to the top. UK law limits any bottle containing nicotine to 10ml, so shortfills contain none at all and are left short to leave room for nicotine shots. A 100ml Burst My Candy bottle holds 20ml of space in the neck.
How many nic shots do I need for a 100ml bottle?
Two standard 10ml nicotine shots at 18mg. That fills the bottle to 120ml in total and gives a finished strength of 3mg per ml, which is the usual choice for sub ohm vaping. Adding a single shot instead gives roughly 1.6mg per ml. The shortfill can also be vaped exactly as it arrives.
What VG ratio are these liquids?
Shortfills of this style are high VG blends, most commonly around 70 percent vegetable glycerine to 30 percent propylene glycol. That thickness is what produces the vapour volume sub ohm devices are built for. It also makes the liquid too heavy for small mouth to lung pods, which need a thinner 50/50 blend.
Do Burst My Candy shortfills need steeping?
Not for long. Candy profiles are bright rather than layered, so they do not need the weeks a custard or tobacco blend benefits from. Shake a freshly nic shotted bottle hard for about a minute until it looks even, then leave it somewhere dark at room temperature for a day or two.
Will these flavours burn through my coils?
Faster than a plain fruit or menthol. Sweetened candy liquids contain sucralose which caramelises on the coil instead of vaporising cleanly, leaving a dark residue that dulls flavour. Expect several days to a week from a coil rather than a fortnight. Running at a lower wattage and refilling early both help.
Which device should I use these in?
A sub ohm kit or a tank running coils below 1.0 ohm with reasonably open airflow. High VG liquid needs the larger wicking ports those coils have. A tight mouth to lung pod kit designed for 50/50 nic salts will not wick this liquid fast enough, so match the liquid to the coil resistance.