I like that it’s non toxic. Additionally, you can create any hue by mixing any two or three colors to make anything that you’ll want.

You seem to have a strong dedication to this channel to take a year long review - very impressive! I might have to start using food colouring in my cheaper pens lol

@morna45

5 жыл бұрын

I used a very nicely mixed Teal Blue which I picked up from a craftsperson. The color was so intense and beautiful, I thought, what the heck? How could it hurt my already cheap pens. It only made the writing smoother. Go figure.

@jpna8223

4 жыл бұрын

@@morna45 how did you mix it into teal blue?

I watched your first vid and was doubtful. No I'm off to the supermarket. Thanks!

@gabrielramos8237

6 жыл бұрын

Jason Brooks x2

@hrnekbezucha

6 жыл бұрын

x3

@ElChuy69

5 жыл бұрын

x4

@gpamanuel9798

5 жыл бұрын

how did your use of food color go with your fountain pens?

Yes, the chemistry of food dye is benign stuff. You could probably add a few drops of phenol for some cleaning/stability and never be worse for the wear. Keep up the good work -- your reviews are straightforward and helpful.

As a student, I once tried McCormick food colouring to re-ink a highlighter. Worked well. Problem was it attracted ants.

@ProximaCentauri88

5 жыл бұрын

Bambi Rosales I used an Ube - flavored purple McCormick food coloring both with my glass pen and frankenpen and it was lovely. 😃

@ryansgirl2002

5 жыл бұрын

That literally makes no sense that food coloring attracted ants. Food coloring itself is not flavored. There's no sugar or anything of the sort involved-it's merely food grade dyes. Sooo....

@HJKelley47

5 жыл бұрын

@@ryansgirl2002 : Ingredients in my Kroger Food Color - water, propylene glycol, yellow 5, blue 1, citric acid and sodium benzoate (preservative).

@HONEYBADGER210

5 жыл бұрын

That would be a change from the excuse " sorry my dog ate my homework to " Sorry The ants ate my homework.

@justsomemustachewithoutagu9694

4 жыл бұрын

so i'm probably better off using mccormick "ink", huh? shit... it's bought 16 fl oz at a time how am i supposed to use all that

Thank you so much for the follow-up -- I've seen a bunch of people "try" this for a day, and it's great to hear you haven't had any issues with many pens over much more time.

Good for you, JPL!! This is the kind of spirit and resourcefulness we need more of. Food coloring as ink is no more strange than using berry juice or tree tumors (oak galls) - both of which were in wide use during Thomas Jefferson's era. I think I'm going to try this myself. Props again for the excellent reportage!

I have been using food coloring in my fountain pens for 35+ years now. I don't have any pens more expensive than about $20 USD. I even have a letter from the Shaeffer Pen company stating this would be an acceptable practice as long as the ph of the ink is correct. If it dries out, I just add water into the cartridge and the food coloring dissolves. The fun thing is, you can buy a 4 pack of food coloring and mix almost any color you want. Thank you for the video - and affirming the practice.

@janielleelchico3836

Жыл бұрын

when will the food coloring wears out? like for example you wrote a letter using food coloring how long is it before wearing out or fade? Sorry for the grammar mistakes

@polluxcastor1143

6 ай бұрын

What was the Ph they recommended? These food coloring usually comes with added citric acid.

"Food colouring?? The most poisonous substance known to robots?" ~Calculon

@nerdcm355

4 жыл бұрын

demondojr nice

I am a teacher, looking for a safe ink recipe that kids can use for calligraphy. projects. (We're all stuck at home since the Covid 19 isolation.) I think your work is BRILLIANT! Thank you! P.S. I will refer to your video during online teaching. I hope that's OK?

Soaking the ink "cartridges" from old sharpies in rubbing alcohol makes for a jazzy alcohol ink.

A year long experiment. What dedication! And interesting results

This is brilliant! I never would have thought of this in a lifetime. Thanks for the experiment and the results!

Good for you - it’s a very gutsy experiment! Impressive results too - thank you for sharing them with us.

I will definitely try, Very smart and brave to try where most of us would not dare to do. Good for you!

After seeing you do this the first time I tried it and man no regrets like it's nice and cheap and a great alternative

This is the most helpful video on fountain pen there is. You're great! You're earning my respect, dude.

Thank you! You're the man! It is very through and professional to do a one year follow up. Thanks, buddy!

Thanks for the nice follow up video. I have been getting really nice colours by mixing the food dyes in my fountain pens. They don't have black dye but you can easily make that by mixing blue, red and green (or yellow) in equal parts. Enjoy!

@waownou

6 жыл бұрын

I've been trying to nail a bright coral lately, which has been giving me some grief. However! If you mix a little red into the blue you can get a nice blue-black with red sheen! Anything super intersting you found?

Well done! I'm going to try using food coloring as ink soon, definitely. Thanks for the excellent video!

Good experiment and great results.

Great video. Talk about thinking outside the box. Will definitely be trying.

Thanks! A great list of pros (no cons!) Great work! Keep writing on!

Next, try mixing colors. And, try making highlighter ink, especially those new pastel colors, from neon food coloring and pilot parallel pens. Curious if that would work!

Thanks JPL! You inspired me to buy food coloring and try it out, and it's so juicy and delightful. You're one of my favorite reviewers through your consideration for school going folk.

@jpl2475

5 жыл бұрын

thanks man, considering that I only finished high school last year and I'm in university, its all just based on my first hand experience.

Are you still doing this? I took your recommendation and now have both my pens inked with food coloring, seems to be working great.

@jpl2475

5 жыл бұрын

I do use it for Chinese pens and I have had no issues at all

Just the information I needed. Thank you. Now to figure out how to darken up the green for a more olive shading...

Thank you for the follow up. I was wondering how this would turn out.

Damn!!!! It works for me !!! I tried it today and the food colors are very perfect

brilliant!

imma give this a try

Thanks for the heads work!

@jpl2475

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching :)

I believe I am going to give it a tryout

Thanks for this. I just ran out of black ink and will definitely run to the book... I mean bakery store for refills!

Added green food coloring to my Monteverde Artista with a m. nib. Very nice color - reminds me of Chesterfield Emerald, though just slightly darker. Did water test, and it held up fairly well to water. The writing could still be seen with using a medium nib. Now will purchase some blue food color, for I am partial to the color turquoise.

i thought it was only me ho ad this idea, i have used food coloring for 2 years and i love it

i think i will start using this in my fountain pen,

I'll try it too

I have used food-colouring a LOT since I saw your previous video, and it works well, with dip pens too!! Thanks 🙂

@jpl2475

6 жыл бұрын

Awsome, I don't use it for dip pens because it is not viscous enough. I stick to pigment ink for dip pens.

@MillaDarling

6 жыл бұрын

I have glycerine for vaping, turns out it works for ink too 😎

@MillaDarling

6 жыл бұрын

I also use iodine and berry-juice for dip pens

inks in bottle is quite hard to find here, or at extremly high prices,thanks a lot you saved me.

Wow this Pelikan 4001 is really expensive in Australia. Where I live it's the cheapest one. It costs only about 2,5 USD for a bottle.

Very interesting and can save money in a long term i think....

It actually works! Once my ink was spilled all over, I thought my life was over since I couldn’t buy ink So I used food colouring, it writes wonderfully! Feels like real ink ! Thanks

You can also use the food colouring to tweak the colour of fountain pen ink if you have a fountain pen ink that doesn't make you happy. It works without any issues Thanks for the video, food colouring is a great alternative for kids as its non toxic and doesn't diminish the fountain pen experience..

That's work I've tried it back when I was 4th grade..I ink my pelikan 400 with food coloring.

Great creative idea! How do you find the “lubrication” qualities of food colouring in your pens? I will be sure to try this fun experiment!

this video earned you a sub

@user-qk6wq3pg8l

4 ай бұрын

also, i am the kind of person who might occasionally feel like eating their used notes and spit them out again for some reason lol.

I used some Jacquard pearl ex brilliant gold from Eckersley art supplies came out spectacular. Posted video of it. Cheers

I don't have any ink right now, so I will probably use my dried up poster color, mix it with a little hot water and dip the nib. I don't have my pen yet, but I will definitely try it.

I also use homemade "ink" in my fountain pen. It works. soooo why not. I have no problem with it at all. Food coloring is actually better than ink, if you want to teach your young kid to write with fountain pen. Why? Aside from the cost effective, it is much safer then ink. Food coloring is food grade color oh, so it is less harmful than ink for sure. just a thought

Had used Robertsons liquid cake colouring in my Pens since 1983 in South Africa. Collected dried koki pens from friends, dropped water through and used that as ink. Now I use Barco water soluble cake color powder in my Pens. Lovely concentrated as I want to mix it. And cheap. But not waterproof. It will dissolve away when getting wet after drying on page. Greetings from South Africa.

@rimo1703

2 жыл бұрын

Hi I see you mentioned since 1983 been using food coloring in your pens. I see water is a problem with food coloring what about your experience with fading? Would using it in journals not be an issue as long as remains dry and never gets wet?

Food colour appears to work better than some ink. My only problem is no seems to stock Queen black. Keep up the good work.

@lauratorres7080

5 жыл бұрын

Luiz Pavanelli any Brazilian brand food color suggestion?

Why don't you mix food colourings to get your own personal colour

@jpl2475

5 жыл бұрын

That is something I have been working on.

I'm going to give this a try. Are the food coloring you're using liquid or gel?

Why would food coloring degrade rubber. It's not acidic

*Thank you so much for this video*. After Covid, I've gone back to grad school and one of my biggest fears is running out of good quality ink at reasonable prices due to border closures and supply chain disruptions. This has really put my mind at ease🤓. BTW I love that you took your notes on ordinary paper. Given the amount if writing I'm doing for classes getting speciality papers or notebooks is not practical (it would be just too expensive), especially if all I need the notes for is to prepare for exams😕. [Who really cares about the longevity of the writing as long as it gets me through the exams. Do I really need then after I've passed the course?😅]

Wow. I would have never imagined food coloring in a fountain pen.

Good job

Great tips and advice. Now I'm using food coloring for all of my jinhao fountain pen, I really like how you could customize your color to make another color. I fact, I really enjoy the food coloring ink, make me likes my school notes and it didn't bleed trough the copy paper too much if using f nib.

@zamSEG

Жыл бұрын

hello sir, did you just open the food coloring, dip the pen and write it of onto paper or there is some brewing needs to be done? any particular brands or it applied to all food coloring?

@PhytonG1642

Жыл бұрын

@@zamSEG I just put the food colouring to the cartridge or use a converter (same thing in this vid). You need a liquid food colouring, the viscosity may not be as great as ink, but some pen work just fine with this. For brands, I don't know. Every country has different brands, I just choose the cheapest, as long it writes.

@zamSEG

Жыл бұрын

@@PhytonG1642 duly noted and thank you very much sir for the quick reply. i'll try with my local (malaysia) food coloring when i'll get my jinhao pens. hope everything will be just fine. thank you again for your time to reply my question. have a great day sir.

Very cool. I now wonder what is used for the coloring of normal ink. And does it smell like food?

Cara não consigo concentrar kk Você é muito lindo 😻

Moral of the story: Ink companies are simply ripping everyone off outside developing countries like China and India. In those two countries, inks and food color cost almost the same. Find it hard to believe? Check out Parker Quink on amazon.in, US$2 of 60ml (the package strictly says "far sale in India and Nepal only")

I’ve tried these in cheap calligraphy pens and the Queen blue and yellow each have nice shading, even on copier paper. Don’t really see that in normal fountain pens, though.

Good plan! You could evaporate it down to 50% on the window sill for darker hues and it would still be cheaper than rip off ink.

This raises the question whether you could eyedropper a metal pen, as food dye is not corrosive

@jpl2475

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe I'm already doing that :) most of those metal pens are made from stainless steel

@HJKelley47

5 жыл бұрын

Though it does not have a corrosive, there is water in the food dye. No fountain pen with metal should be used as an eyedropper. On the ingredient's list, it is the #1 component.

@mieumieu33

3 жыл бұрын

@@HJKelley47 I do not quite understand if you are saying it is good or bad. Do you mind explaining further? 😏

Hey jpl. Whats up? I just had a little question, did you mix any water with that ink or did you use it straight out of the bottle?

@waownou

6 жыл бұрын

I use it straight up, and only dilute it when I'm mixing colours

@_voyager02

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the answers guys

@JotaC

4 жыл бұрын

@Shorne Pubique have you noticed corrosion on the nib? I've heard that this is the main issue with using food coloring as ink

@danielgoncalves2928

2 жыл бұрын

@@JotaC it's stainless steel or gold, and normal fp ink is waterbased too. Maybe mold could damage it, but has long has you keep it all cleaned up it should be fine.

@JotaC

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielgoncalves2928 most nibs are only gold-plated so they can still corrode. I've found that using food coloring tends to be to liquid and hard to dry, so I just stuck to regular ink. Buying ink from China also gets you some good quality for very little cost.

Im gonna have to try this now! I normally just use cheap liquid watercolor (which is a little too transparent for my tastes)

@jpl2475

6 жыл бұрын

Neat, I had no idea that that would work

Thank you very much. I'll get myself some food colouring tomorrow. Still have a bunch of Safaris that are unused atm

@glasgowgaming2662

6 жыл бұрын

Hugh Mungus check if your safaris are fake dude , my friend had one that was fake They probably aren't but just check there's lots of internet articles pls

@hughmungus1572

6 жыл бұрын

I appreciate your advice, but I actually live in Germany where Safaris are the Most common thing you'll see, plus I bought them all at authorized dealers. So I should be Safe.

FOOD COLOURING .... yeaaaaah !!! :)) You can also use RED wine for ink ;)) or BALSAMIC VINEGRETTE

Despite the fact that a 50ml bottle will last for a really long time and $15 over that period of time is negligible in my eyes, it's cool to know this actually works. I've wondered about it in the past, but never tried it. Great dedication on such a long lasting experiment!

I make my own ink colors with food coloring, works great and I would not be afraid to us it in even an expensive fountain pen. I add 1 drop of bleach to protect it from bio hazards such as mold. I have done this for years and have had zero problems.

damn your good looking---thanks for the info

I have made my own brown ink from walnut shells and blackish ink from inky cap mushrooms. The inky cap ink has a kind of greenish cast to it I haven't tried home made inks in my fountain pens, just dip pens. I should do some tests to see if they are lightfast or sacrifice a cheap fountain pen to see if they clog. I keep home made inks in the fridge. They would definitely mold if left out..

@helenbugsynelson

5 жыл бұрын

Harpy Feather , I make walnut ink from walnut shells. I just soak them I filtered water for about a week, then strain out the shells through a colander and then through a coffee filter. Then you bring that liquid to a simmer and let it simmer until it's reduced in volume by about 1/3. There are chemicals you can add to make it more stable, but I haven't taken my experiments to that level yet. Inky cap mushrooms are much easier. You simply pick them when they start to show signs of getting soft and black. Just leave them in a colander set in a bowl and they will release the ink as they real ease spores in a blackish inky substance. When you think they are done discard whatever is left in the colander and put the 'ink' through a cheesecloth or coffee filter then simmer it like the walnut shells

hello sir, did you just open the food coloring, dip the pen and write it of onto paper or there is some brewing needs to be done? any particular brands or it applied to all food coloring?

I have always wanted to take a blood sample using a lavender or pink anticoagulant sample vile and put it in a pen just as an experiment.

@ryansgirl2002

5 жыл бұрын

...Because that's not creepy at all.

@theunexplainablecrumbs4387

5 жыл бұрын

@@ryansgirl2002 I thought the same, haha

@rommelbonus5680

4 жыл бұрын

Blood dries up as molecular plates (if there is such term). It will probably cause clogging.

How long does it take for the food coloring to dry on paper? In the food coloring mixing video it looks quite wet.

Mate, I have a couple of questions for you 1. will the food coloring work well on paint brushes for art?, would you suggest that it is okay on my Lammy fountain pens?

can you send an amazon link for the food coloring you use

Does it show any water resistance?

is food coloring corrosive to metal as regular ink is? Would food coloring allow for droppering metal pens, without damaging them the way regular ink would?

Was the food coloring waterproof

Does it matter if it's liquid, gel or pastes?

I don't know how the pens work.. But I need something to use while decorating my cookies..would I be able to use this pen for this using food coloring..

Would this work for glass pen dipping?

Hey, what is in fountain pen ink, anyway? I see ways of making your own if TSHTF on preper websites, but what if it wasn’t an emergency and you wanted to create your own signature ink, from scratch?

Can it darken the fountain ink?

Gonna go and get some 🤯🌈

Yeah everything in Australia is so fucking expensive and it’s annoying.

Can i use a dip pen with it

What about gel/paste food colouring? Those are available in sooo many colours. Maybe mix them in with some vodka as you do when using on cakes as paint. That way you can create the exact consistency AND create a huge range of colours. Americolor and Wilton or Sugarflair brands I use on my cakes.

@morna45

5 жыл бұрын

Now, if you try that, could you post the results? I've been reluctant to try the gel stuff.

I used to use Printer Ink, you can make your own color by mixing the three basic colors, it 's usable, and cheper... （maybe the cheapest..）You can try and make a video XD

JPL - have you used the gel food coloring? Or if you could, would you thin it down with alcohol? Thanks.

@jpl2475

5 жыл бұрын

I have, I will be making a video on it, just trying to get a mix and ratio that works

What does ingredients on food colouring say plz

my local ink company has 1 bottle of ink for roughly 0.75 dollars, Wonders if they use food coloring?

I wish we had food coloring that cheap where I live, I think the cheapest food coloring I've seen here is McCormick assorted food coloring where you get 1oz(All together so 7.25ml per color) for almost 4 us dollars .-.

This is a green way to refill ink. But not all food coloring works. Mine, I have to drip a soap for it to run, and it feathers so much, only usable on fine to Extra Fine pens

Will you review the new jinhao 51A?

@jpl2475

6 жыл бұрын

I might as well go an order one, a wooden jinhao seems cool

Can we also use blue food colouring for pilot rollerball pens?

@houghwhite411

3 жыл бұрын

Rollerball has lubricants. Maybe add few drops of glyceryn

I just trying to use food coloring as ink , i tried the yellow and i hope don't destroy my pens. I tried with my cheap fountain pens...

What kind a pen is this ? What’s the name off it ? Where I can buy it ?? Can some one answering me pleeeeaaase ... ??