I Used Food Colouring As Ink For One year 

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

demondojr nice

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?

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

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.

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?

Luiz Pavanelli any Brazilian brand food color suggestion?

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

Thanks for the answers guys

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

@@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.

@@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.

That is something I have been working on.

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

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.

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

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?

@@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.

@@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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I also use iodine and berry-juice for dip pens

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

The label is clearly visible in each part of the video, no? I thought that was good enough,,,

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

@@ryansgirl2002 I thought the same, haha

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

Thanks for watching :)

There haven't been any problem whatsoever with the pens or the inks

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

TBeermonster Just buy some good ol' all-American artificial stuff lol

@@cammy1349 You are right. I live in the U.S. I bought some McCormicks food coloring off of Amazon. I have used them for six months and no problems. I agree with JPL I only use cheap chinese pens for this

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Neat, I had no idea that that would work

i have not, it behaves as a very dry ink, but you can add detergent to lubricate.and using powdered dyes allows you to make darker hues .

Detergent? Huh, how much do you add?

try 5 drops for 60 ml of saturated ink, less for lighter colors

you can also make sheening ink by mixing a crapload of dye into the water and adding detergent to lubricate the flow. it will clog the pen much easier however

Bruno Novello thanks i always windered about that because i cant seem to find the type of ink jpl uses.

Powdered food dyes or the powdered one for dyeing cloth?

food dyes