Thread: Help me pick a fog juice

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Okay guys and ghouls,
longtime lurker, first time poster. Been decorating for years, last year we stepped up pretty big and are hoping to do better this year.

Upgrading the fog juice this year, wally's and party city's junk just isn't cutting it anymore. can't afford a high dollar machine yet, maybe next year. Here's what I'm planning:

Make cauldron out of 55 gallon drum, made supports about halfway up, doubled/tripled layer of chicken wire, 20-30 pounds of ice on top of that, lighted from below to give it a creepy look. Piping fog into the bottom so that cauldron acts as chiller. I want the fog to hang around and stay as low to the ground as possible (knowing that temp/wind can't be controlled of course).

Looking at Froggy's for some juice, would you recommend the Backwood Bay or the Freezin Fog Juice?

Thanks and Happy Haunting!

I vote for the Freezin, if you get it good and chilled it is thick and hangs low.
It is the best I have ever used.

I used backwood bay last year. It was a still night. ran it thru a vortex chiller. some odd things happened..

when it came out it was thick as pea soup flowed on the ground for about 20 ft.. then rose as a mass to about head level... and was blindly thick.

( run 3-1500 watt foggers) this was to much for my haunt so I cut back to one fogger, as I watched the giant mass of a fog bank drift slowly down my cul de sac towards the main road... like something out of scooby doo..

Unless you want white out conditions, i would suggest the freezing or Swamp juice......

I ended up hitting Wlly world for some cheap stuff to cut the bog fog 50/50 it did work good to but had that nasty cheap fog smell.

I've tried Froggy's Swamp Juice and Freezin' Fog. Freezin' comes out really thick on the front end and then dissipates (much quicker than Swamp). If you are going for creepy atmosphere, it's the best! You will not believe the difference between Freezin' and the store bought stuff, night and day.

I would have to agree, Ive been using the cheap stuff for years. This year i stepped up to froggys freezin and froggys swamp. I tried it out in my garage when i got it. The difference is amazing. With the cheap stuff it dissipates quickly. not a big wow factor. the swamp juice needed my big blower to clear out the garage (two 400 w foggers) and resulted in the police doing a drive by to come check if i was on fire. The freezin fog is just as amazing. i usually run between six and ten foggers and due to the better fog juice im using only three this year

I have Freezin, and Swamp, and am thinking that I am going to only buy Swamp from now on. Both are excellent, but Swamp is close enough to Freezin to be able to skip loading the ice into the chiller on a nightly basis. I think I am going to use the Swamp nightly this week, and only using the Freezin on Halloween...and maybe beggars night...and this year possibly the weekend leading up to the 31st... I can't say I have ever chilled Swamp to give it a real test, but it can't cut performance I don't think. Gryphon has it right: You will use less of the Froggy's, as the coverage will be better, as well as the hang time. Just buy both, and whichever you use, you won't be disappointed.

I used Freezing and never got that super thick, low fog. I wonder if we did not pack the ice in enough. Would dry ice work better here?

Dry Ice is risky due to the CO2 being added to the fog plus expensive. Indoors you could wind up dead. What was the temp and wind conditions when you used the freezing juice plus how long did you do the fog? What fog machine where you using? Are you using a homemade chiller or storebought one?

If below 50 the fog should hang low and thick to the ground if the chiller is setup. They also have these crystals you can mix with the ice to help make the fog thicker. Vortex Chillers Volumizer Crystals are one such crystals but I have never used em. Planning on have a foggy graveyard next year. This was my first year decorating for Halloween. Hope I don't break the bank next year.

So scientific:

We use a Chauvet 1250 with a vortex chiller (purchased). Using just Froggy's freezing fog juice this year. We have run it with chipped ice and a second time with frozen blocks from the lab. Similar results.
We are wondering if we should run a pipe off the exit of the chiller to the ground to aid in low-lying. Our fog pretty much started up in the air and never sank.

Sadly it is above 50 on Halloweens here, so great for the ToT's but not so good for fog.

Anyn insight is appreciated. I will be cleaning it out in a day or two when the cleaner arrives.

Dry ice is not an issue since I am in a lab and we would run it outside.

Warm temperature is better as you are just trying to get the fog colder than the outside temp. I've tried chillers and the like but have got the best results using a 4" PVC pipe about 20 feet in length with only 4 one inch holes drilled in it spaced equally apart, then I fill the *entire* pipe full of ice and have a reducer fitting that goes right over the nozzle of the fogger. The first hole is a ways down the pipe so the fog has to travel through the ice first in order to escape.