Now we use vanilla. "Don't ever buy a cheap fog machine," he continues. "Anything from 50 to even 1,200 watts will not last and will be junk in just a few months to a year.

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But quality fog machines are too expensive, and the cheap machines are just, well, cheap. Stuck between $800 and quickly broken crap, he decided instead to fashion his own.

A fog machine generates dense vapor by heating water and glycol to extreme temperatures.