Got some new flavours and had to put them to work over the weekend:
Pebbles - Finally got the final ingredient to make this legend...
Sadlad Toast Crunch - A use for me Cereal 27 - a Cinnamon Toast Crunch par excellence
Fireside Cocoa - An old school hot cocoa with a bit of Hotchata (thanks @RichJB for introducing me to this fantastic flavour discovery)
Creamchata - A simple 4 ingredient mix to produce a rich and cream Horchata
Strawberry Horchata - A stunning combination of Horchata (there's a trend here!) with some strawberry, fuji and Ry4 double
Baklava - Got some of the RF Baklava and after a single mix, I found the honey too overpowering. I added some nut mix to boost the nuttiness and a bit of FA Coikie to lift the pastry note. This is a work in progress..
Chilled Lychee - A bit of a staple for me... No better chilled fruit than Lychee IMHO.
Pebbles - Finally got the final ingredient to make this legend...
Sadlad Toast Crunch - A use for me Cereal 27 - a Cinnamon Toast Crunch par excellence
Fireside Cocoa - An old school hot cocoa with a bit of Hotchata (thanks @RichJB for introducing me to this fantastic flavour discovery)
Creamchata - A simple 4 ingredient mix to produce a rich and cream Horchata
Strawberry Horchata - A stunning combination of Horchata (there's a trend here!) with some strawberry, fuji and Ry4 double
Baklava - Got some of the RF Baklava and after a single mix, I found the honey too overpowering. I added some nut mix to boost the nuttiness and a bit of FA Coikie to lift the pastry note. This is a work in progress..
Chilled Lychee - A bit of a staple for me... No better chilled fruit than Lychee IMHO.
Oooohhhh... made a couple again this weekend... These are the new ones I tried out... Made some old favorites as well...
Eye of the Tiger - A Frosties cereal recipe... I only made a test batch of 10ml... waiting for this to steep... at the moment I am getting too much Hazelnut... so hoping that will settle a bit after a while...
God Milk - Also only made a 10ml test batch... too much harsh Strawberry at the moment... so also waiting for it to steep a bit before I make up my mind about it...
Butter Almond Custard - Oh my hat!!! This sample came out so nice I immediately made 100ml of it... I'm sure it will be so much better after some steep time... but wow... I love it!!
Unicorn Puke - Quite interesting... I like it! It's a bit of a break from my normal sweet tooth...
Eye of the Tiger - A Frosties cereal recipe... I only made a test batch of 10ml... waiting for this to steep... at the moment I am getting too much Hazelnut... so hoping that will settle a bit after a while...
God Milk - Also only made a 10ml test batch... too much harsh Strawberry at the moment... so also waiting for it to steep a bit before I make up my mind about it...
Butter Almond Custard - Oh my hat!!! This sample came out so nice I immediately made 100ml of it... I'm sure it will be so much better after some steep time... but wow... I love it!!
Unicorn Puke - Quite interesting... I like it! It's a bit of a break from my normal sweet tooth...
Looks awesome! The 2% hazelnut does look a bit much though - think I'll mix this with 1% sometime this week. I'm a fan of cereal vapes myself
Give it as long a steep as you can. It's not a great juice off the shake, and not even special at two weeks. Two months is about right.
Dang, I was hoping that was going to be the first recipe using FW Unicorn Vomit. But the search continues. Well, not really. It's a concentrate I don't ever see myself buying, even if almost every DIY vendor stocks it. I just don't get that, how a vendor would want to stock Unicorn Vomit but not FW's bangers like Hazelnut, Ripple, Blueberry, Sweet Cream, etc. Anyway, it is what it is. I also thought I'd never ever buy FW Beetle Juice. Now Cokecan is raving about it. Then the FOMO sets in and you just know you're going to add it to your Cart at some point.
@RichJB , i recall a while back you mentioned something along the lines of you trying to cut back on concentrates and not buying new ones unless it was something you could use well.
How has this "goal" tranpired? Have you managed to cut back? Or not? Am curious.
I've never tried cereal vapes before... so it sounded like a good idea... But yes... If the Hazelnut doesn't settle after a week or so I will make another test batch and reduce the hazelnut to 1%...
Thanks for the heads up! I will have some patience and give it some time...
I bought a bottle hoping it would be similar to TFA Rainbow Sherbet... I was very disappointed... to me it's absolutely disgusting! I doubt I will ever actually use it...
I have been quite good, @Silver. Most of my recent purchases have just been top-ups of staples like FA Caramel, Vienna, Cream Fresh, TFA Ripe, VBIC and Cheesecake GC, etc. Time was, I would have bought all the concentrates for a new Wayne recipe. But his latest one, Obsidian, requires Flv Cookie Dough and FW Pie Crust, neither of which is used in many other recipes. I already have Supreme Cookie Dough and NicVape Pie Crust which are unlikely to sub well in Wayne's recipe. I'll try 20ml using the subs and if it doesn't work, I'll skip the recipe. I'm not buying two more concentrates just for one recipe.
There are still some flavour profiles missing from my collection. I don't have Papaya, Pomegranate, Lychee, a good Apricot, Cucumber, a good Bourbon, some other odds and ends. But I'm really just dotting the i's and crossing the t's at this point. I think I already have the "best of breed" concentrates for 95% of the profiles that interest me.
I'll also still investigate new profiles as and when they surface. Wayne has been shilling FE Sweet Rice so there will likely be a ton of top recipes for it shortly. Unfortunately we can't get it yet and even US DIYers are battling to get it as it sells out instantly due to Wayne's marketing. But that sounds interesting and I'll give it a go once it hits our shores.
There are still some flavour profiles missing from my collection. I don't have Papaya, Pomegranate, Lychee, a good Apricot, Cucumber, a good Bourbon, some other odds and ends. But I'm really just dotting the i's and crossing the t's at this point. I think I already have the "best of breed" concentrates for 95% of the profiles that interest me.
I'll also still investigate new profiles as and when they surface. Wayne has been shilling FE Sweet Rice so there will likely be a ton of top recipes for it shortly. Unfortunately we can't get it yet and even US DIYers are battling to get it as it sells out instantly due to Wayne's marketing. But that sounds interesting and I'll give it a go once it hits our shores.
Please let us know how you find Sadlad Toast Crunch - on my "maybe" list.
FLV Bourbon is tops.
Will do - based on the ratings, it's sure to be a winner.
Most interesting, thanks @RichJB
I shudder to think how painful it must be trying to resist some of the more obscure concentrates - thinking it is going to be a winner of note!
I hear ya - at the moment I'm aiming for flavor profiles I know that I'll personally use (or sub). And even then I'm trying to focus only on my favourites. I've got melons and stonefruit covered, except more variations of peach. My citrus collection is also pretty good by now. That elusive peach though...
The confounding thing is how many sleepers there are. FW Beetle Juice is a classic example. It's the sort of "novelty" flavour that FW seem to like, it's been around forever and it never attracted much interest. Apparently there was a guy who was desperately trying to clone a commercial juice which was called Shurb iirc. He just could not find the main note in it - until he tried FW Beetle Juice. And that, according to him anyway, is basically the recipe. Then Cokecan hears about it, buys it and then comes up with his own lemonade recipe using it. So now interest spikes and people want to know what they've been missing all these years.
One of the first concentrates I bought was FA Hypnotic Mist. Back in my n00b days, the idea of a "recipe in a bottle" was appealing. It was a compound flavour, it was made by FA, so it should be good. I mixed it up standalone and it was OK but not stellar. I read reviews on ELR along the lines of "Oooh, this is interesting. I can't quite put my finger on what it is so it's hard to describe..." My kneejerk response was "Let me help you: it's oranges." I was relieved that I wasn't going totally crazy when ConcreteRiver posted his notes on Reddit and described it thus:
So yeah, it's a decent orange. The nub being that there are several decent oranges. Why would I use Hypnotic Mist instead of FW Blood Orange, Cap Sweet Tangerine or the FA Orange/Mandarin combo? However, seeing as CR likes it, I'm sure some good orange recipes will flow from it and I may well end up being able to use this.
Skiddlz has also been shilling Cap Butter Cream of late. That was one of the flavours I bought initially for one recipe: Goldfish's competition-winning Apple Buttah. I agonised for days whether I should get it or not before taking the plunge. I still haven't made Apple Buttah, lol, but thankfully it's being used in many other recipes now. So it wasn't a chancy purchase that went wrong.
One of the first concentrates I bought was FA Hypnotic Mist. Back in my n00b days, the idea of a "recipe in a bottle" was appealing. It was a compound flavour, it was made by FA, so it should be good. I mixed it up standalone and it was OK but not stellar. I read reviews on ELR along the lines of "Oooh, this is interesting. I can't quite put my finger on what it is so it's hard to describe..." My kneejerk response was "Let me help you: it's oranges." I was relieved that I wasn't going totally crazy when ConcreteRiver posted his notes on Reddit and described it thus:
So yeah, it's a decent orange. The nub being that there are several decent oranges. Why would I use Hypnotic Mist instead of FW Blood Orange, Cap Sweet Tangerine or the FA Orange/Mandarin combo? However, seeing as CR likes it, I'm sure some good orange recipes will flow from it and I may well end up being able to use this.
Skiddlz has also been shilling Cap Butter Cream of late. That was one of the flavours I bought initially for one recipe: Goldfish's competition-winning Apple Buttah. I agonised for days whether I should get it or not before taking the plunge. I still haven't made Apple Buttah, lol, but thankfully it's being used in many other recipes now. So it wasn't a chancy purchase that went wrong.
Hmm not yet. Thank you - I'll give that a shot. Dying to get a proper peaches&cream mix going.
That's exactly the thing though. Butter Cream is a good example of something I got because I know that in my own recipes (that I invent myself, I mean), there are a few where I'd want to use butter cream. Which is why I mostly hunt for flavour profiles instead of specific ingredients. If I see a recipe for mango yogurt that can't be subbed with what I have, then I'll rather try come up with my own mango yogurt based on what I do have. Etc.
Cokecan/Vurve tip: whatever peach you end up using (and they love the JF too), mix it with a little FA Apricot. It's not a prominent flavour on its own which is why most prefer TFA Apricot for an apricot profile. But it apparently does magical things to peaches.
Awesome, thank you! I'm going to make you research all the inthemix sessions
Incidentally, that's what I did the last time. TFA Peach & FA Apricot on Wayne's yogurt base. It was terrible. But I suspect the TFA Peach is to blame.
Interestingly @RichJB - I used to adore the Liqui Fruit Peach and Orange drink. Used to love the flavour combination. I wonder if peach and orange would pair well for a vape?
Oh yes, that would be great. Or a Mango and Orange Just Juice.
The popular Sex On The Beach cocktail pairs peach schnapps with orange juice and some other ingredients. Inw make a Sex On The Beach flavour, that might be a good starting point.
Mixed up some Strawberry Milks by /u/dirtyprojector and a Mustard Milk edit I've been playing with while waiting for my new order.
Got some Spiny Dragon Strap On by /u/ID10-T in the tank tonight after letting it sit a few days, reminds me of Grack Juice in a good way with Fuji instead of Grape and missing the Koolada hit which I might try adding.
Got some Spiny Dragon Strap On by /u/ID10-T in the tank tonight after letting it sit a few days, reminds me of Grack Juice in a good way with Fuji instead of Grape and missing the Koolada hit which I might try adding.
Spiny dragon is vile hahaha.. And i love dragon fruit
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I mixed up a quick little raspebrry cheesecake for a mate that turned out pretty awesome
Tfa rasperry sweet 3.5%
Tfa cheesecake w/ graham 2.5%
Cap NY cheesecake 2.5%
Cap sugar cookie v1 2.25%
Ethyl maltol 0.5%
Needs a proper 10 day steep but pretty ok just off the bat
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Tfa rasperry sweet 3.5%
Tfa cheesecake w/ graham 2.5%
Cap NY cheesecake 2.5%
Cap sugar cookie v1 2.25%
Ethyl maltol 0.5%
Needs a proper 10 day steep but pretty ok just off the bat
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