I would like to start this out by saying that I have never written a review for a vaping device, or anything really outside of restaurants. There are several well written reviews on how the game changer works, both here and on the VC forum, but the short version is that this is a device that turns freshly mixed juice into a fully homogenized liquid that tastes as if it has been steeping for the perfect amount of time.
If you have more questions about how this device works, I would look into these other reviews (Iāll try to link them in the first comment below) because while this device is flawless to my eye, and I have had zero issues with functionality, the questions as to how it works or why it works were never questions I needed to askā¦like most of us my primary question was ādoes it actually work?ā, so I am going to write this review to answer the questions I had when I first heard about this device.
I guess letās start with a little about me, I almost exclusively vape custards and bakeries, juices that most people would leave sit for a month before even looking at it. I also try almost all of my mixes at least weekly during the steeping process because I am curious and like to know whatās going on, so I have many recipes that I not only have notes on how they taste when done steeping, but also have notes on their development along the process.
Being a custard fan, I had many bottles at a month or more steep when my GC arrived, and over the past few weeks I have used the GC to mix up 20+ different recipes and the results have been truly game changingā¦the only thing in the vape world that has lived up to the amount of hype it had to me has been FLV rich cinnamon, and now the GCā¦
The juices I had steeped were tested head to head against GC mixes on a pair of hermetic rdaās with matching drip tips and identical 4/5 wrap 3mm quad core clapton coils on a espion mod. I did my head to head testing as a basic single-blind study with my wife attaching a hermetic to the espion mod without me seeing, and then handing it to me, then attaching the other when I handed it back. This could almost be considered a double-blind study because while she technically knew what she was giving me, she didnāt know how I marked the bottles that had been homogenized so she didnāt know which was which. I do not own a USC, so all GC mixes were vaped the next day, and all mixes put through the GC had the VG warmed to 130-140 Fahrenheit min-max, then homogenized.
First head to head:
I mixed the steeped version of this on March 13,
And the GC version 12 days ago, so the steeped version was over 4 months oldā¦As you can see by the recipe, this is a very heavy and rich mix, Cap vanilla custard V1, sweet cream, and cake batter all need a good chunk of time to steep, and these are the exact reasons I chose this as the first juice for head to head testing. To my surprise, I preferred the GC mix over the time steeped juice, and Iām guessing that is due to some possible flavor oxidation over four months maybe, regardless of the reason the GC mix tastes just as creamy, rich, and thick as the steeped mix, but the steeped mix had a very slight off note to it. I should also note that this mix was an adaptation of an adaptation of an adaptation of @lukeloop amazing yellow matter custard recipe which you should try if you havenāt alreadyā¦
Next:
I want to preface this test by saying that this mix is not actually very good, it is a first attempt at making a butterscotch caramel ice cream topping, but it happened to hit the one month steep mark three days before the GC arrivedā¦ I actually liked the fact that this recipe is not delicious to me, it has some off notes and some unbalance, because the bottle I mixed with the GC shares those exact same traits, this is also a recipe with MF flavors in it that absolutely need a month to really fill out and the two taste identicalā¦great news for the function of the device, but now I have to figure out what to do with 2 bottles of mediocre juice instead of one lol.
The Last of the blind head to head comparisons:
At this point, due to the fact my wife doesnāt vape, and probably due to the time involved with washing out and re-wicking the rdaās, I lost my helper lol. This mix was very interesting for me, it is something I always have some variation of in a tank or squonk bottle at all times, this recipe only needs two weeks to steep but the one I had was already at 3 weeks. This head to head also shined a light onto one thing the GC canāt doā¦cinnamon mixes are still a little ābiteyā or āspicyā after sitting overnight, so for the purposes of this head-to-head it technically failed to be the exact same as the time steeped version, but it should be noted that I tried it 24 hours after the first test and they tasted identical to me.
Every recipe I list after this sentence was not vaped head to head with a time steeped version, but they were selected to be ran through the GC for very specific reasons.
I chose this recipe for testing for 2 reasons: I have mixed up about 300ml of this recipe in 30-50ml increments over the summer and am familiar with how it should taste, and also because I know that one drop too many or not enough of any of these flavors changes the mix and it doesnāt taste like a pretzel anymoreā¦safe to say it is a delicious but very delicate recipe, and I figured that made it a perfect candidate for GC testing. The results were clear, Iāll be getting my pretzel fix from now on without having to wait 10 days for it to actually taste like a pretzel:) side note, if you have all these flavors, or even if you donāt, try this recipe. It tastes like a sweet dough pretzel, one of the most accurate recipes I have ever had, right up there with @SessionDrummer Golden Grahams recipe.
This recipe is actually the most important test of the GC to me personallyā¦I LOVE one on oneās donut flavor, but it is the only flavor I own that I will not try before the 3 week mark, I get strange fruity off notes until then, and it doesnāt become its true self until 4 weeks or moreā¦I actually couldnāt wait overnight to try it, and had my first taste while the juice was still 1/4 milkyā¦and omg the Krispy Kreme blissā¦it tastes like it is supposed to, the way I want it toā¦sweet donut bliss just hours after I mixed itā¦fantastic.
This is the last mix I will showcase, I developed this recipe a while ago to be a shake and vape, as it says in the recipe notes I was going for a rainbow sherbet punch, based loosely off of the original sherb clone but designed to taste more like sherbet and less like sherbet flavored candyā¦With this recipe after two weeks the soda base loses whatever it is that makes it feel bubbly, and the liquid barn ice cream dominates the mix. The GC does indeed take things to a full steep, as this mix was exactly what it should be beyond the first few weeks of vaping, a vaguely fruity ice cream lol.
I am not sure how to wrap this up, mainly because some thing like the GC doesnāt come around often enough in life to facilitate a proper responseā¦ What do you say when everything you know about some thing gets turned on its head? The scientific world refers to this as a paradigm shift, things like discovering the sun is the center of the universe and not earth, or that the earth is a globe and not flat, I feel like, for mixers, this device is exactly thatā¦the name āGame Changerā is more perfect of a name than anyone could come up with, and even still as I write this I feel like it just isnāt quite strong enough of a termā¦I donāt want to say life changing because it seems a little over dramatic, but itās somewhere just below that, but only just. While we are on the subject of words that donāt feel strong enough to convey their meaning, a big thank you, thank you, thank you to @anon36682625 for creating this amazing device, Giving me the opportunity to test it, and more importantly, a big thank you for sticking by your guns and having faith in yourself when you started this project and so few believed in you, thatās a lesson that should extend to the rest of us beyond just the vaping world.
So are there any downsides? Yes, I actually have more finished juice sitting in my cabinet right now than I ever did when I was time steeping, and Iām starting to run out of bottles to continue trying new recipes with lol. I guess thatās it? I hope if your on the fence about picking one of these up then maybe you gleaned a small bit of info from my verbal spillage, and if anyone has questions feel free to ask them! My forum time is limited in the summer months due to living on a farm, but responding to any questions on this post will be top priority when I am on here. Thanks for your time!
a great rundown brother, I very much enjoyed it, so far thatās everybody thatās used it has come to the same conclusion, itās an incredible device 
