Apple Filling is one of the best Flavorah flavors (see ratings); i would easily say top3 FLV, nearly perfect and impossible to find a close substitute. I donāt even remember if i tried it over 2%, 1.5-1.75% is my sweet spot and i use it a lot.
speaking of flavor notes, why do people spam copy someone elseās same exact flavor note over and over? Itās really annoying when Iām trying to find individual impressions on taste, instead itās like 100 of the notes are just copy pasting a 2-3 paragraph note from someone else.
What does it taste like to you? All I got from it is an overpowering cinnamon with no apple flavor. I was hoping for more apple > cinnamon. I really just donāt have a taste for anything to make involving a strong cinnamon flavor. I was hoping for an apple pie filling flavor.
Apple Filling FLV doesnāt have a clear apple flavor, but a very commercial, gelatinous apple-esque filling you get in mcdonaldās apple pies. Thereās not enough apple (for standalone) to be a proper apple pie filling (just like mcdonaldās isnāt), but on the other hand that exact proportion allows it to be way more usable than it would be if they tried to make it as a oneshot.
The way it is makes it perfectly prepared to be bent in a direction of your liking and thatās the whole point - you can add baked apples, like Country Apple ooo or Baked Apple SSA / VSO or raw apples, red or green or yellow apples (which would be nearly impossible if the apple was more prominent).
And there are not just apples⦠i sometimes use it with other fruits as well; like with peach/apricot/mandarine/similar fillings/jams; with Amardeen WF, Orange Marmalade VTA or Bakery Orange ssa, with Pears and Figs or anywhere where iād wish to get more of that artificial gelatinous-like filling; at low percents up to 0.4% that cinnamon doesnāt come through as a cinnamon but rather as spices or blind-spots-filler anyway. All that wouldnāt be possible if they made it as a oneshot (and imo we should be glad for that).
But⦠since you have an issue with a cinnamon⦠there is Apple Cider WF; i donāt have it yet, but itās on my buy list; itās well rated and itās supposed to be less gelatinous and without a cinnamon. (but again, play more with Apple Filling, maybe your tolerance is lower, but it really is a great flavor that can be bend in many directions and it works so well with bakeries).
I actually got in trouble for making it public and it was made private by a mod.
Also, lately getting comments from people who are getting upset that Iām publicizing tests and single flavor recipes. I dont get it, thereās thousands and thousands of bad recipes with no tasting notes, yet when I make detailed notes on how something tastes, or describe something turning out to be a failure, itās a problem? The whole purpose of publicizing a failed recipe with detailed notes is to help other people. I think itās helpful to post something that doesnāt work. If people only say what does work, people are not gonna know what doesnāt work. Single flavor recipes as well, Iām only trying to be helpful. People seem to get upset when I do that, but when everyone elses posts recipes with no notes, as long as they donāt mention that it turned out gross thatās somehow totally fine.
Oh shoot. I can make it public. Itās not completely updated, and thereās some flavors on it that I no longer have. None of those flavors on the list would have been in my flavor stash yet.
Hehe, people usually search for recipes theyād want to mix, not what they wouldnāt want to mix. I wouldnāt open a recipe with a name āThis sux, donāt mix itā or āI learned some new things here, take your time and let me tell you what that isā ; we have forums for that and those debates are very useful there (plus there is a higher chance that someone actually responds than in ārecipesā).
Single flavor recipes are also problematic, because people usually search for more complex recipes (thatās why DIY is for primarily anyway, otherwise theyād be vaping oneshots or soloās). Since ELR has Flavor Reviews section as well, it makes more sense to write those notes there since they belong there and also others would more easily find those, right? (imagine if everyone would be writing their reviews/notes in recipes section⦠how hard would it be to find anything⦠or to open dozens of pages instead of one⦠it would be a mess in Recipes and a mess in Reviews section; thatās why people usually keep those ārecipesā and testing notes as private OR publish their notes/reviews publicly in Reviews section).
Okay then⦠I guess I will no longer publish them the way I was. Personally when Iām searching for flavors Iāve actually tried to find single flavor recipes, or recipes with minimal additions to try and find out what it can go with, but not with 8 other flavors. Also, the notes are often the same thing copy pasted over and over a hundred times. I just wanted to be helpful. I was only doing what I myself thought was helpful because it wasnāt there when I tried to find it.
But you have this in notes (that i was trying to say) - people post their percents and what they suggest and what they taste there (no need to make a 4% Soho recipe if you can write that 4% in Soho Flavor Review page which is meant precisely for that and everyone can see that, while your notes in a ārecipeā hardly anyone will ever see).
And iām not even mentioning that your own flavor reviews are later way more easy to find on Flavor Review page, than if youād have to open recipes to check how something tasted to you. (and you can easy compare it to what others taste which again is useful often)
Now this is a different story. those simple KISS recipes are highly valuable for anyone, including for more experienced vapers (not that iām one of those, but i would most probably open many of those recipes since that might save me mixing that or out of curiosity based on your notes there; seriously i miss those recipes; i would just advise to write what flavors are there rather than using fancy names; iād more likely open it if it had a name such as BB FW & IC SSA rather than if it was named Blue Warrior)
Agree, this is annoying. People copy-paste others notes, to later save them for themselves elsewhere or have it in their own database. We canāt do anything about it. But here at least all notes are saved at one place instead of searching notes everywhere or opening a dozen of 4% BB FW recipes to read what others taste (and then open 6% BB FW recipes⦠andā¦).
Please donāt take it in a bad way; just tried to explain and show the other point of view. Also, iām not saying this is the only meaningful way or the right way as itās not, and ofc you can do it however you find it best working for you. Happy mixing!
@Mediocre_Remedial about all I can assume is posting separate single flavor recipes can really add up, and actually make things more overwhelming, and/or harder to find. When I started reviewing I only posted the reviews on the forums, but I was contacted by a lot of people who didnāt actually use the forums, and wanted them on the mixing side. I hadnāt considered this, and started doing both, as well as adding the reviews to the actual flavor notes section as well. I chose to āstackā them as heavy as I could PER each ārecipeā. I obviously group them together in series, from MFGās, etc. which makes it easier to find. I wonder if you could group your reviews together, or (as mentioned) start a thread for all of them.