Hows that VTA cheesecake
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Well you can move the post there if you like shrug I don’t mind.
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Just informing you for the future …I would love tonsee more people share their recipes in these threads…
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Well damn it start sharing lol…Just having recipes for others to look at helps people learn
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Great in the custard, I’ve mixed it in a 15mL solo though haven’t tasted it that way yet but yeah.
23%'s a fairly high total too, though I’ve a hunch Vapetasia use pretty high totals in most their juices: why wouldn’t they - they’re paying what works out at a few dollars a litre for each concentrate in the kind’ve volumes they’re buying in, so they don’t need to go tight on the ingredients 
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I dont think so…I have never been in the mindset that there is a certain pct people should aim for…If the recupe works at 30pct then that’s what its is …
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I mix fairly low bc I taste the flavors great at those pcts but there are quite a few I need to push. To 5 and 6pct then the other flavors and bam you damn near 20pct…I hate when some people tell others 10pct ir 20pct is what you should aim for …Or when people say anything over 6 flavors is too much .Whatever works gor the recipe works imo
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Another thing that irks the fuck outta me is to hear someone tell anither person they are mixi g something wrong…I hear that from someone and I end up holding a grudge lol…
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I’ve also mixed two variations of Strawberry cheesecake with it, the fiest was alright though even at 2% the strawberry was too fruity for me, so I turned it down to 0.5% or something for the second and that one smells and lick-tested better - the strawberry not so pungeant in the mix, though I haven’t vaped it yet: it’s been steeping 2 weeks though so it’ll probably be ready to vape-test now.
And that honey & milk: now I’ve got the Osmanthus Flower, I’m very sure that’s what it needs to stop it being flat, boring milky honey and give it that higher sharper note, but the Osmanthus flower is mild enough to not be too obviously floral - also, flowers + honey + bees just naturally go together.
Just gotta decide on the % of floral… it’s a very mild fruit-sweet floral flavour.
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Sorry about the rants …lmao
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I don’t think so either: I think for the most part, many of our favourite commercials use pretty high flavour totals because, like I said they’re not paying near as much as we are for them and they’ve gotta fill that 30 PG quota with something 
Who said a given % total was wrong?
I’m generally thinking of the times I’ve heard online in various places that lower = better which has never made sense to me and I tried to get that notion out of others way of thinking - particularly when they’re trying to clone their favourite commercial liquids that’re probably very high in flavourings and can never be cloned at 10% total flavours - they said they ‘appreciate’ that, then ignored the advice completely.
I DO think, that once anyone’s been vaping DIY mixes long enough, their taste-buds become accustomed to lower flavour percentages, but that takes a long time to happen and jumping straight from commercial liquid to DIY, you need to really stick to the same higher % totals the commercial juices utilize.
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Also trying really hard to get this Rose plus White chocolate plus cream mix to work, but it’s not… it’s kinda like a bliugh version of turkish delight with curdled milk 
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Soon as I get that floral top note added in the honey & milk I’ll post that too… well, if it’s good without a lower note as well… thinking … might only need the flower to round it out though I dont’ know that particular concentrate is available through other brands: Osmanthus - like Eucalyptus - is a pretty Australian scent/flavour.
Any good honey & milk though… they’ll do fine.
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I am well inclined to going on rants myself - rants are good 
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That too ^
Mixing multiple creams generally gives a richer flavour of cream than using one huge dose of one or another: it’s not even about being overly complicated, it’s just a good way of ticking more creamy ‘boxes’ off for your tastebuds than trying to do it with one.
Yeah.
Same with, if I use only honey, the honey quickly gets too much, so adding a small amount and then filling the rest with Raw Sugar or Brown Sugar allows for the right level of sweetness without cloyingly over-sweetness from just the honey.
I haven’t used any sweetnener for a while now though: since there’s sweet flavours that don’t ruin coils yet still make juices taste sweet they seem the better way to go.
Still dunno how that works, but the sucralose I have is gathering dust at the back the cupboard now.
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All bitching about the suddenly relentless workload each day aside, working at the classiest heritage hotel in the blue mountains gets me all the butter shortbread biscuits I can reasonably wanna eat…
Maybe that can be my next mixing project slash experiment…
I’ve got the biscuit and butter base and raw sugar to kick it off
Again too, any substitute for biscuit, butter and sugar could be used so it’s not restricted by anyone NEEDING any specific flavour brand for, well there’s nothing else to shortbread biscuits anyway: butter, flour and sugar.
Nice biscuits too: I figured they’d be disgusting, being complimentary hotel shit but nope - they’re very nice… nice enough for me to be grazing on 'em like a cow between rooms, or during 
And as incomparably hardcore as that work is compared to any commercial cleaning gigs I’ve done, it’s soooo nice to have a job that starts at 9:30AM: no trying to get to bed by 8:00PM then being held awake by insomnia knowing I’ve gotta get up at 3:00AM no matter how little sleep I get or how long I lay awake thinking about NOT being asleep…
6:00AM my alarm’s now set to, and even then that’s giving me 3.5 hours to get my arse fully awake and functioning: if I needed to sleep-in until 8:30AM I could and still get there by 9:30.
Proper human time to be starting work.
Also, the chick manages the cleaners - my immediate supevisor - is this tiny little 5’-nothing thing with light brown hair and I don’t know exactly why, but stick a petite, cute woman in front of me and I have no issue taking orders from her - that intrinsic desire to do what she wants comes very naturally indeed.
I’ve already convinced her that rather than getting a black button-up shirt like everyone else at the Carrington wears as a uniform, I’ll just buy a couple new black macpac merino thermal tops because I’m seriously more comfortable in merino because "Cotton’s so scratchy and thick compared to ultra-fine merino" and explained how in love with the material I am.
She agreed and said that’s fine.
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Yep…we’ve had a few around here. 
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a few ?
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Just ensure you don’t blow your vapour anywhere near any smoke alarms and you should be alright. I often work in a similar environment but have tailored my work setup and juice to be as discreet as possible.
I don’t know about your hotel but I’ve certainly heard stories of the smoke alarms being set off inadvertently which immediately and automatically alerts FESA to which they HAVE to attend regardless of a false alarm or not.
I know some put those plastic shower caps over them but if you do don’t forget about it!
If it’s proven who set it off then that person is liable for all costs which I think is approximately $1500??
I can’t remember the exact figure but I know it’s well over a grand.
As I say obviously I’m ignorant of all your scenarios and costs but in Perth that’s what happens anyway.
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That’s true actually, yeah the whole fuckin brigade rock up to go over the building I forgot all about those false alarm calls 
It didn’t happen though, and in the bathrooms at least, they’ve only got an exhaust fan for steam and one those ancient little red glass sprinkler valves.
Though I’m sure they have actual detectors in the rooms themselves.
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