How to create and save a Stone (Base)

Creating, and saving Stones (Bases). With @Rocky02852 releasing the January Mix-A-Long contest which was a “Cake Base”, it reminded me of how often people have issues trying to create, and save “Stones”, or “Bases”. Over the years, there have been a lot of different solutions, and some requiring creation of a “fake” ingredient. Let me save you some time, hassles, and steps.

Start out with your actual recipe that you want to make into a Stone/Base, you can Adapt it, if you want to preserve the OG recipe, call the NEW one a Stone or Base to keep them straight …

Hit the Blue Wrench, and choose Adjust Flavor Percentage, and change it to 100% …

Then, before saving it, change your desired PG to 100% (assuming PG flavors), then drop your desired NIC to 0 …

Save it, and WHALLLAH, you have a Stone or Base created and saved.

Stones, or bases can come in a helluva lotta handy especially if you are using the particular profile over and over again, in different mixes. Saves a LOT of time. If you have a recipe that is your ADV, and want to save time, make it into a Base/Stone and premix it up in a bigger bottle, then when you have to mix that recipe, you are adding ONE flavor !!! Obviously the more complex recipes, with more flavors, the MORE time you save.

Base/Stone class over. :slight_smile:

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Nice I always just turned my stones into a one-shot concentrate.

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Yes that’s an easy option available on the ELR calculator :+1:

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You can do that, but it’s only temporary, and cannot be saved. Once you get an ever growing list of mixes you make or sell a lot, saved stones/bases are a huge time saver. Sharing one-shot’s is also not as easy as a saved stone/base, but it all depends on how you mix, and what you need.

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That’s what I do too. I never knew about the way session mentioned.

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I use one-shot concentrate. But be carful, the command “Copy as markdown” doesn’t work properly. After changing the desired mixing strengths (e.g. to 20%), the additional PG is added, which doesn’t get copied! Software bug?

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