@lynda, you thinking EM ?
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Flavor Jungle says it’s double strength sucralose. When I mixed it at .50% it dulled down every flavor I get out of my CC. I had 2 bottles steeped, one with the ultimate and one with cap, and side by side it was noticeable. I made another batch without sweetener and mixed them and it was still muted/dulled down.
I did try it in a VSO fruit mix at .15% and that just left a slight aftertaste.
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That’s very kind of you, Lynda, thank you. It just so happened that right after asking about it they sent me a freebie with my order. After your description, I’m glad it was free.
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That’s interesting, as I wouldn’t have expected Suc at even double strength to mute.
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Yes, same here! I don’t get that with super sweet Capella even ( when I’ve made juice for others) at 1.75-2%. Strange.
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Ultimate Birthday Cake (Flavor Jungle) 3.0% (10-8-23) – Starting out with this, the FIRST “Ultimate” in this new series with the UBDC. It smelled really good in the bottle, but not entirely as a cake, and testing it revealed much of the same. I would call this “cake-ish”, or “cake-y”, but not 100% a cake. At times throughout my testers, I actually got some light AP notes (Los Fritos), and that was unexpected/out of place. There were some generous helpings of generic vanilla (almost cake) notes, with perhaps some icing. It had some pretty good mouthfeel, and was fairly rich, but not buttery. All in, I might better call this one an “Ultimate Cake Mixer” flavor. At 3% it felt very full, and the only off-note I got as the occasional AP note. A great mixer for cake recipes, BUT, not the star of the show. It felt fair to place this squarely at a 6.5/10.
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@Lynda_Marie I think I shared your generic-ness of the UBDC, and I kept picking up on some “Los Fritos” AP notes in there. Did you pick up on any of that ?
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Yes, I got graham cracker, not gross though. I thought browned edges of a cake.
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Flavor Jungle will hate me for calling it the “Ultimate Mixer”.
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Ultimate Blueberry (Flavor Jungle) 3.0% (10-8-23) – OK, ok, ok. I may have to come up with my OWN names for these new “Ultimates”, just like I did with the UBDC. OK, what do we have with this one. I’m going to call it the “Ultimate Mashup”, and YES, you heard it here first. I grew concerned upon smelling it in the bottle, and then finger testing, not because it was horrid, but it came across as almost “jammed”, and that would NOT be my Ultimate BB. Testing it revealed much less of a “jammy” flavor, and much more of a mashup. Now, let me start off by saying it was good, REALLY good, BUT, not sure on the Ultimate Blueberry-ness of it. I got a mix of a great Blueberry with some lighter, funky notes (which really worked here), along with a light Concord Grape, AND, a White/Green Grape (maybe a Fuji Apple). There you go people, it IS a mashup, and not a solo Blueberry. Now, all cards on the table, my hands down Ultimate Blueberry is, and will probably remain Medicine Flower’s OG Blueberry for comparison.
This flavor is hard to explain (but not impossible), and maybe hard(er) to understand reading this. I would set the ratios of 50% Blueberry, 30% White/Green Grape (possibly Fuji), and 20% Concord Grape. Using berries to accentuate or boost Blueberries is well known, but using what I perceived to be grapes, was an interesting approach. All in, it WAS damned good, and I could see a LOT of uses for this, BUT, your mixing needs may vary, as well as your tastes, especially on a flavor like this. I could see ordering a bigger bottle of this one. At 3.0% it was very full and not lacking, and sweetness was just about mid-level, with no off-notes (except for the intentional mashup flavors), and the slight BB musky-ness which worked WITH the flavor, not against, so I’m not tallying that up as a take-off. All in, a great flavor, BUT, it was indeed a mashup, and a great one at that. Scoring this will be complicated for me, as it was billed AS a Blueberry. As a Blueberry mashup I would rate it at literally a 9.9/10, but as a Blueberry, I would have to pull it down a bit, and leave it at a 7.0/10. Even with a 7/10 rating, I would still recommend getting this one.
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Yup there goes all of your freebies!!
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So sad…Of course i know that smelling a flavor means NOTHING but this one i did excited for based on the smell…I use it and add another bakery element butnwill i buy it again?? Ill know after few recipes. I never judge a flavor solely on a SFT , buy even with my godly mixing skills i feel this wont ever be as good as it smells
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Disappointed , light , possibly a secodary flavor for a cake recipe …Ill know after a couple recipes steep.I also have it mixed with SB and Cream right now so hoping it mixes better than SF , hope that makes sense
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Yeah, roger that. Like you said, if it TASTED like it SMELLED, we’d be having an entirely different conversation.
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NOW, what’s going to be interesting @fidalgo_vapes, is how will the One-Shot compare to the single flavor ?
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I would hope the one shot was more complete.
Heres what i first did with the BDC
I feel that i can remove the BDC and up the Simply and have the same or a better recipe and is why I made a simple 3 flavor recipe to see how it does as the main bakery flavor
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Hehe, yeah, THAT’S never good (for a flavor that is).
Let me get through all of these testers, and I’ll mix that up. I agree that Simply Cake is simply delicious.
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Ultimate French Vanilla (Flavor Jungle) 3.0% (10-8-23) – Ok, NOW we’re onto something, and it might JUST be, and Ultimate. Now many people don’t really know what a French Vanilla is, but I think Jungle Flavors does. French Vanilla isn’t really a specific Vanilla Bean, but more of an inclusion of Egg Yolks. Yes, that’s right, IN the Vanilla, and it was IN HERE !!! Yes, it presented as a somewhat darker, almost spicy Vanilla, with GREAT Custard elements. I’m writing this during the FIRST tester, so YES, it was THAT good. I think I might buy a bigger bottle before I finish this. The slightly darker Vanilla just simply worked here, and the custard elements while eggy, were not egg-heavy, which is going to appeal to a LOT of people, many of whom want some egg, but not slammed with egg. It was damned good at 3%, and I had NO desires to increase it. Sweetness was about a tick above mid-level, and I just couldn’t find any off-notes or take-offs to complain about. Great mouthfeel, fairly rich, and creamy, but without any overt cream notes if that makes sense. At times, I almost got a light bakery element in there, that just worked to thicken up the entire experience. All in, a slightly darker vanilla with just a hint of spicy-ness, with great custard notes, that weren’t overly eggy. I waited until the second tester before deciding to release the Kraken, and rock this one at a 10/10.
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