You said it! Great job @MysticRose! Thank you!
What equipment are you vaping these on?.. Build/coil material/Ohms?..and how many watts do you vape at? Direct to Lung or MTL?.. I donāt see a Premium French Vanilla Extract on ReakFlavors websiteā¦Can you clarify?
Nice write up! Iām glad I wasnāt crazy for thinking the butter toffee was pretty tasteless. I was disappointed as well. It sounds like you and I have similar tastes when it comes to stuff. I get play doh on Capās donut as well, so I think Iāll probably skip the funnel cake. That brownie batter sounds amazing though, so itās definitely going on my list. I donāt know how I feel about the Coke. I think a coke vape might be nice, but Iām like you. I quit drinking real cokes and switched to diet (Diet Dr. Pepper or Mt. Dew usually) and I worry that the sweetness will be too much. Seems like these are gonna be great flavors over all. Iām excited!
My 2% French Toast is really starting to taste great after 4 days steeping. I mixed up Baklava and Pumpkin Pie at 2% 2 days ago (using my Badger paint mixer that I did not have when I made the French Toast) and am eager to give them a try in another day or 3. All of them got a couple hour Warm (not the Low setting) bath in my crock pot and have had the tops removed for a couple hours once or twice to let them breathe.
The Premium French Vanilla is a beta for now.Walt said he mixed these up for a customer wanting a old style French ice cream.I think it is around post #610
Like others I appreciate your reviews. Good work here! And @Walt_RealFlavors should hire you as part of his development team . I will be buying a couple of these flavors based on this review.
Iām going to say this now in case you donāt think of it and I donāt remember. If your 4 week test still lacks doughy flavor would you think Joy may help?
Okayā¦ so I visited Walt and Cindy over at their home location - I had a personal trip to Vancouver, WA to make on Friday, gimped leg and all. Real Flavors hooked me up with some samples to hand out to some of my oldest friends that vape (even recommended them to this site for some more DIY ideas) - by the way Walt, those samples are GONE, even all the stickers. By the wayā¦ the Blue Raspberry Cotton Candy got rave reviews from a friend I called today to follow up on some stuff.
I also got my hands on the following extracts (thanks to Cindy for being so sweet and kind to a hobbled older gent):
Swedish Fish
Yumberry
Peach
Strawberry
Oatmeal Cookie
Vanilla Custard
Condensed Milk
Black Raspberry
Iāve already put the Swedish Fish, Oatmeal Cookie and Black Raspberry in a 15ml 30/70 test at 1.5% each, starting today. Iām going to start working on my back log with some of the other extracts (Chocolate, Cream Cheese and Cherry) for testing. Will report in on these soon.
I just tested the Baklava and Pumpkin Pie I mixed 2 days ago at 2%. Really good but a bit too much flavor I think. I am going to let them steep a few more days and maybe try running them through a tank instead of a dripper before I decide but I think I need to dilute my test batches a bit to get them down around 1.5% flavoring. I am liking them both for sure but I think any new extracts I buy in the future I will start at 1 or 1.5% instead of 2%. Easier to add a few drops more of flavoring than it is to add more of my nic base.
Iām sorry, didnāt even think of that. All were DL. The Butter Toffee was tested in a COV Vengeance .2 coil at 35W. The Dreamsicle, FV, Funnel Cake was tested in a Cleito .2 coil at 35-40W. Cola was tested in a troll on a fused clapton around .5? at 30W. Brownie Batter was a Crown 2 with a .8 coil at 35W.
I think that was all? The Premium French Vanilla isnāt for sale yet, very expensive to make and Walt is still waiting on feedback from the other 2 testers. And he apparently had a small amount left this last batch to send out a couple more testers. He said next batch will be made at the end of this month. There is more info on that one in the last 100 posts or so of this thread if you read up. His cost to make is $3.44 per oz. before bottling, labor and labels, so he hasnāt quite decided yet if people would be interested considering it would have to have a higher price tag.
Thanks for your questions
Thank you for sharing I havenāt tested that high yet, but I have been getting good results in the 1-1.5% range. I tried a batch of the brownie at 1% instead of 1.5% and it was very good as well at that level, I just preferred the chocolate a bit heavier at the 1.5%. Does the french toast have cinnamon in it and maple flavor at all? Iāve never tried vaping it before. Also, will you please describe the flavor of Baklava to me, Iāve never had that either? Is the pumpkin pie that is heavy on the spices, or do you think itās balanced well?
I didnāt think of that, thank you. It may help, and I do have it. Unfortunately, just like the CAP Doughnut, Iām one of the lucky ones that just tastes stale beer with Joy I will update at the 4 week steep, and then add Joy and let you know if it helped. What percentage would you recommend I try?
The French Toast has some cinnamon, maple and egg notes to it. I saw someone on the RF site mention they added caramel to the VG version to enhance it a bit. It is really good for me at 2% but I think I might want to try it at 2.5 or 3% as it isnāt as flavorful as I was hoping, definitely a lot more subtle overall flavoring compared to the Baklava and Pumpkin Pie.
I havenāt ate baklava in a couple months. This vape juice at 2% seems a bit overpowering and not what I was expecting but hopefully it become a bit more subtle and nuanced with some more steeping time since it has only been 2 days so far. Very nutty, seems a bit pistachio (or perhaps itās the cloves which I am not a huge fan of from my younger days trying to smoke cloves) forward which is pushing down the dough, butter, sugar and cinnamon notes I was hoping for.
The Pumpkin Pie is a bit spice heavy but again it could just need more steeping time or a 1 or 1.5% flavor starting point instead of the 2% I started at.
I will give them a few more days steeping and revisit them and may end up putting another 6 or 7 ml of unflavored nic/vg/pg base into the 20ml Baklava/Pumkin testers (this is my standard testing size lately, in a 30ml bottle, though I might start doing 15ml in the future so I have more room for diluting as needed) to try and bring the flavoring total closer to 1.5%.
Thank you so much! I will watch for further updates
I was a bit surprised by the flavors of the baklava when vaped since the smell of it is very subtle, almost no noticeable baklava smell.
Okay, for some kicks and gigglesā¦ Iām going to work a Peach Cobbler recipeā¦ hereās what Iām using:
Alice's Georgia Peach Cobbler
Ingredient | % |
---|---|
Brown Sugar (TPA) | 1 |
Cinnamon Sugar Cookie (TPA) | 2.75 |
Condensed Milk - Raw Extract (Real Flavors) | 1 |
Peach - Raw Extract (Real Flavors) | 0.5 |
Peaches & Cream (Real Flavors) | 10 |
Oatmeal Cookie - Raw Extract (Real Flavors) | 1 |
Flavor total: 16.25%
Remember to rate it at e-liquid-recipes.com!
I may add some Stevia in thereā¦ but weāll see after a 3 day steep with 1st day breathe.
Cross your fingersā¦ havenāt had an inspiration like this in quite some time
Mmmmmmm, that sounds yummyā¦good luck!. You know that peaches and cream is going to need a 4 week steep minimum
I hate waiting too
Iām going to try an accelerated steep method with the VG flavor, Iām going to heat it up to about 130 degrees and mix the other components in with it while itās at that temp.
Iāll add the nicotine last after it cools and shake the āyou-know-whatā out of it for a few days.
Iāll say this, the initial smell is wowā¦
I think Alice (my Grandmother who used to make Peach Cobbler like her life depended on it) would approve, she passed away four years ago todayā¦ we shared a birthday and a love for her cooking.
What a wonderful way to honor her. Iām so happy for you that you have such good memories of your Grandmother
Iāve had a plan to make a peach cobbler for a good while but never have decided on what to use for the crust. In order to get that rare type of taste rarely found in any pastry or bakery recipe (at least how Mom used to make it anyway) Iāve toyed with a few combinations of Cookie, Sugar Cookie and Biscuit. Tried adding some Joy too. Have come slightly close a few times but nothing on target. Iām thinking of getting some RF Baked Bread and Shortbread and mixing with Biscuit, Joy and NF Organic Burnt Sugar. Then again maybe thatās the wrong approach, trying to establish the crust recipe independent of the remaining profile. Oh well, Iād like to hear how yours comes out.
One thing Iād like to suggest if youāre interested and thatās adding a touch of Liquid Amber to help give the peach that cooked taste. Itās what I plan when I finally get to that stage.
I was excited to say the least when I received my order of the new RAW flavors because inside was a beta sample marked Cola.
I have tried a few times to get a good mix to taste anything like a real Coke.The closest thing thus far wss a commercial juice made by Open Source Vapor named Toka Cola.Open Source used Medicine Flower extracts and have since closed due to the new regs in the state of Indiana .The recipe they used can be found thanks to @Anonymiss copying them down for everyone to enjoy.
I am very happy to report that I now have found my perfect Cola vape thanks to @Walt_RealFlavors .
I mixed this up using 3% and will try cutting this down to 1.5 next test as it was plenty strong.
Walt please tell me this is going to be on the shelf soon!
It is definitely the clove notes I am not liking in the Baklava. I hated clove cigarettes when I used to smoke and now that I know it is an ingredient in some baklava recipes it is all I can taste in this juice. I have not yet tried diluting it down to 1.5% or lower with some unflavored but I did try this on one of my RDAās coils and French Toast on the other and it helped mellow the clove notes some but not sure if that is the way I want to go with the next batch of this. I will let it steep some more before I make any decisions and may actually go to a local bakery and grab some baklava for comparison, you know for science.
I havenāt revisited the pumpkin pie but will again in another day or 2.
The French Toast is getting better and better with age. I will be making a bigger batch of this soon for sure, just need to decide if I want to up the flavor % or not.