Revisiting and correcting initial mistakes

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I was going to put this under a thread directly named after this particular concentrate but I decided that my point was more to highlight how mistakes are easily made than to sing the praises for it.

One of the first concentrates I bought was Lorann Butter Rum and as I wanted nicotine too I bought it from My Freedom Smokes. I live in Australia where it was then and still is illegal to buy nicotine domestically.
As I was searching their website it was a bit of an impulse buy.

I had absolutely no idea about what percentage to mix it at so I emailed MFS to ask advice. Unbeknown to me the advice given was completely wrong as 20-30% was recommended.
I’m talking roughly 9 years ago?? I understand that vaping hardware has changed considerably in that time and I think I myself was using an ego and an Iclear 16. I’m not going to bother and check my memory but definitely a little ego and a clearomiser of similar design.
To make matters worse when my order eventually arrived I also had no idea about even attempting to mix anything.
Obviously much research ensued and I managed to grasp a basic idea but had no syringes or scales. Therefore I mixed by drops and I think I’d deduced that 20 drops per ml was the go.
It was absolutely disgusting and it has put me off it for all this time. After more experience I realized that the results were very likely down to my mistakes and I should give it another chance as it appears popular. Therefore I’ve never thrown or given it away.

The point of all the rambling above is that about a month ago I decided to remix Lorann Butter Rum and tonight I finally tried it. I mixed it at 7% which I was still thinking could be a bit strong but went with it anyway.

It has been a great surprise as I now think that it’s very nice and easily vapeable on its own but I’m sure will also be an extremely useful flavour for recipes.

Another point I’d thought I’d make is that this concentrate is very old but still vapes just fine with an extremely enjoyable taste.

I’ve seen many people asking questions and appearing disheartened with this ‘mixing caper’ and thought my waffling could possibly help someone to try again.

Sorry if I’m babbling but I felt compelled to post!!!

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Thanks for posting this as a topic of it’s own! I think many mixers, new and old, could benefit from this wisdom.

Reading through flavor notes, I have seen many people write off flavors as disgusting or just plain useless, when they obviously tested at too high a percentage. For example, a Flavorah flavor at 5% when it needs 0.4-1% is likely going to taste like burnt tires, or be completely muted out.

When I was new, I thought Vanilla Ice Cream RFSC couldn’t be used over 0.5%, but it can go up to 2.5 or 3%. I had just put it in a mix with little experience, the mix tasted off and I blindly blamed it on the Ice Cream. It was just an over-flavored mess and the whole recipe was a misstep, the Ice Cream was not the culprit. [2 years spent with the wrong max % in my head]

Thanks again for posting. I hope more mixers can chime in with stories like this.

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I’m glad you followed the compulsion.

I’ll post a story of a mistake. I do believe it was Inawera’s, Creme Brule. I had heard so many good things about it and it was in several recipes I wanted to try. So, I purchased it and then Single Flavor Tested it and… YUCK!! I hated it and then gave it away.

I remembered that but still purchase Creme Brule (INW) again. This time I didn’t single flavor test it because I figured I already knew what it tasted like. Anywho, I made a recipe with it in and LOVED it.

Moral of the story? Just because you don’t like a certain concentrate after doing a single flavor test doesn’t mean it’s horrible. It just might be wonderful with other concentrates boosting or muting it.

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