Unbelievably, I tried a mix Iāve had in the cupboard for 4 months last night and actually liked it.
The only thing I put in the liquid back then was VG/PG and Tiramisu @ around 6% I guess it wouldāve been: tasted it fresh, disgusting like always - back of the cupboard for some time when Iām reaaally desperate for juice.
Fast forward about a month ago I finally had sucralose in the last order and added a few drops of that - probably 5 or 6 in the 30mL bottle since I was hoping to mute some of that awful tiramisu flavouring with sweetness.
Still terrible - back in the cupboard again.
Last night I figure Iāll give it a go as a break from the Arab Blend Tobacco and Mango & Ice-cream Iāve been alternating between.
First hit - bracing myself for the awfulness - the awful didnāt come.
Instead, I got a strong, sweet coffee hmm.
Second and third hits onwards I actually got the faintest hint of bitter chocolate on exhale.
Then I thought to myself, "Coffeeā¦ itās a coffee juice" and realized that if I stop thinking of it as a dessert and - more importantly - stop expecting the fucking inexpressably delicious taste of a dessert thatās arguably one of the finest desserts the human race has ever managed, if I lower my expectations from that to a simple coffee flavour then TFA isnāt the devil itās always been.
Suddenly, itās the most accurate coffee flavour Iāve tried: much more on-point than even Kiloās Moo Range Coffee Milk.
Of course it took a fn long, loooong time to steep and I donāt even know at what point it went from disgusting to good, but it did.
This recipe was created by Head In Clouds. For those who donāt know, he/she (I really donāt know) was into FA the way Smoky Blue is into FLV. He created tons of recipes, sold some of them and put many more up for free. Thereās even a guide from about 4 years ago which I still use. Itās hosted here on MamaJās site, a now defunct company run by wllmc, the creator of Game Over Custard and he now works at BCF.
This recipe is the oldest of my 5 Star recipes from Dec 2016. Iām vaping it right now. I just got some Inw Tiramisu and Iām going to give it a try soon.
Incidentally, now Iāve got a choice of several creams plus the Fresh Milk, Iām going to cut that 4-month-old bottle of Tiramisu into multiple smaller mixes and try various combinations of the creams and milk until I get to a genuinely realistic tasting latte.
Though the steeped Tiramisu is excellent as a realistic tasting coffee as stated in the first post Iāve never had any decent dairy flavours and didnāt have any dairy when I mixed that 4 months ago.
Course Iām a (generally) normal human being who has both milk and sugar in my coffee, so adding the right milk flavours will finish off that mix beautifullyā¦
And The Flavor Apprenticeās awful Tiramisu can finally have a legitimate use woo!
"Maximum edits exceeded", so Iāll just have to look illiterate and you will just have to put up with apparent illiteracy.
Somebody has GOTTA fix that shit: thereās no reason whatsoever why we should have a cap imposed on editing our existing posts: I would fully expect there to be a limit on how many new posts users can create each day, but not on editing our mistakes/typoes/grammar/spelling.
as do i. but there is no guarantee that your concoctions will pan out. and if they donāt, you will be wasting good juice. make another bottle of that, and then testers and get more of that flavor.
I will suck-out 5mL and experiment with that, then if that works duplicate those additions in the rest of the bottle, which is only 30mL anyhoo so itās not a huge bottle full.
And get a 200mL bottle of VG tomorrow to get the next four month long steep started.
Thereās a lot of flavors that can fall under that umbrella if folks would add one or two additional steps to their process.
Test at varying percentages.
Taking someoneās word for what to start with is great. But itās still reliant upon how it interacts with their body.
People often donāt put enough weight on just how important that can be.
Test them over time.
Again. What you have out of the bottle may not be the āend experienceā!
Thereās many who enjoy the freshly mixed taste. And thatās fine. But many times, especially with the more complex a flavor is, the longer it needs to come to fruition.
I laughed for several reasons:
I enjoy seeing otherās progress in their mixing journey!
It reminds me of my having to learn that, and where I was back then.
And lastly, the tone/inflection my mind automatically added to the āwhat? Itās true!ā comment.
I know itās true!
Now I should thank you for the genuine smile youāve put on my mug. /grin
Amazing how much fun such a āsimpleā post (yours) can generate!
good point. What we need to make a decent tiramisu vape is Mascarpone. Iām pretty sure Flv has a cheese that works in itās place but I canāt remember which cheese. Hopefully, someone knows and will post it.
I have never, ever got even a hint of any kind of cream cheese from TFA Tiramisu either - no matter what % or steep time Iāve tried it at.
In fact, like most people Iād just figured the flavour was completely useless until I forgot Iād even mixed it a few days ago after that four month steep, then got it out to try, and had I been thinking "Rich, creamy chocolate & coffee dessert with thick creamy cheese, I wouldāve just tossed it back in the cupboard.
But because I got another terrible coffee flavour recently enough for it to still be in memory, I re-prepared my brain/taste-buds for the second hit and set them to ācoffeeā and was surprised to discover that steeped juice tasted more on-point as coffee than even the commercial coffee juices Iāve tried.
