The reason is that there are 5k flavors of major brands and that people can add their own flavors (and thus many newbies add their own flavors, not knowingly that they should never ever WRITE their flavors, but only SELECT one from suggested options, because ALL their flavors are already in database.
A common sense: If you write your flavor, instead of select one, then that flavor will obviously not have any recipes shown and that makes that flavor invisible for find-me-a-recipe option. Thus always select, never write your own (Always. No, there are no exceptions for this).
Next, if someone used a recipe with another sweetener, then that recipe will not show to you despite having all the other flavors or despite you don’t use any sweetener at all in your mixing. If someone used Apple Pie (Cap) and you have Apple Pie V2 (Cap) or V3, that recipe will not show despite noone would ever taste the difference (figuratively speaking). If you have Banana Cream DX (TPA), then none of 70,000+ recipes with Banana Cream (TPA) will show up.
There is an easy way to (partly) overcome this problem. Add into your stash
- all sweeteners
- add all similar named flavors of the same brand (like Apple Pie Cap and Apple Pie V2 Cap and Apple Pie V3 Cap; or Banana Cream TPA and Banana Cream DX TPA, etc). It might not be exactly the same recipe, but most often noone could taste the difference and especially not a rookie.
- this one is tricky for a newbie (so you rather ask and people will help you); add similar tasting flavors of different brands too (like if you have Bavarian Cream Cap v1, you can also add BC V2, BC TPA and BC DX TPA, BC FW, BC JF, BC FA, and all the other brands. Same for custards, marshmallows, meringue; it won’t be the same, but at least you’d have something that you can mix or get an idea what it may work; you can learn a lot from this). Just note, this rule works purely for creams and custards and definitely not for fruits or nuts or tobaccos). Often creams with different names can be switched, like Sweet Cream for Bavarian or Fresh Cream or Cream or… (but again, experienced users will tell you which ones).
If you do this, then with maybe 40 flavors you’ll suddenly have shown thousands of recipes instead of couple of dozen recipes. Large majority will suck, but some won’t and more importantly, you might learn a lot about what authors direction was, why did they use particular flavor, learn about quantities used for each flavor, you’ll get ideas for your own creations. As always in life, some have a talent and time and will and they will become true masters in a year (ask @Lynda_Marie), some will never learn.
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(take it more like allergy notifications for food rather than poisons; generally should be avoided Fructose, Vitamine E and in larger quantities oils, Furfuryl Alcohol, but everyone has their own opinion about this)
Don’t always believe Google.