November already? Where did the year go?! For me the weather is warming up, and I'm steeping my juices on the veranda in the hot Aussie sun.
ANYWAY, without further ado, let's get onto the November recipe thread!
Fruit Roll Ups
5% Juicy Peach TFA
5% Strawberry Ripe TFA
Note on Formatting:
Please remember to add five spaces in front of each line of your recipe so it turns into reddit "code" and is easy to read and compile at a later date!
First I made some extracts of dry spices.
Ginger... 1 1/2 tablespoons dry powdered ginger.
Cinnamon... a stick, broken up into small pieces.
Allspice... lightly crushed, 2 tablespoons.
Cloves... whole, 1 1/2 tablespoons.
Nutmeg... 2 small nuts, lightly crushed.
Each of these was put into its own small (25ml) glass jar with 15ml PG. After that the jars were placed in a pot of simmering water on the stove for about 45 minutes. The PG in all the jars had acquired colour by then, so I let them cool and steep for a couple of weeks (I think I could have gone ahead right away, but I have been busy with other things).
The whole and lightly crushed spices are easy to deal with... just strain, let them settle and decant for an extract without any solid bits. The ginger settled into a thick paste on the bottom with a brown but clear fluid on top... I decanted the clear fluid.
I mixed the spice extracts up as vape juices on their own, all at 15% 60:40 PG:VG. They are all pretty convincing on their own... the ginger is hot, not too hot to vape. Cinnamon is hot too, and has a distinctly stick-cinnamon taste (you can taste a bit of woody fiber) that would taste good in an apple-cider juice. Cloves, nutmeg and allspice all taste good too.
Pumpkin Pie Spice Extract
8 parts cinnamon
2 parts ginger
2 parts allspice
1 part cloves
1 part nutmeg
The ratios I got from a recipe for actual pumpkin pie.
Pumpkin Pie Flavour
33% Flavor West Bavarian Cream
33% Flavor West Pie Crust
13% Flavor West Caramel Candy
13% Pumpkin Pie Spice Extract
Pumpkin Pie
20% Pumpkin Pie Flavour
or
6.6% Flavor West Bavarian Cream
6.6% Flavor West Pie Crust
3.4% Flavor West Caramel Candy
3.4% Pumpkin Pie Spice Extract
4ml glycerin
1.2ml 100mg/ml nicotine base
2.8ml propylene glycol
For a total of 10ml @ 12mg/ml 60:40 juice.
It's a little more spicy than pumpkin pie should be, but very convincing. Perhaps the next batch I will try the spices at half the strength of this one.
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Edit: Update... add no more than 1% Lorann Pumpkin flavouring to give it an even more authentic pumpkin pie taste. Lorann Pumpkin is very, very strong stuff... any more than 1% causes an unpleasant bitterness, but at a very low level is quite convincingly pumpkin.
Awesomesauce. I'm inspired! I'm thinking of using green cardamom pods and some star anise this weekend.
Maybe pistachio/cardamom/cream for a Pakistani dessert vape.
I've been thinking of doing an Indian Coconut Curry (coconut cream, corriander, cumin, tumeric and tamarind). I might have to make my own tamerind extract... or maybe just tamarind concentrate dissolved in PG would work.
I haven't done cardamom or star anise yet, but they are on my list.
FW Pistachio is lovely, BTW.
Oooo. I love this idea. Tamarind concentrate, Using concentrat just cuts time, so you don't have to soak and strain the tamarind in blocks. Some concentrate is pretty bad though, so if you find one you like, stick with that brand. I have found the tamarind from the Arabic stores in my area is actually much higher quality for some reason but that might just be higher turnover/different species because I live in the highest Middle Eastern population dense city outside of the actual Middle East. In any case: I LOVE the idea of using in PG-it may suck balls but it may be amazing and add crazy depth, sour, piquant, fruity, etc. I'm actually surprised that it's not a dekang flavor by itself. DO IT.
Thanks for the tip on the pistachio-Loranns is what I have but I can't find a good % without it tasting like wet dog so I'm about done with it.
Now when you say parts, how much are you talking about?
They can be any size.
Since I was making a smallish batch, I think I used 4 drops = 1 part.
I ended up with about 8ml of mixed spice extract.
new flavors arrived yesterday and I had some success mixing - fwiw, everything I mix is max VG:
from the mega TFA thread, This one turned out great: 15% Blueberry 3% Vanilla 2% Bavarian Cream 1% sweetener (I used Toasted marshmallow)
I've never had Snake Oil, but was itching to use the pear I got - based on earlier conversations, I tried: 5% Pear 8% Bavarian Cream 1% Coconut (regular) Flavors need a bit of a bump, but this is awesome - one of the "cleanest" tasting I've ever had!
My own dabbling resulted in this snickers bar tasting goodness (better than Velvet Cloud Candy Bar!) very rich, very smooth: 2.5% Waffle 2.5% Milk Chocolate 1.5% Vanilla Custard 1% Caramel Candy
also - I've figured out that you can re-create those "bon-bon" hard candies (that have the soft filling inside) by using a 3 to 1 Toasted Marshmallow to Fruit mix (so far it's awesome with pineapple, blueberry and strawberry) - I use 15% Toasted Marshmallow with 5% fruit.
I tried the 5 spaces thing - type a line, hit enter, 5 spaces then type, hit enter, 5 spaces then type -
why doesn't it look right? I usually reddit from my phone, so I'm a bit of a rookie to the formatting business... can someone help me understand?!
edit: it looks great on my phone..... I wanted to see if it was all "paragraphy" from there and it looks like all of the other ones...
Five space in front (well, four actually) and two at the end of the line works for me. I was pretty confused before figuring out the two at the end of the line bit.
I am not a cocktail guy... and I am certainly not a bourbon guy.
I make maple butter... that is, I start with pure maple syrup and boil it to the right temperature, then start cooling, warming and mixing until I get a very creamy spreadable product. It's a lot of work, and you need to be very precise with the initial boiling temperature so that you don't end up with either taffy or maple sugar. Cooling involves bringing it down to almost freezing (4C) then working the very stiff syrup until it has warmed up to about 15C, then doing it again. I usually cycle it 4 - 6 times until I have a very smooth spreadable product. Working it is tough... there is no way to do it by hand, and I have burned out several hand mixers trying to do it with those. I have found an old beater from a burnt-out hand mixer on the end of a variable speed drill does the trick the best. It's hard work, takes all day... which is why maple butter is expensive. Expensive, but worth it... as anybody who has tried the real stuff can tell you. We usually eat it on buttered toast. I also make a lovely pulled-pork sandwich with it.
My neighbor is a chef, runs a nice little restaurant here in town with his wife. They have been buying my jams and maple butter for use and resale in their restaurant. One of the things they make with my maple butter is a cocktail called a Stonewaller... a spurt of lemon juice, crushed ice in a shaker plus a heaping tablespoon of my maple butter, bourbon... shake then top it off with fresh pressed apple cider. It's lovely... the maple butter stays emulsified and adds a creamy, strong maple flavour to the whole thing.
And so here is my attempt to emulate it in a vape. It comes pretty close... somehow it's not quite as sweet as the original, and maple extract will never be as good as the real thing... but for those who like drink flavoured vapes, this turned out pretty nice.
Stonewaller
1.25% lime juice (or lemon)
5.25% TFA Kentucky Bourbon
6.75% FW Maple
3.75% Capella Green Apple
8.25% Lorann Apple
25% total flavour
I mixed some of this up at 12mg/ml nicotine and 60:40 PG:VG. I will shortly make some at 0mg/ml nicotine, put it in a new atomizer and bring it to my neighbors to try. I'll post an update on their feedback.
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Gorilla My Dreams (a better then AVE Gorilla Juice Clone)
VZ Black Cigar 6%
Cap Cinnamon Danish 3%
Cap Graham Cracker 3%
Cap Coconut 1%
Cap Banana 1%
How would you describe the taste of this? I'm interested
This is a pretty old post but how are you using the VZ Black Cigar? They only sell it in super concentrated. Are you really using 6% of super concentrated flavoring or are you diluting it with VG?
This is kindof preliminary, but I'm vaping it right now and so far it's working for me. Maybe it should have a bit of capascium for heat... I will try that soon.
Indian Coconut Curry
5% Curry Spice Extract
5% PFS Coconut
5% FW Salted Caramel
The spice extracts were made the same way as my other spice extracts... about a tablespoon of crushed or powdered spice in 15ml of PG, heat in simmering water for 45 minutes, then strain or filter as appropriate. The tamarind is the exception... I mixed 5ml of tamarind concentrate (the black stuff with the consistancy of bearing grease) with 15ml of PG. I think the tamarind could be a lot thinner than that, but whatever... it seems to work.
Curry Spice Extract
20 parts corriander
20 parts cumin
5 parts tumeric
3 parts tamarind
3 parts citric acid
I should have used lime juice instead of the citric acid to be closer to the actual recipe but I didn't have limes handy and I just wanted to try it.
My kitchen smells like an Indian spice factory, but that's ok... it often smells like that (I like Indian food). I also did some star anise and cardamom... I am not sure what I'll do with the anise yet, but the cardamom will go towards a Thai musaman curry, along with cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.
The salted caramel was an attempt to make it all a bit savory. I was gonna used toasted marshmallow, but decided against it at the last minute... I think I made the right choice.
Edit: Also... I'm really glad I used nitrile gloves to handle the spices, especially the tumeric. Can you believe the tumeric extract stained the black nitrile gloves yellow?
...sweet jesus! This is awesome haha
I thought I would get tired of it fast, but it's growing on me (well, figuratively). I keep switching between it and a ginger-pear-cheesecake concoction.
The cumin and corriander are so fresh tasting. I think it needs more coconut though, and it really ought to have some heat. I've been a bit afraid of using my Indian chilies in it... I've inhaled pepper by mistake (got some in my trees one time) and it was... painful.
Thanks!
I'm loving this! Now I want to extract cardamom to mix with a coffee extract.
Do you think it would be better to use powdered cardamom or whole pods for extracting?
I used green cardamom pods, but I just crushed them and mostly discarded the pod casings. The seeds inside are very hard, even using a mortar and pestle didn't really break them up (like whole fenugreek, they are very hard)... didn't matter, they still produced a very nice smelling and tasting extract. It would be lovely with coffee I am sure.
I made less of the cardamom than I did of the other spices... I had about a heaping teaspoon of seeds and mixed them with about 5ml of PG. I still got about 5ml of extract from them... they don't soak up much PG, unlike the more fibrous spices. But cardamom is strong stuff, I'm expecting I won't need to use much.
You could probably use powder, just treat it like you would powdered ginger or tumeric.
Possible Snake Oil clone
> All TFA
> 6% Sweet Cream
> 6% Pear
> 1% Coconut Extra
A snake oil clone I made when I first started DIY - very accurate, IMO. All TFA
>9% Pear
>3% Bavarian Cream
>1% coconut extra or 2.5% coconut
Maybe my pear is different, but it seems to overpower everything in every joose I make. Honey pearry clone, and this one. I've even tried reducing the percentages to 6% pear 7%bav cream and 1% pina colada (don't have coconut)
1% Pear 1% Spearmint 1% Peppermint 1% Marshmallow
I enjoyed the Speared Mint someone posted here (if I got the name right) and decided to make it "candied" some
I have gone through over 600mLs of speared pear in the last few months. Just to mix it up a bit I have been throwing in a few different fruit flavours.
1% pear TFA
1% spearmint TFA
5% blueberry wild TFA
1% pear TFA
1% spearmint TFA
2% mango TFA
2% blueberry extra TFA
Loving the mango blueberry one ATM
From http://www.reddit.com/user/arolsen
> This one I was trying to clone a local B&M's juice, and I think it came out better than theirs: > > Cinnagran - > > * TPA Apple Flavor - 5% > * TPA Cinnamon Red Hot - 7% > > If you don't want it to get cloudy, don't use more than 30% VG. Any more than that and it seems to get cloudy and it won't ever go away. Not that it matters, I've vaped it at 30/70, and, though it's cloudy, it tastes great. > > Smooth Menthol Updated - > > This one is an updated version of a recipe I found on ECF, which I thought was waaaaay too strong as it was. > > * TPA Wintergreen - 1.5% > * TPA Menthol - 1.5% > * TPA Koolada - 1.5% > * TPA Spearmint - 2.5% > * TPA Sweetener - 1.5%
My blueberry waffle mix
Tfa blueberry extra 12%
Tfa belgium waffle 6%
Sweetner 2% (I use E.M.)can use brown sugar here if you like, just not a huge fan personally
Tastes good right after..
I steeped in a dip warmer double boil method (small crockpot pretty much) for about 4 hours and now its really sweetened up and mellowed the blueberry just enough.
Also try:
TFA Blueberry Wild 8%
TFA Belgium Waffle 6%
TFA Whipped Cream 2%
TFA Cotton Cotton/EM 2%.
Pretty good as well.
edit: Will try this though. Thanks.