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Worst Mix You've Ever Made
submitted about 11 years ago by Botboy141Gunner's Gold Gourmet E-Juice

OMG. So, got the idea for this from the juice I just made. I seriously almost killed myself vaping it. Dripped it on a beautiful newly built coil and wick, took one hit, and then realized how horribly wrong it was. Unfortunately I had just drenched my wick with it, figured maybe I could vape it out instead of swapping my beautiful wick. No such luck, one more drag and had to pull my wick. The blend is below:

  • 6% Coconut Extra (TFA)
  • 4% Vanilla Cupcake (TFA)
  • 1% Dulce de Leche (TFA)
  • 5% Vanilla Swirl (TFA)
  • 2% Vanilla Custard (CAP)

Way overdid the coconut, not that I haven't used it before and didn't know how strong it was, I really did want a coconut punch out of this thing but omg is that bad.

Share your worst ever DiY mixes here!

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6 points
 
by Groebe-Wan-Kenobiabout 11 years ago

Menthol Banana... Never again.

1 points
 
by Roenixxabout 11 years ago

I don't know... That actually sounds pretty great...

1 points
 
by overachieverabout 11 years ago

I made that same mistake once with Inawera Banana and Menthol at 5% each. First time I had to pour the mix down the drain; at least I now know to keep the menthol at >= 1%

5 points
 
by JimBoNZabout 11 years agoTobacconist

Menthol "hmm I LOVE menthol lets try a few crystals, aww what the heck, a few more then"

It tasted like I had sucked the top off Mt Everest then Father Christmas and My Dentist had a wild bukkake session with me.

3 points
 
by DustForVomitabout 11 years agoMixologist

You should market that juice with that exact description.

You could call it something like, "Santa Spooge"

1 points
 
by BongleBearabout 11 years ago

"Cumming Home for Christmas"

It could also double as a Box Office movie or number 1 Christmas song.

4 points
 
by BongleBearabout 11 years ago

I figured that a proper root beer flavor was really just a nicely aged vanilla, so I tried;

10% home brewed coffee extract
6% home brewed vanilla extract
4% LA root beer

I was trying to see if I could get an aged vanilla coffee going on, but it tasted like burnt head gasket with a blend of greasy asphalt. Such disappointment.

8 points
 
by verruktabout 11 years ago

I love these threads because it involves other people suffering so I don't have to

3 points
 
by BongleBearabout 11 years ago

Thinking about it, I still have the bottle. I made it about 5 or 6 months ago. I'll have to dig it out and give it a try now it's had a good steeping.

I'm sure it can't get any worse..... right?

4 points
 
by verruktabout 11 years ago

Steeping in my experience has only led to better results. Or maybe I'm just saying that to guinea pig you?

1 points
 
by AsmallDinosaurabout 11 years ago

Speaking of root beer, I got a random sample with my last VTNW order, and Matt threw in a flavor called Iceman. It's the most true root beer flavor I've ever tried. Not trying to shill anything or whatever, but it's really perfect.

I know that he mostly uses TFA flavors, so it could be cloneable, but damn I don't know if I have the hours to refine it to that level.

3 points
 
by fizzmustardabout 11 years agoBest Recipe of 2014

Holy crap...6% Coconut Extra is insanity mode. Yuck.

Worst for me was:

8% FW Gummy
5% Cap Cola
2% LA Pineapple

Was trying to make fizzy cola gummies, turned out men's aftershave.

2 points
 
by Botboy141about 11 years ago

Sounds wonderfully terrible. Yeah IDK WTF I was thinking with 6% coconut extra...Last time I did 3% it completely overpowered 12% Blueberry and 5% Pineapple.

1 points
 
by fizzmustardabout 11 years agoBest Recipe of 2014

Worst part of the fizzy cola recipe is it came from here (within 1% on all flavors) and other people were saying they liked it.

1 points
 
by Botboy141about 11 years ago

LOL thats good shit

1 points
 
by beerandabikeabout 11 years ago

Was it the gummy part? I tried at first 10% Gummy and 5% Pineapple, then 8% Gummy and 4% Pineapple and the gummy felt like a blast of perfume chemicals straight to the sinuses

1 points
 
by fizzmustardabout 11 years agoBest Recipe of 2014

Yes, the Gummy was horrendous at leas to my palate. I've seen so many people here say it's the best gummy flavor, recommending 10%. I usually scale down % recommendations I read online because I feel like most folks overflavor. The 8% was a best guess, and I hadn't done my own testing on FW Gummy since I grabbed it specifically for the fizzy cola recipe.

It really tasted like aftershave.

I've made plenty of bad juices, many that are failures not because they're unvapeable but because they're not good enough for me.

FW Gummy remains one of only two flavors I've deemed unvapeable. The other is LA Bubble Gum.

3 points
 
by ErsatzSemblanceabout 11 years ago

One of the first mixes I made was what I actually labeled as 'Grape flavored Fritos dipped in Sour Milk.'

I don't remember the % but Sweet Cream, Dulce de Leche, Grape Candy, Bavarian Cream, and maybe another flavor. I've used all the flavors in a few other fruit flavors, but Grape Candy is to be used sparingly.

I gave it to a friend and he gave it back the next week. I let it steep for another 2 weeks and the Frito flavor settled down, but it was still disgusting.

1 points
 
by davidk48about 11 years ago

Was acetyl pyrazine the other flavor by chance? That tastes exactly like Fritos if you use more than like two drops.

1 points
 
by ErsatzSemblanceabout 11 years ago

That's the odd thing, AP wasn't part of the mix.

1 points
 
by MRMiller96about 11 years ago

I've pretty much stopped using Sweet Cream. It tastes like expired milk, and has a really odd chemical aftertaste that reminds me of stale crackers. I use Whipped Cream instead.

3 points
 
by burnz1about 11 years ago

Anything with tfa cheesecake

1 points
 
by Kabibblesabout 11 years ago

Have you tried cappella cheesecake? I love it.

1 points
 
by muranternetabout 11 years agoFrugivore

I bought a vial after reading how everyone hated it. I will make it work damnit.

1 points
 
by MRMiller96about 11 years ago

I use it, and it tastes just like cheesecake to me, but then, I add it in tiny percentages to my other cream mixes to help round them out.

1 points
 
by burnz1about 11 years ago

I said the same thing. Good luck.

1 points
 
by bringabananatoapartyabout 11 years ago

Chalk it up to naivete if you will, but I actually really like FW Cheesecake.

1 points
 
by IAmTheBADASSabout 11 years ago

I use tfa cheesecake graham with great success. I usually keep it under 4%. But for vanilla/creamy/desert flavors, it really mixes well.

3 points
 
by otoryuoabout 11 years ago

The only thing I've ever made worse than Durian was when I tried to make Durian work as an accent in an energy drink flavour. I was going for something like Saint's Flow, an "Ass Tasting Energy Drink," and I wound up with "Vomit inducing nightmare fuel." It didn't taste bad, it's just that the smell of durian is too strong and foul to make the taste of it worth trying to use an actual durian flavouring in the juice.

3 points
 
by _Bombiesabout 11 years ago

Anything with:

TFA Raisin

It's that bad.

1 points
 
by not_pennywiseabout 11 years ago

This makes me sad. I just ordered some to try it as an accent to a custard. :(

2 points
 
by Wa-Hyaabout 11 years ago

My worst mix is anything with any kind of cherry in it. I've stopped trying to make a cherry mix.

2 points
 
by NubSauceJrabout 11 years ago

I have tried more than 5 different companies mixes of cherry. I love cherries but can't stand to vape them. They are horrible. No matter what you mix with cherry it overpowers it and just tastes like cherries and shiat. If you want cherry flavored hell try the MtBaker Old Fashioned flavor ejuice. Dear God, I nearly threw away my kayfun when the vapor first hit my mouth. I washed it with soap and water for several minutes and rinsed it for about as long. I wiped it down and filled it up with some Vanilla Custard to try and cleanse my palate.

2 points
 
by peraziniabout 11 years ago

Mine was involving cubano from tfa. Yuck

1 points
 
by JessieAMorrisabout 11 years agoMixologist

I did a 10% cubano just to see the flavor. Holy shit was it disgusting.

2 points
 
by Driamerabout 11 years ago

Sampling single flavors and dripped 15% TFA Black Tea. It tasted exactly like I would imagine gobbling down an entire plate of potpourri would.

2 points
 
by bringabananatoapartyabout 11 years ago

10% FW Honey Wood Tobacco

6% FW Graham Cracker

5% FW French Vanilla

One of my first forays into DIY, it tasted like a soapy ass soaked in rubbing alcohol.

1 points
 
by GeneralJaperyabout 11 years agoMixologist

10% TFA Pineapple 6% TFA Passionfruit 4% TFA Maraschino Cherry.

I didn't even try to vape it, I soaked the wicks and fired it sans top cap. Burned the hairs out of my nose and made my eyes water.

1 points
 
by Botboy141about 11 years ago

WTB Good Cherry!

2 points
 
by GeneralJaperyabout 11 years agoMixologist

Maraschino smells great, tastes like hell.

1 points
 
by beerandabikeabout 11 years ago

I have some MBV maraschino flavoring sitting around I've been wanting to play around with... I don't know now...

2 points
 
by Sandman0about 11 years ago
  • 2-3% Black Cherry (TFA)

  • 1% Sour (TFA)

Thank me later.

FlavourArt Black Cherry is good too.

1 points
 
by Botboy141about 11 years ago

Yeah but black cherry isn't cherry. ;-)

I have a really good black cherry cheesecake that I think is posted around here somewhere, but never found a normal cherry.

1 points
 
by azsfcshabout 11 years ago

5% watermelon (tfa) 5% mango (tfa) 5% kiwi (fa)

Idk what I was thinking. Made a 15ml of it too.. Tastes like waxy cough syrup. Letting it steep just in case it rounds out later. Sticking to my custards and creams for now.

1 points
 
by magistry1about 11 years ago

I made a clone of Ben Johnson's Snicklefritz using 10% kiwi double (tfa), 8% watermelon (tfa) and 3% marshmallow (tfa) It's the closest I've come to matching it and to my wife and I it's pretty good. It definitely requires steeping for it to be enjoyable.

1 points
 
by johnstone1690about 11 years ago

Flavour art pineapple mixed at 5% tasted like you would expect sweat to taste like .. Let it steep for 3 months and built up the balls to try it again .. It smelt better but still tasted the samen if not worse

4 points
 
by inconceivable_orchidabout 11 years ago

I definitely misread that as:

> still tasted the semen

Hah!

1 points
 
by DustForVomitabout 11 years agoMixologist

LOL Glad I wasn't the only one.

2 points
 
by Botboy141about 11 years ago

Would have been better at a lower percentage. FA I always start @ 1% and adjust from there. Rarely if ever go above 3% in a finished recipe.

1 points
 
by johnstone1690about 11 years ago

Yea I know that now was my first every try at diy i never know how strong it was.. Lesson learnt but I don't have the pineapple anymore to try again it when in bin but I do have several other fa flavours I uses all the time but at low %

1 points
 
by tekhawkabout 11 years ago

Chai tea latte with honey and cinnamon

In other words TFA coffee. Chair tea and honey horchata being the only not evil I used....

1 points
 
by davidk48about 11 years ago

10% Capella's Snick Snack.

I know that's not really a recipe, but omg was it bad.

1 points
 
by Crylaughingabout 11 years ago

Mine was a Chocolate custard, just tasted like burned asshair. Then there was the time I tried making clove flavors, using my own extracted clove, yuck!

1 points
 
by Kabibblesabout 11 years ago

Made like two mixes at the same time both with 10% TFA coconut extra, and some other stuff. I had no idea why they were so horrible.

That Coconut extra is a mofo.

2 points
 
by MRMiller96about 11 years ago

I usually use coconut extra at .5% or less, and can still taste it perfectly well.

1 points
 
by muranternetabout 11 years agoFrugivore

When I was starting I thought EM was a sweetener and flavor rounder and Smooth (triacetin) was a magic bullet that balanced stuff by bringing out background notes. I did some versions of some pretty decent stuff I had made in my first go-around. After curingthey tasted like absolutely nothing; I mean dripping pure VG to wash out a wick was a better flavor experience. Turns out both of them have be used in tenths of percents and they can both mute over time. Oops.

I had an early banana bread that was something like 9% banana nut bread 3% ripe banana 1% EM 0.5% acetyl pyrazine. Not bad, but I thought it could be more banana-y and less nutty, so I inverted the ripe and bread percentages. I couldn't tell if isoamyl acetate just tastes like plastic in higher concentrations or if I had melted a pipette while mixing.

Recently I found out that 1% TFA tiramisu is actually quite interesting after curing and 3% is barbed throat brillo.

1 points
 
by IAmTheBADASSabout 11 years ago

Someone posted a mix on here called beetlejuice. It had absinthe and black licorice in it. I mixed it up to try and omg it was terrible. Had to completely redo coils and clean my atty. Horrifying experoence.

1 points
 
by tiqabout 11 years ago

Tried some coconut with lemon and lime. Smells exactly as cheap sunscreen. Unvapeable.

1 points
 
by jul3zabout 11 years ago

5% Kona Coffee - Satan's asshole.

It tasted like rotting grass clippings, burning tires and vomit. My eyes instantly watered up and I started dry heaving. I felt like the smell fused itself to my nose and I couldn't get rid of it. So terrible.

1 points
 
by FL-Orangeabout 11 years ago

I eyeballled a banana/mellon mix.
Horrible. Let it steep, still horrible. Tried adding some vanilla/cinnamon, even more horrible.
Still sitting on the shelf.
Took cleaning the tank really well 3 times before that abomination was sufficiently cleared.

1 points
 
by raskolnikov206about 11 years agoPâtissier

12% capellas boston cream pie

1 points
 
by davidk48about 11 years ago

Hm.. I actually liked boston cream pie at 10%. Not exactly my favorite DIY, but certainly not the worst I've made.

1 points
 
by diarizzleabout 11 years ago

thought id give tobacco a go and have two bottles steeping right now. i put them on a cup warmer for 8 hours or so gave one a vape and gagged. tasted like diarrhea garbage vomit. ill wait a couple more weeks..

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