Found Another mix that clouds. Pumpkin recipe inside.

submitted almost 11 years ago by tet5uo

Felt in the Pumpkin mood so I mixed this up:

1.75% Pumpkin (LA)
4% Cinnamon Danish Swirl (CAP)
2% Sweet Cream (TFA)
4% Bavarian Cream (TFA)
4% Custard (FA)
0.5% Vanilla Bourbon (FA)

Tastes pretty good, though I think it will benefit from dropping the pumpkin to 1% and some days steeping.

Strange thing is this is another of those mixes that went cloudy on me. Hour in the ultrasonic bath didn't clear it up either.

I wonder which compound it is that's causing the strange emulsion..

Comments

1 points

by onions_can_be_sweetalmost 11 years agoMixologist

I've danced with that Lorann Pumpkin, and I can tell you... don't get too close! <1%...

2 points

by tet5uoalmost 11 years ago

Well, I've knocked it down to 0.7% and it seems rather polite now. Also reduced the creams and added some FA apple pie and cookie to see if I can get a pumpkin pie taste going.

I'll post up a new recipe if I can hit on something that works well.

1 points

by tet5uoalmost 11 years ago

Yeah It's super strong even at 1.75%

1 points

by on_a_moosealmost 11 years ago

It's likely the pumpkin or custard reacting with something, or not being easily miscible with glycerin. They're the only ones in your list I don't have and use regularly.

It really doesn't matter though. I don't know what started this concern about some blends being a bit turbid. If you know your ingredients are fine, it's almost always a case of them just not mixing as easily with glycerin as you'd hope. It won't affect the final product beyond appearance.

1 points

by tet5uoalmost 11 years ago

Yeah, As it's not changing my taste, I'm all good with cloudy.

Interesting though.

The only other time I've seen this is when I tried to mix a little VG with some Suicide Bunny Derailed to cut the nic and flavor down.

1 points

by on_a_moosealmost 11 years ago

FW Lemonade clouds like crazy. It gets this pearlescent weirdness to it that almost looks obscene. Vapes fine, but it's one to shake before use, even if it's been sitting awhile.

There's a cherry flavour that does the same thing, but I forget which brand now.

It is interesting stuff. Maybe I mistook your title, I've seen a few people making wild claims about how "you shouldn't vape anything cloudy, ever" and was concerned it was about that myth.

1 points

by tet5uoalmost 11 years ago

Interestingly this morning it's finally as clear as my normal mixes... seems like whatever it was just needs time.

-2 points

by KokoroHeartalmost 11 years ago

That is a shit ton of flavoring. What if you cut all of that in half ?

1 points

by tet5uoalmost 11 years ago

Yeah mostly the pumpkin is taking the whole thing hostage. I'm sure I can reduce the rest no problem once it's tamed.

The real strangeness is how it made the mix look so odd and cloudy.

-6 points

by KokoroHeartalmost 11 years ago

Shoot for 10% flavoring at most.

As for the odd look, try mixing combinations of the flavors together. One is reacting with another flavor or the nicotine. Check pH maybe?

3 points

by on_a_moosealmost 11 years ago

> Shoot for 10% flavoring at most.

You can't apply that logic to all brands. Some like FW you end up with closer to 20%, some like Inawera you can get away with less than 5%. There is no best limit when mixing brands, and 16.25% isn't really excessive. Most guidelines I've seen that try to cover it all say max 20% for flavouring, although as I said, that would be excessive for some brands.