Im pretty new to DIY and im been searching around here and saw the top ten juices for your first order. But i was wondering if there was possibly a list or if anyone knew of another list of most often used flavors. honestly im mostly going to be making desert types, and want to purchase some flavors that im going to be using in quite a bit of recipes, any help would be appreciated, thanks.
I gotta give some advice. Don't stock up all on accentuates on your first go. I had all these supporting flavors when I first ordered and couldn't make anything. I recommend finding a well known great recipe and getting all those ingredients then keep doing that until you have a huge arsenal. Before u know it you'll have the supporting flavors and a bunch of main flavors in your stock.
About a year ago I had the same idea you have. Since it seemed mostly TFA was being used at the time, I gathered every TFA recipe I could find and started counting the recipes containing each and every TFA flavor. I did this for almost two months.
What this showed me is that it's not a good way to make your first flavoring order. Around 400 or 500 recipes and the top ten most frequently used flavors couldn't make any of the recipes. (No single flavor recipes.) I could tell you the eight flavors I've used often enough to justify buying 120ml bottles of and you could make one recipe with them if you add or skip the citric acid.
I eventually just found some recipes that I wanted to try and bought the flavorings for those. I think my first order contained 68 flavorings. (Resist the urge to buy flavorings just because 'oooh. That sounds good.' They wind up mostly unused.) Almost 200 flavorings now and I still make regular purchases because I find a recipe I want to try and am missing 1 or 2 flavorings. Every. single. time.
My advice is to just find some recipes to things you know you like or something close. There will probably be overlap in the flavorings used. Buy those flavorings. Don't worry about buying more later because, if you stick with DIY, you will be buying more and 8 or 10ml samples are pretty cheap and normally last awhile. I think it's more important to have fun DIYing instead of worrying about specifics.
That makes alot of sense, thanks for the help, i have the flavors that came with my kit ive been messing with a little but there just okay, not really any recipes i can make with them. so finding a couple basic recipes to mess with is a good start, thanks for the help,
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/2yhwei/need_to_help_the_new_mixers_lets_vote_on_best/
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/wiki/first_order_flavors
The top 10 flavor list came from that previous post. Read the comments there, that should help you out.
- Vanilla Custard v1 or v2 -- or both (CAP)
- Vanilla Custard (FLV)
- Bavarian Cream (TPA)
- Cheesecake (Graham Crust) (TPA)
- Vanilla Bean Ice Cream (TPA)
- Vanilla Swirl (TPA)
- Whipped Cream (TFA)
- Brown Sugar (TFA)
- Yellow Cake (FW)
- Cake Batter (CAP)
- Catalan Cream (FA)
- Cinnamon Sugar Cookie (TPA)
- Coconut Extra (TPA)
- Cream Fresh (FA)
- Dulce de Leche (TPA)
- French Vanilla (CAP)
- Graham Cracker (Clear) (TPA)
- Hazelnut (FW)
- Malted Milk (TPA)
- Dairy (TPA)
- Marshmallow (FA)
- Meringue (FA)
- New York Cheesecake (Cap)
- Pie Crust (TPA)
- Sugar Cookie (Cap)
- Sweet Cream (TPA)
- Vanilla Classic (FA)
- Vanilla Cupcake (Cap)
- Vienna Cream (FA)
Fantastic list of desert flavors! If I were to expand it a bit, I would also include some key fruits that are also useful in a lot of desert recipes:
- Strawberry (Ripe) TFA
- Sweet Strawberry CAP
- Dragonfruit TFA
- Lemon Sicily FA
- Lime Tahiti Cold Pressed FA
- Sweet Tangerine CAP
- Raspberry INW
- Fuji Apple FA
- EM / Cotton Candy TPA
Or he could read the fucking sidebar like I was told to do. What makes him so special that he gets responses?
i think the ppl that call out sidebar all the time are losers. there r new or even veteran people in here all the time that will give new different opinions on subjects when they see it, thus creating a bigger database of information for other people that decide to use the search feature. plus people learn new things as time goes on. but i can understand a little frustration on simple noob questions like what ingredients do i need for ejuice and such but its easy to ignore those questions
CAP sweet strawberry
TFA juicy peach
FA meringue
FA fresh cream
FA Vienna cream
CAP vanilla custard
I use all these often.
Dat diaceytl tho.
None of those flavors have diacetyl..? VC has acetoin but honestly idgaf lol. Pretty sure meringue has to have it in it as well because it's so good. :)
You are going to want to order dragonfruit for sure. Amazing by itself, even better in a strawberry cream
that was actually the first flavor i picked and was almost gonna take it out of the order lol thanks for the reassurance