Laughing at my newest concoction

submitted about 10 years ago by altneurose

Help me out guys. Threw some ingredients together on a whim.

TPA Ripe Strawberry - 5%
TPA Pear - 5%
TPA Kiwi Double - 1%
TPA Fruit Circles - 1%
TPA Vanilla Swirl - 2%
FA Meringue - 1%

I let it sit for a few days, until just now I took a hit and chuckled. Took another and almost laughed out loud. I've never made anything this bad. I'm baffled, because.. This tastes exactly like jalapeños. Still I'm vaping away because this is seriously funny.

Where is this coming from? None of the flavors have this strong, green vegetative flavor on their own. Not going to develop this any further, gods no, but I'm curious.

Comments

6 points

by ihatetoridethebusabout 10 years ago

My guess is Hexenol, after checking the msds sheets,

Strawberry ripe .5%
Pear 1-10%
Kiwi double 1-10%

In general there seems to be too many matches with pear and strawberry ripe in theory.

There is a huge difference if you have .025% or .25% of this stuff in your finished product.

/u/Abdada made some Bavarian cream concentrate with .15g of coumarin and had impressions of a dentist office of it, imagine having multiple concentrates with traces of coumarin and throwing them together gives heavy woodruff taste. Mixing the "wrong" concentrates throws off total balance of the individual flavour concentrates.

Link for those interested.

4 points

by Popetownabout 10 years ago

Haha! /r/deeper_diy is leaking. I'm not complainin' though, I'm impressed. I hope to someday have this kind of knowledge. Not that I'm even close, our first batch of DIY, I hope will, have shipped by tomorrow. But at least I can have aspirations. And I'm scared.

Edit: an underscore.

1 points

by HelperBot_about 10 years ago

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1 points

by abdadaabout 10 years ago

I still have that Bavarian cream. Still tastes like dental office. Steeping is not a cure.

Hexanal and hexanol both offer that lovely fresh cut lawn aroma. Also useful in going for a white rice taste.

The crisp tart part of jalapeño pepper is definitely hexanal and I've gotten that before mixing strawberry and kiwi. Yuck.

1 points

by altneuroseabout 10 years ago

Jalapeño and cut grass. Couldn't get any more accurate with what this tastes like. I'm surprised I went through a ml or so of this stuff just for laughs. Would almost like to search substitute concentrates w/out these ingredients, but I'm so disheartened by this flavor that it'll have to wait for another time.

White rice though? Wouldn't that be sort of useful? Thinking of mochi, the Japanese pounded rice sweets.

1 points

by returnityabout 10 years agoArmchair Flavorist

Very nicely answered, my friend! This is exactly what the issue is here. If you wanna get a good picture of the hexenol/hexanal's flavor note, grab some INW Wild Strawberry... It's drowning in that stuff. /r/Deeper_DIY represent, y0!

1 points

by altneuroseabout 10 years ago

I've just begun to understand the effect of certain molecular ingredients in concentrates, and this is just the answer I needed. Very valuable information, thank you!

2 points

by DrMclovensabout 10 years agoThe Mad Alchemist

ARE YOU SURE. that you didn't use TFA-Strawberry and not Strawberry (Ripe)?

because I do know that TFA Strawberry can give an earthy planty taste. like your eating the green stim of a strawberry. But I haven't had it happen with strawberry Ripe.

1 points

by altneuroseabout 10 years ago

Yeah I've heard that too, but I'm 100% sure I used ripe.

1 points

by Pandeponabout 10 years ago

i always thought TFA Strawberry tasted candy-ish to me, but i've been hearing reg strawberry taste stemmy-leafy to people

1 points

by DrMclovensabout 10 years agoThe Mad Alchemist

it does taste sweet candy like. but too much makes an earthy taste

1 points

by Pandeponabout 10 years ago

Ooooh

1 points

by altneuroseabout 10 years ago

Haven't used TFA Strawberry so much that I'd noticed the earthy taste per se, but my guess is that it boosts the unvapeableness of Mustard Milk for me. Earthy tone from strawberry, peppery note from VBIC.. I really wanted to like the recipe.

2 points

by ExaltedStudiosabout 10 years ago

Baha. Mixed pineapple, lychee, papaya, and a touch of marshmallow/vanilla as a hail mary and laughed so hard when I tasted it. Glad to know there's others who laugh at their own mistakes.

BACK TO THE DRAWING BORAD.

1 points

by skiddlzninjaabout 10 years agoFrugivore

My guess would be the pear and meringue mixing, and the strawberry acting as a boost to the bad flavor.