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EM crystals. A lot of those flavorings have a significant amount of EM (ethyl maltol). Just the VBIC and Cheesecake GC have between 1-10% EM each, and I am assuming that LA Caramel and CAP Sugar Cookie are significant contributors as well. Warm water bath and they will dissolve.
Thank you so much for your response!
I haven't made this recipe again because I was afraid that the personally unidentifiable floating object in my juice might not be good for me, despite the juice being delicious.
One question- due to some of the ingredients of the flavor concentrates forming a solid and not mixing with the juice, I'm obviously missing some flavor here.. Right? So whenever I make this juice I just have to heat to dissolve it/speed-steep and it's good to go?
I figured it was some sort of sugary crystallization. I definitely appreciate the confirmation!
> One question- due to some of the ingredients of the flavor concentrates forming a solid and not mixing with the juice, I'm obviously missing some flavor here.. Right? So whenever I make this juice I just have to heat to dissolve it/speed-steep and it's good to go?
You would be missing some sweetness with the crystals present. Unless you are mixing in a cold environment, I suspect that there are impurities or seed crystals in one of your flavorings or the bottle was not completely clean. The warm water bath should dissolve all crystals and they should not reappear. If they do, there is another issue. You may want to warm water bath all of the ingredients while you are at it, in order to make sure there are no seed crystals in the flavorings, could prevent a recurrence of the issue.
TFA VBIC has EM in it?!
Not sure if you're joking or not. VBIC is one of the sweetest standalone TFA flavors I've tried thus far. I like a sweet juice, but I don't even need to add any additional sweeteners when I use VBIC!
I'll mix it up (for science) but I'm missing the LA Caramel so it won't be good science. What's the VG/PG ratio?
I mixed this one up at 80/20!
EDIT: the caramel definitely, definitely is a very nice, sweet addition that really helps blend the strawberry and the creams and is super delicious. this is quite obviously 100% based off of the recipe from /u/enyawreklaw , just how I like it.. Just for clarification, this isn't a recipe thread really as flaired, so I don't know if it's against the rules to talk about the recipe more heh.
I have a bottle of CAP Vanilla Cupcake that formed that around the cap. Maybe it is an old VBIC from the vendor you got it from?
Are they hard crystals or soft? Just curious that shit looks sketch as hell man
I haven't taken them out of the bottle.
Although, I've poked them with the dripper, and it feels kinda spongey.
Seems possible the Vanillin crystals used (I'm assuming) in that Madagascar vanilla crystallized and started turning the other flavors into crystals as well?
See if you can heat it up (any of the speed steep methods) and see if they dissipate? Worst thing that happens is you get popcorn lung I guess? :P
Some of these flavorings make me wonder , i left some Tasty Puff bubble gum in a container and it turned into a rock hard substance that even acetone could not remove .