Substituting FW Bavarian Cream with TFA (TPA) Bavarian Cream?

submitted over 9 years ago by gudgeon_fancier

First off I have read the sidebar, checked the wiki and searched the sub using google!

I am making a recipe from E-Liquid Recipes. http://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/99179/Bust-a-Nut

It uses Flavour West Bavarian Cream. I don't have this and have dropped a lot of money on supplies recently. I have loads of TPA(TFA) Bavarian Cream so I was planning to substitute it with that.

Has anyone here done this? If so how did it turn out? Are they similar? Should I adjust the percentage?

Thanks in advance for any responses.

Comments

6 points

by abdadaover 9 years agoI will rip you a new one if you don't use the sidebar & search.

Weird I just did the search and found some threads:

https://m.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/3tga8b/how_does_fw_bavarian_cream_compare_to_tpa/
https://m.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/2nw2dc/bavarian_cream_tfa_vs_fw/
not that helpful: https://m.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/2iexix/difference_between_bavarian_cream_whipped_cream/

Basically the FW is more buttery and a bit weaker than TFA, so you should be OK swapping but start TFA % lower.

1 points

by gudgeon_fancierover 9 years ago

Aww man, I thought that I had done my due diligence. I used google and the :reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice and it came up with some threads but not discussing the topic I was looking for.

Sorry I thought that would be a better option to search with.

Thanks for posting these results though.

1 points

by gudgeon_fancierover 9 years ago

Feel free to delete this post now that I have those links.

4 points

by abdadaover 9 years agoI will rip you a new one if you don't use the sidebar & search.

No need to delete it, maybe others can put in their 2 cents -- those threads didn't really offer a lot of clarity!

1 points

by gudgeon_fancierover 9 years ago

Ok cool, yeah there was only a little info in there. When I make the recipe I will post my findings. I have nothing to compare it to but I can discuss how the overall flavour seems with TFA Bavarian Cream.

3 points

by Inutopianover 9 years ago

We wouldn't want to use up the internet ;)

4 points

by meanrockSDover 9 years ago

You could sub it, Honestly TFA is the better of the two. Use a 3/4 ratio (for every 1% FW, try 0.75 TFA).

1 points

by gudgeon_fancierover 9 years ago

Awesome, I will do just that. Thanks for the advice.

1 points

by ThirdWorldOrderover 9 years ago

TFA's Bavarian Cream is better 99% of the time, but in this case the butteryness (sp?) of FW Bavarian Cream plays really well with Butter Pecan.

I do think you will still enjoy the recipe using TFAs though.

2 points

by Hyacin75over 9 years ago

I use chukr beta when I have to sub. I don't know where they get their data from, but it's seemed pretty reliable so far in the recipes I've used it's ratios to do subs in.

It says use 0.73x TFA Bavarian Cream if subbing it for FW Bavarian Cream (which seems to jive with what has been said here.)

1 points

by goldfish18over 9 years ago

On that site, where do you go to see the 0.73x TFA bavarian cream sub for FW bavarian cream?

2 points

by Hyacin75over 9 years ago

Yeah, it's a bit of a pain and if you click the wrong thing you end up going to circles ... I guess I should have included that part :-)

Search (top-left) for your flavour ("bavarian" in this case)

Click the flavour link in the results (not the vendor, but that same row obviously)

Scroll down to the bottom of the next page, the last box is "Substitutions", I found it easiest here to type the vendor of the sub you're planning to use in the search box in the top right of that area. If you're searching for subs for "Bavarian Cream" and you type "Bavarian Cream" there, it's going to match most of them - if you type "apprentice", you're still going to get a lot of results, but it's less than doing it the other way in my experience.

Find the one you're looking for, and the ratio is the far right field in that table :-)

1 points

by goldfish18over 9 years ago

Interesting. There are some crazy substitutions listed there lol, but thank you for the reply!