I'll start by apologizing, this will probably get lengthy (and I'm on mobile so don't crucify If my formatting is terrible). I have been doing diy for a few weeks (I mixed a year ago but i wasn't committed like I am now). I'm not your average person, when I start something I go big or go home. So I dropped half a pay check on everything I needed and got to mixing. I skipped most of the popular recipes online and started mixing my own recipes.a few days in I had a wierd hankering for a delicous oatmeal cream recipe. Don't know why but it's what I set out to do. I started with tfa oatmeal cookie and as many know, it's fairly disapointing. After doing some research and reading a thread on r/deeperdiy I found that flv crunch cereal and nuts could be used to more accurately create an oatmeal flavor. After tweaking for the past couple weeks I feel like a have a good starting point to share with everyone. I call it:
Oatmeal Icecream
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0.5% crunch cereal FLV
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0.5% Almond FA
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2% Cookie FA
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0.3% Torrone FA
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0.5% hazelnut CAP
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3% VBIC TFA
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2% Bavarian cream TFA
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1.5% Meringue FA
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1% Butterscotch FLV
NOTES: (80/20)
THE OAT: crunch cereal and almond are the two main ingredients in this recipe. I originally tried them above 2% and around 1% and even after a week and a half my mix tasted like bodily fluid excreted at the end of intercourse. I find that crunch cereal is pretty potent and I prefer it at lower percentages. FA cookie, torrone, and hazelnut (I accidentally bought cap instead of fw) come together with crunch and almond to give the oatmeal a more complex and nutty/grainy flavor w/o getting wierd.
THE CREAM: I was shooting for a velvety icecream, or maybe something closer to the filling of a little Debby oatmeal cream pie... VBIC and Bavarian cream really give me that creamy mouth feel that I'm looking for. Add meringue on top to keep things light and sweet. Nothing ground breaking here.
BUTTERSCOTCH: I really feel like this is the secret ingredient. It gives the mix a kind of brown sugary sweetness, and at the same time it rounds edges and smooths everything out.
STEEP: 2 DAYS- A WEEK; needs a few days for the butterscotch to back down, but if you can wait a week it's creamy crunchy goodness.
OTHER APLICATIONS: I'm working on a few things that use alot of the same ingredients and I'm having pretty good results so far ex. Apple oatmeal crisp, blueberry gronal icecream, peach parfait. I'll make a separate post when they're finished if people are interested.
THANK YOU!!! I will never be able to stop thanking everyone from this thread for all the knowledge they spit, I never would have come up with this without them. Also, every one please feel free to criticize my recipe. After all I'm still a newbie.
Great flavor notes, cited research, you commented on your failures as well as successes. Very well formatted.
I look forward to mixing this up tonight. Great job all around.
Really apreciate the feedback, nd everything you've contributed to this thread! Excited to hear any pointers you have once you try it
Ok, I just mixed this up.
The oatmeal is on point. Very good flavor there. Nice rich notes that are very pleasant.
However, something is off. I think it's the meringue. It needs to come down to 0.5%. At 1.5%, I'm just getting a greasy cheese flavor with no powdered sugar.
In addition to that, I think having Almond, Torrone, and Hazelnut is a bit overwhelming. The resulting flavor is just too nutty instead of creamy, like I imagine you were looking for. I'm about to mix this up to see what happens. Going to let both of these steep and try again in a week.
- 0.5% crunch cereal FLV
- 0.5% Almond FA
- 1.5% Cookie FA
- 0.25% Torrone FA
- 3% VBIC TFA
- 2% Bavarian cream TFA
- 0.5% Meringue FA
- 1% Butterscotch FLV
I'd be interested in your peach parfait recipe. I've been rolling a peach praline ice cream recipe around in my head for the past week or two and getting nowhere with it.
The peach parfait is the hardest juice I've been working on so far. I will say I'm having good results adding a little FA kiwi to FA white peach to give it more of a fleshy peach taste, but the granola is clashing with the sweet peach flavor pretty hard. Still good but not ready yet.
Very interesting, I think this is a great approach to an oatmeal! I actually have all those flavorings so I think I'll mix this up tonight; been wanting to make something a little different, so I'm glad you posted this. I'll be sure to provide you honest feedback on it, since I think that is one of the best ways to grow as a mixer. Really looking forward to it!
Awesome! It's deffinitaly pretty out of the norm, at least for me. I find it to be a nice change up tho. Very intersted to hear your thoughts on it!
Just mixed this up a while ago and have been running it in the ultrasonic cleaner. Right off the bat it definitely smells of oats and ice cream. In my dripper I get nice savory oats, with a touch of sweetness almost caramely, in a bath of sweet vanilla cream. It's got a very nice body and texture. Coats the palate well, isn't overbearing, and I'm sure will make a nice ADV. I wonder if a touch of Koolada would bring it more in to the realm of ice cream -- might throw it off though.
It's very well balanced. The savory aspect of the oats plays really nicely against the creams. Overall really well done. I'm sure a bit of a steep will help the creams come out a bit more. Only criticism I can think of, for me any way, is the bav cream might bring it out of the realm of ice cream a little bit, but I'm not disappointed with the flavor and vape experience at all. I think the term "ice cream" just led my mind in the direction of a lighter, somewhat refreshing cream; always difficult to translate a warm vape in to a cold treat though =) Steep might change my mind, looking forward to coming back to this after a few days.
I'd give it a good 9/10. If anyone hasn't mixed this up yet I'd recommend doing so. Also looking forward to your other recipes. Do you post them on ELR? I would def follow.
Well done. The butterscotch is an interesting addition, but makes a lot of sense. I wonder if maple syrup might be a good addition...
Have you thought about playing around with raisin in this recipe? Oatmeal and raisins...good match. :]
One on One makes an oatmeal flavoring, in case you weren't aware.
Good to know! Any opinion on one on one's flavors?
I like them so far. I have Glazed Donut (taste more glaze than donut), Marshmallow (very good) Rhubarb Crisp (idk about this one yet) Oatmeal (steeping) and Cake Batter (steeping as well) I like that they have flavors that are different than other vendors. Navigating their website is challenging though
Looks really interesting - think It'd work at 70/30?
It's fairly light to begin with so I think it would be just fine @ 70/30
Thanks - mixed it up and had a pre-steep taste. You definitely nailed the texture and general vibe of oatmeal, well done! The only thing for me is that funky taste from the FLV Crunch, which hopefully will die down. I have an 8oz bottle of it and I haven't really found much use for it yet, because of that weird aftertaste it has. I'm gonna leave it for a week and see. Great job!
I've got everything bar the oatcrunch cereal goddammit, any suggestions for a substitute anyone, I have shit loads of flavours but can't think how to get oaty and crunchy except biscuit and sugar cookie maybe ???
Hmmmmm... maybe a crunch berry cereal or something that has kind of a Cornish taste to it. Unfortunately I think FLV crunch cereal is a necessity
I agree, that FLV Crunch Cereal seems to be what's rounding out the nuttiness in to oats. The "fried" aspect of INW Waffle might help a bit in adjusting the nuts similarly, but you will definitely have something completely different on your hands. The uniqueness of FLV can be both a blessing and a curse.
I'm going to sub the butterscotch for straight brownsugar .5% as I am craving Oatmeal and it's all I'm missing. ~~Will probably leave at least a week, unless you don't think it needs that long.~~ I'm dumb it's in the notes!
Good notes, great post!
I just have to say I haven't ordered much but Mt Baker vaper does vanishing oatmeal treat n have it as a flavor, I'm sure u know that, thought oatmeal vape sounded well gross until I had it..it's just amazing lol you should Def try.
I actually had no idea. I always thought MBV flavors were just rebranded fw or something. I will def look into it, thanks for the heads up
Well im glad I could help! I've been told the same thing, but when i was looking to order it from fw i didn't find it, only tfa has oatmeal cookie but I haven't tried that yet. That's just a simplified version, yours looks good n props to you for figuring it out..that would be harrd lol I'm a newbie so I'm trying to keep it simple to start out :)