Beginning to realizing that certain recepies tastes better at lower wattages and higher ohms or vice versa. Isn't this just as important as everything else to include in a reciepe?
Agreed, but... Once you know your tastes and your gear, you know what you like, right? But you don't have another's palate or equipment, so you don't know what they're dealing with. This is part of the reason (IMO) straight recipes without tasting notes are kind of pointless - if you give tasting notes for all your ingredients and notes on why you went with that, it becomes easier to translate to another's experience. Low wattage, high PG vs. high wattage, low PG, etc. It's all a matrix that we'll never be able to pass full information on so the next best thing is for you to state your reasoning and experience so others can match or substitute.
I've been vaping for a few years, all on MTL higher resistance setups, and mixing for a little over a year. I finally purchased my first mod/subohm rig and immediately realized my favorite mixes didn't translate. Firstly, the nicotine. Going through 4mls of 10mg juice was intense, for me. So I quickly made a new mix with 5mg nicotine. All my favorite mixes were around 70/30 PG/VG and on the subohm it produced a rather intense throat hit. So I quick mixed a new batch with lower PG, higher VG with the same flavor profile. I then noticed the flavor was not the same. So, here I am now, tailoring all my favorite mixes(and new ones!) to appease my palate on the subohm rig. So far, I've noticed that roughly every 1% VG increase from my high resistance setup, I have to increase the total flavor 0.1% i.e. increase VG 40%, increase flavor 4%. Even that is a very loose science, just a starting point. I'm still figuring it all out for subohm gear. To your point, yes, the setup has very much to do with the way you experience the flavors.
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yes very much so nic strenght is a factor, did realize that from the start but just how different a lets say strawberry and cream tastes at 35w or 65w it's just not same vape or flavour profile. Seems a bit dumb to write down what the flavour is if you leave out such a important factor, I myself find I'm going back to lower wattages to really taste my juice..;) But that's just me. The change of wattages and power is a often a bigger step in flavour change then anything else. Just wanna let you know..
Well thanks! I do appreciate the insight :) And yes, I completely agree. I don't have much experience at really high wattages, but from running ~10W for a couple years and now going higher, power and resistance are definitely a big factor. It's interesting to note how some flavors in my mix are muted/more present/or just plain weak when running higher wattages(50W). But you're right, it would be helpful to have notes on power/temp/ohms when reading posted recipes. I certainly will add them from now on. Hopefully it can help people dial in the recipes on their setup.
I used to go highest vg possible in all my mixes but now I'm at 70vg/30pg in everything.
I've always heard PG gave tons of throat hit but for me(and others I've seen post here) it just isn't the case. I can replace my wicks right now and vape 100% pg and there isn't any crazy throat hit. It does pop and crackle but that is it. Maybe I'm just immune to the throat hit of PG but you should give that a try too, just vape straight PG and let me know.
IMO- it comes down to heat and vapor density. If you are making eliquid for other people, then having several different setups to taste on makes sense. Even if you just want to fuck around for fun; Try a kayfun with only the stove pipe on as a drip top- its a very dense vape at any temperature.