The purpose of this thread is to gather the community to explore a flavor and it's many uses.
We're not just looking for you to post recipes you have containing the flavor of the week, but looking for you to share your process as you develop a new juice using the flavor of the week.
This should help us all to better understand how certain flavors interact, and give us all a launching point to perhaps discovering new wonderful recipes. Please post new recipes created using this flavor as well as any and all tasting notes as main posts. Thought process is encouraged also.
While I definitely encourage you to branch out with this flavor and use some more rare flavors, I would encourage everyone to keep it in mind that others will not be able to try your recipe and comment or offer assistance if they do not have the flavors you are using. I would also encourage you to use this week's flavor as the "main" flavor in your recipe although this is not required.
You BETTER sample and offer tasting notes on your recipe. Good luck to everyone!
This Week's Flavor is: Strawberry (The Return)
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Strawberry is quite possibly the most versatile flavor that any mixer has at their disposal, and definitely deserves respect as the go-to flavor of many. I recommend purchasing any and all strawberry flavorings, as all bring something different to the table, and to truly understand the flavor profile of strawberry, you have to experience them all.
Strawberry may seem to be a simple flavor, but don't underestimate it.
I just mixed this up and it is damn good! I tried the Fuji variant and that is definitely a good addition.
What are your thoughts on adding Zen Garden as the rotator? We bought it to make a pineapple basil gelato, but I've noticed a lot of (food) recipes like to pair strawberry and basil. I kinda want to try that but I don't know that it would play nice with the Fresh Cream.
(Also I have a friend clamoring for a strawberry caramel vape, so I'm going to try using FA Carmel as the variant and see how that turns out.)
I couldn't really find anything that worked with zen garden, so I gave it to a friend who uses tobaccos to see what he could do with it. So to answer your question, I'm not really sure what it would do, but you would need to use it probably under .5% to prevent it from overwhelming the recipe.
Thank you for the feedback!
Yeah, ZG seems to be one of those that might benefit from a 10% dilution. /u/TheCatHimself was given a challenge by a fellow mix friend that was "bet you can't do anything with this flavor" and that pineapple basil gelato is what he came up with. The v1 is coming along pretty nicely.
What are your opinions on FA Strawberry? I find it mixes well with strawberry ripe to give the strawberry a bit more kick. Unfortunately I'm all out of strawberry ripe atm. The recipe looks balanced and delicious, bloody well done.
It's a great strawberry base. A medium to build more strawberry upon. I don't like it on its own, but it brings its own strong points to a strawberry mix.
I use it to try and recreate strawberry brulee by mountain oak vapor. Strawberry, butterscotch and inw creme brulee with a dash of vanilla and a dash of lemon Sicily. Its more heavy on the strawberry side, with the other flavors accenting. I don't have precise measurements obviously.
Another is messing around with FA strawberry, Vienna cream, meringue and some oba oba. The four flavors create a nice sweet Vale with very little flavoring...just 1 percent of each in mine. Sometimes I load the strawberry a little heavier, but its a decent vape when you need a shake and vape and want to clean the pallette from vape tongue from over flavoring
Wow, sounds like you might be on to something there. I love how this community looks for interesting vapes, this is why I DIY :D
One of my past favourites consist of: (all FA in order of magnitude) pomegranate, strawberry, marshmallow and a splash of raspberry and cherry. The pomegranate has a really rich not so overly sweet taste, needs airing and a bit of steep not to be purfumey.
I'm still pretty new but after seeing someone's lime cola recipe I was inspired to satisfy my sweet tooth.
1.5% - Champagne (TPA)
3% - Cola Syrup (TPA)
1% - Koolada 10% (TPA)
7% - Strawberry (Ripe) (TPA)
cola+ koolada+ champagne gives me my fizzy slightly chilled cola base. IIRC nything above 3% cola made this taste like B-X's doctorate in peppers base
The strawberry:
Initially I started off with TFA strawberry, but I can't seem to taste that and I didn't care for it once I tried strawberry ripe. From what I understand ripe has EM in it, so I wouldn't have to add any additional sweetener to this. The closest comparison to ripe are those red strawberry candies with a little gel fill-in in a swisted wrapper meant to look like a strawberry and that's exactly what I wanted even before I tried ripe.
At 7% the strawberry is very in your face without being over powering.
I plan on trying strawberry ripe with TFA citrus punch soon too (along with koolada and champagne at the same amount)
Edit: if anyone trys this please give me some feed back! Even negative stuff helps. As everyone around me knows I'll complain about any juice I make for longer than I'll praise it even if I like it
Sweet! I totally had this idea as well of using champagne and trying to make a cherry cola like drink. I just haven't picked up champagne yet since the Cola Syrup flavor frightens me and I stopped experimenting with the recipe. I never thought to use strawberry in it though, that sounds delicious AF.
Edit; Added extra thought
You can pull it off without champagne still, it'll just have less texture. The cola it's self has a subtle carbonated taste (not texture).
I'm thinking of maybe even using FA lime Tahiti cold pressed at .75-1% instead of strawberry. The lime cola that inspired this used TFA key lime which has a weird tang to it imo. I've replaced TFA key lime in a couple of people's recipies with LTCP successfully