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What recipe did you try that made you say "hell no"
submitted about 9 years ago by alex617

Mine is:

  • 2% Inawera melon
  • 1.5% Inawera cherry shisha
  • 1% Inawera cactus
  • 1% TFA strawberry

Dear lord it's bad

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12 points
 
by nw167about 9 years ago

This one will amuse...

Ok, so my venture into DIY began with buying a crappy starter kit, which came with some flavour concentrates bearing a "recommended usage: 15-20%" sticker. They were shit.

My next purchase was exclusively FlavourArt, and one of my selection was Hazelnut. I love hazelnut. I wanted a hazelnut vape. And y'know, 15-20% was ok last time...So I made this...

FA Banana 10% FA Hazelnut 5%

Holy fucking shit sticks. No. Just #NO

8 points
 
by Nutz_of_Brinabout 9 years agoIn a good mood for now - don't piss me off.

That doesn't even sound good on paper.

4 points
 
by thedirtyprojectorabout 9 years agoMixologist

Melon, strawberry and cactus is a common combo. It's the cherry that's throwing it off.

1 points
 
by alex617about 9 years ago

I don't know what sounds good yet as this is my second attempt at DIY.

I didn't think that melon, strawberry and cherry is necessarily a bad mix, in real terms. Didn't translate well at all. The cactus as I had read was just meant to 'spruce' up fruit flavors.

6 points
 
by IllustratedMannabout 9 years ago

Here's some unsolicited advice that I wish someone told me when I started DIY.

For right right, just look up recipes that sound like you would like them, and try them out. After enough time you'll be able to understand how the flavors work and taste together, something you'll only gain from practice and experience. Eventually, you'll be able to think up and just make up a recipe, and most of the time it will be great.

2 points
 
by psykiabout 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

Also don't concern yourself too much with adding flavors to "spruce up" your recipe when in the initial stages of development. Nail down the base of your recipe first and then move on to smaller percentage complementary add-ons.

1 points
 
by BunniAliveabout 9 years ago

My partner is looking for shisha flavors, does the inawara cherry shisha taste alright?

6 points
 
by gardvarabout 9 years ago

Well, I recently purchased a roast beef flavor out of pure curiosity.. even thou it's a single flavour I guess that qualifies.

7 points
 
by wh1skeyk1ngabout 9 years ago

You have to add 3% BBQ sauce to it, then it really pops.

3 points
 
by Reaprabout 9 years ago

Ditto for the Bacon flavour - kinda tasted like heavily salted ham, with some burnt pan thrown in and left in the sun for a few days

2 points
 
by Tamachickenabout 9 years agoMixologist

I did that. I found that Bacon from Decadent Vapour in tiny... TINY quantities (0.2%) with CAP Chocolate Glazed Donut is very interesting and quite enjoyable, if not something you could vape back to back or all day.

5 points
 
by Trevorxgageabout 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

I don't even remember what the numbers were but one of my first mixes was trying for a blueberry donut. Used like 10% CAP glazed donut and straight playdoh from the first wiff. Tried letting it steep in hopes but ended up pouring it out.

3 points
 
by bogey_againabout 9 years ago

> 10% CAP glazed donut and straight playdoh from the first wiff

Have you found a % that works for you? I did purchase some CAP glazed donut but have never used it for that very reason. Every donut juice I purchased before DIY tasted like play-doh.

3 points
 
by UltimateNinjaabout 9 years ago

It taste like playdough at any percentage to me, but that's why I like it so much. TFA Frosted Donut however, tastes much closer to the real thing... at least to me. Cheers.

2 points
 
by wh1skeyk1ngabout 9 years ago

I did 4% TFA Frosted Donut with 2% CAP Glazed Donut in a jelly donut recipe the other day that turned out alright. Then again, I don't taste Play-Doh in CAP Glazed. I think it's freaking amazing by itself at 5%.

2 points
 
by Trevorxgageabout 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

To be honest I had given up on it. I'm going to go back to it now that I have more experience.

I have a feeling it's going to take more than just Glazed donut to get the profile, similar to bronuts using FW yellow cake and joy for the donut profile.

4 points
 
by Skikaabout 9 years ago

Rhondite. Turns out I can't vape anything with FA Fuji, it only ever tastes like apricots to me. Nothing wrong with the recipe, in fact, I like it with Cherry subbed in for the Fuji. But it took me SO long and SO many mixed trying to figure out if my %s were off or whatever.

Nope. Just can't stand Fuji. Weird how our taste buds can be so different!

Also makes me wonder if the aromatic volatiles in FA Fuji share any with Apricot flavors.

3 points
 
by The_Perrycoxabout 9 years agoMentholatier

Anything with FA Pineapple. Hello burnt rubber!

3 points
 
by agentdark45about 9 years ago

FLV Crunch cereal.

I've tasted bad flavours before, but holy crap does this one take the cake. Tastes of festering dirty gym socks mixed with dirt and completely ruins any mix I add it to no matter how low of a percentage.

1 points
 
by yoopergeekabout 9 years ago

Thank goodness, I'm not the only one!

2 points
 
by Wo0d643about 9 years ago

Some Blueberry muffin recipe my buddy found. I don't recall the flavors but it was only two. It should have been called Cinnamon Fuck You!

2 points
 
by EdibleMalfunctionabout 9 years ago

Anything that I used Nonna's Cake as a replacement for Yellow Cake. It's alright at first, not a perfect substitution, but after steeping for two weeks it tastes like dirty wet socks

2 points
 
by Orriblekuntabout 9 years ago

10% tfa jalapeno

2 points
 
by altneuroseabout 9 years ago

Want to accidentally vape jalapeños and freshly cut grass? Try this. Link

TPA Ripe Strawberry - 5%
TPA Pear - 5%
TPA Kiwi Double - 1%
TPA Fruit Circles - 1%
TPA Vanilla Swirl - 2%
FA Meringue - 1%
2 points
 
by wh1skeyk1ngabout 9 years ago

I tried making a cheesecake with TFA Blackberry at 3.5%. You don't need over 1% TFA Blackberry in anything.

1 points
 
by engmiaabout 9 years agoOne of "The Damned"

Haha I feel you mate, I think I'm in the same boat as you. Got weird taste plus I've never cooked so I have no idea how to flavour pair.

That's why I love this hobby so much, it's opening me to new horizons :)

Have many scraped projects, part of the hobby.

2 points
 
by PalefaceVaperabout 9 years ago

I'm in the same boat as not knowing how to cook.... Like at all. I got one or two dishes that actually require fresh things to be cut, added, and cooked opposed to just thrown in the oven.

I think the only thing I've ever made food wise that could be transferred to a juice would be strawberries and blueberries chopped up, mixed with sugar, and laid over a mini yellow sponge cake (can't even remember what you call it).

1 points
 
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1 points
 
by UncleManifestorabout 9 years agoMixologist

1% Beau Lavender

First vape was great, after that it went downhill sharply and ended up in potpourri city.

1% FA Anise

2% CAP Cucumber

2% INW Coconut

Tasted absolutely disgusting. Anise is best used at below 0.005%

3 points
 
by PalefaceVaperabout 9 years ago

Good god man.... Anise & Cucumber! I would puke.

Side note, still trying to make a cook watermelon cucumber vape. Seems easy enough, but can't get there... Even though I own two different watermelon flavors and two different cucumber flavors.

Not sure if anyone has heard of Coval Vapes. But they got a juice called Buck's that got me into that profile. Good juice, but I think the right mixer could even make a better one.

1 points
 
by UncleManifestorabout 9 years agoMixologist

Yeah, I was thinking outside the box for that one. Maybe too far outside it tbh.

Never heard of Coval Vapes, have not bought juice in like 2 years.

TFA Cucumber can do some weird things to mixes (over 0.6%), it is far stronger than CAP's too. Not sure which ones you have, nor the flavour you are after, but I am sure someone here has experience with Melons ( giggedy ).

2 points
 
by PalefaceVaperabout 9 years ago

I've got the TFA and CAP version... I do remember one smelling are more like real cucumber than the other. Can't remember off hand as I have up a on it a while ago. I need to try mixing it again and see what I come up with.

3 points
 
by OrionsArmpitabout 9 years ago

Anise... Oh god. I am not a fan of anise/licorice anyway, but a buddy of mine used to vape pints of Pluid back in the day.

Neon green licorice, and bottles were more coveted than the original small batch cereal killa.

1 points
 
by UncleManifestorabout 9 years agoMixologist

Same here, hate anise/liquorice too, but bought it due to seeing HIC's TIC TAC recipes...

Pluid sounds dreadful, anise is best left alone. Sadly it seems to be following me or something, the only Apple I have at the moment is Bahraini Apple. Why do that?

1 points
 
by firefoxwhyyounoworkabout 9 years agoOne of "The Damned"

Bahraini Apple is based on a shisha flavour. It is one of the classic shisha flavours

1 points
 
by VAPING_ASSHOLEabout 9 years ago

Pluid is the only liquid that I've seen actually melt a Kanger T3 right before my eyes. It was actually pretty impressive.

1 points
 
by captenplanet90about 9 years ago

Anything with tfa English toffee. I just can't do it

1 points
 
by ItsAirjohnabout 9 years ago

I have both TFA and FW English toffee which I've never had the courage for trying them because of that potent cheesy smell.

1 points
 
by wh1skeyk1ngabout 9 years ago

That is a pretty stinky flavor, pretty tough to work with. Did you try that recipe I suggested to you in the TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust flavor review thread?

2 points
 
by captenplanet90about 9 years ago

Just an update, after about five days this is much more palatable than anything ive mixed with English toffee. That nasty smelly feet smell is way less intense. Thanks again man, I really appreciate it

2 points
 
by wh1skeyk1ngabout 9 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

Glad it's working for you! I'm sure there are a few other flavors that could really help TFA English Toffee out, I just haven't found them yet.

1 points
 
by captenplanet90about 9 years ago

I mixed it up a few days ago subbing fw brown sugar. I haven't tasted it yet, but that nasty smell is covered up quite nicely. I'll check it out again in a few more days. Thanks for reminding me though! I almost forgot

1 points
 
by OrionsArmpitabout 9 years ago

Back when I started vaping, there was a juice called "bees knees" which was a mystical unobtainium flavor. Reported to be tfa blueberry and honey, one of my first diy experiments was to try to make my own.

I think the first few batches were 1% incremental tweaks, 10 in all in 5ml bottles, centered around 5% of each. 1% blueberry 10% honey on one end, 10% blueberry 1% honey on the other.

I still shudder at the horror of most of those flavors. I must have completely ruined 3-4 boxes of coveted batches of cartomizers testing that sequence. Once the honey gets on something, that flavor is eternal. Pretty sure I ended up tossing several delrin and stainless drip tips too.

I'll never know if the original flavor was any good, but any version I concocted was straight vomit.

1 points
 
by Kamtreabout 9 years ago

I made super high vg stuff when i first started. Just vg and like 30 drops of flavor. Tried this with lorann pina colada (gag) coffee (ew) and even maple didn't do it for me.

I was copying a local "mix your own" procedure. Little did I know they likely diluted with water and certainly diluted with at least 1ml/30ml sucralose. Stuff cooked coils within a day every time.

1 points
 
by Kamtreabout 9 years ago

Actually. Recently I tried a french toast cinnamon cereal mix with some custard. Straight egg sulphur hell. Most disgusting mix I've made.

1 points
 
by gunthersluntabout 9 years ago

Anyone with experience with this flavour knows why this was so horrible. It was my 2nd ever order of concentrates and I decided to mess around with some of the "fancier" manufacturers, besides FW and TFA. I decided to mix up a simple strawberries and cream inspired by Mustard Milk!

  • 3% INW Wild Strawberry
  • 4% FA Fresh Cream

Ughhhh... let's just say, I now know that even 1 drop of Wild Strawberry can overpower other flavours in a 10ml bottle!

Fresh Cream probably tastes pretty funky at 4% too, but there was no creaminess to this mix, no sir... just potpourri pine-sol death.

1 points
 
by Reaprabout 9 years ago

Wife wanted to make a blackberry pie

TFA Waffle (belgian) 8%

TFA Pie Crust 2%

CAP Blackberry 4%

TFA Honey 0.5%

TFA Graham Cracker(clear) 4%

TFA Lemon Lime 1%

First juice that triggered my gag reflex immediately - was just... hell no

1 points
 
by rottame82about 9 years ago

Pretty much every time I tried to do something with FA Condensed Milk. Last time I tried one drop in a 30ml and it ruined it. One. Single. Drop. And yet, it feels like the flavor could work if only it wasn't so overwhelming. So, because I'm an idiot, I guess sooner or later I will try to use it again.

1 points
 
by mikhaskabout 9 years ago

I tried Cap Maple Pancake Syrup with TFA Belgian waffle and brown sugar. Had initial hopes this was going to be delicious but OH MY it was the wet sock vape again. Thankfully I only decided to make a 5 mil of it for testing. Weird thing is that 8 months later it tasted great. Just the 7 months before was horrible. So Cap Maple Pancake Syrup is difficult to pin down, hasn't worked in anything I've tried. Just to add another disgusting one would be TFA Taro - made a mix of this one and made my buddy gag to the point of almost throwing up.. Did I say that was funny.LOL!!

1 points
 
by CheebaSteebaabout 9 years agoFrugivore

A while back I tried a "random flavor game" where I put all of my flavors in a randomizer and mixed with the top 5. Here's What I came up with:

  • FA Liquid Amber - .5%
  • TFA Apple Pie - 5%
  • TFA Guava - 2%
  • CAP Sugar Cookie - 3%
  • TFA Champagne - 1%

This one I definitely threw in the trash and re-wicked right after tasting it lol

1 points
 
by surfishermanabout 9 years ago

Every recipe i ever made was a hell no , no joke . I am the most horrific DIY er on the planet and thats after much improvement on my part.

1 points
 
by Elab0r8about 9 years ago

Whilst single flavour testing i thought I'd try 5% tfa malted milk. Wouldn't recommend it to say the least. Did the same with 5% cap bav cream as I'm an idiot, almost threw up everywhere.

1 points
 
by RinVapesabout 9 years ago

Chicken and Waffles and anything.... That stuff is vile... more vile than you can imagine and it leeches on to anything it touches.

1 points
 
by SadPandaVapesabout 9 years agoMixologist

Anything with Koolada

0 points
 
by milesmkdabout 9 years agoMixologist

Anything with tfa watermelon. "Oh hell nah"

2 points
 
by Twistedfexerabout 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

Really? I absolutely love tfa watermelon.. to each is their own I suppose..

2 points
 
by milesmkdabout 9 years agoMixologist

I've always got a nasty chemical taste. Just ordered some capella double watermelon to try something new. Hoping I can find something that I'll enjoy.

1 points
 
by Twistedfexerabout 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

Hmm, I only use it at max 8% how high did you use it at?

1 points
 
by Twistedfexerabout 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

I've heard amazing things about LA clear watermelon. I'm not a fan of FW watermelon at all.

-1 points
 
by xbungalowabout 9 years ago

Ive yet to mix something that's hasn't tasted good. I haven't tried anything very sketchy yet either though

0 points
 
by Twistedfexerabout 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

Then you are seriously limiting your experience with DIY ejuice my friend. I have easily made over a dozen bad recipes trying out random combos.

Black forest cake was a hit or miss for most, tutti fruity based fruit mix, my first version of preach (peach pear cake) Apple pie (thanks to botboy I no longer work on an Apple pie recipe) the list goes on..

But all in all, if you're only getting good recipes then you're either very lucky or not very daring and curious. Lol

1 points
 
by xbungalowabout 9 years ago

Update. Made 2 60mls of brutal juice

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