Looking for some tips on enhancing strawberry flavoring. Ive made about 15 strawberry recipes and I cannot get the strawberry to where i want it, it always tastes bland or muted to me. I've been using mainly TFA strawberry and strawberry ripe.
From my experience with strawberry. You usually have to mix different strawberry flavorings to get the profile to where you want it. Strawberry (Red Touch) by FA, is another great strawberry you might want to look into.
This is what I found.
I never use a single Strawberry and invariably mix it with Strawberry Ripe + Cap Sweet Strawberry or INW Shisha.
Shisha is a very distinct taste so I use it sparingly....
can you describe said distinct taste?
TFA Strawberry is a horrible flavor IMO. Order some strawberry shisha INW. It's a slightly candied strawberry ripe, very good even as a standalone.
Ripe is a great flavor but its easy to overpower it with heavier flavors. I use it as a way to sweeten juices as I've grown a hatred towards other sweeteners. IMO Strawberry shisha is overhyped and tastes like a slightly more carbonated tfa strawberry (non ripe). Which means it tastes like a waxy strawberry, The kind one would find on a chapstick. To the op, an easy to work strawberry that really stands out in the front of any recipe would be Strawberry sweet by jungle flavors. Its mostly comparable to Capella sweet strawberry but it doesnt get lost as easily in a mix. here's the link http://www.ecigexpress.com/shop/diy-e-liquid/diy-e-liquid-flavors/jungle-flavors/fruit-and-sweet/strawberry-sweet-by-jungle-flavors.html
I disagree with almost description you gave but your post does accentuate how taste is different for everyone. CAP Sweet Strawberry tastes really bad to me. The flavor of shisha vs TFA Strawberry is not even close IMO.
I haven't tried jungle flavors...I'll have to pick it up just to compare.
Its a slightly more sour sweet strawberry but its much stronger. I'd say 5% jf strawberry is comparable to 8-10% cap strawberry. Also cap strawberry does tend to have a chemical after taste when you first mix it while jf strawberry does not. I wouldn't say its authentic tasting, its more of a strawberry syrup but it comes through more than any other strawberry I've tried and you don't need to mix and match to get it to pop.
I'm glad I'm not the only one unimpressed with Shisha Strawberry. I heard so many people rave about it, I HAD to get it. When I did, I was like... meh. My favorite strawberries to date are still TFA Strawberry Ripe and Capella Sweet Strawberry and I usually mix them both together.
I like to mix strawberry ripe with fa strawberry as they are both very similar but fa strawberry has a little more green to it. Both combined around 8% each with a little bit of fa fresh cream and Bavarian cream make a really good lightweight natural strawberry milk.
i have TFA Strawberry, TFA Strawberry (ripe), Cap Sweet strawberry and FA's Strawberry (red touch) and the TFA Strawberry is my favourite of them all, mostly just personal preference i fins the three strawberries thats not ripe are all pretty similar
I don't think you can flat out say something is horrible. TFA Strawberry has been used to great effect in fizzmustard's nana cream and mustard tiger. It has its time and place.
Yes...yes I can. To me it tastes like chemicals. Bananas remind me of an diarrhea medicine I was given as a kid, makes me gag. Cinnamon flavors overpower my taste buds causing an almost instant migraine followed by 10-15 minutes of vomiting.
Everyone's taste is different.
I love Inawera Strawberry concentrate & Strawberry Kiss concentrate . Shisha is excellent as well .
A mixer who got out of the business revealed strawberry recipes that had 15% strawberry , i tried them & if you love in your face strawberry that will do it .
Low percentages of Strawberry pales in comparison.
is there a reference to this revealed recipe anywhere?
Strawberry is a tough profile if you're looking for that nice bright flavorful profile. Raspberry and Apple help give it some pop, as well as some enhancers like sucralose, EM, or ascorbic. It takes a bit of tweaking to get a strawberry where YOU want it.
DRAGONFRUIT my friend also apricot and mango go well with tfa strawberry. try these out you will love them 10% tfa strawberry 4% tfa apricot (I do 5 % but recommend u try 4 first) 1% dragonfruit for the pop!!! if u don't have tfa mango is a nice sub but do not got over 1% with mango For your Ripe Strawberry 8% Ripe 6% loran banana cream, 1 % dragonfruit tfa, 1-2% citric acid best steeped a day or two but not bad after the shake. another I like with Ripe is 8% Ripe Straw and 4% Kiwi Double 1% Juicy Peach. Hope you find what your looking for!