###Sup haters. Been a while. I got some new(ish) hotness for you. The recipe of the year voting is coming up, and I want to throw my cards down because, let's be honest, I want to rub it in /u/chrisdvr1's face if I win.
But first, an explanation. SKIP THIS IF YOU DON'T KNOW/CARE WHO I AM.
##I've been gone for a while now. It started with my surgery in October, but it was planned for some time before that. My scheduled break was the reason I pushed for some new moderators around here, because I didn't want /u/kirkt to do everything while I was gone. That being said, I've still been here, just as more of a lurker than an active member, and more of a backseat approach to moderating. The reason being is something that I've been passionate about, and part of for over a year. Those that know me know that I'm very active at DIYorDIE. Co-hosting podcasts, writing articles and reviews, managing social media, organizing community events, etc. I even proclaimed myself the Vice-President(no one tell Wayne ;)) I scheduled my break because I knew I would be getting more involved with DIYorDIE, and I didn't want that to become a conflict of interest moderating here, and I didn't want either one to influence my work with the other. I've become more of a mentor/auditor for the new moderators than an active moderator. This is the end of my monologue.
Now that's out of the way, let's get to the good shit.
###GOD MILK
This recipe is, without a doubt, my most popular, best-received, and highest rated recipe. A strawberry cream with a tropical twist, made with all TFA flavors, with a relatively short steep time for strawberry creams, and all whole percentages in the recipe. I wanted this recipe to accessible to everyone; American or international, beginner or advanced, patient or impatient. This isn't a new recipe. It's been out for about 4 or 5 months, but I haven't posted it to any forums. I just let my followers on AllTheFlavors.com know, and let word of mouth do the rest.
- The Strawberry Base-d God
The classic, the go-to, the reliable, TFA Strawberry and TFA Strawberry Ripe. If you don't know this combination yet, check a calendar, because it's 2016. The candy-like TFA Strawberry and the bright, green TFA Strawberry Ripe work so well to make a super-sweet, clean strawberry flavor. 4/4% gives a nice strong strawberry, while allowing other flavors to play their parts.
- The Cream Bed(of Clouds.)
This one I worked on for a while. I used a ton of different custard flavors, a few ice creams, and one or two flavored creams before I realized I was in the wrong vein. I didn't want a full-bodied, heavy cream that overpowers the other flavors. I wanted something smooth, but sharp; gentle, but firm; I wanted something light and airy, residing with Zeus in Olympus. I wanted a cheesecake base. Wanting something light, I went with TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust, then used TFA Bavarian Cream to boost the cream and add a bit of vanilla flavor.
- The Surprise Guest
If you've been mixing a while, you know the magic that TFA Dragonfruit does in a recipe. With a delicious flavor, and emulsifying properties, I used just enough in this recipe to help hone the strawberry into something fresh and exciting, while also adding a bit of the pineapple flair that TFA Dragonfruit has on its own. It helps blend the strawberries and, I believe, shortens the steep time on this recipe to 2 weeks.
###The God Himself
####God Milk
- 4% TFA Strawberry
- 4% TFA Strawberry Ripe
- 3% TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust
- 3% TFA Bavarian Cream
- 1% TFA Dragonfruit
That's it. 15% flavoring, 2 week steep, all TFA, tasty as fuck.
If you like my recipe, please do not post it publicly to ELR or AllTheFlavors. I've kept it off ELR for a reason, and there's only room for one God on AllTheFlavors.
He can't nominate his own recipe. So, I say no one nominate it. Not because it isn't amazing and definitely deserving, and quite possibly the best S&C vape out there despite also being super accessible, but just out of spite because he abandoned you all, leaving you in the comparatively feeble hands of /u/Wh1skeyK1ng and definitely much, much feebler hands of yours truly. Basically, fuck Skiddlz. He doesn't love you anymore, he just wants your votes.
Also, it's not like there aren't plenty of other wonderful recipes you can nominate:
Sugar Cookies & Cream and about a gazillon others by /u/Chrisdvr1. We could have a whole Recipe of the Year thing with nothing but Chrisdvr1's recipes and rub Skiddlz's nose in that.
>We could have a whole Recipe of the Year thing with nothing but Chrisdvr1's recipes and rub Skiddlz's nose in that.
True, but they would only win if you kept my recipes out. ;)
And FWIW, I'm not nominating my recipe, I'm posting it to reddit so it is even possible to be nominated.
Is your frosted lemonade nominated? Because it should be.
I'm gonna be a dick and vote for my strawberry milks.
It's not a new profile but a lot of people have enjoyed it (over 150 comments, and people still PM me to this day saying thank you). It's not as popular as something as Stachio-RY4 or apple buttah because it isn't revolutionary or new, plus I don't have an ATF account so I can't be fucked to post it up.
Highest rated recipe AND most rated recipe on alltheflavors. NBD.
I'd love to try this but since TFA Strawberry is the bane of my mixing existence... I shall remain a Godless heathen ;(
I'm with you. The combo of TFA Strawberry and TFA Strawberry (Ripe) are straight vomit to me. Makes the whole recipe smell like hurl. :(
You could be sensitive to butanoic acid; it's in Strawberry Ripe, and at higher percents becomes a cheesy flavor. It's also known as butyric acid, the essence of vomit.
I am super sensitive to smells (when my sinuses are working) and have a really awful gag reflex to smells and sounds of people getting sick.
So sounds like that's exactly what's happening. I can't taste Strawberry, and can't stand Ripe. My entire life is FW Strawberry, CAP Sweet Strawberry, and INW Shisha Strawberry.
I actually tried "upgrading" God Milk by subbing in a bunch of JF so I could post a satirical Godlier Milk... it was just meh. And that's what made me think that, despite the basic set of ingredients, Skiddlz might have actually put some real work into this one. Or he just got lucky like with all his other delicious recipes ¯\(ツ)/¯
Either way, it deserves some sort of runner up position. Just don't put that guy on the top of the podium, he'll never leave ;)
I'll probably nominate Mother of Dragons Milk just to confuse /u/ID10-T, as he can't seem to understand why people like it so much.
That would indeed confuse me, as to why you'd waste your nomination when there were so many much better recipes created this year, and also irritate me a little since I have a couple of other recipes that I'm much more proud of after working very hard on them.
Love your idea, Godlier Milk. I've thought about making a 50/50 blend of God Milk and Mother of Dragons' Milk and calling it "Mother of God's Milk." Ever wonder what Jesus Christ tasted when He breastfed? This shit right here
Oh shit, I've never seen that recipe. Fuck now I feel like a knockoff.
Dude that one calls for SEVEN PERCENT DF- they aren't even close.
I can't handle 1% DF as a strawberry accent, godbless those using 7.
I'm surprised that this recipe is more popular than Cliché, that shit is probably the most tasty juice that I've ever vaped. The rotating flavour is absolute genius, its been my ADV for the past 6 months or so. So for that thank you /u/skiddlzninja.
For anyone interested here is the link to Cliché; https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/4coc8v/clich%C3%A9_a_rotating_strawberry_cream_from_my/
>4% TFA Strawberry 4% TFA Strawberry Ripe 3% TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust 3% TFA Bavarian Cream 1% TFA Dragonfruit
All these concentrates taste like shit to me apart from TFA Strawberry so I subbed them all for FW Vanilla Bean Ice Cream @ 6% and increased the Strawberry to 5%.
Tastes great, keep up the good work.
Honestly I agree ... TPA Strawberry is my least favorite of the popular strawberries.
It's the only strawberry my buds can taste. I used to be one of those freaks that couldn't taste anything strawberry, and then TPA Strawberry changed my motherfucking life.
My favorites are FA strawberry and JF strawberry sweet. CAP sweet strawberry and TPA Strawberry ripe are good when used together along with a bit of FA strawberry.
Ordering MF strawberry this week, I hope it's the answer to all strawberries.
My favorite strawberry to date is
1% FA strawberry
2% TPA Strawberry ripe
2% CAP sweet strawberry
Tweaking it now with JF instead of CAP
1% FA
1.25% JF strawberry sweet
2% TPA Strawberry ripe
Still steeping this in my S&C recipe. 2% JF was wayyyy too much and spoiled the recipe, even after a steep was unvapable because of how picky I am.
Edit: sidenote: not a huge fan of shisha strawberry either. It's good but I like the aforementioned strawberry shit more
Sounds really awesome, down side is I can't taste strawberry.
Can you taste Strawberry ripe in a standalone? I'm trying to figure out if I am strawberry blind haha
Nope the shi strawberry is the only strawberry vape I can barely taste anything at all. With any strawberry it's like a wide blank void where flavor should be and I can taste all the supporting flavors. Like the other gods milk in ATF it has a hazelnut for body. All I taste is hazelnut in that recipe.
I'm in the same boat. I can taste strawberry, just not tfa strawberry ripe on its own. I need inw shisha strawberry or jf sweet strawberry in addition to taste it. However, even as a strawberry blind person, the cream is so balanced here that it tastes goddamn delicious.
Personally I think strawberries and creme should be excluded from any possibility of recipe of the year. But I do have to give you credit this one is pretty tasty.
I absolutely love this. I mixed up my usual 15ml tester of this when you posted it to ATF, and I've made three 60ml bottles of it since. Excellent, excellent recipe.
What's your beef with ELR?
It's a terrible format rampant with multiple alternate accounts manipulating votes, and ratings are brigaded frequently. It's a format that hasn't been updated, and once ads were put in place, it seems daath completely abandoned making any improvements. The UI is fucking hideous, the "leaderboard" is toxic with people just 1-starring recipes above them. The VAST majority of people use it as a public, but personal recipe book, making finding an actually worthwhile recipe nearly impossible.
and it doesn't offer licenses for my creations. Alltheflavors does, and fixes all the issues I stated above.
Is it just me or anytime a person starts geting $$ people get but hurt?yes it is a mess but I found alot of good recipe's on there and use it everytime I mix.I'm not attacking you.
In this hobby, yes. If you start making money, some members of the community become very vocal. Jealousy is an ugly bitch, and a lot of people get jealous when you can make money off of something you actually enjoy doing.
Does the license do anything? It kinda sounds like bullshit
It sets a guideline for how I want my recipes used. It has very little legal standing, but it gives me the ability to confront a company that steals my recipe without just blowing smoke.
Essentially it shows that any business stealing my recipes is ethically wrong, and justifies my reaction. They can no longer say "I didn't know these weren't free to use for my business without crediting you or permission beforehand."
the last time i tried tfa strawberry it tasted too chemical but it wasnt steeped very long tho, does it change into goodness if steeped 2 weeks?
Not sure, I enjoy TFA Strawberry at all stages, so I'm not sure what you're encountering. It's possible that the dragonfruit will fix that.
Wait, so God Milk is a two week steep? It's listed on All The Flavors as a 5 day steep. Is it vape-able at 5 days and perfect at two weeks, or is All The Flavors completely incorrect?
I initially set it at 5 days because I'm impatient. After some feedback, I decided 2 weeks is best, but haven't gotten around to changing it's time on ATF.
I've been staying away from the s&c for so long because it just seems so boring to me, but I actually want some now. I'm gonnamix this up after the kiddo goes to bed.
M'eh. That other guys Strawberry Shortcake Bar is way better. ;-)
That was so last year.
Just mixed this up today. It tastes very good as a shake and vape, just wanted to throw that out there, because some recipes is good as a shake and vape and gets better with steep, and some tastes like crap as a shake and vape and gets better with a steep. Looking forward to seeing how it develops.
How essential is the TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust? Would you recommend a NY Cap Cheesecake instead with maybe 1% instead?
Quite different concentrates would not sub
Would anything else come close? Of nah brah?
JF cheesecake graham crust lol
The thing about the cheesecake graham is that it has both graham and creamy qualities ... So in this recipe it's both providing a cookie/graham note but it's also boosting the cream.
I think cheesecake graham crust is one of the better savory / bakery ingredients and it's quite useful so it's definitely worth picking up. And if you want to make this recipe there's more or less nothing you can sub because everything else will be quite different
TFA Cheesecake (Graham Crust) is the Graham Crust for a Cheesecake, not actually Cheesecake.
It's like a pie crust made out of crushed graham crackers.
So take graham crackers, crush em up, add butter, maybe an egg, cover the pan with that mix, bake it for a bit till it hardens slightly.
That's cheesecake (Graham Crust), Theres no cheesecake in it.
This is by far one of my favorite S&C recipes. But only in the tanks I use. It's a bit strange in my RDAs (I drip between 100-150w), but in my tanks between 50-75w it's amazing. I ended up subbing out Cheesecake (Graham Crust) for 3% HS Italian Cream for when I'm dripping.
As far as S&C posted to AlltheFlavors, and Reddit this year? Yeah, I would probably put this up at the top.
I mix your God milk all the time. But I renamed it Strawberry Milk when I label it on my bottles. I just can't call it God for certain personal reasons. I mix a few of your other recipes also. Just want to give thanks.
I feel you, do whatever you gotta do to it.
Eh tfa strawberry tastes nasty to me. I go with this recipe.
5% cap vanilla custard v1
5% cap sweet strawberry
5% tfa ripe strawberry
2% inw biscuit
It shake and vapes great and the biscuit really starts to shine around week 2.
5% cap vanilla custard v1 or shake and vape. Pick ONE
Does fresh VC v1 not taste good to everyone else? Are you sure you aren't thinking of v2? That shit takes like a month+....
Just pulled out the notes for my initial tasting of God Milk:
"Vaped 0mg after 9 day steep. Smooth but almost tasteless. Slightly sour note, maybe from the TPA Strawberry."
I might mix it up again, give it a full month, and try it in my limitless plus instead of the Bellus. Thanks for the recipe Skiddlz! I'm a non-strawberry taster so that's probably why it seemed a bit flat for me.
I'll keep this simple,
This shit is very good.
Thank you for this, I suck at steeping, 50ml was gone after a couple of days. Unsteeped amazingly tasty, but provably more dragonfruity than it if after 14 days steep.
Thank you! Glad you enjoy it. I'm terrible at steeping as well, and that's why most of my recipes are just as good(albeit a different type of good) Shake and Vape as if they are steeped.