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#This week's flavor is: LOVE
What does love taste like to you?
How did that get to be the FOTW?
Because I said so.
Also tomorrow is Valentine's Day.
But, normally, they are requested. If you're not interested in this FOTW, please take this opportunity and comment to request one that interests you (or send me a PM to do that).
Past FOTW posts can be found here
The NOTED podcasts, which are bascially video FOTWs, are listed on this sheet. maintained by /u/apexified
Next week's flavor will be: Cereal
The week after that will be: Orange
The week after that will be: Cheesecake
The week after that will be: Coffee
The week after that will be: Graham Cracker/Pie Crust
The week after that will be: Coconut
The week after that will be: Cookie Dough & Cake Batter
The week after that will be: Custard
The week after that will be: Peach
The week after that will be: Red Raspberry
The week after that will be: Sweeteners
The week after that will be: Cinnamon Pastries
The week after that will be: Vanilla
The week after that will be: Cantaloupe
The week after that will be: Honeydew
The week after that will be: Watermelon
The week after that will be: Pecan
The week after that will be: Hard Liquor
The week after that will be: Pear
The week after that will be: Cranberry
The week after that will be: Mango
The week after that will be: Ginger
The week after that will be: Cream
The week after that will be: Honey
The week after that will be: Peanut Butter
The week after that will be: Ube/Taro/Yam
The week after that will be: Cookies & Biscuits
The week after that will be: Lemonade
The week after that will be: Mint
The week after that will be: RY4
The week after that will be: Crème Brûlée
Valentine's Cheesecake
CAP Cereal 69 1%
TPA Graham's Crack Crush 3.5%
FA Vienna's Cream 1%
FA Hazel's nuts .5%
LB Labia Cake 3%
FLV Cake Pounding 2%
CAP BraCup Batter 10%
FLV Cock Cake Batter 10%
32 % Nic MTM ( Mouth to Mouth) Hit
Is it bad that I didn’t realize what was going on until Hazel’s nuts?
FWIW Vape Train has a concentrate called "Love." And just like actual love, I don't know much of anything about it and can't quite tell what it's supposed to be just by smelling it. Their website claims it's a "a complex combination of creamy milk based flavourings with white chocolate undertones." So I guess that's what Love tastes like to Aussies? I was expecting some kind of sheep-flavored concentrate, just based on the jokes I was told by locals when I stayed in New Zealand. Anyway, I'll mix up a sample and report back.
EDIT: Apparently Australian Love tastes like a box of chocolates that's mostly filled with white chocolates but also has some very milky milk chocolates or milk & white swirl chocolates in there. And when I say box of chocolates, I mean box and all. On top of all this nice chocolatey stuff that doesn't seem to have the more common chocolate off notes, there's a pretty potent and slightly harsh cardboard off-note. Maybe it steeps out; mixed at 2% overnight steep. I hope it does; this flavor finishes nice on medium-bodied and somewhat sweet, smooth white chocolate flavor. Definitely not a shake and vape flavor though.
Is it semen? Because it sounds like semen.
> a complex combination of creamy milk based flavourings with white chocolate undertones
Now that you mention it, of all the things they could have called "Love" that was a pretty gross choice, some creamy white stuff. In the bottle it smells like there's some kind of spice where there should be neighbor's hot tub if that were the case, though. I'll mix some up this afternoon and report back ASAP.
I guess love would have to taste simple, complex, comfy, strange, confusing and fun all at the same time. Here are some recipes that I think cover some of those feelings. They are memorable to me. And taste really good.
Simple Sugar Cookie by /u/ID10-T
Brigade 2506 by /u/ChemicalBurnVictim]
Longing by /u/ID10-T
Ardent by /u/Loonicorn420
I'd say it would have to a taste a little sweet, but also delightfully dirty.
Abuela by Fear. Song that Abuela makes me sing because it's called Abuela by Rodney Carrington.
Personally, INW Black for Pipe is love.
But other than that, I think love would have some INW Shisha Vanilla in there. Maybe some FLV Milk and Honey. A hint of CAP Cucumber, but not enough to get weird. I’d be tempted to throw in some JF Honeydew Melon. Maybe I’ll try that out.
Disclaimer: I don’t know anything about mixing with fruits. This is not mixing advice.
W-what's that cucumber for..?
It’s just a hint, so no more than just the tip.
Turned out much better than expected.
- FLV Cream- .8%
- CAP Cucumber- .5%
- JF Honeydew Melon- .8%
- FLV Milk and Honey- 1.3%
- INW Shisha Vanilla- 1.5%
Baby don't hurt me
I just discovered TFA Cherry Blossom, and I love it. I'm not a big fan of cherry, but this sweet, pink floral flavour with a light cherry note definitely fits 💓
So LOVE it is. I associate Love with the color pink :) Does anyone else? Probably because many nice things in love are pink? No I won't elaborate.
Yesterday evening I posted a recipe in the february recipe thread, I think it fits here too. May I just copy? If not, please delete this.
Think Pink
- Pink Panther (INW) 2%
- Malina (INW) 1%
- Cactus (INW) 0,25%
- Cotton Candy (CAP) 1%
I always liked the taste of the Inawera Pink Panther, but it had 2 problems: it was lacking something and, more important, the throat hit and dryness was quite unbearable.
So I always tried to somehow make it work and the above recipe does that. It adds a strong raspberry flavor, the cactus battles the dryness and the cotton candy cuts the rough edge of the Pink Panther flavor and adds some sweetness too.
So whoever out there has some Pink Panther and does not know what to do with it...try this recipe, you might be surprised.
Edit: the cotton candy can (of course) be replaced with any Ethyl Maltol.
Hmmm,
Well you think about it all the time. You miss it when your not vaping it. You can't wait until it finishes steeping, sometimes so much that you say fuck it and vape it anyway. You compare whatever you are currently vaping to it and then just have to go vape a tiny bit of it to tide you over for a while.
Right now for me that's /u/Fear's Cardinal. Can someone help me out with the link? I am too lazy to look up how to create a short link right now! Especially cuz I am going to run down to the basement and grab my tank with Cardinal in it right MEOW!
And that is a damn good vape right there, I tell you hwhat!
The woman who inspired Longing went through a phase in which she changed her name to Raven, so I when I added dark chocolate to Cardinal, the name Raven held a secret double meaning for me.
Ooooh another peak into the secret inner-workings of our village idiot! I want to try Raven too but no chocolate truffle. I don't even know what BF is! Been meaning to ask you if I could just omit it.
Thanks for having my back on the link <3
No, you cannot just omit it. Yes, it's worth $7.99: https://www.vapingzone.com/VZ-SC-Gourmet-Chocolate-Truffle-Flavoring/pid-1135.html
Working on a different choco-bacco that just uses the FLV Milk Chocolate, though. Yay, accessibility!
OT: I have a suggestion for a FOTW: Syrup. Or maybe that can be tacked on to sweeteners. But it's not really a sweetener. I was eyeballing /u/Hocuskrokus' Flapjacks! recipe and feeling a little sad cuz I don't have reasonable access to VT Golden Syrup and wanting to research possible subs.
Having tried VT Golden Syrup, yes, it can be tacked on to sweeteners. A unique, slightly buttery sticky thick sweetener.
I can’t think of anything that would sub for that. But fear not, for it will be coming to the U.S. market very soon. They’ve already contracted with a vendor. Meanwhile, I’ll try to remember to throw a small sample in your Mixers’ Club pack, so you can make Kopel’s recipe. Mixers’ Club membership has its privileges.
Oh what's mixers club? Is it available in new Zealand?
This is Mixers' Club: /r/mixersclub
It's not really feasible for NZ Mixers to participate in it due to the shipping cost and time, but if someone wanted to study it and get enough NZ mixers together to emulate it, there could be an NZ Mixers club. People have talked about starting Canadian and UK mixers clubs following the same format, but could never get enough mixers interested in doing it.
Love is Cactus, VG, and an unwilling participant.
Uh... that sounds a little more like 'rape' than 'love'. Although I can see how certain personality types can confuse the two.
^note: ^such ^personality ^types ^are ^listed ^conveniently ^in ^the ^DSM-5