I ’ve made tens of recipes using TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, both original and other mixers, and I just don’t like it. It just doesn’t taste like vanilla or ice cream. There’s no smoothness, no creamy-ness. It has an almost spicy flavor; spicy and chalky.
There is a DIYorDIE recipe called Strawberry Ice Cream Cone that does not have TFA VBIC and it has more of an ice cream kick than anything I’ve made with it.
What are your favorite substitutes for this popular ingredient?
LB Vanilla Ice Cream + HS French Vanilla Ice Cream
At what % please? I still get dirty socks from HFVIC and want to keep trying until I get to experience the amazingness everyone else talks about.
LB VBIC
FW VBIC
CAP VBIC
These are great. All VIC flavors taste a little different. You need to try them to see which you prefer. I just discovered LB VIC and it's really good. I enjoy Caps and FW version as well.
Agreed! I was only using CAP and TPA for VBIC for a while and then I came across someone talking about how incredible the mix of LB and Hangsen VBIC was together and gave it a shot, and wow it's really good as well. Apparently it's a great substitute for the pepper tasters which I fortunately am not one myself but I do love the variety it gives me.
Vanilla Swirl (TFA), i put that shizz in all my ice cream flavors. Got this chocolate ice cream vape.. wooO!! had to add some koolada and it tastes just like a milk shake.
Can you post the recipe?
Liquid Barn's vanilla ice cream is the best ice cream flavor around.
And you're right. TFA VBIC is straight pepper.
You're wrong. I get that other people get pepper from TFA VBIC, but you're wrong.
In all seriousness, it's not only TFA VBIC. I've got it on TFA Vanilla Custard. Some people report it on TFA White Chocolate, but I'm not one of them.
And apparently it happens with other vanilla flavorings. Not long ago I got a Dr Pepper from a drink fountain and chose to add an extra shot of Vanilla Cherry. I took a sip right after pouring (so the extra shot hadn't mixed well), and there it was... it smelled like pepper. I don't know about volatiles and chemistry, but there must be some volatiles on vanilla flavorings that mimic pepper, at least to some of us.
You're wrong, and your other point is irrelevant. LB VIC CANNOT be the best ice cream flavor, because 'vanilla'. The best ice cream flavor would be chocolate or spumoni or something that isn't polluted by vanilla.
Straight pepper and all, but if you make a recipe like Cliché without it, I don't know if the world would be the same place.
I'm saying that I'm a TFA VBIC pepper taster. I've tried it on many recipes. Some of them were not worth it because the peppery-ness was just too much. And yet... your Cliché made with CAP Harvest Berry complements the spiciness very well, at least for me.
Other recipes where I've find VBIC works fine? This, for instance. There you have it again. Berries help to tame it down.
I recently got some Vape Train Australia's French Vanilla Ice Cream, it's a creamier/smoother flavour compared to the TFA and CAP VBICs, a bit less forward/spicy.
Having been reading/watching all I can on blending flavours recently, it seems it'd be a good ingredient to bridge between the CAP or TFA ICs to the creamy side of the mix, I've been using it with both other VICs and CAP Bavarian Cream with some strawberry and raspberry mixes and been delighted with the results.
On balance I prefer the TFA of the 3 (the only VICs I have) but I'm lucky not to get the peppery taste, so far anyway, they're all pretty new flavours to me.
Oops, I was just trying to do a quick compare and managed to squirt some of the CAP one all over my septum... smells great, but no way I'm smelling anything else for a while !!