Any bodies out there finding that if they changed atomizers or let it steep, that your DIY vjuice mix tastes good the second or third time around? What's the most number of attempts you've given something? Or maybe you just kept vaping it for 30 minutes to an hour to learn it's actually good?
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In the last few days, found that a few of my mixes fall under this topic. One of them, had almost given up on it after a few puffs. Another, almost tinkered with adding other ingredients to try to move the needle towards "better". And out of boredom, threw one juice in with another and found a totally unexpected result. Now it makes me wonder if I need to go mix up new batches all over to see what I might have missed. It's not like I pour out the batch... but often tend to use it in conjunction with other vjuices (sometimes commercial) to bend it or enhance.
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I'm going to guess that coming off of vaping a vjuice for 12-36 hours, my tongue isn't in a neutral place to pick out the actual essence. So am thinking I've learned a real lesson in that dripping it a few times doesn't qualify as a true taste-testing process. Sure, I've tried the Wasp Nano and my dear Phobia RDA for a few puffs. It seemed like my patience for wanting the "expected" flavor to hit leads to early dismissal of the mixture's quality.
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So morale of this cautionary tale? Don't give up on it until you've given it a real chance. And then maybe another and another... using different atomizers, settings, coils, etc. Cheers!!
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[TL:DR] SIDEBAR - One of the weirdest successes that I've had was with VapeWild's The Streak. I can't explain everything that I'd added to get where I was... only that it was addicting-ly delicious. It had everything but the kitchen sink in it (well, liquid wise). I added INW Biscuit. Added a little Cereal 27. Tossed in some of that Underboss by VW and maybe even a tiny bit of that caramel milkshake they have, though can't recall the name. And pretty sure I added TFA's Cotton Candy in slight amounts with another fruit by them to give it more of a citrus taste (thinking maybe it was Juicy Peach). The results were remarkable yet unable to be replicated. Do I regret that? Not at all. Though I like experimenting, it isn't my desire to buy commercial juices to use as ingredients. But it is another example of taking a mix that doesn't stand up on it's own to get something vape-able or even tasty out of it. And the thing was, it's the only example of my DIY experimenting that would even be considered layered on any real scale. It's been almost exclusively vaped with the Phobia. For that atty, I do deep direct lung hits and it has a Clapton installed for pretty decent flavor. But sometimes don't taste things with that atty... or the taste gets twisted because of the condensation build up on the inner part of the drip tip... and a big puff gets a droplet or two into my mouth. All I know is, vaping The Streak on it's own gave me a sickly feeling to my stomach and can't explain why. :/
Can we get a tl;dr for the tl;dr please?
Try your mix "shake and vape" for an hour in your normal atty, and an alternate if ya got one.
Try it again after a week on the "maybe shelf"
Try it again after a month on the "maybe shelf"
Most importantly, have a "maybe shelf"... Somewhere where your experimental mixes sit, because some of them are very different on day 1 and day 30.
Varying steep time is like varying % of a flavor. Sometimes it matters a little, sometimes it matters a lot, and going through a few scaled data points is really the only way to get a "feel" for each.
I mixed Simply Rolling, and in my dead rabbit, it was like being punched in the mouth with a fistful of cinnamon, but in my tank it tasted exactly like a friggen Cinnabon. Amazing.
Glad to know that someone else likes it!
All my recipes are developed using a tank, never had Rich Cinnamon in an RDA. Harsh huh?
Ah it's amazing. I've been telling all my friends about it and basically forcing them to try it. It's like you liquidized a Cinnabon. I don't even have words. But yeah, on the RDA it's like taking the cinnamon challenge.
Honestly, yours is the juice that finally convinced me about DIY. I'd tried a lot of other recipes, and they were okay, but not as good as some of the juices I've bought. Then I made yours, and when I tried it in a tank for the first time, I was seriously just blow away. I haven't bought commercial juice since.
Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad that you like it enough to change your mind like that.
There are plenty of decent enough recipes out there, but not so many are worth a second mix. A lot of beginning mixers try too hard, and just keep adding additional flavors. Easy enough mistake, everyone goes thru that phase. 2-4 flavors are usually enough to create some tasty treats.
Get to know your flavors thru single flavor testing, and keep it simple!
I mixed chr1sdvr's orange creamsicle and after a month it was terrible. Very harsh. I vaped it for a bit, gave it a fair shake, and put it in my drawer and forgot about it. A month after I gave it another shake and this time it's so good. After that I try to steep custards etc for 2 Mos.
I recently made an ice cream which was absolutely horrible, harsh throat hit. Flavour wasn't particularly good. Added 3% CAP Orange Mango to it and it is incredible. Creamy vanilla ice cream with citrus spike. Smooth as you like. I was blown away how much it had changed. From borderline unvapable to my new adv.
Damn, that sounds good as fuck. Been wanting to work on an orange cream-type deal.
It's an adaptation of @eyemakepizza recipe
He used:
5% Liquid Barn Vanilla Bean Ice cream
1.5% TFA Vanilla Swirl
0.75% Hangsen French Vanilla Ice Cream
I didn't have the last one so subbed it for CAP Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
But added 3% CAP Orange Mango (I have since upped that to 6)
I also added 0.5% WS23 and 0.5 Cotton Candy, but that's my personal preference. Ice cream should be a little cold.
It's really nice