#Tha Plan > If you’re new(ish) or just want to join in; Post a link to your flavor stash or drop the list of your flavors in a comment below. If you’re a vet or have 100+ flavors suggest 1 or more flavors you consider essential. The plan for ~~this week~~ next week is to gather all those flavors together and create a list of the most common and essential flavors among them and then next week use that list to create some awesome recipes. I’ve also already started going through the Suggest a recipe for my flavors archive to gather flavors and shoutout to all the awesome people who have been actively suggesting recipes for people there, you’re the heroes DIY needs.
#Highlights from Last Week
- /u/Vishousness’ compiled their starting % list for 80+ flavors. An overall useful resource that seems to be based on a fair bit of research. While I would still suggest people check the flavor reviews or search ELR/ATF for a more complete overview, a list like this is definitely something we should all have handy for the flavors we’ve collected.
- /u/kindground delivered the goods again. First it was his Blueberry Roundup and this time around it’s an extensive and epic set of flavor notes in his Lemon Roundup
- /u/Leilani_H hit us with 9 flavor reviews last week: Delosi Flavors Marshmallow Cereal | Lychee | Pink Lemonade | Watermelon & Wonder Flavors Papaya | African Horned Cucumber | Passionfruit | Cream Puff and Island Mango
- /u/HaniHaeyo asked “Is it possible to get juice as good as premium juice with DIY”
- /u/heimsins_konungr revisited another older recipe with a new set of skills and came up with Blukiwi “A cold, fresh, blueberry-kiwi fizzy cocktail”... I’m sold.
- and finally /u/Arpeggiator8472 tackled a unique profile “smooth pistachio/apricot cotton candy” in her latest recipe KOP
Throwback Highlight
Latest Release from the collaborating minds of the DIY Discord
####There Can Be Only One Hetch: A Churro And Ice Cream Saga Co. | Flavor | % ---|---|---- JF | Biscuit | 1.5% FLV | Cinnamon Crunch | 2% Cap | Cinnamon Sugar | 3% HS | French Vanilla Icecream | 0.75% Cap | Funnel Cake | 1.5% LB | Vanilla Ice Cream | 5% TFA | Vanilla Swirl | 1.5%
#DIY Podcast Roundup This list will rotate through different podcasts either based on your recommendations or my discovery of new content last week. Only episodes released last week will be included. ###Here’s a playlist of all the episodes below
> According to /u/folkart2000 "We have assembled some of the most well-known and talented mixers from our community to bring you... DEVELOPED and DEVELOPED LIVE! DEVELOPED, released every Tuesday at 6:00pm EST, shows our recipe development process in action! It's a short 15 minute episode that's fast-paced, entertaining, and packed with information. DEVELOPED LIVE airs every Saturday at 6:00pm EST and allows the community to get involved in the conversation as we break down the recipe from Tuesday's episode." The show is also edited by our very own /u/AlfredPudding.
##Fresh03 > Fresh03 AKA Dustin Freshly is a prolific mixer and YouTube reviewer who not only appears on a variety of DIY shows but also hosts a couple notable and incredibly lengthy live shows with a large and almost all-inclusive cast of mixers you’ve probably heard of.
##Mixin Vixens > From Emily (/u/mlNikon) "Mixin Vixens is a diverse all female mixing panel on a YouTube weekly show that airs live Sunday’s at 6pm Eastern. Weekly we take pictures submitted by our viewers and each of us interprets the picture and converts it from a visual to a taste. After 4 rounds of mixing we allow the Man Team to critique our recipes and give us hell. Week after week we provide knowledge and entertainment. Month after month after we pick the recipe we want judged the judges come in knock us over the head and there is only one woman standing."
##Noted > The three hosts /u/mlNikon, /u/CheebaSteeba, and /u/ID10-T (and usually one guest) talk extensively about last week's Flavor of the Week. They each try a handful of flavors (or many more than that) and give their impressions while often sharing a few recipes that include those flavors.
##The Fog Vlog An ensemble cast of South African mixers who do live mixes, flavor reviews and mixer reviews where they review several recipes from one mixer.
I'm going to hop in here with two essential flavors that I've really fallen in love with recently with a little explanation of why they are, at least for me, essential to my style of mixing.
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INW Dragonfruit
I think this one is essential in the same way that TPA Dragonfruit is essential. However, I think INW's option has a lot more going on with it. First, it still works beautifully as an emulsifier for fruit-forward mixes. It adds some depth to berries, brings another level of brightness to citrus, and works really well to bridge together some of the more strange tropical flavors. The difference with INW is that there is this extra layer of creaminess to it that we don't get from TPA. At the risk of sounding like "one of THOSE mixers," it has some chew to it. This one works great if you want to add some extra depth and dimension to candy recipes, especially those that try to emulate taffy or other chewy candies. Get this one.
Suggested percentages : 0.5% - 1% for a support, 1.5% - 2% for a more prominent role. This gets a little too floral for my liking above 3%.
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VT Fizzy Sherbet
Okay, so I got this one a bit late, and my biggest regret was that I only picked up the smallest bottle to make sure I'd like it. I am definitely going to be getting this one in bulk for my next flavor order. To put it simply, it is one of the best "multi-flavor" concentrates available today. It's this ambiguous mix of citrus, soda, sugar, and candy. It works in so many different applications, and I have yet to find a situation where this flavor won't add something exciting to a mix. Obviously, I wouldn't recommend adding this to tobaccos or bakeries, but for anything fruit, candy, beverage, or POSSIBLY even some light cream recipes, this is a must-have. Works as a single flavor, works as a supporting note to any fruit you can imagine, and adds more depth to some of the more complex recipes. Just get it, thank me later.
Suggested percentages : 1.5% - 2% for a support, 3% - 5% for a more prominent role. I haven't found a single off note in this concentrate, even as you push it up. The only real thing you start to lose as you boost it up is some of that "soda carbonation" feel, it ends up becoming more of a sugar bomb at higher percentages.
My stash, at #150 flavours currently.
Personal 'essentials'? I'm going to try and avoid suggesting common classics like FA Meringue or JF Biscuit.
- FLV Mango
- FE Sweet Rice
- WF Crispy Wafer
I'll take any suggestions really (: I tend to get very paralysed by choice at this point, so I end up just making the same old familiars, and feeling guilty about my unopened bottles.
Im am honored that my list got mentioned i cant overstate this enough USE THE GOOGLE SEARCH IN THE SIDE BAR!!!!! Itll save you alot of time that said , Im still a newbie but right now out of what i have the first 4 oz bottles that im ordering are la- banana cream & wf-coconut custard both are trye to their respective flavor i use the la banana cream at 3.5 and the coconut custard at 2% together pick a nut flavor or nutty cream flavor and your good to go
Ok, leaving out tobaccos (otherwise just get every FLV and INW tobacco, and you've got most of what you need, with only a little deadwood) I would consider the following 'essential':
WS-23
FA Polar Blast
TFA Honeysuckle
CAP Hibiscus
FA Marzipan
FA Fuji
INW Cactus
INW Lemon Mix
LA Lemonade
FLV Boysenberry
FLV Milk Chocolate
FLV Bourbon
INW Grapes
INW Cherries
TFA Cherry Extract
FW Blueberry
TFA Blueberry Extra
FA Bilberry
FA Gin
VT Botanical Gin
VT Fizzy Sherbet
VT Bourbon
VT Scotch
VT Banana Custard
VT Chocolate Mousse
FLV Coconut
FLV Sweet Coconut
HS Australian Chocolate
In what recipe have you most enjoyed VT Choc Mousse? I've been fiddlin a fair bit with VT Chocolate Milk, HS Australian Chocolate and MB Glamour Chocolate recently.
I used it in a few different things like this. Just looking through some of the other recipes it's in... if I had the ingredients, I'd be interested to try the chocolate avacado one. There's also a chocolate english toffee that looks intriguing.
I've never tried a tobacco concentrate - after reading the flavor review FLV Red Burley actually sounds a little enticing. I like that it's not a full-on tobacco - and has subtle dark notes. Having never tried it, I'm wondering how it would go with things like INW Cherries / FLV Milk & Honey / and (sorry) FA Vanilla Bourbon. Actually, maybe even something like 3% FLV Red Burley, 1.5% VT Carrot Cake would be nice.
Have you tried VT Chocolate Milk - and if so does it have a similar chocolate flavor to VT Chocolate Mousse?
Super honored to be mentioned in the highlights again! Hoping to come up more awesome recipes for the future ^_^
Looking forward to your next recipe! They always seem to be unique and well thought out profiles. My to-mix list is a mile long but your stuff is definitely on it :)
Not a vet by any means, have only been mixing for just over a year, but these are the flavors I have had to order more than once or use almost every mix sesh:
TFA Vanilla Swirl
TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust
TFA Dragonfruit
TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream / FW Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
FW Blueberry / TFA Blueberry Extra / FA Bilberry
FW Blood Orange
FA Forest Fruit Mix
FA Fuji
FA Fresh Cream
CAP Sugar Cookie
INW Cactus
HS Australian Chocolate
HS French Vanilla Ice Cream
JF Biscuit
JF Yellow Cake
WS-23
Haven't had the chance to try any of the VT or LB flavors yet, as they are not easily available where I live. But I can see a few of them being essential!
You want me to suggest one or more flavors I consider essential? Like for me, personally? Or just the flavors I think would be the most essential to the broadest number of people?
Essentially what I’m talking about, and you would know this better than most, is when you’re recommending recipes for peoples flavors, what flavors do you wish they had in their arsenal; which flavors would you recommend they go buy to have a better chance at making better recipes.
There are probably too many to list but it’s just supplemental anyway.
I think just one or two, because of we posted our collective inventory it would boggle the mind. Even if they're all "essential"
I don't even know where to begin. Like if you ask me which FLV tobaccos are essential, I'll go Red Burley, Cured, Kentucky, Native, Sweet and Smokey. If you ask me which FLV fruits are essential I'll go Mango, Pink Guava, Boysenberry, Wild Melon, Cranberry, Apple Filling, and both coconuts, and then ask you if Yakima Hops counts as a fruit. And that's just two categories from one brand. What about all the other categories and all the other brands? It's too much. I can't do it. I'm going to have a panic attack just thinking about trying to do it.
When I think about "essential" I think more about versatility and broad application. Only a few you mentioned, while all very very good, are "building blocks" types that can be used in so many places. I think things more like TPA Dragonfruit, TPA Strawberry, VBIC, etc.
Either. Both. Whatever “essential” means to you. I would have said BEST but then someone would come along and ask me what that meant... ;P
Oh, so just all the flavors needed to make all my favorite recipes?
Ok:
- FA Almond
- FLV Cream
- TFA Honeysuckle
- FLV Mango
- FA Meringue
- CAP Sugar Cookie
- FW Hazelnut
- INW Marzipan
- INW Shisha Vanilla
- TFA Vanilla Swirl
- FA Vienna Cream
- TFA Acetyl Pyrazine
- FLV Cinnamon Crunch
- FA Milk
- FLV Rich Cinnamon
- JF Biscuit
- TFA Butter
- FW Butterscotch Ripple
- JF Strawberry Sweet
- JF Cookie
- LA Cream Cheese Icing
- FW Graham Cracker
- DIYFS Holy Vanilla
- FA Madagascar Vanilla
- FLV Vanilla Pudding
- INW Cactus
- FLV Pink Guava
- CAP Sweet Guava
- TFA Vanilla Swirl
- FLV Yakima Hops
- FA Apricot
- TFA Papaya
- FA Pear
- TFA Sweet Tea
- WS-23
- FW Sweetener
- FA Cream Fresh
- HS French Vanilla Ice Cream
- FA Honey
- CAP Super Sweet
- CAP Sweet Cream
- TFA Bavarian Cream
- TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust
- FA Coconut
- FLV Sweet Coconut
- TFA Dragonfruit
- TFA Strawberry Ripe
- CAP Double Apple
- FLV Watermelon
- FLV Wild Melon
- FLV Bubblegum
- FLV Cantaloupe
- FLV Sweetness
- FLV Cranberry
- VT Fizzy Sherbet
- CAP Lemon Lime
- TFA Coconut Candy
- FA Raspberry
- FA Pomegranate
- INW Shisha Raspberry
- FW White Chocolate
- FLV White Chocolate
- FA Pomegranate
- CAP Sweet Tangerine
- CAP Apricot
- CAP Gingerbread
- CAP Graham Cracker
- CAP Juicy Peach
- FLV Connecticut Shade
- FLV Cured Tobacco
- FLV Kentucky Blend
- FLV Virginia Tobacco
- DIYFS Holy Holy Grail RY4
- FLV Red Burley
- FLV Apple Filling
- TFA Pear
- WF Crispy Wafer
- FLV Eisai Tea
- CAP Vanilla Whipped Cream
- FW Blueberry
- TFA Blueberry Extra
- FE Lemon
- CAP Golden Butter
- INW Lemon Cake
- FE Sweet Rice
- CAP Golden Pineapple
- INW Pineapple
- FA Jamaican Rum
- CAP Sweet Mango
- CAP Cereal 27
- TFA Graham Cracker Clear
- TFA Toasted Marshmallow
- TFA Kentucky Bourbon
- FA Kiwi
- FLV Apple Cider
- FLV Apple Pop
- FLV Coconut
- FLV Root Beer
- INW Custard
- CAP NY Cheesecake
- LB Vanilla Ice Cream
- FLV Guanabana
- FA Violet
- CAP Vanilla Custard V1
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I’m new to this and I’m also not knowledgeable on how to format and make things look nice on Reddit. Im also on mobile so I’m not sure what effects that might have as well. I hope this is alright. All of you have been amazing so far and I appreciate all of the valuable info.
- Banana (Cap).
- Cherry, Black (Amarena, Cherryl) (FA).
- Cotton Candy (10% EM/Ethyl Maltol) (TPA).
- Fruit Pebbles (SC) (Real Flavors).
- Harvest Berry (Cap).
- Koolada 10% (TPA).
- Lemon Lime (Cap).
- Lemon Sicily (Limone Sicilia) (FA).
- Peach (Juicy) (TPA).
- Raspberry (Malina) (Inawera).
- Raspberry, Sweet (TPA).
- Swedish Gummy (TPA).
- Vanilla Bean Ice Cream (Cap).
I keep trying to edit and separate all of my flavors. It doesn’t seem to be working. They’re sticking in on big chunk. I apologize.
You can put a dash at the beginning of each line, hit return twice for a new line, or put two spaces at the end of each line.
(TPA) Acai
(TPA) Acetyl Pyrazine 5%
(FA) Almond
(CAP) Apple Pie
(LA) Banana Cream
(VT) Banana Custard
(TPA) Banana Nut Bread
(TPA) Bavarian Cream
(FW) Bavarian Cream
(JF) Bavarian Cream
(FA) Bilberry
(FW) Blood Orange
(FW) Blueberry
(TPA) Blueberry (extra)
(FW) Butterscotch Ripple
(INW) Cactus
(FW) Caramel (salted)
(TPA) Cheesecake (graham Crust)
(CAP) Cinnamon Danish Swirl
(FA) Cookie
(TPA) Cotton Candy
(FLV) Cream
(FA) Cream Fresh
(OOO) Cream Milky Undertone
(CAP) Double Apple
(INW) Dragon Fruit - Pitaya
(TPA) Dragonfruit
(TPA) Dulce De Leche
(FA) Forrest Mix (forest Fruit Mix)
(FA) Fuji
(CAP) Golden Pineapple
(TPA) Graham Cracker Clear
(INW) Grapes
(DFS) Holy Vanilla
(HS) Italian Cream
(TPA) Jackfruit
(FE) Lemon
(INW) Lemon Mix
(FA) Lemon Sicily
(LA) Lemonade
(FLV) Mango
(TPA) Marshmallow
(TPA) Meringue
(FA) Meringue
(FLV) Milk & Honey
(FA) Mts Vape Wizard
(CAP) New York Cheesecake
(TPA) Papaya
(TPA) Peach (juicy)
(FA) Peach White
(TPA) Pear
(FA) Pear
(RF) Pineapple
(FA) Polar Blast
(TPA) Pomegranate
(INW) Raspberry
(FA) Red Summer (watermelon)
(FA) Red Touch (strawberry)
(TPA) Ry4 Double
(JF) RY4 Double
(INW) Shisha Strawberry
(INW) Shisha Vanilla
(TPA) Strawberry
(TPA) Strawberry (ripe)
(JF) Strawberry Sweet
(CAP) Sugar Cookie
(CAP) Super Sweet
(TPA) Sweet And Tart
(TPA) Sweet Cream
(CAP) Sweet Guava
(CAP) Sweet Strawberry
(TPA) Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
(FW) Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
(CAP) Vanilla Custard
(TPA) Vanilla Custard
(LB) Vanilla Ice Cream
(TPA) Vanilla Swirl
(FA) Vienna Cream
(TPA) Waffle (belgian)
(LA) Watermelon
(INW) Yes, We Cheesecake
I'm really into drink mixes and because of that I think WS-23 and a Lemonade Base are essential. With a Lemonade base, mine is 4% LA Lemonade + 2% Flv Lemonade + .75% FA Lemon sicily, you can just add your favorite fruit(s) and you have a quick and easy drink that you can pretty much vape all day. Add to it that ws-23 and you get a icee fruity lemonade.
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I also really love VT Fizzy Sherbet, it's such a good start for pretty much any summary/fruity drink mix.
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Lastly TFA Marshmallow: I find this to be a super versatile flavor to add a touch of sweetness and some fluff to those bakery recipes.
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Here's my stash, it's not quite complete. I have some 20 others that aren't in there and another delivery coming this week to go along with 2 carts...yes I have a problem.
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