I was gonna just drop this into a monthly recipe thread, but since this is an off-the-wall usage of a meat flavored concentrate as a tobacco additive, I figured it'd be fun to start a conversation and see what other meaty ideas come out of it.
I know, I know, it sounds like I'm trolling you. Swear on my sainted grandma's favorite lace doily, I'm not. This was my fourth experiment with OOO Smokey Bacon as a tobacco additive, and the first one that I haven't been able to stop vaping. I decided to share it here.
Feedback, ideas, and derision all welcome!
Recipe
- FLV Red Burley 2.5%
- FLV Kentucky Blend 1.5%
- INW Tobacco DNB 1%
- OOO Smokey Bacon 0.5%
- FLV Beer Nuts 0.25%
- FLV Oak Barrel 0.25%
Description
I was looking for a tobacco blend that wasn't sweet, but didn't want to go all the way into ashtray territory either. I wanted to capture the deep, rich aroma of a freshly opened pouch of Drum rolling tobacco and add a little smoke to that, and this comes close enough for government work.
This recipe sounds a little scary at first blush with INW Tobacco DNB at 1% and the presence of OOO Smokey Bacon, but I promise it doesn't taste like an overflowing pub ashtray seasoned with scorched bacon bits. Instead, it's a dry, savory, smoky tobacco, and a pleasant vape with a nice throat hit.
Notes
FLV Red Burley and FLV Kentucky Blend are the "body" tobaccos and establish a deep "brown" foundation.
FLV Oak Barrel dries things out a little bit and accents the woody elements, while FLV Beer Nuts adds just enough saltiness to push things a bit further into dry/savory territory.
INW Tobacco DNB adds ash and smoke, and helps counteract the sweetness of the VG.
OOO Smokey Bacon pushes things further into savory territory and enhances the smoky/ashy notes from INW Tobacco DNB. It adds some of the missing elements that I've been looking for in dry tobacco profiles.
It's vapable straight from the mixing table, but if you let it sit overnight after mixing, it gets even better. It's tailored for MTL builds, and my reference build for this recipe is a 1 ohm 26 gauge Kanthal coil, 3mm internal diameter, in a QP Gata RTA, running around 18-20 watts. For additional reference, I mixed this using Liquid Barn's 12mg premixed base, which is 80% VG and 20% PG. After mixing, it comes out around 75ish% VG.
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I'm a total noob with DIY, only lurk this sub, and don't have a single one of those flavors, but had to comment because I love everything about this post. From the name of the mix to the in-depth write-up and flavor notes - especially on the rarer ingredients - this is great. Awesome to see the progression from the original Smoky Bacon post too, into what sounds like a good tobacco vape. Thanks for posting, I definitely hope to try this one at some point!
This sounds absolutely gnarly. It's like the old man who chain smokes and hasn't had a shower in a week that you have to stand behind in line. Congrats that you absolutely nailed the aroma lol.
Dirty as in "dirty-minded", not as in unclean, and it's actually way less gnarly than it sounds. People who like SaltNicLabs Dry Tobacco or Truebacco Amsterdam Classic ought to get on nicely with this recipe, since it has a similar non-sweet, savory, smoke-forward profile with little to no ashtray funk.
I‘m not saying it doesn‘t work for you as taste is very subjective. But before you guys get OOO Smokey Bacon, please read the flavor review.
Yep, I wrote that review, if you meant the one on this sub. The testers and previous experiments I tried used it at too high a percentage. 0.5% was the upper limit for this recipe. It gets kinda barbecue-saucey and gross at higher percentages, then starts dominating everything else with burnt bacon grease, and caps out at “meaty structure fire” at the top end of OOO’s suggested range of 1%-3%.
Have you tried INW Smooth Leaf? Wonder if it’s somewhat similar. Haven’t ordered flavors in forever, but I might grab the bacon and give this a spin.
That one’s new to me. I’ll check that out!
Smokey Bacon by itself isn’t much more than a novelty flavor, but it had all of the right notes to nudge and bend some of my old mixes closer to where I wanted them to be. I’ve been tweaking a copy of this recipe a bit by raising the Oak Barrel and Beer Nuts proportions slightly and playing with the addition of INW Black Fire, and that’s taken it even further into salty/smoky/woody territory. Still need to see how the tweaked version changes over the next few days, but I feel like it’s almost exactly where I want it to be.