Quick and Dirty method of single flavor testing

submitted over 5 years ago by mkweiseMissing One Flavor

So my order from Gremlin came in with 18 new Flavorah concentrates, and I was low on empty 15ml bottles and too excited to wait on my bottle order. So I came up with a quick and Dirty method for SFT that seems to be working astonishingly well:

Install fresh wick, moisten slightly with a few drops of unflavored juice.
Place a single drop of flavor concentrate at one shoulder of the wick (i.e. outside the coil, at the point where the wick bends down.)
Completely saturate the wick and coil with unflavored juice.
Taste.
Repeat (3) and (4) until the flavor dissipates.

Obviously this method doesn't allow one to take notes on exact dilution levels, but it does give you a pretty good impression of how the flavor behaves at different concentrations as it wicks into the coil, then gradually dissipates.

Comments

6 points

by kuri_sanTouover 5 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

Nice info. But I don't like this method. Sure, you get an idea about a flavor, and that's good. But you have no idea the percentage of use. This is a lazy SFT, and I like it because I too am lazy. I'm so lazy I SFT with wickless coils

2 points

by mkweiseover 5 years agoMissing One Flavor

> This is a lazy SFT

It's not meant to be a substitute for conventional SFT, just a means of quickly getting a first impression of new flavors and triaging them.

2 points

by kuri_sanTouover 5 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

I know, you got my upvote

1 points

by sadistic_tendenciesover 5 years ago

>but it does give you a pretty good impression of how the flavor behaves at different concentrations as it wicks into the coil, then gradually dissipates.

Fair, but if you don't know what the concentration is then it's pretty much useless for our purposes.

3 points

by Binsky89over 5 years ago

Not necessarily. If you're trying to clone a recipe or something and are trying to decide which of a dozen strawberry flavors the real one uses, it could be helpful.

2 points

by mkweiseover 5 years agoMissing One Flavor

Well...it did tell me which of my newly acquired flavors warrant proper quantitative testing, and what approximate concentrations are the most interesting for each.

1 points

by cldzvpover 5 years ago

I call it simple and clean, SFT somehow can become an ADV, it's just freestyle no flavor-low flavor vaping.

With a new flavor though, I start with a lick test, that assessment will usually result in 1-6 drops to add to my tank, swirl, done.

I have a general idea of concentration and percentage of course I know my tank capacity and standard dropper measures and with time one just knows the difference b/w small and large droppers, so yeah it's enough.

For actual measuring there's the Tare function our scales, so if you place your setup on the scale and tare before adding your liquids your back in serious mixing mode.

Our scales don't care if you zero a mixing bottle or an RDTA, which I prefer to test recipes.

I think your sensory testing method is valid and it just depends on your goal or preference wether to use standard measurements, alternate measurements and document it or not.