As always, the purpose of this thread is to gather the community to explore a category of flavor and its many uses. And it's also to have FUN!
Post recipes containing this week's Flavor of the Week, as the star or in a supporting role, with or without development notes. Talk about other people's recipes that use it. Compare and contrast different manufacturers' versions of the FOTW. Ask for help using that flavor in general or to achieve something specific, offer advice, brainstorm ideas, consider substitutions, suggest pairings... really anything at all as long as it's on topic.
#This week, this is also where you can comment to win the Bakery #2 Pack ($70 value!) from Flavorah.
This pack includes: Tricks Cereal, Berry Cheesecake, Brulee, Chocolate Deutsch, Cinnamon Roll, Donuts, Fried Dough, Lembas Bread, Maple Bar, Oatmeal Raisin, Pastry Zest, Pralines, Pumpkin Bread, Vanilla Pudding, Waffle, and Wheat.
Check it out, FOTW now features a neat poll where you can vote for your flavorites:
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#This week's flavor is... FRUITY CEREAL
How did that get to be the FOTW?
It was requested!
>If you're not interested in the upcoming FOTWs, please take this opportunity and comment to request one that interests you (or send me a PM to do that).
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Past FOTW posts can be found here
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The NOTED podcasts, which are basically video FOTWs, are listed on this sheet, maintained by /u/apexified
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You can find these and more in a comprehensive collection of Flavor Facts created by /u/OdieDoodah
#In case you missed it, last week's FOTW was: Rose
#Next week's flavor will be: Non-Fruity Cereal
The week after that will be: Citrus Sodas (7up, Sprite, & Mt. Dew-type)
The week after that will be: Pumpkin
The week after that will be: Cranberry
The week after that will be: Gingerbread
The week after that will be: Peppermint
The week after that will be: Wine
The week after that will be: Champagne
The week after that will be: Marshmallow
The week after that will be: FOTQ3
The week after that will be: Raisin
The week after that will be: Woodruff
The week after that will be: Flavors of the Year
The week after that will be: Desert Tobaccos
The week after that will be: Cantaloupe
The week after that will be: Toast
The week after that will be: Meringue
The week after that will be: Sherbet/Sorbet
The week after that will be: Pear
The week after that will be: Red Raspberry
The week after that will be: Vanilla Ice Cream
The week after that will be: Turkish Tobacco
The week after that will be: Rhubarb
The week after that will be: FOTQ4
The week after that will be: Mango
The week after that will be: ??? You decide ???
The last time Cereal was the FOTW, I only had a few flavors that fit this profile:
FW Fruit Rings - It pretty much tastes like fruit loops. Sweet, a little grainy, and mostly that fruit loops flavor. Could use some meringue for that sugary frosting bit and some AP to enhance the grainy cereal, but yeah, pretty much unmistakably dry fruit loops; a little lacking but nothing actually “off.” The lemony taste is very slightly cleaning product-y, but you know, so is Fruit Loops, actually. If you want to vape fruit loops, seems like this is the ticket.
FW Fruity Flakes - It tastes like Fruity Pebbles. Maybe a little too citrus-forward and not quite as sugary sweet, but yeah. If you want fruity pebbles and don’t want to build your own like the late, great NotCharlesManson (may peace be upon him), then here you go. Fruity Pebbles. Knock yourself out. However, be warned there is definitely cancer in there, so treat it with respect like you would FW Yellow Cake. It’s not good for your cotton, it’s not good for your coils, and it might not be good for your body, but it’s tasty.
TFA Silly Rabbit - Underwhelming, slightly soapy Trix Cereal? It’s a muddled fruit cerealish flavor with strawberry, cherry, and lemon flavors that I can pick out, and it’s not terrible, but the cereal base doesn’t have as much crunch to it as it should for Trix and it comes across as soapy more in the way it feels that the way it tastes, it’s not really grainy at all. That might or might not show up in a mix, I don’t know, but just vaping it standalone it seems like a Tricks flavored hand soap flavor. It definitely needs some AP if you’re going for actual Tricks but if you’re not it might work in some other profile as just a fruit. It also has just a little harshness to it, but only a little.
FLV Tricks - Trix cereal with mushrooms in them. It mostly tastes like Trix without the Trix crunchy grains, but what it has instead of crunch is mushroom. Not a lot of it, just hint, but it’s that same weird mushroom flavor I get from FLV Waffle. No es bueno at 1%. Down at 0.5%, no mushroom flavor, just sweet lemon and a kind of grape-raspberry that’s slightly grainy, but not really crunchy... but it’s also kind of a weak flavor. Maybe there’s a sweet spot between half and whole % but overall this one is a bit difficult for me to figure out what to do with.
TFA Berry Crunch Cereal- Captn Crunch Berries with mushrooms. There’s a bright blueberry-but-not-quite and sweet a grainy corny dry cereal base but damn, it also tastes like mushrooms in there, right in the middle between the berry top notes and the dryer, sweeter, corn cereal base. That fungal note might be easily covered up in a mix but by itself this is quite gnarly.
I've since tried two more:
FW Apple J Cereal (Formerly Apple Jacks Type) - Abominable. Not apple jacks. Maybe cardboard sprayed with a perfume loosely based on apple jacks. No real cereal taste, just brown cardboard and a weird perfumy apple with a dry powdery texture and a strong and slightly clovey cinnamon finish.
CAP Apple Snacks - Apple Jacks cereal, straight up. Multigrain cereal flavored with dried apples and apple juice and just a hint of cinnamon. No milk. They nailed it. Only thing off I can find is it tastes a little too toasted, like the machine that makes the apple jacks was running a few degrees hotter that day. The cereal flavor, texture, the taste of the apple, the amount and taste of the apple and cinnamon, all of that takes me right back to eating Apple Jacks. Other than adding some milk I think you’d have to get pretty creative to find some other uses for this, but if you’re just wanting to vape Apple Jacks cereal, here it is. Want it with milk, add some FA Milk or OoO Creamy Underpants, maybe some FA or TFA Meringue to sweeten it up, and done. I guess you could try to cover the apple with some other fruit to use that crunchy cereal bit but I don’t know how successful that would be. Maybe add a fruit to make it like Apple Jacks with other fruit floating in it, or a bit of a brighter apple to pop that out and make it more interesting, if a little less authentic, or if your apple gets thrown out of whack by milk. Or it might work as a muffin component or you could do some VT Golden Syrup or something to glue it together into some kind of cereal bar. IDK. But yeah, Apple Jacks. That’s pretty awesome how well it's replicated here.
But this week I get to sample a bunch more: CAP Fruit Circles, TFA Fruit Circles, TFA Fruit Circles with Milk, FW Crunchy Berry Cereal, OoO Slix Balls Cereal, OoO Frooty Stones V2, OoO Frooty Stones V3, OoO Fruity Hoops V1, OoO Fruity Hoops V2, OoO Fruity Hoops V3, OoO Fruity Hoops V4, Ooo Raisin Flakes Cereal V2, OoO Raisin Flakes Cereal V1, OoO Apple Hoops Cereal V1, and OOO Apple Hoops Cereal V2.
> OoO Creamy Underpants
I'm not sure what it is, but I actually got that weird mushroom taste eating some wild berry froot loops dry. (I usually go regular. Thought this might make a good vape. & it might be a good concept but don't model after the real thing)
I immediately thought of you as I sat there munching dry cereal and all of a sudden it turned into mouthful of fruity mushrooms. Haven't had the urge to try it with milk for some odd reason but I tried it again dry and got mushrooms right away. Some weird ingredient they use and flv definitely found it.
I'm just dipping my toes into DIY juice making, but these recipes and flavor reviews are a massive help. I'd love to have a Froot Loops and a Cinnamon Toast Crunch in my rotation. It's easier to vape your cereal than to have all the extra sugar in your diet lmao.
Can’t help you with the Fruit Loops, but this is excellent:
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/32619#toasted_by_mrburgundy
One of the best, though it does give off more of a frosted flakes w cinnamon which is certainly amazing. Plus just smelling this stuff reminds me of actual dry CT Crunch. Sadlad Toast Crunch is another banger that's more like a milky/creamy CT Crunch But I do vape the hell out of Toasted.
Try Gimme the Loops for a Froot Loops. Ive got the flavors coming tomorrow, so I haven't tried it just yet. It comes recommended on the discord
My fruit loops vape pretty much my adv for 3 years running now:
2% tfa fruit circles
1-2% fw fruity flakes
3% tfa strawberry ripe
1% fa fresh cream
2-3% fa meringue
That’s it.
Sometimes I’ll add cap silver line fruit circles, which tastes really good but is super weak. I’ve added it up to 4%, just to add a little more fruity goodness but it doesn’t need it. I’ve
Also skipped the fw fruity flakes when I’ve
Been out and it’s fine.
I really like TFA fruit circles, but I know folks tend to find it a bit pledgy. I think that pairing it with CAP fruit circled and a couple days steep really knocks the lemon down and makes for a rock solid starting point for fruit loops.
Im a fan too. I mix it with a tad bit of meringue and bavarian cream usually but i think it's good on its own as well.
That's more or less exactly what I do
Lmao that name and image are just gold, I love everything about it. Gonna have to try an approximation of your recipe some time, only I don't have CAP Fruit Circles.
Recipe I've been mixing is 5% TPA Fruit Circles, 1% TPA Bavarian, 1% FA Meringue (MAYBE 0.25-0.5% super sweet if I've got a sweet craving). Its not perfect but I enjoy it. Might try raising the creams a bit and adding some some swirl like you do next time!
Froot Loops is a bit pledgy
The only fruity cereal recipe I've ever tried is Shameless and it's fantastic! It's spot on Froot Loops to me.
I've been meaning to try that one for the longest time. It looks like it would taste like Froot Loops only even better.
I never tried a cereal, never really thought of getting one. Maybe because I just don't know that many in real life. It's not that big of a breakfast thing here either, I guess.
Might have to try some, someday; I think I could like it as a vape. Looking forward to what you guys have to say about them.
You should really try some. I'm not huge on breakfast cereals IRL (I have them maybe once every year) but they translate super well into vaping. Cereal 27 is the shit. Try Toasted or Cereal Milk Frozen Custard or Banana Frosted Flakes they are all good!
Never had a Fruit Loop kind of cereal vape so can't add anything to the main topic.
I love cereal.
Shout outs to FLV Cinnamon Crunch. Tastes a lot like cinnamon toast crunch, and I like adding a bit of FLV cream. You can make some pretty solid 2 bangers with FLC CC and it's damn near a one shot.
Apple Snacks is also incredible, I've used it to success in apple jacks cereal, but also for a bakery element in things such as pies and strudels.
FW Fruit Flakes Sub 1% is amazing.
When it comes to Berry Cereals we are hard pressed, in my opinion, to find an amazing one. TFA Berry Crunch really low works for some intrigue, but I tend to build my own cereal and through small amounts of bright berries at it.
Here's my attempt at a boo berry cereal type from last year.
TPA Berry crunch 2.5%
TPA Lucky Leprechaun cereal 2.8%
WF Marshmallow (Candy) SC 1.3%
FW Blueberry 1.9%
FA Milk 1.5%
FLV Smoothie Base 1%
CAP Super Sweet .25%
Cereals and marshmallow: Berry crunch main note, Lucky Leprechaun cereal for the AP & start of the marshmallows. WF marshmallow (candy) for a little more fake marshmallow flavor. Fw bb to turn it into a boo berry type. My one other thought on this that I've got on paper but not mixed yet just uses tpa crunch cereal & blueberry. If you get too much mixed berry you could probably sub that at about 2%. Lmk how it is if you do, I'm cerealed out for now.
Milk: flv smoothie base for it's lemon tint to boost the blueberry & creaminess+some extra body. Fa milk because it's the shit.
Blueberry: fw was pretty obvious needing to stick with that candied type taste. Tried bb extra (too realish), hs blueberry (too blue..), and a combo of fw and tpa bb extra. 1st instinct was right, but what's the point of having a bunch of stuff if you don't try it?
Dash of sweetener because it is a sweet cereal.
Steep: Give 5-7 days for milk to do it's thing & meld with Smoothie Base. Like most things a week+ will give a better representation of what I was going for. Should be a nice blueberry heavy berry cereal w\marshmallows.
Subs\additions: I'm sure your favorite milk combo would work in place of the smoothie base\fa milk combo. Would advise adding a little lemon though to make up for the lack of smoothie base to stay closer to original. I highly recommend this flavor though. Tpa crunch cereal @ 2% instead of berry crunch if you hate it, may have to fuck with the blueberry a little bit.
Bonus Version notes for Reddit: made 5ish before settling on this. Mostly playing with a couple other milks and blueberry combos. Would've saved a lot of time if I started with the fa milk as I had a hard time punching through with dairy using pur and nr condensed milks, and a thick cereal pudding with jf Bavarian cream. The smoothie base was always there, just had to balance a bit.
Edit: also available on atf :) Double edit: can't forget the marshmallow 🤦♂️
I am so looking for a good cereal recipe and flavors for a cinnamon creal
If you don't care that it tastes more like cinnamon frosted flakes than cinnamon toast crunch, Toasted is awesome. If you want it to really taste like cinnamon toast crunch, Sadlad Toast Crunch and Cinnamon Burn Victim are great, too. Also, I did a thing, and there's a bunch of others I haven't tried that look good to me:
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https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/86344#cinnamon_toast_crunch_by_conradvape
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https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/181762#cinnana_crunchies_cereal_drizzle_toasted_remix_by_humanpuck
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https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/190635#simple_cinnamon_toast_crunch_by_jmill157
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https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/13866#cinnamon_cereal_by_tw2k
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https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/93860#cinnamon_toast_crunch_with_apple_by_bebopgear
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https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/8186#french_toast_crunch_by_apexified
Oh I'm curious to see where you'd rank the PUR Fruit Circles, Fruit Circles with milk and Strawberry Marshmallow Cereal.
I don't have any PUR cereals but Emily has the Fruit Circles and maybe our guest will have the other two
Yup I have all of those :D
But you will have to wait to see what I think.
I have really been trying to like the fruit rings recipes I've found, but I just can't wrap my head around the typical lemony flavor these recipes bring - we don't have any lemon cereal products where I'm from, so it just seems so outlandish to me. And I usually enjoy lemony/lemonade and creamy/milky/custardy profiles, nutty ones as well - when brought together, not so much.
Boo, ID10-T, you weren't able to fit Popeye Sweet Crunch in to the puns this time.
I've been rather complacent with the recipes I make lately, but it'd be nice to add a good milky cereal to the list. Something with a strong grain flavor, no lemon pledge top note, and (pipe dream time) works in a MTL tank. Either that or a Malt-O-Meal hot cereal flavor with brown sugar. Mmmmmmm.
WTF, Popeye eats spinach, not cereal.
Malt-0-Meal? FLV Starch Base, FLV Cream, TFA Brown Sugar Extra, NF Malt (maybe TFA Malted Milk)? I'd probably add some kind of butter to that as well.
I don't know what to tell ya. Big Cereal came a-knockin', and Olive Oyl's got some expensive tastes.
Damn, you are just a font of information. I'll have to pick those up and try it out. I assume Cap Golden Butter is not the one you'd recommend, eh?
I grew up on Popeye Sweet Crunch. It's amazing.
Cereal vapes are among my favorite! I’m so excited for this one. Apple Jax! Fruit Loops, in life I don’t let myself buy the stuff because all semblance of portion control, decorum and self control fly right out the window. Next weeks is my white whale, but this week? Aah totally 💚💜❤️ “em. Tasty puff does the fruit loops flavor pretty well. And the captain crunch . (Add a splash of lime to fruit loops and it’s so good) Mix them with Capella who does cereal very well, and yum yum yum. ✌️💛
Also, though it’s probably too late to add, but chefs makes Cereal Milk, which is a good starting point for a Froot Loops vape. Add Capellas version of Froot Loops, a little one on one lemon orange rice candy, and a smidge of Capella lemon lime.. it’s pretty good
If I'm mixing up a cereal vape it's almost always going to be fruit loops. It would take some convincing to get me to use something other than FW.
All of these breakfast cereal flavors, especially when whimsically named, are just ammunition for the anti-vaping crusaders who claim we market to minors.
Glad to hear, though, that Flavorah puts mushrooms in their breakfast cereals...that definitely makes it a grown-up flavor, and something I'm now curious to try.
Just in case you haven’t searched for prior cereal FotW threads, you may have missed this recipe for Apothecary Elixir No 6 which is one of my favorites.
I got In to DIY for the best cereal vape I could find, they kinda died out in commercial eliquids and the only one I could get my hands on was a 12 monkies O Ranga, which had the the profile k was looking for but had a filthy burnt rubber on the finish. It was so horrific that it gave me what I wanted but poured melted tyres on top. O rangz for sure.. but those rangz were black and had grooves for grip.
I'm having some trouble with TFA fruit circles. It seems to stomp any mix with that pledge flavour and doesn't add enough grain. I'm trying it really low at the moment to get those notes I want from it, but to stave off that toilet cleaner essence that it drags in to your mix. My last mix could be called public bathroom at 7am. That was a binner.
It's really hard to get Flavorah ingredients here in Ireland without delivery prices being to high, I'm super excited about noted this week as cereal vapes are my baby, they got me off the stinky stinky tar and Inkies. Fingies crossed I'll be the random peanut this week 🤞
Have you tried nomnomz? https://www.nomnomz.co.uk/flavorah-1
They are based in NI and have a decent range of Flavorah concentrates.
does NYCC graham crust counts as cereal? ^.^ - you could pour milk over it... or dip it into? is there cereal cake? ;) i know there are cereal cookies... do we have them as PG-concentrate?
but seriously, id like to requst a noted episode for subsitutes, if that is possible. quite the task, but if you narrow it to most commonly used and grouped into certain 'main' fields like bakery, cream, a bunch of most common fruits, there might be a chance.
as well, id like to request an episode for "poppers", complementaries and helpers... like lemon pops blackberry, passionfruit pops orange, dragonfruit can emulsify, cactus or pear can juicen up, guave can sweeten better than sucra, etc... like "side-notes" or sth. maybe you can say sth about the use of AP and eg. MTS vapewiz, all those hints and tricks that dont fit under the usual categories of "noted". how about that?
maybe "additives" could be its own episode, i guess, some of them more basic for beginners like whats the diff between WS-23, koolada (WS-3), FA arctic blast and menthol? all the 904 ways of sweetening stuff sensemakingly? again AP and MTS wiz? and such stuff. good idea?
“Quite the task” are the key words here. I’m not up for it
yea, subs can get too many, i can see that...
how about the other one, poppers + complementaries?
I’m having trouble wrapping my head around how that would work. For example. “Lemon pops blueberry.” Ok, not definitely not gonna disagree with that, but what would you have us do? Try every possible combination of blueberry and lemon? Try all the blueberries with one lemon? Try all the various lemons with one blueberry?
Currently vaping Sadlad Toast Crunch ATF CAP Cereal 27 used as supporting flavor. Can't wait to apply fruity cereal flavor to this recipe after this week eps of Noted
my fruity cereal milk recipe... its private but I've been vaping it for a bit. Still a work in progress but I like where it's at anyways Bottom Of The Bowl
(edit) I just realized I still had this set to FA Blood Orange cuz I ran out of FW, but it's definitely FW...either tastes good though
Here's my second version of a Fruity Pebbles recipe. Fittingly, it uses a fruit rings ingredient as well.... They have so much similar of properties, it makes sense they will both be covered tonight... Can't wait to see you there!
Ingredient|% :---|---: Dairy Milk (TPA)|1.00 Fruit Circles (SilverLine) (CAP)|3.00 Fruit Rings (FW)|4.00 Lemon (Flavors Express)|0.65 Malted Milk (TPA)|0.25 Rice Crunchies (TPA)|3.00 Shisha Lime (INAWERA)|0.25 Super Sweet (CAP)|1.00
Flavor total: 13.15%
Anyone here wanna suggest % for my flavors on this topic? kind of a side-project I threw in with my main first orders before I saw meringue in every froot loops recipe ever.
I have OOO cream (milky undertone), FW fruity rings, TFA fruit circles, and lemons: SC lemon, INW lemon, and TFA lemon (my favorite froot loops commercial juice was super lemony - like the scented markers and I actually loved it)
I have AP, Cap SS and TFA sweetener too. full stash here
I love cereal vapes. I've got some Tony's Revenge steeping right now, and it's almost ready.