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 Apple and Melon Flavor Pack ($70 value!) from Flavorah.
This pack includes: Cantaloupe, Wild Melon, Honeydew, Melon Rind, Watermelon, Apple, Apple Cider, Apple Cranberry, Apple Filling, Apple Pop, Granny Smith, Green Apple, Pear, Red Apple, and Sour Apple.
#This week's flavor is... CANTALOUPE!!!
How did that get to be the FOTW?
It was requested!
>If something you want to see be the Flavor of the Week isn't listed among 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 flavor was Desert Tobacco
#Next week's flavor will be: Toast
After that?
|DATE|FLAVOR| |:---:|:---| |Jan 26 - Feb 01|Meringue| |Feb 02 - Feb 08|Sherbet/Sorbet| |Feb 09 - Feb 15|Pear| |Feb 16 - Feb 22|Red Raspberry| |Feb 23 - Mar 01|Vanilla Ice Cream| |Mar 02 - Mar 08|Tobacco Time - TURKISH| |Mar 09 - Mar 15|Rhubarb| |Mar 16 - Mar 22|FOTQ IV| |Mar 23 - Mar 29|Mango| |Mar 30 - Apr 05|Coconut| |Apr 06 - Apr 12|Cream Soda| |Apr 13 - Apr 19|Bread| |Apr 20 - Apr 26|Wood| |Apr 27 - May 03|Cardamom and Chai| |May 04 - May 10|Vienna Cream| |May 11 - May 17|Sweet Cream| |May 18 - May 24|Vanilla Cream| |May 25 - May 31|Whipped Cream| |Jun 01 - Jun 07|FOTQ V| |Jun 08 - Jun 14|Tobacco Time - BURLEY| |Jun 15 - Jun 21|Sugar| |Jun 22 - Jun 28|Blood Orange| |Jun 29 - Jul 05|Honey| |Jul 06 - Jul 12|Frosting/Icing| |Jul 13 - Jul 19|Date| |Jul 20 - Jul 26|Fig| |Jul 27 - Aug 02|Plum| |Aug 03 - Aug 09|Grapefruit| |Aug 10 - Aug 16|Butter| |Aug 17 - Aug 23|Apricot| |Aug 24 - Aug 30|Tobacco Time - 5s and 7s| |Aug 31 - Sep 06|FOTQ VI| |Sep 07 - Sep 13|Kiwi| |Sep 14 - Sep 20|Milk Man, maybe? You Decide!| |Sep 21 - Sep 27|Spice Road, maybe? You Decide!| |Sep 28 - Oct 04|Nut House, maybe? You Decide!| |Oct 05 - Oct 11|Candyland, maybe? You Decide!| |Oct 12 - Oct 18|The Garden, maybe? You Decide!| |Oct 19 - Oct 25|The Bar, maybe? You Decide!| |Oct 26 - Nov 01|Bake Sale, Maybe? You Decide!| |Nov 02 - Nov 08|Sliced Fruit, Maybe? You Decide|
What's with all these suggestions for requests? I'll let /u/OdieDoodah Explain.
When cantaloupe was the FOTW 2 1/2 years ago, I only had CAP Cantaloupe, TFA Cantaloupe, FW Cantaloupe, FR Cantaloupe, FR Strawberry Cantaloupe, FA Melon Cantaloupe, FLV Cantaloupe, and FLV Wild Melon.
Now I have SSA Melon, NV Cantaloupe, HC Cantaloupe, HC Malaysia Cantaloupe, NF Organic Cantaloupe, CAP Cantaloupe V2, VSO Cantaloupe, and VSO Meter Made Melon, too. Should be fun.
I've tried NF Organic Cantaloupe from a friend who gave me a 10ml SFT, it was amazing IIRC. Wish I knew the % he used. His gf of ~6 months made him block me despite me being happily engaged & us being just friends for 7+ years. Lol guess I'll just hafta grab it for myself. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on all those new cantaloupes!
For as much as cantaloupe is the only melon I like to eat, it's probably the only one that has never really been on my radar for vaping. I'll be really interested to see what the best of this week's offerings are.
I have some doubts about finding one that tops FLV Cantaloupe for authenticity or CAP for utility, but we'll see. Pretty excited to try the two VSO offerings and to give SSA Melon another shot at a lower concentration and see if it doesn't have the dryness that I thought would be an issue with it at 2.25%.
Cantaloupe is the best rhythm-guitar flavor. It’s the Keith Richards of DiY. It‘s amazing at filling out fruit recipes without stomping all over the lead flavor. If anybody’s looking for a great melon recipe, My Melon Balls by KittyBit is stupendous for people with needy taste buds.
Does anyone have a good Cucumber-Melon-Mint recipe?? I’m dying to roll one out with SSA Garden Mint.
I'd love a cucumber melon mint recipe with SSA Garden Mint but I think honeydew would be better suited for that than cantaloupe.
You won the flavor pack!
A few thoughts while browsing the Coming Attractions . . .
"Tobacco Time" is a great way to deal with a really big topic. Pre-scheduling spots for "Narrow Scope" requests for tobacco flavors. It makes sure tobacco stays in the rotation without overburdening the system (aka 3 straight weeks of rushing thru ALL tobaccos). "FOTQ" is fantastic for the exact same reason. Looking at the current schedule - May is gonna be the month of MOO! (hahaha) Is it good to take a deep dive into cream for a whole month or would it be better to space those kinds of things out? I don't think we should change anything that's already scheduled. But in the future we could benefit from a few more Recurring Themes. Reserve spots not for a specific flavor - but for a specific flavor category. That might help people to make more specific requests - and keep certain categories in the rotation. Let me throw a few suggestions at the wall - you tell me if any of them stick.
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SLICED FROOT (6x/year)
>Some Fruits are just too damn big to cover in a single week (ie Apple, Orange, Strawberry). They need to be broken down into smaller more digestible chunks like Blood Orange, Creamsicle, Apple Pie, Apple Cider, Strawberry Pastry, Strawberry Jam. -
MILK MAN (4x/year)
>Should the Milk Man make regular deliveries? There's all type of Cream - Sweet, Fresh, Bavarian, Catalan, Devon, Whipped, etc. There's several variations of Milk and many other dairy products like Ice Cream and Butter that the Milk Man can deliver, -
CANDYLAND (3x/year)
>Why do we only get to Trick-or-Treat once a year? Caramel, Taffy, Marshmallow, Butterscotch, Hard Candy, BubbleGum, Licorice, and all the variations of Chocolate! Calling Mr. Wonka! -
SPICE ROAD (3x/year)
> Cinnamon, Ginger, Cardamom, Clove, Anise, Nutmeg, and all the subsets of Vanilla need a home. If you include all the variations of Tea, it could appear more often. -
NUT HOUSE(2x/year)
>Sometimes ya feel like a . . . Pistachio, Walnut, Pecan, Hazelnut, or a jar of Peanut Butter. Maybe Sesame could invite some of his buddies like Kinako Soy over for a party. -
THE GARDEN (3x/year)
>Flower or Veggie Garden that is. Rose, Honeysuckle, Cherry Blossom, Hibiscus, Lavender and various other versions of Grandma's perfume (hahaha). And then there's Cucumber, Carrot, Pumpkin, Cactus, Rhubarb, Yam, Could even include herbs like Basil. -
THE BAR (4x/year)
>Sit down and sip some Whiskey, Bourbon, Gin, Rum, etc - and all the cocktails like Pina Colada, Margarita, and Mojito.
If nobody requests something for Tobacco Time, we'll skip it. But I've been known to go fishing for requests when it gets close to time to schedule one and haven't been an unsuccessful angler yet.
Perhaps we should provisionally add these things as well as a reminder to invite specific requests.
You don't have any baked goods listed here.
> You don't have any baked goods listed here
ok then - add "Bake Sale" to the list - cakes and cookies, two other huge categories
I have MF cantaloupe, it is only a small sample sized one but it smells very good. It smells like a cantaloupe syrup ,rich and decadent.
have you tried it yet? I'm not even a big fan of cantaloupe irl or in vapes & damn, I solo vaped another 30ml of this after my first initial 10ml SFT! it's soooo good!
what % did you solo it. I use an RDA at about 50Watts?
I just noticed you in the GC thread on ELR (I'm the user beginning with E & the doggo icon pic that just interacted with your posting, so hi!). I should be getting my GC in a week or two, so excited.
I also use an RDA ~50W for SFTs, I tried MF Cantaloupe at 0.5%, 0.75%, 1% and 1.5%. All 3 lower %s were amazing. 1% was my first try & it was pretty great, I finished a few ml's & then pushed it too far at 1.5%, which gave me some floraly off notes. For some reason after that, I could detect the off notes at 1% so I bumped it down to .75% with great results. Tried it at .5% just to see how it worked & was also pleasantly surprised!
Happy to see this. I love Melon vapes, Honey Sucker and Honeydew Melon Chew have been a couple of my ADVs since I started DIY.
I have some recipes for you try, or at least take a look at and see if you want to try them:
So far I'm missing INW Peach for Melonious, and FLV Bubblegum & Watermelon for HMBG. I've looked at making Prickly Pearry before, but always went back to honey sucker! I'll definitely give it a try next time I mix tho! And I'll be sure to grab INW Peach on my next order
The only one I have is TFA cantaloupe which to me has a slight musk/soap flavor. Used too high and it comes out. Used too low and the flavor disappears into the mix. The best mix in which I've used it so far where it remains present as well as pleasant is:
- OOO rainbow sherbet (top shelf) 5%
- FA mango indian special 4%
- TFA cantaloupe 3%
- INW cactus 0.25%
- CAP SS 0.25%
Hoping my next cantaloupe can be found in this episode.
SSS melon is fucking great! Does fade over time, my tester from september is almost flavorless now.
FLV Wild Melon is also great, but we all know that by now right
What did you find to be a good concentration for SSA Melon?
I did 3%, like every other SSA i sampled. Big mistake on some, but Melon is good at 3. Could take it lower, i’m not that accustomed to SFT-ing so i went to the upper limit. 2 should be fine, maybe even 1.5 if you’re really good at tasting
> SSA Melon 2.25% - It’s either both cantaloupe and honeydew or a more exotic melon that tastes like a mixture of the two. It really tastes like melon, not a candy-type flavor. Not rindy. No off-notes. Nice and ripe and very sweet. But - and this is a big but - it has none of that juiciness I’m looking for in a melon mix. It’s kinda dry, even, which is a bit weird up against that otherwise authentic melon.
I was hoping lower would get rid of that dryness or at least lack of wetness I get from it but it might just be one of those deals where I just have to mix it with something more moist.
My very first mix had FA Cantaloupe in it (along with a bunch of other melons) and I never touched melons again.
My most recent purchase is FLV Wild Melon since it is highly recommended by a lot of people. I just need to find a profile to try it.
May I suggest:
Wild Melon + Apple + Strawberry (Wild Strap-On)
Wild Melon + Bubblegum
Wild Melon + Kiwi
Wild Melon + Cucumber
Wild Melon + Cucumber and Kiwi
Wild Melon + Boysenberry
Wild Melon + Lemonade
Wild Melon + Boysenberry and Lemonade
Wild Melon + Gummy Candy
Wild Melon + Green Apple Candy
Wild Melon + Mango
I was using FA Cantaloupe a LOT when I first started out. It... It gets weird. I was trying to do a melon sorbet kinda thing, or a melon yogurt.. And off the shake my mixes came out OK. But give them a day or so or God forbid a week and it turned to straight up white vinegar in cream with some fruit rind floating around in it. Truly horrific, and my persistence was admirable yet incredibly foolish. I really thought I was on to something. Hind sight is 2020.
I much prefer Honeydew to Cantaloupe (irl & vape), but I've enjoyed both CAP Cantaloupe & FLV Cantaloupe. however my all time absolute favorite of the 3 cantaloupes I own (lol) is by far MF Cantaloupe! omg it's just so damn delicious, juicy, full, not "rindy" & potent. I could survive with it as my only cantaloupe.
& once again, apologies for my semi-useless addition to FOTW. I'm pretty new to DIY & am just excited to participate. These FOTW posts really help my (unmedicated) ADHD ass actually complete some SFT'ing so that I can chime in.
Cantaloupe was what drove me to start diy'ing in the first place, so, thank you canteloupe. It made me take a deeper look at what I liked as far as e-juice was concerned. And I discovered that my favorite commercial juice; aqua oasis, was giving me a satisfying vape not because of the canteloupe in the juice, but another flavor. I tasted canteloupe, but the tartness of the papaya was what kept me coming back. After much experimentation, I discovered that canteloupe was difficult to push forward. I still love canteloupe, but as an accent flavor. I'm still looking for my favorite honeydew and canteloupe flavors. Flv canteloupe is my favorite thus far. I am always open to suggestions and thinking I need to get cap canteloupe.
Haven't picked up a Cantaloupe yet but I heard FLV is great so I'm starting off picking that one up in my next order. I planned on doing a melon mix recipe with Watermelon Cantaloupe and Honeydew and have no idea where to begin so if anyone has any favorite melon mixes drop em down
I'm not really big into Melons, personally. The TPA Cantaloupe ( to my memory ) was just awful. It's not just a touch funky to me, it's 100% funk.
Also can I request that Kiwi be added to the list?
Way back in the day my ADV was Melon Boba from Goodlife vapor. I’ve tried to remake it when I first started DIY, failed miserably and haven’t tried since. I only had TFA Cantaloupe and whenever I would use it, all I would taste is dirt like eating a handful of potting soil. Definitely gonna try some of the recipes posted. They look good and I’m due for a BCF order. As always looking forward to the show.
The last good recipe I used a cantaloupe flavor in:
Ingredient|% :---|---: Candied Watermelon (SilverLine) (CAP)|2.75 Cantaloupe (TPA)|3.00 Honeydew II (TPA)|0.75 Lime Tahity (Cold Pressed) (FA)|0.50 Monstrous (FW)|5.00 Sour Watermelon Candy (WF)|1.50 Summer Breeze (NR)|1.50 Sweet Candy (CAP)|1.25
Flavor total: 16.25%
What's that NR Summer Breeze like?
River Supply Summer Breeze is a very strong and soapy melon perfume. It's like the INW Wild Strawberry but a melon version... An acquired taste for sure. Also the flavoring severely stained the PET bottle and cap a strange yellow color which is somewhat concerning... If I wrote this recipe today, I would pull the total % down to 10% or so, I was in the "over-flavor everything" stage of mixing at that time. I don't know if my palette changed and I became more sensitive to flavors or what, but I can't tolerate recipes I used to love back then..
I only have one true cantaloupe and that's by Flavorah. I bought it along with Flavorah's Wild Melon to make a recipe for a friend of mine. It's a version of our American Orangesicle. In Korea its called Melona. Basically Cantaloupe, Wild Melon & VBIC. She told me it tastes just like the Ice Cream bar she remembers back home.