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TFA Dulce De Leche [flavor review]
submitted about 4 years ago by kuri_sanTouDiketones, Schmiketones

⭐ TFA Dulce De Leche       ( Overall Grade: C- )

|||||| |:---:|:---:|---|:---:|:---| |Hardware|RDA / RTA||Sweetness|🔵 🔵 🔵 🔵 🔵 ⚪ ⚪ | |Style|DTL||Juiciness|🔵 🔵 🔵 ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ | |Concentration|1% to 2.5%||Mouth Feel|🔵 🔵 🔵 ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ | |Steeped|7 - 7 days||Throat Hit|🔵 🔵 🔵 🔵 🔵 ⚪ ⚪ |

||| |:---:|:---| |🔺PROS🔺|It’s not bad but there’s better I’m sure| |🔻CONS🔻|Weak flavor, off notes, scratchy feeling in the throat.| |🔸TAGS🔸|: 🕓 Long Steep :: 🤢 Off-Notes :: 🏷 Astringent :: 🏷 Metallic :| |🔸USES🔸|: Background Note :: Accent Note :: Would Not Use It :|


  • TARGET FLAVOR
    Dulce de Leche means "Milk Sweet" or "Sweet from Milk" in Spanish, and is a - very popular treat for ice cream or crepes. If you've ever tasted Dulce de Leche ice - cream (Haagen Daaz) you'll understand why this flavor is so popular. -

  • ACCURACY :   🔴 🔴 🔴 ⚪ ⚪   CLOSE - BUT COULD BE BETTER


🔹 Flavor Description 🔹
Mongrel RDA SS316L 3*28/38 3mm ID spaced 5/6 wrap.

1% Very slight sweetness with the typical Sucralose after taste. Nasty bitter, light and airy milk nothingness. Poor flavor of not yet burnt sugar that’s almost caramelized.

1.75% Slightly sweet, cooked milk and caramelized sugar is starting to really come out now.

2.5% Cooked milk and burnt sugar notes are more pronounced. Seems to be muting itself leaving a weak caramel note mixed with too much air. Getting a waxy chocolate off note that’s not very good, like the cheap children’s chocolates that have been sitting in a mom and pop’s store since when their first grandchild was born.

🔹 Comments 🔹
Contains Acetoin and Acetyl Propionyl (Custard ingredients)

1% Throat hit 3/10. Itchy on the throat. Astringent, slightly acidic and bitter. Percentage is too low to be of any use other than to ruin a mix with a dark caramel for support.

1.75% Throat hit 4/10. Same as above except this is probably the percentage to start with in a mix. Still getting a fairly metallic-like Lactic Acid

2.5% I wouldn’t use this in a mix past this percentage.

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3 points
 
by 5Wi5Habout 4 years ago

I’ve used it at 0.5% as a chocolate accent. It’s not really something I want to use as a main flavor but it’s good in high mg salt juice on a Caliburn at 0.5% and actually comes through.

3 points
 
by Bigredvaporabout 4 years ago

Thanks for the review. I really enjoy this flavor get more of a creamy brown sugar note from it if that makes sense. I've never used it above 1.5% in a mix. I love to pair it with tfa ry4 double. This is one of my favorite recipies using dulce de leche. https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/193243#bourbon_custard_tpachallenge_developed_by_developed

3 points
 
by kuri_sanTouabout 4 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

I really need to put that TFA Kentucky Bourbon on my buy list

2 points
 
by Bigredvaporabout 4 years ago

Yea tfa Kentucky bourbon pairs really nice with a lot of tobacco flavors. If you like tobacco recipe's for me it is a must have.

3 points
 
by kuri_sanTouabout 4 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

I’ve been getting into bacco’s more often lately and that Kentucky Bourbon I see almost everywhere. It’s haunting me, lol

3 points
 
by SaschaAlexandraabout 4 years agoMissing One Flavor

@kuri_sanTou. Don’t let this dissuade you from future reviews. Your efforts are appreciated. ✌️

2 points
 
by Munkyb0yabout 4 years ago

FW Dulce de Leche is the winner for me

-1 points
 
by Lulzorrabout 4 years agoYellow Cake Apologist

looks nice but:

you say this:

> 1% Very slight sweetness with the typical Sucralose after taste. **Nasty bitter, light and airy milk nothingness. Poor flavor of not yet burnt sugar that’s almost caramelized. **

but also give a percentage range of 1-2.5%? sounds to me, based on your review, like it would be best suited below 1%. I've seen it used as low as 0.2% to good effect.

>It’s not bad but there’s better I’m sure

I don't really see this as a pro exactly? as a comment sure, but I would expect an actual pro of the flavor to be there.

putting in a sample recipe could be useful.

here's one https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/174996#toffee_custard_developed_by_developed

1 points
 
by kuri_sanTouabout 4 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

Testing at 1% I thought it was light, or weak. As I gradually increased the percentages the flavor started coming out.

I couldn’t think of any pro’s so I just made one up. I just followed the template. I probably should have put “none”

I don’t have any recipes using this, at least any that shows how it shines. In the usage tags I put ”would not use it”

-4 points
 
by Lulzorrabout 4 years agoYellow Cake Apologist

Who is the review for, then?

You don't have to link a recipe of your own. The idea is to show how it has been used to some success.

5 points
 
by kuri_sanTouabout 4 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

It’s for the community. A single flavor review, good or bad. You must be confusing recipe reviews.

*edit - I just opened ten random Flavor Reviews and not a single reviewer posted a recipe they used it in 🤷‍♂️

5 points
 
by theonefinnabout 4 years ago

> The idea is to show how it has been used to some success.

Not every flavour is good though, sometimes the community needs warning about a bad flavour that it’s better to just avoid.

Arguably it’s all the recipes making the best of “bad flavours” that significantly contributes to the noise in the signal of finding good recipes.

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