Hey y'all,
Holiday season is descending upon us all! As such, the doggo has had a house semi-filled with college-aged visitors who don't pick up after themselves. :( So, yeah, I missed last week's Digest. We are back with, Digest this...
Reminders
- Check out the Recipe Roundup from 2021 (updated with November's recipes)
- Check out the companion Front Page Recipes 2021 for some more in-depth look at some recipes and development notes
- Check out all our weekly posts: Flavor of the Week (and accompanying show 10pm EST), What are you vaping? thread, Suggest a recipe (for my flavors) thread, New mixers thread
- Check out our December Clone Request Thread and drop some knowledge or participate in November's Remixx Challenge and flex your crafting skills
Last (2) Week's Highlights
- u/ChrisVapesALot got some great tips on Mass-testing single flavors which means we are all responsible in some part for this happy accident
- u/isuamadog posted two flavor reviews: SC/FE 555 and SC/FE Havana Dry.
- u/Steve-TC kept up the pace by posting, not one but TWO reviews for the Gremberry one shots: GRM Creamy Coconut Review and GRM Samoan Dreams Review. Keep 'em coming, bud! Gremberry is a great vendor and these one shot reviews appeal to many of us. Lookin out for your Breakfast Blend review!
- u/HenryDaHorse asked about Reusing Bottles. with 40 comments, I guess that was a topic people have opinions about. Some serious Bike Shedding here. Further opinions? Stashes and how to manage them, Shaking/steeping/breathing, Beginner Friendly INW Recipes, and What makes a good mixer for our differently abled DIYers.
- u/cakeordeath176 posted a Wizard Labs sale code so you can buy alltheflavors
- there were loads of questions, but nothing beats the BESTS: Vanilla and Clove
Throwback Highlight/Challenge
What's the worst flavor you ever tried? I bet you couldn't describe it half as well as our reigning champ, u/ID10-T in his epic post: The "worst" Flavors I have ever tried. You're welcome. I challenge you to share, in great detail, your awful experiences below. Please. Kick my week off right.
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In my sft adventures I have learned a lot. I figured out that a large quantity of flavors have no flavor at all when vaped. A great many more have horrible offnotes like perfume, plastic, pine, lemon where it shouldnt be, soap and pepper.
Instead of listing every terrible, horrible, not-so-good flavor that Ive tried, I will list a few notables. :-)
WF Brown Sugar Cookie - tastes musky like how ferrets smell.
FW Sugar Cookie - Chemically, overpowers a weak and bland cookie flavor.
FW Cookie Butter - Ashy
BD Chocolate Almond - Tastes like balsawood
FW Almond Toffee Candy - 1% dry, astringent, faint, burnt almond flavor 3% toffee? caramel? Skorbar, almond disappeared 6% nail polish-y skorbar, metallic off-note 7% nice thick mouthfeel on inhale, "meh" still a little metallic I can see this being used to back up a coffee. Thin overall with some off-notes
TFA Chocolate Coconut Almond Candy Bar 1% malted milk with coconut, some almond (no chocolate) 2% bandaids with coconut + almond, fresh plastic bottles and "new car smell"
FW Almond Amaretto - 1% nothing 2% nothing? 4% nail polish remover (acetone) + Pine
FW Amaretto 1% shrimp/crabs with Old Bay 2% SHRIMP
LA Amaretto 1% lemon pledge or rind 2% lemon tea 3% floral lemon tea/ rind not bad, just not amaretto
TFA Almond Amaretto 1% smooth nothing 2% barely any flavor 3% plastic
OOO Amaretto 1% sweet perfume-y candy 2% astringent plastic death
RF Almond 1% to 3% fresh Tupperware
NV Almond 1% plastic with a hint of lemon 2% plastic with lemon-y pine
OOO Almond 1% shower curtain 2% nail polish
INW Almond 1% touch of cherry in that almond (nut meat), also a tiny touch of plastic off-note 2% thin, lots of shower curtain
Ive also learned that INW creams/custard, marzipan and biscuit just dont come across the same for me as it does for other people.
Ferrets is a classic unto itself.
Thank you for mentioning the TPA Chocolate Coconut Almond Candy Bar. Even if 1% doesn’t sound so dangerous, I doubt I will reconsider it after my 5% and 3%….
If you’re lookin for Marzipan…. FA Marzipan is pretty excellent. INW Nougat is also good! (I agree that most flavors taste like nothin’)
Fa marzipan tastes like cherry koolaid. Ooo marzipan, however, actually tastes like marzipan
After herbs next week I have to prepare for Noted's Flavor of The Year tradition. That means going back though all the episodes of the past year and picking what I think are the best (and worst) flavors I tried all year, and maybe some honorable and dishonorable mentions. I'll have plenty of awful experiences for you then. Also, your link to the "worst" flavors I have ever tried (at least they were at the time, 3 years ago) goes to some new mixer question. Here's the correct link: https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/9clk2x/the_worst_flavors_i_have_ever_tried/
I swear to god, I just reread that and I’m in tears of laughter. It didn’t help I read it out loud to my kid who was in awe of your detail and description. I made her a deal that she had to listen to all of them if she wanted me to do anything for her ever again in life.