For the hell of it, the other day I picked up some flavoring for my Sodastream. Once I got home, I noticed the ingredients were just flavour extract and PG, which made me realize I could easily make this stuff at home myself. I have so many flavors collecting dust in a cupboard right now. It's all stuff I bought early on when I was still experimenting to get the right taste, but never got in the habit of using, I can basically have flavored fizzy water for years to come. I've tried Key lime pie so far, and pomegranate, both ended up pretty tasty and it looks like I don't even need to use any PG. I'm not at all sure why the Sodastream stuff uses PG, but I'd rather save that for my juice.
I use mine for cooking, and candy making. They're an awesome way to add concentrated flavors to things like buttercream on cakes, gummy candies, or filled chocolates.
Also, depending on how big your mug is, a drop or so in a cup of coffee with the right flavors is nice :) Yeah I put cream in my coffee as I don't like any coffee black but I use The Vape Mall's gingerbread, biscotti, toasted marshmallow, and a few others in my coffee. I don't care for anything other than simple fruits with a touch of ice in my vapes but I love the assortment of flavor concentrates to add to my coffee. I've found a few that were a mistake but eh, can't find what you like without experimenting :)
Oh, you just made me realize that I could use whatever dessert flavors I have hanging around in the odd cappuccino or something. I don't bake, but I do like a nice coffee.
I actually don't even vape. I think this community is simply awesome, because none of the culinary communities talk about flavorings with the depth and knowledge that this one does. It's out of vogue in the world of cooking.
Yep! I use mine to make THC gummies and tinctures.
You can't just waltz through here tooting on about gummies without dropping a recipe. Please?
I use this recipe for delta8 gummies but it's pretty much the same with D9 distillate.
the math for dosage per gummy isn't so rough either,
[Potency of distillate] * [number of grams] / [number of created gummies]
I'm keto so my recipe is sugar-free fwiw, here's my gummy colas made with FA Cola: https://www.reddit.com/r/altcannabinoids/comments/scxto1/homemade_keto_sugarfree_cola_gummies_10mg_d820mg/ recipe in comments, I use erythritol for sweetness, only thing it's missing is the corn syrup regular gummies often use.
Currently working on a root beer float version but TPA Root Beer Float isn't cooperating flavor-wise so I gotta keep tweaking it. And just got a BCF order in so I'm gonna try making some Sprite ones with Cap Lemon Lime and citric acid, maybe a lil bit of fresh-squeezed juice. I'd love to come up with Sour Patch Kids somehow, I do a lot of sour candy juices so I'm sure I've got the flavors for it, just haven't SFTd everything in my stash to pick out flavors.
>TPA Root Beer Float
I've vaped a shitload of that and Wintergreen. TPA Root Beer Float is mostly Wintergreen. I literally have a post on this sub from 7 years ago saying the same thing. It's not a one-shot flavor.
It needs to mellow a while.
You need more cream and vanilla for most people's taste. You need some anise or liquorice flavor. Some ginger. Molasses. There are a whole shitload of spices that go into good rootbeers: https://homebrewacademy.com/how-to-make-root-beer/
It's a nebulous flavor and there's no right recipe.
That does make sense since the flavors we use for our juices is the exact same stuff they use to flavor food and drink.
Yeah, I can't believe I never thought of this before.
I have a question. I am considering getting a Sodastream. How many drops are you using per liter?
I only added a few drops to a glass of water as a trial, so I can't say. Bear in mind with the Sodastream you have to add the flavour AFTER you carbonate the water (makes a huge mess otherwise) so you can totally experiment. Plus different extracts will have different concentrations of flavor, so it's going to be hard to say in advance.
>I am considering getting a Sodastream.
Look into getting a CO2 canister and carbonator bottle cap instead if you have the room and a welding or brewery store nearby for refills. Upfront cost vs refill cost. Sodastream is suuuuuper expensive for CO2 refills.
Search terms: "diy carbonator" "diy carbonation" "sodastream hacking" "sodastream paintball"
Even the New York Times has an article on the subject, but their version is extreme overkill.
Aye, it's literally all repurposed food and drink flavoring. Some vape companies have certainly had the big flavor companies (a big industry in New Jersey) develop proprietary blends, but I doubt many went out of their way to have a flavoring company develop an entirely new flavor chemical.
When I worked at a soda bottling plant we'd literally use gallon jugs of "vape juice flavor" for some sodas. The size of our cherry cola batch, iirc, was determined by how much cola four 1 gallon jugs of cherry flavoring would flavor. The cola flavoring got a lot more use so it made more sense to use an entire shipment of cherry and then measure out cola syrup out of a 55 gallon drum to the proper ratio.
Cherry is a giant pita, btw. One of the earliest "premium" juice manufactures, back in like 2010, had to try 20-30 cherry flavors to find something acceptable after his supplier cut him off. It was originally a very natural cherry flavor and nearly every flavor company is going for the artificial "jolly rancher" flavor.
If I had to guess they may be diluting the flavoring down some with pg just to help people keep from messing up. Since a few drops of flavor concentrate can be quite potent. Or it may be listing pg in the ingredients since most all food flavorings are pg based. Not all, some are oil soluble (for some baking) and would be fine for food though pg being water soluble would mix better with something like a soda stream. Oil and water not mixing and all.
Something to keep in mind with a Sodastream is that you can buy flavoring oils too. It opens up a bunch of diy drink options.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_cola
>OpenCola is a brand of open-source cola, where the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. Anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe. It was launched in 2001 by free software P2P company Opencola, to promote their company.
>Open-source cola is any cola soft drink produced according to a published and shareable recipe. Unlike the secretive Coca-Cola formula, the recipes are openly published and their re-use is encouraged. The texts of OpenCola and Cube-Cola recipes are published under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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I’m assuming you changed percentages, right? How much do people use for soda streams or for food etc... I tried using a vanilla flavoring for whey protein and could never get a full flavor from it no matter how much I used.
The protein powders interact with it. Sometimes they just end up tasting chemically & gross. Sometimes flavors are super concentrated too. 8oz/500ml should use only one or 2 drops, otherwise it gets overwhelmed.
Have you found any flavors that work? I have a crap load of old flavors and some unflavored whey protein.