Bought the sauce, thinking I could make something with it. Found a recipe, dropped the PBC by 20% and still can barely choke it down while thinking about dumping and rewicking. Recipe below. Experiences and suggestions greatly appreciated.
8% FW PBC 1% TFA Dairy Milk 1% TFA Vanilla Custard 1% TFA Graham Clear 1% CAP Juicy Lemon
SNV was horrible, like burnt plastic, consider giving up vaping horrible. Even the smell.
7 days steep is better. Smells amazing. Tastes like burning trash on an electrical fire.
Luckily, I only made 60ml as a tester
Hi. It‘s not used very often, but I don’t think it’s unusable. I do think that you used it much too high, thus getting awful off-notes. In general, it’s used around 3% in recipes (FW PBC) and supported by a second peanut butter and chocolate. At this point though, you could easily just build your own peanut butter cup. I‘m not sure why you used lemon or what the profile is supposed to represent. A peanut butter pie would be my guess? Here’s a similar recipe utilizing FW PBC nonnie‘s a nutty pie by exclusivegirl.
Some good peanut butters are TFA PB DX (fades less than non-DX), FLV Peanut Butter and SSA Peanut Butter. As for chocolates, HS Australien Chocolate, FLV Chocolate Deutsch, JF Milk Chocolate and VT Devon Cream, to name a few.
60 ml is too large for a tester imho. In general, we recommend 10-15 ml testers. It’s just less waste because not everything turns out great or pleases our palettes.
If you‘d like help developing or tweaking a recipe, you‘re welcome to join our discord. Good luck.
Thank you for this. The original recipe I found had it at 10%, and it seemed really strong when I tasted it on my fingertip, so dropped to 8%. Clearly wasn't enough. I've found lemon in sweeter mixes calms it down a bit, so I'll often add it to sweet pastry mixes with good results so far. Just got some 30ml and 10ml testers last week, so those will be my tester sizes going forward. Unfortunately, I'm in a country that has only one resource for diy juice, and they only repack aromas (16.5ml for $4-$8). Many flavors are unavailable here, and they mostly carry fruits. I'll look into the discord. Thank you again.
Just a suggestion, but when you're trying out a new recipe it's usually good to do a smaller batch, especially if you're experimenting with %s and trying to fine tune it. I'll usually do 15ml for my test batches. That way if it's terrible, you're not wasting a bunch of supplies. Just make sure you're keeping notes so you can duplicate the recipe once you find a mix that works for you.
Also check out ELR. There are usually notes there for what % is ideal for any given flavor. Some are ok to use in high %s, but others taste horrifically bad if you go above a certain amount.