Simon G
Olympian
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Just thought I'd venture in here, as a couple of you know I've been thinking about this for a while and got some advice from @Mr Numpty ages ago and a few others like @zouzounaki more recently, I did a lot of looking at recipes and flavours and spent some time with a couple of calculators making 'virtual' mixes before diving in, so I felt quite well prepared.
There's 2 main reasons I started, firstly so I can have the flavours I want and secondly in the PG ratios I want. ... which when buying pre-made these days is always pretty limiting in those areas, especially if you don't like fruits and want a higher PG.
I don't know if it's luck, good judgement, or just that I know my tastebuds pretty well with regard to what I like the taste of but I'm not really had any disasters so far and I've been happily vaping away on my experiments for the last couple of weeks. Some were nicer than others, some had flavours that got a bit buried in the mix or stood out a little too much but none were in the sink and it was pretty obvious what I have to do to adjust those flavours.
Almost all my flavours are either tobacco, nut, biscuit or spices .... with a few cream/smoothing type flavours like nougat and vanilla cheesecake.
The two that I've considered 'finished' are a 2x Tobacco, nougat, vanilla cheesecake mix, it's got a virginia tobacco and a ry4 type mixed with sweet nougat, with a hint of biscuit base and creamy vanilla from the cheesecake. It's basically a vanilla nougat flavour with the tobacco giving it a bit of smokey cigarette taste. I'm still a smoker at heart really so I need that thing going on, even if it's in the background.
The other one is a little more simple, it's 3x tobaccos in equal percentage, a 555, a USA red and the RY4, mixed with a some calipitter chow and finished of with a little toasted almond, it's just a nice dry-ish tobacco with a great toasty nutty taste which could be 3 varieties buy adjusting the % of each of the tobaccos.
My conclusions so far is that if you have the right flavours in the first place ... ie, you like them on their own and have a very basic idea of what will taste nice together to you, then it's quite difficult to go totally wrong, even if it's not quite what you expected and the % need some tweaking.
...another conclusion I have is that 60%PG liquids rule in MTL tanks.
I also learned that it's quite easy to go too far with the amount of different flavours, I tried one mix that had about 9 flavours and it ended up tasting just like an average nutty tobacco and you couldn't really pick anything out..... perfectly vapable but kind of pointless, you might as well just mix the 555 on it's own.
I might share some recipes if my guinea pig friends think they are worth sharing.
... still in the tasting every few days of steeping stage at the moment.
There's 2 main reasons I started, firstly so I can have the flavours I want and secondly in the PG ratios I want. ... which when buying pre-made these days is always pretty limiting in those areas, especially if you don't like fruits and want a higher PG.
I don't know if it's luck, good judgement, or just that I know my tastebuds pretty well with regard to what I like the taste of but I'm not really had any disasters so far and I've been happily vaping away on my experiments for the last couple of weeks. Some were nicer than others, some had flavours that got a bit buried in the mix or stood out a little too much but none were in the sink and it was pretty obvious what I have to do to adjust those flavours.
Almost all my flavours are either tobacco, nut, biscuit or spices .... with a few cream/smoothing type flavours like nougat and vanilla cheesecake.
The two that I've considered 'finished' are a 2x Tobacco, nougat, vanilla cheesecake mix, it's got a virginia tobacco and a ry4 type mixed with sweet nougat, with a hint of biscuit base and creamy vanilla from the cheesecake. It's basically a vanilla nougat flavour with the tobacco giving it a bit of smokey cigarette taste. I'm still a smoker at heart really so I need that thing going on, even if it's in the background.
The other one is a little more simple, it's 3x tobaccos in equal percentage, a 555, a USA red and the RY4, mixed with a some calipitter chow and finished of with a little toasted almond, it's just a nice dry-ish tobacco with a great toasty nutty taste which could be 3 varieties buy adjusting the % of each of the tobaccos.
My conclusions so far is that if you have the right flavours in the first place ... ie, you like them on their own and have a very basic idea of what will taste nice together to you, then it's quite difficult to go totally wrong, even if it's not quite what you expected and the % need some tweaking.
...another conclusion I have is that 60%PG liquids rule in MTL tanks.
I also learned that it's quite easy to go too far with the amount of different flavours, I tried one mix that had about 9 flavours and it ended up tasting just like an average nutty tobacco and you couldn't really pick anything out..... perfectly vapable but kind of pointless, you might as well just mix the 555 on it's own.
I might share some recipes if my guinea pig friends think they are worth sharing.
... still in the tasting every few days of steeping stage at the moment.
