Unofficial diy allotment

[zouzounaki]

What kind of salt should we use? Isn’t cheap table salt industrially produced NaCl? I think it has to say if it has added iodine.

 

[zouzounaki]

and that's it's the same saltiness as tears.

So it would work if I just cry into the bottle?

 

[cheltenham cat]

Did it taste salty? Maybe I just wasn’t putting enough in.

in the biscuit stuff definitely....not so obvious in my peanut butter fudge cake or it could simply be being overwhelmed

 

[Biochemist]

Dunno actually, searching amazon for "pure salt" gave me a load of foofy face cleansers and bath crap.

Combo breaker: On 23/7 I made a 2.5% AM4A and 0.5% smoke and prunes, I tried a couple of drops on my hand and all I can taste is prunes, no AM4A at all, I'll prep the KF5 for a vape test tomorrow.

 

[zouzounaki]

Hmm. Maybe 0.5% is too much @Biochemist ? It’s potent stuff, the smoke and prunes. I mixed a tester at 2% when I first got it and it was like vaping a solid soreen loaf.

I’ll be interested to hear how it vapes. I’ve never attempted to mix am4a apart from mixing it 50/50 with plain FA custard, in the squonk bottle. It’s a strange one, it seems very potent and robust but I’m wondering if actually it could easily be overpowered by other strong flavours.

Have you ever tried the atmos labs mastiha? I think a very small percentage of that might work with am4a.

 

[Biochemist]

Imo AM4A isn't that strong, or because it has so much going on in it it's easy for individual notes to get smothered when mixed. Thought provoking question.

I have mixed AM4A with Dark Vapure and Perique (2.5+0.5 percentages) and it works, will with smoke and prunes.

I haven't tried anything from atmos, but mastiha is a strange flavour (not the vape flavour, the real one), I think in vaping it would be quite like liquorice which is a flavour I hate. AM4A does have these accents though so i understand why you'd combine them. The mastiha drink - dunno if you tried it - I find pleasant but somehow oily.

 

[zouzounaki]

I love the mastiha drink @Biochemist . We normally bring a couple of bottles back in the hold luggage when we’ve been in greece. We found hema mastiha once, even. I also love kaimaki ice cream, which we’ve started making the last year or so. We always have mastiha crystals and salep in the house. It’s such an interesting flavour. One of the few things that I find acceptable to add to coffee.

It’s not really like licorice, it’s actually a very accurate mastiha flavour. It’s a strange one, light but pungent and strong at the same time. The concentrate is very strong, detectable at 0.5% or less in a mix but on it’s own you can go pretty strong, it doesn’t taste off even at 5%+. It’s definitely one of my favourite concentrates. Very unique.

 

[ObiWanVaponi]

I know from curing meat you absolutely want to steer clear of table salt - its got anti-caking agents up the ying yang. Not to mention Iodine, Fluoride and even Microplastics.

Its hard to find 'pure salt' because its fashionable to have it 'natural' ie with the mineral content intact so if you buy some sea salt its very likely to have iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, manganese, zinc and iodine in it. Its fine for brining meat with but I'm not sure it'd be ok to vape.

 

[zouzounaki]

I think that might be the problem. Maybe saline from the chemist is the way to go.

The only salt we have in the house is maldon sea salt and himalayan salt. Which I think is rock salt. But both will be full of impurities...

 

[Biochemist]

I love the mastiha drink @Biochemist . We normally bring a couple of bottles back in the hold luggage when we’ve been in greece. We found hema mastiha once, even. I also love kaimaki ice cream, which we’ve started making the last year or so. We always have mastiha crystals and salep in the house. It’s such an interesting flavour. One of the few things that I find acceptable to add to coffee.

It’s not really like licorice, it’s actually a very accurate mastiha flavour. It’s a strange one, light but pungent and strong at the same time. The concentrate is very strong, detectable at 0.5% or less in a mix but on it’s own you can go pretty strong, it doesn’t taste off even at 5%+. It’s definitely one of my favourite concentrates. Very unique.

Hema you mean χύμα (unpacked, where someone scoops some up in a paper bag?). I'm in awe about you kaimaki ice cream at home, I've made a lot of weird and wonderful things but didn't even cross my mind to do that. It's probably my favourite ice cream.