Naturally Extracted Tobacco (NET) experiments

CarbonThief;8571486 said:

In other extract news, I am currently on my final slow cook, #3, started about 2 hours ago, and will go for another 6. For some reason, I decided to do a 12 hour cook, cool down, 10 hour cook, cool down, then a third cook for 8 hours, just to see how it turns out. Growing impatient (already, and boy does this not bode well for me and DIY extracts!), I decided I wanted to sample one of the three coconut tobacco hybrids (if that is the proper term) between step 2 and 3, then compare it with the extract after the third cook. I realize I SHOULD have also taken some off after the first cook, but oh well, next time for sure.

I mixed up 10 mLs of a 70/30 PG/VG, 20+mg juice (the + denotes that the extract itself adds some amount of nicotine to the final juice, my target was ~20 mg using unflavored PG nic base at 60 mg concentration). I used 3.5 mL of extract, 3.5 mL of the nic PG base, and 3 mL of VG. I expected the extract to be too heavy, and that further dilution might be required, but was going for fast and simple.

I'm VERY pleasantly surprised with this vape. Being my very first DIY juice, my first tobacco extract, and the fact that on a whim I decided to mix the tobacco (black cavendish is the one that I am sampling tonight) with fresh grated coconut, which I've never had, nor even heard of, I half expected this to be a miserable failure, and half expected that it would just not be very good. In my opinion, this is really quite GOOD! To me, the tobacco is very prominent at the front and on exhale, and the coconut packs a punch in between, with kind of a toasted coconut flavor. I feel the coconut is a little stronger than I had hoped, which also surprises me, as I figured if it was present at all, it would be quite subtle after diluting it to 1/3.

Now I could reduce the coconut flavor obviously by using less extract, maybe 15 to 20 % final concentration, but I must say, I wouldn't want to dilute the tobacco flavor at all. It will be interesting to see how the other two tobaccos work with the coconut flavor, as well as the same three (black cavendish as previously mentioned, Tin Star "Gold" pipe tobacco, and a "secret" tobacco to be disclosed at a later time, if it isn't a complete failure) I have going in a no-heat, PG soak which I plan to let sit for a month. I anticipate the non-heat method will not release the essential coconut oils as thoroughly and will likely have a more subtle coconut flavor, though likely also a more subtle tobacco flavor, which I may not prefer. If the slow cooker method works as well, or even better than the slower soak method, I will just use less coconut next time (2 Tbsp rather than a 1/4 cup for instance).

Interestingly, my wife, who has vaped but is not a vaper, nor a smoker anymore, tried it and said she definitely gets the tobacco flavor, but does not detect the coconut! It's possible expecting a coconut flavor is acting a bit as a placebo effect on me, possible that it is indeed subtle like I was hoping for, or not even noticeably present...I just don't know, but sure seems to be there!

Also, it will be interesting to see how these juices, especially mixed as high as 35%, work on my coils.

Bottom line though, I am digging this first attempt, and am hoping future attempts get even better!

Feedback, comments, suggestions are quite welcome!

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