Custard revelation!! Shout out to Sandiej02!!

[pauly walnuts]

I had tried so many ways to make a solid, creamy custard and always came up short. Until today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My usual recipes would vary from 10-12%cap van custard, then maybe 1-4% of tfa bav cream, cap cheese cake, cap butter, tfa sweet cream, tfa candy carmel, tfa vanilla cupcake, and cap cake batter. I tweaked my lesser percentages in all different ways and was never satisfied.

Last night I was doing a search on tfa bavarian cream, to see if it could be used to better effect and found this old thread http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/diy-e-liquid/360389-tfa-bavarian-cream-help.html

Sandiej02, you put me on the right track and I cant thank you enough.

So heres my recipe

32/68 vg/pg @ 4%nic
10% cap vanilla custard
6% cap ny cheesecake
6% tfa bavarian cream
3% tfa sweet cream
BANG

This stuff is good the next morning after it sat by the furnace vent all night, I cant wait to taste it in another week.

 

[Leothwyn]

Thanks for posting this - and thanks to Sandiej02!
So, I know from experience that recipes at 20% are too much flavor for my taste, so I reduced this to around 12%, with the same proportions. Man, it is good!
I was just mixing up a second batch of it tonight, and thought I'd dig up the thread to say thanks.

 

[WarBlaze]

bookmarked

 

[pauly walnuts]

Thanks for posting this - and thanks to Sandiej02!
So, I know from experience that recipes at 20% are too much flavor for my taste, so I reduced this to around 12%, with the same proportions. Man, it is good!
I was just mixing up a second batch of it tonight, and thought I'd dig up the thread to say thanks.

Update. After almost two weeks of steeping, it has developed very well, but is too strong. I will start diluting by 5% and see where it takes me, it just needs toned down some.

 

[Mr.Mann]

Update. After almost two weeks of steeping, it has developed very well, but is too strong. I will start diluting by 5% and see where it takes me, it just needs toned down some.

Have you made all the ingredients into a single flavoring batch yet? The percentages are clean and easy enough to do so. When I have issues with total percentage, the easiest way is to just make one large(ish) flavoring mix and add it in to separate batches that way. It also saves a boat load of time! It will allow you to finely tweak that 'one' flavoring without having to tweak all the other ingredients separately.

 

[dannyv45]

Have you made all the ingredients into a single flavoring batch yet? The percentages are clean and easy enough to do so. When I have issues with total percentage, the easiest way is to just make one large(ish) flavoring mix and add it in to separate batches that way. It also saves a boat load of time! It will allow you to finely tweak that 'one' flavoring without having to tweak all the other ingredients separately.

Great advice,

Just combine all the flavors by there individual percentages and adjust all flavors at once by percentage in the final mix.

 

[Rin13]

For whatever reason, I never thought of doing this. This is an excellent idea!

Have you made all the ingredients into a single flavoring batch yet? The percentages are clean and easy enough to do so. When I have issues with total percentage, the easiest way is to just make one large(ish) flavoring mix and add it in to separate batches that way. It also saves a boat load of time! It will allow you to finely tweak that 'one' flavoring without having to tweak all the other ingredients separately.

 

[Mr.Mann]

For whatever reason, I never thought of doing this. This is an excellent idea!

It is so super simple it'll blow your mind!

 

[Charles InCharge]

That is a really good idea. Although you can't really reduce a flavor without diluting all of them right? Unless I am missing some magic you guys behold (which wouldn't surprise me, lol) Definitely super smart when trying to add a flavor to an already good mixture.

 

[Mr.Mann]

That is a really good idea. Although you can't really reduce a flavor without diluting all of them right? Unless I am missing some magic you guys behold (which wouldn't surprise me, lol) Definitely super smart when trying to add a flavor to an already good mixture.

Well, see that's the thing. The OP has the ratios right, just not certain about total flavoring. Mixing a concentrate mix will allow everything to be reduced by the same increments simultaneously. Essentially it's treating the recipe itself as a single flavoring. It will also allow that same 'flavoring' to be added to other recipes as single flavoring and/or now being able to be added into other mixes/recipes at such small percentages that would've been difficult (for the lowest added-ingredients) with basic measuring tools. He could take that same Custard Revelation and simply use that as his 'touch of cream' to add to his other recipes that need a a smoothing, velvety softening -- and it'll be a complex 'single' ingredient as opposed to just adding a Bavarian Cream or the like.

EX: I have my own apple pie, cardamom-vanilla, ginger cream, spiced sweet cream with cinnamon. berry medley, citrus concoction, spice rack, sweet something, etc. Hell, I often use my 'own' flavorings more than straight-from-the-bottle flavorings -- it also is a REALLY good way to 'hide' ingredients so when someone tastes it the they don't immediately recognize an ingredient as, say, Flavourart. It can make recipes quite complex though and kinda hard to convey, but easily repeatable as long as your notes/files are in order.