Help with Tiramisu from FA

[tonyorion]

You would think that the Italians would be able to get this one right. This stuff is awful!

I have already tossed a bunch of FA stuff as being unvapable (peach had a strong medicine like taste, and the coffee smelled like the ape house at the zoo. Was able to save the banana. Still have peanut butter and carmel, but have not done anything with them).

Any ideas of how to improve it? I have tried mixing in creams and milk flavor with sweeteners but with little luck. Started at 5% and worked my way up.

So far, I have had my best results with PA and Capella. These flavorings seem to respond well to tweaking and blending, but the FA stuff has such a strong basic flavor that is hard to hide.

Either you like it or you do not.

 

[bjannr]

I ordered a few juices from a new vendor, two out of five were horrible. I contacted them and was told the two bad ones could have been mixed too strong. Tomorrow I am going to try to dilute them with unflavored nic juice and see if that helps. You might want to try just diluting them instead of adding more flavors. Just a thought.

 

[upStomp]

I like it. I'm not blown away by it, but I like it. 5% seems to be the sweet spot. It definitely needed a week or so to steep for me, and even then it took some getting used to.

 

[guido61]

Many of Flavorart flavors are to be used at very low concentration.
For example I use maxboro and camtel at 2% max.
FA's coffee, is 1% maximun and it's considered here in Italy a very "heavy" flavor
I suppose tiramisu has coffe in it, so I would agree to dilute it much more.

 

[silkakc]

Tony,

Out of 80+ flavorings I have from 3 companies, I only use a few of them. The others just sit there because I don't like the flavor or aroma. I have the Tiramisu too and I agree with you I think it might be useable if you used 1 drop of it and several drops of Maple or Cookie or Vanilla Tahiti perhaps. Maybe even the Bavarian Cream would be good with it.