I Need A New Nut

[scotdc]

Let's talk about nut flavors, can we? I love nut flavors in my tobacco, and I prefer the roasted kind. I'm having a hard time with most, so maybe someone out there has a new nut flavor for me. Or, maybe someone has a good trick to add that "roasted" flavor to existing nuts.

Here's what I've tried so far:
TFA Hazelnut - my favorite so far, tastes like a roasted nut
FA Nut Mix - too light at 4%, do I need more, and more fresh than roasted
FA Hazelnut, Almond - not roasted
FW Maple Pecan - tastes burnt and no nut flavor
INW Walnut - doesn't taste like much of anything to me
Cap and TFA Toasted Almond - don't know, I just hated these and an overpowering burnt smoke even at 1%

Gonna try peanut butters next, I guess.

 

[dannyv45]

Use Perfumers Apprentice - Acetyl Pyrazine 5 PG which is an additive that gives a mix a peanut flavor. Goes good in tobacco. Most 555's use it. Use at 1 - 2%.

I love nutty tobaccos and use it a lot in my tobacco mixes.

 

[BrotherBob]

Let's talk about nut flavors,

FW Butter Pecan -- 15 % single Decent strength. Sweet burnt(?) type taste. Could be described as pecan with burnt butter. Not a single. Not tried in a mix yet.
TFA & CA Peanut Butter go well together, suggest you purchase both and experiment.
TFA Coconut --No real taste. can use flavor as mixer. Great dense white clouds.
Read good things about FW Hazelnut.

 

[IDJoel]

+1 no @dannyv45's suggestion of trying AP.

I like "nutty" tobaccos too. I have a 9 month-old project trying to get a "pipe" tobacco the way I think I remember. I started with a recipe here on ECF called Scutch (I believe credit goes to @tc1 ) which is a RY4 base. My most recent version is a long way from the original (cut way back on the RY4, creams, and caramels, and added a couple extra tobaccos, and it is still not there but it is closer). I mention this because it was the recipe that got me started experimenting with nut flavors.
A couple I don't see you listing are:
TFA Pistachio - this was the original "nut" in the Scutch. It has a kind of richness to it. Not creamy but somehow still a richer/fuller body to it than most other nuts that I have tried. The taste IS unique (and there are those who don't care for it). For me, I find it very reminiscent of a roasted/salted pistachio nut just cracked open from the shell.
TFA Pecan - I find this a good pecan flavor that is truer to a fresh-shelled pecan, than say a pecan that you might pick off the top of a pecan pie,(NO maple/brown sugar notes, and not much of the "roasty-ness" associated with being in a hot oven), but makes a good blender w/o being overwhelming.

DISCLAIMERS:
-I have not tried to make ANY nut a stand-alone (other than for initial tasting).
-I have not even used them in a 2-4 flavor recipe.
-I like nuts as blenders and accent notes. I have not tried to use them as primary, or even secondary, flavors.
-I DO like TFA's Toasted Almond (one you said you "hated"), and use it regularly at 3%. Granted; it is in recipes using anywhere from 6 to 14 flavors in each recipe and 30PG/70VG 6mg/mL nic bases. YMMV

 

[scotdc]

Use Perfumers Apprentice - Acetyl Pyrazine 5 PG which is an additive that gives a mix a peanut flavor. Goes good in tobacco. Most 555's use it. Use at 1 - 2%.

I love nutty tobaccos and use it a lot in my tobacco mixes.

Sorry I didn't include that in my list, but I've used that a lot in my tobaccos. I've had varying success with it, depends on the tobacco flavor where it blends better with more assertive ones.

 

[scotdc]

FW Butter Pecan -- 15 % single Decent strength. Sweet burnt(?) type taste. Could be described as pecan with burnt butter. Not a single. Not tried in a mix yet.
TFA & CA Peanut Butter go well together, suggest you purchase both and experiment.
TFA Coconut --No real taste. can use flavor as mixer. Great dense white clouds.
Read good things about FW Hazelnut.

I've used FW Hazelnut as well, it seems to be a bit more creamy with a butter undertone while TFA is a bit more dry and roasted.

 

[MarkyD]

INW Peanut (tobacco) is really nice. I combine with HS Highway and INW Three-Five, a couple TA types, and just a touch of AP. Been vaping this mix over 2 years and will never tire of it.

 

[BrotherBob]

maybe someone out there has a new nut flavor for me

Could try FW Macadamia Nut --Good comments on this one. Have not tried it.

 

[scotdc]

INW Peanut (tobacco) is really nice. I combine with HS Highway and INW Three-Five, a couple TA types, and just a touch of AP. Been vaping this mix over 2 years and will never tire of it.

I have that one and I will begin testing today. What percentage do you like it at for a mix?

 

[MarkyD]

I have that one and I will begin testing today. What percentage do you like it at for a mix?

I'm using the peanut tobacco at 1.5%, but there is always some variability depending on what its combined with and how dominant it wants to be in an overall mix. Start low and work up.

 

[MarkyD]

Adding one I didn't like:
INW Nutty Princess - overwhelming taste of anise. Might be good if you like vaping a pizzelle, but as a nut was a total flop.