Just Found New Flavors In My Nose!

[SnakeFarm]

WOW! I just discovered a whole new vista of flavor right in my very own nose.

What I want to share with you is a fairly common pipe-smoker thing. I don't know what the maneuver is really called, but my Marine D.I. step-dad called it "Turkey F'ing" <substitute what a REAL Marine DI would say>. I never really saw the connection with doing anything untoward to a turkey, so I have NO IDEA why he called it that. Also, I'm not sure I can explain how it's done, but I'll try.

Get a really big gulp of vapor in your mouth, and instead of inhaling it, let it leak SLOWLY out of your nose. No, no no no... DON'T inhale it first, and THEN blow it out of your nose. Arrange your throat parts so it goes directly from your mouth, and SLOWLY out of your nose. Slowly. Again, I don't know what all the parts back there in your throat between your nose and mouth are called, epi-whatsits probably, so it's hard to explain. Then again, I guess it doesn't really matter what all that junk is called if you just focus on configuration. My guess is that there is a little sphincter like muscle at the base of your nose that keeps stuff from leaking out of your nose when you inhale or exhale out of your mouth. Just don't close that little nose sphincter, or inhale. Instead, open it and SLOWLY let some breath come out of your lungs while letting your tongue expand to force the vapor into your throat and out of your nose. It's easy once you get the hang of it.

A long time ago I tried to show a fellow pipe-smoker how to do this and they started choking and spitting and crying, and a lot of stuff that wasn't smoke started coming out of his nose. If this happens, I'd just blow it off. It's cool, but it's really not worth all THAT much trouble.

Oh, and if you do this with an analog, it "taste" like crap and turns your mustache yellow, but if you do it with JC Chocolate Truffle vapor, it just lightly flavors it.

Emmm... yummy chocolate mustache!

 

[baronvoncardo]

AHHHHHH...just did this with some RY4 and it slowly started to burn like a good snoot of wasabi. 'Bout as much fun as a good ol' fashioned turkey f*&$ing! I'll try it again with some different juice. Interesting concept: flavor quality due to inhalation method

 

[qixotica]

If you've ever mastered the "french inhale" as I've heard it called, you get much the same results. This method involves holding the vapor in your mouth, opening your mouth a little and slowly pushing your tongue toward the roof of your mouth starting at the back, thus pushing the vapor out of your mouth slowly. While doing this, inhale slowly through your nose. Aside from looking fairly nifty, you will get a whole new appreciation of your flavors, and it might not hit quite so hard for those that have trouble with "Turkey ..."

 

[Luvs5rugrats]

I exhale out my nose a lot because our taste is directly connected to our sense of smell but I get a runny nose when I do this. eew. lol

 

[Mindfield]

Never tried it without inhaling first. But I think it's fairly common knowledge that much of your taste comes from smell, so giving your nasal membranes a good snootful of vapor is likely to bring on a pretty intense flavour -- and possibly some good old fashioned burn if you're using a medium to strong juice.

 

[reprisal]

Its not actually a sphincter, its a flap called the epiglottis. I can't seem to perform what you describe, but one thing I like doing occasionally is holding the vapor in my mouth, mouth slightly open and inhale with nose. Vapor will rise from your mouth and enter your nose.

 

[DerekUrban]

If you've ever mastered the "french inhale" as I've heard it called, you get much the same results. This method involves holding the vapor in your mouth, opening your mouth a little and slowly pushing your tongue toward the roof of your mouth starting at the back, thus pushing the vapor out of your mouth slowly. While doing this, inhale slowly through your nose. Aside from looking fairly nifty, you will get a whole new appreciation of your flavors, and it might not hit quite so hard for those that have trouble with "Turkey ..."

I both love and hate you right now. I've wondered how to do that for years, and as I'm reading this thread I have my eGo loaded with a VERY menthol DIY juice... it was a bit unpleasant.

Still cool though!

 

[Mindfield]

Its not actually a sphincter, its a flap called the epiglottis. I can't seem to perform what you describe, but one thing I like doing occasionally is holding the vapor in my mouth, mouth slightly open and inhale with nose. Vapor will rise from your mouth and enter your nose.

Also known as the French inhale.

I did try the nasal exhale without inhaling. Didn't do well with the juice I currently have. Might have to try it with something a little more subtle.

 

[qixotica]

I both love and hate you right now. I've wondered how to do that for years, and as I'm reading this thread I have my eGo loaded with a VERY menthol DIY juice... it was a bit unpleasant.

Still cool though!

When I was on analogs, I smoked exclusively menthols. Now that I vape, it still accounts for probably 80% of my flavor use. Still, the first time I tried it with a PV, it felt like I had just snorted a gallon of magma from the lower bowels of the earth. Fortunately, you will get used to it, hehe.

 

[MiXoLoGiSt]

I have never even been able to get the french inhale down.

 

[Sedateme]

I'm surprised most people don't already do this. It's a great way to wrap your head around flavor, so-to-speak. If it burns, just try the exhale out of your nose at the beginning of your puff... it will be much milder, but still flavorful. After I take the actual inhale, I usually exhale out of my nose and mouth at the same time as well.

If you watch pbusardo's video reviews, he does this quite often.

 

[bmeyer46]

I would have to say I probably blow 90% of the vape out my nose as opposed to the 30% I did with analogs.
IMHO french inhaling vapor is not nearly as satisfying as with an analog! But it does look totally cool.
Anybody blow "vape rings"?

 

[bmeyer46]

I have never even been able to get the french inhale down.

just let the air out of your mouth slowly like you are trying to do a hot steamy breath on someones neck, and inhale through your nose at the same time....thats the best way for me to describe it....?

 

[x-smok3]

LOL I am picturing hundreds of vapers sitting at their computers trying this right now (yes, I did too). Kind of stout with a strong juice but you are right about the flavor.

 

[OttoBahn]

Nasal sphincter? lol

 

[bmeyer46]

LOL I am picturing hundreds of vapers sitting at their computers trying this right now (yes, I did too). Kind of stout with a strong juice but you are right about the flavor.

don't you wish we had webcams....I can just see the different faces and expressions!!! LOL

 

[Thulium]

The pharmaceutical grade nicotine used in most e-liquids is not the right pH to be absorbed by deep lung tissue for the fast absorption rate you get when smoking. Instead, the nicotine is absorbed more slowly through the oral mucosa in your mouth and upper respiratory system. Really, there is no need to inhale the vapor at all except to create the throat hit sensation that "feels like" smoking. If you want more "flavor", try learning to "French Inhale" and/or "French Exhale" through your nose...it should deliver nicotine more efficiently and will certainly make the flavor much stronger.

 

[bmeyer46]

french EXHALE? hmmmmm

 

[qixotica]

I would have to say I probably blow 90% of the vape out my nose as opposed to the 30% I did with analogs.
IMHO french inhaling vapor is not nearly as satisfying as with an analog! But it does look totally cool.
Anybody blow "vape rings"?

Vape rings are fun, though I've only ever managed smaller ones, and the vapor is a bit more tricky, at least for me.

On topic, it does occur to me that I have heard "Turkey ..." referred to as "Mad Bull" several times, for reasons to me much more clear then the other name...

 

[Olef]

I exhale 80% through my nose now, allowing the vapour to trickle out slowly often. It is amazing how much flavour can be found this way.

Thanks to the OP for a the chuckles. 'epi-whatsits' and a sphincter in your throat had me going, and kudos to any fella (presumably) with a mustache. Their ain't many of us left! RY4 gives you caramel-tache!