mixing flavors

[nebulas]

Okay, so I have been diy for quite sometime now but I have always just kept things simple and only used one flavor at a time and the flavors I use rarely need to go more that 7-8% in flavoring. I am usually between 2% and 4%. Recently, I decided I wanted to try mixing some flavors and the ones I decided to try mixing are Capella's. Each flavor by itself needs about 15%. If you were doing two flavors that each independently need about 15% on their own, would you just mix them together at 15% each, making the juice a total of 30% flavoring? That just seems like a lot to me. Or would you do like 7.5% each? Or maybe do something like 10% each?

I understand this needs to be a trial and error process but using 15% can make my new bottle of flavoring disappear really quick when I don't know a good place to start.

 

[Heabob]

Depends on which flavors...

Which one is the stronger flavor?, and which is background flavor?

Some don't taste well mixed together, but some do.

1.1 Main flavor at 10-15% or 2 main flavors like 7% each (varies tho)
2.Vanillas & Creams as mixers 1-4%
3.EM or sweetener < 1%

 

[dannyv45]

I usually divide the full % of a single flavor by the number of flavors that I'm using. So if you use 15% of a single flavor and want to use 3 flavors I would devide 15/3= 5% If flavor 2 is used at 10% for single flavor I would divide 10/3= 3.3% and if flavor 3 is used at 20% for a single flavor I would divide 20/3=6.6%

Then add

5 + 3.3+ 6.6 would equal 14.9% total flavor which would be a good starting point. You would then from there adjust accordingly. For instance flavor one is your main flavor base so you may want that stronger then the other flavors so you would adjust that flavor upward. Flavor 2 may be used as just a highlight note so you may want to adjust that downward. It's all trial and error so you would want to make small test batches.

 

[nebulas]

Actually only one is Capellas and the other is Flavors Express. Both need to be at around 15% though. I tested them individually first. The main flavor is Flavors Express Banana Pudding. The background flavor is Capellas Peanut Butter. I was also thinking of maybe adding Capellas Vanilla Custard to compliment, which I also have, but after tasting the peanut butter, I really don't think I will need it. It is creamy and luscious on its own.

The idea for this flavor is to be like a banana nut flavor, just creamier and more custard like.

 

[dannyv45]

Then the banana is the base flavor and I would recommend 10%
Peanutbutter would be the accent and I would recommend 5% and work up from there.

 

[LDS714]

You can try mixing some of your existing single-flavor juices together at 50/50 and see if that gives what you're looking for. If not, adjust accordingly.

 

[Heabob]

Just get some TFA Banana Nut Bread

However, the Banana + Peanut Butter recipe is called "Elvis".

But I think it has Chocolate in it too.

You could also add 1-2% Vanilla Custard to it.

BTW the Banana 7% + Custard 3% is very good, well, my version is anyway...

 

[flowerpots]

Just get some TFA Banana Nut Bread

However, the Banana + Peanut Butter recipe is called "Elvis".

But I think it has Chocolate in it too.

You could also add 1-2% Vanilla Custard to it.

BTW the Banana 7% + Custard 3% is very good, well, my version is anyway...

Who makes the best custard? I got FA custard this week and I'm not thrilled with it.

 

[Hoosier]

Think of it differently and it may make more sense on how the math for combining flavorings works.

Imagine you have two 10ml bottles of juice, each of them with a single flavoring at 15%. Each bottle contains 1.5ml of flavoring. If you were to dump those two bottle together, you would have 20ml of juice that has 3ml of flavoring, so 15%. Percentages don't add like integers.

And that imaginary exercise is also a good way to experiment with mixing flavors together too. A bottle of each single flavoring mix that's pretty close to what you want. You know how much flavoring is in each ml in each of those bottles, so you can add them up after your done mixing to reverse-engineer the recipe of your creation.

 

[Heabob]

Who makes the best custard? I got FA custard this week and I'm not thrilled with it.

Capella Vanilla Custard (original) has custard notes. (but good tasting)

Capella Vanilla Custard v2 (custard notes removed), just got this one today (30ml), Bull City had it but I think is now OOS.

 

[nebulas]

Think of it differently and it may make more sense on how the math for combining flavorings works.

Imagine you have two 10ml bottles of juice, each of them with a single flavoring at 15%. Each bottle contains 1.5ml of flavoring. If you were to dump those two bottle together, you would have 20ml of juice that has 3ml of flavoring, so 15%. Percentages don't add like integers.

And that imaginary exercise is also a good way to experiment with mixing flavors together too. A bottle of each single flavoring mix that's pretty close to what you want. You know how much flavoring is in each ml in each of those bottles, so you can add them up after your done mixing to reverse-engineer the recipe of your creation.

Thats a great way to look at it! And I have done that before, even with my own juices so it makes complete since.