I just bought :Bavarian Cream Flavor, Brown Sugar Extra, Cheesecake Flavor, Cinnamon Sugar Cookie, Gingerbread Flavor, Graham Cracker (Clear), Marshmallow Flavor, Molasses Flavor, Peanut Butter Flavor, Pie Crust Flavor, Pineapple Flavor, Strawberry (Ripe) Flavor, Sweet Cream Flavor, Sweetener, Vanilla Cupcake, Vanilla Custard Flavor.
Anyone have any tasty recipes I can try?
I would try the Cinnamon Sugar Cookie, Peanut Butter, Vanilla Cupcake, Vanilla Custard, Pineapple, and Strawberry by themselves. Make 5ml of each flavor at 5%, 10%, and 15%. Test vape each to see what strength tastes closest to what you think is correct. Most should be tasty right after you make them, but they will taste different in a few days. Adjust the strength of the next mix up or down from the one you thought was closest. I am finding that I keep lowering my percentages, and not losing flavor. For me, when the flavor is too strong, my taste buds seem to dull themselves a little to keep from going into overdrive. An audio comparison would be going from max volume that sounds good to the garbled screeching that comes out of a speaker right before it blows. I lose the taste of some of the flavors in mixes.
I am just guessing here, but I would try the Cheesecake at 4%-5% mixed with Graham Cracker at 1.5% to 2%, and maybe try the same with 2%-3% Strawberry in it. You can test vape right away, but I would toss these aside until the color appears and then try them to see what they really taste like.
Tangentially related, I'm curious why there's been no public evidence of vapers getting popcorn lung. There's been enough of them for long enough vaping juices that contain Diacetyl or related diketones that someone should have had enough reduced lung capacity to finger flavoring as the cause.
I have had some of the same thoughts from seeing the TFA list grow. I know that some people on here on ECF have vaped those very flavors for 3 or 4 years, maybe longer. Unfortunately, we have been testing for quite some time. Fortunately, no one has been diagnosed with popcorn lung so far. By all accounts, we all feel better. I'd bet that we have upwards of 100 ECF members whose entire ADV rotation included flavors with the custard molecules for multiple years.
I often wonder IF vaping Diacetyl in eLiquid would even have the same effect. Every known victim of popcorn lung was inhaling ridiculously large quantities of Diacetyl as a dry, airborne, fine particulate. Just perfect for making its way deep into the smallest crevasses of their lungs. Diacetyl in vapor is embedded in 2 or more liquids that keep them in suspension even after they contact your lung tissue. For all we know, they float on top and get swept right out. Most of what we inhale, gets exhaled without actually contacting tissue at all. In parts per billion, the numbers may seem bad, but the "safe" limit is, for all practical purposes, an educated guess based on observations of it as a dust. Even if I vaped nothing but flavors containing Diacetyl for 6 months at my normal quantity of eLiquid, I would inhale less actual Diacetyl than those factory workers did in less than 2 hours of an average work day. When I consider the relatively small quantities of eLiquid that I use per day and the fact that most of the other flavors in my rotation do not have them (pending changes, of course), I am not that worried about it.
