Please share your latest EPIC FAIL

[FinallyQuit]

In the spirit of misery loves company!

Today I used TFA Pumpkin Spice for the first time ever. Another member had given me this 30ml bottle because it was stinking up the whole house, which should have been my first clue, but I am brave. So I researched it and discovered many many people stating it was strong, to use it sparingly, no more than 2%, etc. etc.

So I mixed up some of my latest coffee extract, added some vanilla and sweetener, mmmm tastes pretty good. Added 1% pumpkin spice {that's 0.1 ml in a 10 ml bottle} and now I'm vaping something that is well on it's way to being a clove cigarette.

It's not horrible but it's not coffee anymore. It's going in the "idea" folder and back to the drawing board on the coffee.

Please share!

 

[michaelsil1]

I've been lucky lately and the diasters haven't been so much from mixing, but from some of the flavors I've bought.


I'm sure I could mix a real loser in the very near future. I just got really bold with something for a friend, but he said it smells really good.

 

[jgoss]

Prickly Pear from flavor west. I've tried it with by itself, with other fruits, rum, cola, sweetened and unsweetened. I just can't find a way to make this stuff good. I need some tequila, but I bet it still sucks.

 

[glasseye]

TFA Chai Tea. I used 2% with some other stuff, bav. cream and what-not and it still was

I've pretty much come to the conclusion that I like to drink tea, not vape it.

 

[michaelsil1]

TFA Chai Tea. I used 2% with some other stuff, bav. cream and what-not and it still was

I've pretty much come to the conclusion that I like to drink tea, not vape it.

I love vaping Tea, but most of them are HORRIBLE!

 

[dannyv45]

VZ SC strawberry. Used 2.5 % as recommended and it tasted over powering and like candy. No matter how much I diluted it I could not get it to taste right. Then mixed a little VZ sc peach and it got even more discussing. Then thought maybe add a little creaminess to it so added some vz sc cream and what I wound up with was a strawberry peach cream candy from hell. Haven't touched it since.

 

[FinallyQuit]

A friend on another thread gave me a fantastic idea, if anyone cares to expound on it, let me know. Why not dilute the strong flavoring in pg, then use the diluted flavor in my mix.

Duh, why didn't I think of that?

So, what percent should I add to 10 mls pg to get a nice diluted not-so-clove flavor?

 

[dannyv45]

well if you want to dilute the flavor by 25% add 2.5ml in half add 5 ml's pg. If you want to dilute by 75% add 7.5ml. But I would rather just add less flavor to my mix then dilute the entire concentrated flavor because some recipes may require more flavor and some less.

The only exception is if your already using 1% or .5% and its still to strong and it's now getting difficult to measure an accurate small amount. Then I would just dilute a small amount of the concentrate like 1ml concentrate to .25ml (25%), .5ml (50%) or .75ml (75%) PG.

 

[FinallyQuit]

Blech, I think this one might be a trial and error kinda thing. Not sure my taste buds are up for it!

 

[SonHouse]

I would run away from that. I had a pumpkin spice from ..........s a while back that tasted like what you're describing. I'd drive to the next county, crack the bottle and that should flavor your mix enough. Disasters? I always have several in the offing. The one that's annoying me tonight is I had a perfectly good smooth tobacco mix from VaporShots going. Genius over here decided to put brown sugar in it. Only a couple % but now it's become cloying and vaguely disgusting. Then there are my recent experiments with the TFA cherries. Not the stuff of legends! And we could discuss my coffee extracts which were merely sub-optimal until I decided to combine them with my TFA cherry experiments. I went back to single fruit flavor and sweet cream mixes this weekend just because I couldn't muck those up!

 

[Rin13]

DJI Sam Soe, clove flavor... was just horrid to me. I don't know why I even wanted to try it because typically I do not like clove... but I did anyway and MEH. Disgusting.
Besides that, mixing Hangsen Cola w/ a little Hangsen Vanilla was pretty gross. I don't think I like Hangsen Vanilla.

 

[NeMom]

I just started DIYing about a month ago and have had many epic failures that have gone down the drain because I just can't vape them. Strawberry/Banana; Cherry anything; Raspberry lemonade; cappuccino (which I will never try making again). My problem is I added way too much flavoring to get them to taste right and then just ended up with a chemical taste and totally unvapeable.
I did make a watermelon menthol in a small batch that was awesome. Tried a larger batch and WAYY to much menthol. Didn't ditch that batch but is only used in small amounts as a additive.
Now my problem is I am trying to many combinations and I need to focus on mastering a couple flavors I really like and the move on from there.
It's all a learning process.

 

[fitchy]

I too think i'm trying too much too soon.... got loads of bottles steeping, and not sure which one I'm vaping now, but its yummy as it is.... now just to figure out which of my peanut batches it was!!

 

[stealthmayhem]

I decided to make a peaches -N- Cream liquid. .5 ml of Lorann's Peach, .5 ml of Lorann's Sweet Cream, .5ml of EM to a 15ml bottle. I almost puked. The peach was waaaaaaaay too strong, and I like strong flavors. I diluted it again with 15 more ml of unflavored. Barely vapable. another 20ml of unflavored. Now I can handle it, but all I taste is peaches. .5ml in a 50ml bottle! That is only 1%.

 

[michaelsil1]

DJI Sam Soe, clove flavor... was just horrid to me. I don't know why I even wanted to try it because typically I do not like clove... but I did anyway and MEH. Disgusting.
Besides that, mixing Hangsen Cola w/ a little Hangsen Vanilla was pretty gross. I don't think I like Hangsen Vanilla.

Vanilla Coke should have worked!

Mine was bad as well.



I just made some TFA Caramel Candy Peanut Butter for someone (by request).

I don't expect it to be a winner.

 

[stealthmayhem]

Another flavor that I have been unable to work into any recipes is Black Sesame. The only thing that I can make with it that is halfway palatable is when I use very little .5% or less added to American Red Tobacco flavor.

 

[michaelsil1]

Another flavor that I have been unable to work into any recipes is Black Sesame. The only thing that I can make with it that is halfway palatable is when I use very little .5% or less added to American Red Tobacco flavor.

Try the TFA Black Sesame at .01%

 

[FinallyQuit]

Try the TFA Black Sesame at .01%

Uncap the flavoring bottle and blow across the top of it into the mix bottle?

 

[michaelsil1]

Uncap the flavoring bottle and blow across the top of it into the mix bottle?

I would have to get my nose close to it! 8-o

 

[jcmccord235]

I have a few flavors that I mix into a vial 0.4 mg flavor 3.6 mg VG and label the bottle 1:10 diluted (flavor name). I mix my hazelnut at around 0.2% and so I add 2% of the diluted mix.

Might have to do that twice with the sesame