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    I did remember to leave a damn comment.

    Was it you or Rude who left the comment?

    That comment box is so small I've always missed it. This time I was determined not to do so and they got a very nice little note.

    Never mind, you say it was nice, so it couldn't have been Rude.
     
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    I used VTA Swiss Chocolate in your ice cream base along with chocolate mousse. IIRC, chocolate mousse was at 2% and then added 0.75% swiss. The swiss further enhanced the overall chocolate profile.

    Also had a simple cake mix that I then added both chocolates to in the same way. Percents may have been different in that one.

    In both mixes I was pleased with how the two chocolates worked together.

    I think VTA did a great job with all their chocolates. I'm pretty sure I have them all.
     

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    I used VTA Swiss Chocolate in your ice cream base along with chocolate mousse. IIRC, chocolate mousse was at 2% and then added 0.75% swiss. The swiss further enhanced the overall chocolate profile.

    Also had a simple cake mix that I then added both chocolates to in the same way. Percents may have been different in that one.

    In both mixes I was pleased with how the two chocolates worked together.

    I think VTA did a great job with all their chocolates. I'm pretty sure I have them all.
    Good to know. Thanks :) I like chocolate in vape flavors.
     

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    Could someone explain the proper way to drip? Let's say I have dripped some of a cake flavor and I want to see how a fruit goes with it. Do I just add a drop from the flavor bottle or?
    My mornings always start with dripping high nic flavorless in an RDA on a mech. I completely saturate the wick and vape away.

    You want your wick well saturated with juice.

    As to your question about dripping with 2-3 different flavors or mixes:

    I usually add a good amount of a base flavor first until a fresh wick is nearly saturated. Then, yes, start lightly with the second flavor or mix. I'll add 3-4 drops of the second mix to start with and adjust the amounts from there.

    Once I get a feel for how they work together I tweak how much of each gets added until I'm satisfied. If the 2 mixes work well together then I write up a recipe. Based off of how much of each got added gives me a good feel for how to write the new recipe.

    In between each tweaking I will vape the wick until it's just about dry. You will know when to add more. Once the wick is nearly dry you will start to notice less and less vapor. As you already know, go further and yucky dry hit. :)
     

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    My mornings always start with dripping high nic flavorless in an RDA on a mech. I completely saturate the wick and vape away.

    You want your wick well saturated with juice.

    As to your question about dripping with 2-3 different flavors or mixes:

    I usually add a good amount of a base flavor first until a fresh wick is nearly saturated. Then, yes, start lightly with the second flavor or mix. I'll add 3-4 drops of the second mix to start with and adjust the amounts from there.

    Once I get a feel for how they work together I tweak how much of each gets added until I'm satisfied. If the 2 mixes work well together then I write up a recipe. Based off of how much of each got added gives me a good feel for how to write the new recipe.

    In between each tweaking I will vape the wick until it's just about dry. You will know when to add more. Once the wick is nearly dry you will start to notice less and less vapor. As you already know, go further and yucky dry hit. :)
    So you can drip a little right from a flavor bottle?
     

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    @FranC, I've also saturated the hell out of a wick with the first mix and am always able to add several drops of a second flavor/mix directly on the coil.

    Each time, or go around, I always drip the second flavor directly on the middle of the coil. It will then spread itself out across the wick.

    Make sense?
     
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    @FranC, I've also saturated the hell out of a wick with the first mix am always able to add several drops of a second flavor/mix directly on the coil.

    Each time, or go around, I always drip the second flavor directly on the middle of the coil. It will then spread itself out across the wick.

    Make sense?
    Yes, that's a better description. The flavor I'm going to drip as main will be the Custard Cake when steeped.
     

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    I really don’t drip much. I agree with SMT. Saturate the coil with the base flavor then drip a couple drops of the fruit or whatever right on the coil. I wouldn’t drip straight flavoring. At least I never have. I always have dripped with mixes.
     

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    I really don’t drip much. I agree with SMT. Saturate the coil with the base flavor then drip a couple drops of the fruit or whatever right on the coil. I wouldn’t drip straight flavoring. At least I never have. I always have dripped with mixes.
    I've never been a dripper. I have tried in the past. Maybe if I get the hang of it I'll like it more. Kinda doubt it but who knows. Never been a squonker either, something along the same lines.
     

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    So you can drip a little right from a flavor bottle?
    Good thought. You could. But that will get tricky.

    If the flavor (straight from the bottle) becomes the predominate flavor on your wick, you are totally hosed. You would then need to rewick. And in some cases replace the coil if it was a strong flavor. I've had to do that with claptons a few times (with regular mixes only!).

    If you have a base you like and want to see how flavor XYZ will work (direct from the flavor bottle), yes, it might/maybe work. In that case, I would start with a very well saturated wick of your base mix, add a single drop from the flavor bottle, then add more of the base mix over the top so they mix together within the wick. Let it sit for a few minutes before vaping so the new flavor works its way into your base mix.

    I would not add a flavor straight from the bottle. If the new flavor (direct from bottle) is a strong one, super or ultra concentrated, you run the risk of it completely overpowering the original mix. Hosed. Rewick.

    I like doing it with already made and steeped mixes. When I do SFT's there is always some left. Rather than dump those I always experiment using them in other mixes. You could always do a bunch of 5ml solo flavor mixes, PIA I know, and add them over a base you may want to mix any of those flavors with.

    FWIW, there are a few people on ECF vaping flavorless who sometimes add a drop or two straight from the flavor bottle to their wick just for something different. That works well for them.

    Hope that makes sense. :)
     

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    That’s sad. Small cities are getting gutted by the big box stores. It’s hard to draw people back to shop small business sadly
    The collapse of the herring fishery killed the town. There used to be a couple dozen sardine-packing plants here. Now there are none (the last one--right next door to me--closed in 2001). The town was already depressed then, but things go worse quickly after that.
     

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