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Also... The following mix is loosely based on a recipe Hitt posted a while back.

Chocolate Coffee Cookie
VTA Chocolate Mousse 1.25%
VTA Dark Chocolate 0.75%
SSA Shortbread Cookie 1%
Cap Cake Batter 0.75%
WF Vanilla Cream Extra 1.5%
SSA Mocca Coffee 0.5%

Suggested steep time = 3-4 weeks.

SSA Mocca Coffee is a very highly concentrated flavor. At 0.5% the coffee makes its presence well known. It's an excellent tasting coffee.

My cookie base is the shortbread and cake batter.

The two chocolates combined with WF VCE deliver a chocolate that's very smooth tasting. WF VCE also helps to tone down VTA DC.

My DIY intuition (it's a thing :greengrin: ) told me the recipe Hitt found was going to be a dry mix. Adding CAP CB and WF VCE made mine a mix that is not dry.

The next time I mix this... SSA MC will be reduced to 0.25% for less of a coffee note.
Can I sub shortbread-cap-for the shortbread cookie? I'm willing to buy the shortbread cookie, if need be.
 

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Just had to grab two more bottles to vape sooooooo if you have any more ideas I can use the help. I so far have 4 recipes.
A bakery base, smoothie or yogurt with grapefruit, kiwi and watermelon. I used that fruit combo in my milkshake, yogurt and cake bases... and love it.

Did you mix the yogurt cucumber mix? It is a very simple but tasty and refreshing mix.

I am also liking the combination of mango, pineapple and passionfruit in my yogurt mix and also in my cupcake mix.

CAP Wafer Crunch works nicely with CAP Fresh Pineapple and a couple creams. Any pineapple will work. Add a mango for another flavor note.
 

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Can I sub shortbread-cap-for the shortbread cookie? I'm willing to buy the shortbread cookie, if need be.
I think I'm the one person who does not like CAP Shortbread. It's a completely different tasting shortbread compared to SSA Shortbread Cookie. The SSA tastes like a real shortbread cookie does. For me, CAP Shortbread doesn't resemble anything like an actual shortbread cookie in real life.
 
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    A bakery base, smoothie or yogurt with grapefruit, kiwi and watermelon. I used that fruit combo in my milkshake, yogurt and cake bases... and love it.

    Did you mix the yogurt cucumber mix? It is a very simple but tasty and refreshing mix.

    I am also liking the combination of mango, pineapple and passionfruit in my yogurt mix and also in my cupcake mix.

    CAP Wafer Crunch works nicely with CAP Fresh Pineapple and a couple creams. Any pineapple will work. Add a mango for another flavor note.
    I did mix the cucumber mix, not bad. On your first fruit combo what % do you use?
     
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    I think I'm the one person who does not like CAP Shortbread. It's a completely different tasting shortbread compared to SSA Shortbread Cookie. The SSA tastes like a real shortbread cookie does. For me, CAP Shortbread doesn't resemble anything like an actual shortbread cookie in real life.
    Thanks, I'm going to order the shortbread cookie.
     

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    Can't remember if I've already posted this one. Here's another simple recipe I've been enjoying.

    Those who enjoy vaping cherry, take note.

    Tahiti Cream
    FA Vanilla Tahity 2.5%
    FA Vienna Cream 1.5%
    FA Cream Fresh 0.75%
    FA Coconut 1%

    FA Tahity is a very perky and bright, yet a delicate vanilla. It offers a very realistic but light cherry note. And there is also a rather light almond note experienced on the backside. Flavour Art did a bang-up job with this flavor. It's true to a Tahitian Vanilla.

    A light cherry note will be noticed in this mix. It is not in-your-face. There is zero cough drop style cherry in this flavor.

    The two creams boost the overall vanilla profile.

    FA Coconut at 1% is not noticed in the mix as a coconut flavor. Only those with a very sensitive sense of taste might notice its very light presence. It is solely in the mix for how it contributes to the overall creaminess of the mix. Coconut used low is excellent for adding creaminess to some mixes.

    The above mix has worked well with every bakery flavor I've used. I've used it with several bakery bases. Also added FW Yogurt to it for a Cherry Yogurt. And also with an ice cream base for a Cherry IC.

    FA Tahity Vanilla works excellently when paired with mild tasting fruits and it maintains brightness across such a mix. It would be a very a poor vanilla choice for Raspberry or other darker berries as those like to dominate mixes. It works excellently with strawberry or pear for example. When used with s-berry or other mild tasting fruits the cherry note will not be experienced whatsoever.

    ETA: Fixed. Was supposed to be pear not peach. My fumble fingers apologize. :lol: Although it would work with a light touch of a peach. :greengrin:
     
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    Can't remember if I've already posted this one. Here's another simple recipe I've been enjoying.

    Those who enjoy vaping cherry, take note.

    Tahiti Cream
    FA Vanilla Tahity 2.5%
    FA Vienna Cream 1.5%
    FA Cream Fresh 0.75%
    FA Coconut 1%

    FA Tahity is a very perky and bright, yet a delicate vanilla. It offers a very realistic but light cherry note. And there is also a rather light almond note experienced on the backside. Flavour Art did a bang-up job with this flavor. It's true to a Tahitian Vanilla.

    A light cherry note will be noticed in this mix. It is not in-your-face. There is zero cough drop style cherry in this flavor.

    The two creams boost the overall vanilla profile.

    FA Coconut at 1% is not noticed in the mix as a coconut flavor. Only those with a very sensitive sense of taste might notice its very light presence. It is solely in the mix for how it contributes to the overall creaminess of the mix. Coconut used low is excellent for adding creaminess to some mixes.

    The above mix has worked well with every bakery flavor I've used. I've used it with several bakery bases. Also added FW Yogurt to it for a Cherry Yogurt. And also with an ice cream base for a Cherry IC.

    FA Tahity Vanilla works excellently when paired with mild tasting fruits and it maintains brightness across such a mix. It would be a very a poor vanilla choice for Raspberry or other darker berries as those like to dominate mixes. It works excellently with strawberry or peach for example. When used with s-berry or other mild tasting fruits the cherry note will not be experienced whatsoever.
    No cherry for me.
     
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    I usually have plenty of time. My downfall is that I have started reading again and it’s hard to put down a good book. At the moment I’ve finished my last kindle book and want to get some stuff done before starting another. I’m still Christmas shopping. Trying to get folks to give me some ideas.
    I should try to pick up my room but this time of year that’s a hopeless job. I also want to mix at least one recipe.
    We have gotten quite a bit for the kids. I usually leave the shopping for the outlaws to my wife.
    Also... The following mix is loosely based on a recipe Hitt posted a while back.

    Chocolate Coffee Cookie
    VTA Chocolate Mousse 1.25%
    VTA Dark Chocolate 0.75%
    SSA Shortbread Cookie 1%
    Cap Cake Batter 0.75%
    WF Vanilla Cream Extra 1.5%
    SSA Mocca Coffee 0.5%

    Suggested steep time = 3-4 weeks.

    SSA Mocca Coffee is a very highly concentrated flavor. At 0.5% the coffee makes its presence well known. It's an excellent tasting coffee.

    My cookie base is the shortbread and cake batter.

    The two chocolates combined with WF VCE deliver a chocolate that's very smooth tasting. WF VCE also helps to tone down VTA DC.

    My DIY intuition (it's a thing :greengrin: ) told me the recipe Hitt found was going to be a dry mix. Adding CAP CB and WF VCE made mine a mix that is not dry.

    The next time I mix this... SSA MC will be reduced to 0.25% for less of a coffee note.
    Was that from the one I found with 555 gold in it?
    Hello. Long time no see. Lots going on with me including getting my son ready to graduate in less than a month and all that entails, very busy at work, my Dad having bad reactions to some meds and going to the doctor with him, and now the holidays and lots more. I managed to get the house decorated for Christmas but I still have to do the big tree. UGH!

    My home desktop crashed the other day. It is almost 9 years old so it lasted a long time. We opened it up and tried to fix it but it's shot. I saw lots of moisture and it has to be from vaping although I blow all vape into a fan that blows it out of the room. Obviously not all of it. Oh well...live and learn. If you vape high vg be careful! I thought I lost some pics I downloaded from my phone recently but luckily we have google phones and all of my photos are saved automatically. WHEW! I think most of my older pics are on a thumb drive. However, I did not backup my vape spreadsheet. My son says we can remove the hard drive and buy some gadget from amazon that allows you to pull all info from the hard drive. Does anyone know anything about that? I need the vape spreadsheet and I want to make sure I have all the photos.

    Learn from me...backup your files!

    Now that I think about it I wonder if I saved the vape spreadsheet on my thumb drive as well. I'll look later as I'm using a small company-provided Surface computer and it's just small and weird.

    Happy vaping!
    I'm no computer hardware expert but have changed a couple hard drives before. I used a program called Acronis True Image to clone the old hard drive to the new one. I was lucky as there were extra cables inside the computer so just had to plug in the new drive inside the case to copy the old one to it. Things probably have changed a lot since I've done one.
     

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    Other ones too.
    Here ya go!!! Not sure if you wanted all or one, so all it is. :greengrin:

    WF Watermelon (Yellow) 2%
    WF Kiwi (Yellow) 1.3%
    SSA Grapefruit 1%

    With those flavors and percents you will taste the Grapefruit up front, followed by the Kiwi and then a light Watermelon on the backside. WF did a fantastic job with Kiwi (Yellow) and Watermelon (Yellow). The watermelon is not like many of the other watermelon flavors (sweet and candyish). It's more like FA Watermelon (Red Summer) minus the seed and rind notes.


    FLV Sweet Mango 1%
    FLV Ripe Mango 0.5%
    CAP Fresh Pineapple 2%
    FA Passionfruit 0.5%

    If you don't have the Flavorah mangoes, Island Mango will work. But, I should mention those FLV mangoes paired together make for a killer mango profile.


    Wafer Pineapple
    CAP Wafer Crunch 2.25%
    CAP Fresh Pineapple 1%
    WF Vanilla Cream Extra 1.25%
    WF Frozen Yogurt 1%
     

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    Can't remember if I've already posted this one. Here's another simple recipe I've been enjoying.

    Those who enjoy vaping cherry, take note.

    Tahiti Cream
    FA Vanilla Tahity 2.5%
    FA Vienna Cream 1.5%
    FA Cream Fresh 0.75%
    FA Coconut 1%

    FA Tahity is a very perky and bright, yet a delicate vanilla. It offers a very realistic but light cherry note. And there is also a rather light almond note experienced on the backside. Flavour Art did a bang-up job with this flavor. It's true to a Tahitian Vanilla.

    A light cherry note will be noticed in this mix. It is not in-your-face. There is zero cough drop style cherry in this flavor.

    The two creams boost the overall vanilla profile.

    FA Coconut at 1% is not noticed in the mix as a coconut flavor. Only those with a very sensitive sense of taste might notice its very light presence. It is solely in the mix for how it contributes to the overall creaminess of the mix. Coconut used low is excellent for adding creaminess to some mixes.

    The above mix has worked well with every bakery flavor I've used. I've used it with several bakery bases. Also added FW Yogurt to it for a Cherry Yogurt. And also with an ice cream base for a Cherry IC.

    FA Tahity Vanilla works excellently when paired with mild tasting fruits and it maintains brightness across such a mix. It would be a very a poor vanilla choice for Raspberry or other darker berries as those like to dominate mixes. It works excellently with strawberry or peach for example. When used with s-berry or other mild tasting fruits the cherry note will not be experienced whatsoever.
    Another for my next mixing session, Thank you.
    I do like cherry, would it help if I added a few drops of cherries-inw or compote cherry-ssa?
     

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    I think I'm the one person who does not like CAP Shortbread. It's a completely different tasting shortbread compared to SSA Shortbread Cookie. The SSA tastes like a real shortbread cookie does. For me, CAP Shortbread doesn't resemble anything like an actual shortbread cookie in real life.
    I also do not like CAP shortbread. I'm vaping it now as a single flavor and it's just a bit heavy to me. I have not tried it in a mix with other flavors though.
     

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    It really wasn't bad at all as written. I finished the bottle I mixed so that was a good sign. A lot of times I'll mix a recipe I find and end up dumping some of it that I don't finish. I might try mixing it again sometime.
     

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    Yep, they're around, generally pretty inexpensive, and effectively turn any drive into a USB drive, so you can access the one from the dead computer (as long is it wasn't the drive that died!) to get your data. They usually come with the necessary cables and such to both connect and power what used to be an internal drive.

    Something like this:

    Just the first one to pop up :) Search term "usb drive adapter"
    That's exactly what my son is suggesting. It is not the harddrive, it's one of the two fans and it's overheating. We took it apart and the fan is just hanging by a cord and we couldn't fix it. I'll try this adapter. Thanks!
     

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    I should mention those FLV mangoes paired together make for a killer mango profile.
    I should also note...

    FLV Sweet Mango isn't a "sweet" sweet. It's more like the sweet of a nicely ripened mango. FLV Ripe Mango is a ripe mango, just not as ripe as the other. Each mango lacks notes the other has. Paired together = awesomeness. Very similar to eating a freshly ripened mango.

    When I've used each on their own I was left with something less than a complete mango. I've switched up the percentages with both for a different mango flavor. Like so, FLV SM 1% + RM 0.5% to SM 0.5% and RM 1%. No matter how I change the percents, they always deliver a very well rounded mango profile.

    I have many mango flavors. Of those, the two Flavorah's are what I find myself using more of lately. Followed by WF Island Mango. At some point, to satisfy my curiosity, I will use the three together.
     

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    I've shopped a little bit. Nowhere near finished though. We had to get a stocking and holder for the new hellbeast (our new cat Precious). I thought getting her spayed would help her be more calm but nope. I also had to buy my parents a new tree and decorations for it. It was near 90 degrees last week so I'm still in summer mode. I can't believe the holidays are upon us. It's cold today currently at 54 degrees. I'm washing our coats and jackets now. Spring is right around the corner! Come on spring! I can't wait until the holidays are over. Get 'r done!
     

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    That's exactly what my son is suggesting. It is not the harddrive, it's one of the two fans and it's overheating. We took it apart and the fan is just hanging by a cord and we couldn't fix it. I'll try this adapter. Thanks!

    Odds are good, then, that the drive and data are intact. Once connected via USB to a working machine, you'll see it as just another drive, so all file operations will work.

    But a bad fan can also be easily replaced, search for one of the same physical size. Just a few screws and one connector. Although if the fan's been dead for some time, heat could also have damaged other components, so that might not do the trick.
     

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    Another for my next mixing session, Thank you.
    I do like cherry, would it help if I added a few drops of cherries-inw or compote cherry-ssa?
    That's an excellent idea! I am going to try that.

    If you want more cherry flavor, then yes, add a drop or two of SSA Compote Cherry. Start low, you can add more as needed.

    Alternatively, you could also add more FA Tahity Vanilla for more of a cherry note. Like 3% - 3.5%. But that will also boost the vanilla and likely make the almond more noticeable.

    I have and like SSA Ripe Cherry and SSA Compote Cherry and also FA Cherry.

    IMHO, the key with cherry flavoring and not turning it into a cough drop or cough syrup, is to use them lightly. Just 1-3 drops in a 30ml mix will deliver a nice authentic tasting cherry (depending on other flavors used).
     

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