Tasting tips...

[leaford]

Looking back at all the new flavors from this last order, it's clear that while I had a few winners, I also let a few bad flavors slip by me. SO I need to step up my methods.

I'm researching food and wine tasting tips, but obviously most of them aren't applicable to vaping. So, I'm looking for any tips you guys might have to share.

Anyone have a special tasting technique you've found useful? Anyone found a good way to clear the palate between flavors? Any warnings about things to avoid?

Let's hear it!

 

[Kattdaddy]

Honestly, I find it really funny how particular one gets to the characteristics of taste when it comes to the individual vaper. I for one have emassed a specific array of flavors when it comes to tobacco flavors and am completely on the opposite side of taste when it comes to fruit/candy flavors. I like slightly sweet tobacco flavors kind of like a hint of nectar but when it come to fruit or candy.. Too sweet really kills it for me.

With that said.. what I usually do when tasting new flavors or cleansing the palette sake is drink a glass of what and eat a little celery or perhaps some cheese if I have some handy.

I would also like to say that I have mixed a lot of my own juice and I tend to develop ideas for mixes from a lot of cooking recipes... so those are useful. I like gourmet cooking at home and the dessert section a a lot of the recipe books have a lot of information that can be used in vaping.
Wine.. not so much.. but you could probably cleanse your palette with the wine and have a really good experience at the same time.

My $0.02 worth.. Have a good day. Tom

 

[leaford]

Wine.. not so much.. but you could probably cleanse your palette with the wine and have a really good experience at the same time.

You know, I bet I could actually get away with doing that, but I also bet I wouldn't be tasting a whole lot by the end of the day!

Seriously though, I might have to check the supermarkets here for celery. I already know cheese is hard to find here, but any particular type you would suggest anyway?

 

[Blooper]

you could always nibble on some ginger i think.

 

[crashtestjeep]

Yes, ginger and maybe some sparkling water then ur palate should be free n clear

 

[Belletrist]

also... not taste too much in one day, or spread out tasting over a couple hours. although you're only one man, and we need FLAVORS so scratch that. taste as much as fast as you can.

 

[pianoguy]

Don't sample anything after a menthol or mint carto - I just switched to another flavor after Spearmint, and it's going to take a while for it to taste right.

 

[Tanner S Hyde]

Dunno if it's pretty obvious, but I find "swishing" the tip of my tongue across the stream of vape comin from the cart to make the flavor really POP.. Also exhale very slow through mouth and nose (kinda like how they smoke weed in the movies LoL) seems to add to the lingering flavor and helps me to let the atty cool a bit between craving that next wonderful hit!

 

[Belletrist]

i'm a fan of the french inhale to get the most of my flavs but leaford, you seem a bit wary of the spicy/high throat hit ones so i picture a lot of sneezing going on should you attempt that.

 

[jebey29]

Looking back at all the new flavors from this last order, it's clear that while I had a few winners, I also let a few bad flavors slip by me. SO I need to step up my methods.

Which flavors do you feel are bad and that you let slip by?

 

[Taryn]

I would recommend tasting it over a period of several days at different points during the day. I'd also recommend ginger like you use for cleansing your palate between tastes of sushi. I know coffee is used to clear the nose when you are smell testing.

 

[Michelle43]

Looking back at all the new flavors from this last order, it's clear that while I had a few winners, I also let a few bad flavors slip by me. SO I need to step up my methods.

I'm researching food and wine tasting tips, but obviously most of them aren't applicable to vaping. So, I'm looking for any tips you guys might have to share.

Anyone have a special tasting technique you've found useful? Anyone found a good way to clear the palate between flavors? Any warnings about things to avoid?

Let's hear it!

My taste buds are still shot but I just wanted to tell you Leaford, ya can't please everyone all the time. HUGS I appreciate what a sacrifice you have made to go spend months in China away from home and away from Mike. The only new flavor I have tried was Carmel Mocha Frapp, and it is my personal favorite right now.

 

[leaford]

Thanks everyone. But ginger? Really? It's such a strong flavor, wouldn't it linger and foul the next flavor? How is that supposed to work?

 

[leaford]

My taste buds are still shot but I just wanted to tell you Leaford, ya can't please everyone all the time. HUGS I appreciate what a sacrifice you have made to go spend months in China away from home and away from Mike. The only new flavor I have tried was Carmel Mocha Frapp, and it is my personal favorite right now.

Thanks, Michelle, that means a lot.

 

[Taryn]

How about something light then, like crackers or white bread or even rice cakes plain with a sip of water?

 

[Michelle43]

Thanks, Michelle, that means a lot.

Anytime

 

[H3D]

Leaford one of the best ways to cleanse your pallet is with sorbet.

 

[impostor71]

I've always found that green/jasmine tea cleans my palate up real good.

 

[Doc1313]

ginger cleanses the palate. Thats why they serve it with sushi. Its worth a try

 

[Blue Skies]

I would recommend tasting it over a period of several days at different points during the day. I'd also recommend ginger like you use for cleansing your palate between tastes of sushi. I know coffee is used to clear the nose when you are smell testing.

The coffee beans were my first thought also since I wasn't sure how much of the "taste" actually comes from your tongue or from your nose. In my personal experience (still a rookie to vaping and my taste buds probably haven't fully recovered) I don't really taste much of anything until I actually exhale. This leads me to believe that our sense of smell helps our brain decide what flavor it is.

I would try to have a bowl/cup of whole coffee beans handy and once you're done testing one flavor, give a deep inhale through your nose over the coffee beans. Wait a minute or two and go to the next flavor.

It is said to "reset" your sense of smell and this is why whenever you go into a perfume store, they will usually have little cups of coffee beans, so you can smell each one as accurately as possible.

I'm not sure if this will actually work, but I figure it's worth a shot. Ginger would definitely work to "cleanse" the pallete, but I just don't like the taste that much