Things I have noticed with E-liquid

[TamJeff]

Perhaps this has been covered, but it has to do with the aromatic properties vs the flavor of many e-liquids. Take caramel for instance, it smells a lot like caramel in the bottle. When you are making caramel for deserts, there is a fine line between just right and burnt. Basic caramel is cooked cane sugar. Now, while I understand many extracts are not genuine flavors, their properties/flavors can change with the addition of heat just like the real thing and this is probably more true with natural flavorings. While something may smell true in the bottle, cooking it further on the coil can quickly turn it into something beyond what it should be.

With that in mind, I wonder if any flavor producers have considered this, like say, to formulate a flavor just slightly before it's desired 'cooked' flavor, so that by the time it comes into contact with direct heat of the coil, that it arrives at it's target, optimum, true flavor. I may be wrong and that's ok. But it makes me wonder what the advantage might be for someone who produces flavor additives to head in this direction with flavors that are formulated specifically for vaping, with the secondary heat exposure in mind.

 

[Ladypixel]

I'd like to see more experimentation along these lines. However, different people will have completely different reactions to the juice -- this is why so many companies have extra-flavor options and base their juices on a lower flavoring amount. It's going to be a bit of trial and error no matter who the person vaping the juice is, and the best that you can hope for is a juice-blender who goes for what is optimal to their taste buds, knowing that as is the case with eating food prepared by a chef, your tastes may vary.

 

[Kemosabe]

i'll take the caramel...al dente, please

 

[TamJeff]

I'd like to see more experimentation along these lines. However, different people will have completely different reactions to the juice -- this is why so many companies have extra-flavor options and base their juices on a lower flavoring amount. It's going to be a bit of trial and error no matter who the person vaping the juice is, and the best that you can hope for is a juice-blender who goes for what is optimal to their taste buds, knowing that as is the case with eating food prepared by a chef, your tastes may vary.

I get the impression that many juice manufacturers are using flavors designated for other products, or food products? I started out vaping with a friends gear and juices he made himself. I never really knew it was as large as it is until I searched it online recently, or that I would be looking to buy my own vaping supplies. I do pitch in even though he never asks me to for just not wanting to be a burden, but I could swear he told me that a lot of these flavors are from suppliers who serve a different market entirely.

Maybe it's already being done for all I know, but if not, and there was to be a refinement in e-juice flavors, it seems this would have to be where they started. I personally like the coffee flavors. I also live near an outfit that roasts coffee and they have people who test the taste, adjust roasting times accordingly etc.

Perhaps then we would get the true flavors instead of the essence of, a good part of which is coming from the perfume quality of the juice before it is vaporized. The difference perhaps between coffee freshly made, over that which has set on the burner for a couple hours. True flavors, instead of a mix match of unrelated flavors that fake the real deal.

 

[Kemosabe]

some vendors might use natural flavors. i know for sure that there are organic juices, so those naturally would be natural im guessing. also, WTA are used in certain vendors' juices to get more of a "real" tobacco taste.