Stevia

[Balllsy]

Just bought some stevia liquid extract and hoped you guys could help please...

Will I need to dilute it and what ratio do you think I should use to make say a 30ml bottle of liquid just a little sweet?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[esmecullen]

I would use 1 drop............ not used the pre-prepared stuff but to err on the side of caution just try the tiniest drop

[dizzi]

Balllsy, why not decant say 10ml, bung in say 4 drops (I use about 4 drops of my homemade per 10 ml), give it a really good shake and try it. That way if it's too sweet, you can dilute the sweet 10ml (all or some) with the non-sweet 20ml, if it's not sweet enough add another drop (and so on as required), if it's just right you know to add another 8 drops to the rest.

Clear as mud?

[Perpetua]

Have you tasted it, to get a feel for how intense the sweetness is Balllsy?

[Balllsy]

Thanks for the advice guys, not received it yet Perps, but hopefully wont be too long.

[raid2506]

You will probably get a much better price in your local health food shop.

Mine was £4.80 for 125ml.

[Frogster (The Alchemist)]

But the one's you get in a Health Shop (in fact all the liquid ones I have seen) are not 100% pure, they are cut with other stuff and also nowhere near as sweet.

The best stuff you have to get from Paraguay, in powder form.

[Mev]

Got some 100% Stevia powder myself and not keen on the taste, i've tried a few sweetener's now to sweeten up tobacco flavours and none so far I like. Think i'll just try some plain caramel next.

[Perpetua]

Do you like Vanilla Mev? As that's quite nice in a baccy flavour and sweetens it up . . . as does Honey, but that I find can be a bit overpowering unless you're very sparing.

[Mev]

Not tried vaping Vanilla, but like the taste. I'll keep my eye out for vanilla, honey and caramel. I just thought i'd try my tobacco juice with a sweet touch but all the sweeteners just give it that saccharin taste which I don't like.

[Balllsy]

Dec 16, 2012 17:55:21 GMT Frogster (The Alchemist) said:

The best stuff you have to get from Paraguay, in powder form.

Yes so I have heard !! lol

[Mev]

haha.. mine took 20 days to reach me, i could only imagine the customs guys having a little sniff of my Stevia and God knows what with the seeds.
I was all excited when it arrived only to find it tastes the same as sucralose.

[Balllsy]

Thanks for all the replies guys, so have you mixing gurus not yet found a sweetener that only sweetens and has no taste apart from sweetness ?

[Mev]

It's all personal preference but for me Stevia + Sucralose both have that saccharin taste to them, Ethyl Maltol as that cotton candy taste to it. If you like those tastes that's fine and out of the three i've tried I prefer the Ethyl Maltol but I haven't found anything as yet with no taste, probably not possible to have no taste at all really come to think of it. I'm just going to search for something that'll add the sweetness and I also like the taste, I am just trying to sweeten Tobacco juices though, the ones I've mentioned may work a lot better in dessert or fruit types.

[Balllsy]

I had a liquid with ethyl maltol and found it completely overpowered the flavour. I even tried to mix some of it with menthol liquid and ended up ruining 60 ml of perfectly good liquid