mixing newbie

[booblay]

Hi everyone. I'm thinking of mixing my own juices. Plan to buy some stuff tomorrow (payday). I know I need to get hold of some nic base, which I hear I can get from a few places, such as Nicvape or postmodern smoking. But what's the best flavourings to get? I've heard flavourart is good, and capella and cupcake world.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm sure it's all down to personal taste, but which specific flavours and vendors do you like? Which are considered gourmet?

I'll be aiming to make non-tobacco juices. Primarily chocolatey, caramelly juices, some fruity ones.

I hope you can help. Cheers.

[Perpetua]

Post Modern does a Mixing Starter set Boo . . . everything you need to get going, bar flavouring and he does also stock F'arts concentrates.

www.postmodernsmoking.com/index.php/shop/diy-e-liquid-mixing-1/mixing-accessories/diy-mixing-starter-kit.html

As for the ' best ' flavourings, I don't think there is one as such, most of us use a mixture from all the main Flavour Houses . . . Capella's are probably good to start with if you enjoy dessert/candy type flavours. I find a lot of them are great standalones, or only require a little tinkering to get a good result from, which is useful when you're first starting out.

[booblay]

Cheers, Perps. I think I'll do a little mix n matching, and probs best get some of that wizard stuff and dulce leche (sic?) everyone recommends. Dead exciting. And what with being pregnant, I can mix really low nicotine but maybe play around with it so as to still get a throat hit of some sort.

What are your favourite caramel and chocolate flavours? I'd ideally like to nail a chocolate juice, since there aren't many good ones. And as for caramel, the only juice I've tasted which has a gorgeous caramel is some of Froggy's juices. I wonder which he uses.

You know those chocolate digestives with caramel inside? One day I'd like to achieve that.

[Perpetua]

Yes, I'd certainly get some Vape Wizard, Dulce de Leche and a sweetner of some sort Boo, they're great mixing basics to have in stock.

As for nice Caramel/Choccie flavours, I like/have used:

TPA Caramel Original
Capella Caramel
CCW Caramel ( pleasant but quite weak I found, might be the one Frog uses? )

TPA Double Dark Chocolate
F'art Chocolate
Capella - All their chocs I've used have been very authentic
Health Cabin Chocolate Cake


If you're after a Chocolate biccie mix Boo, I'm sure Esme has posted one on our Recipe Collection sticky, F'art also do a very nice Cookie flavouring, that makes a great base to start from.

[esmecullen]

thanks perpy hun .......... booblay my choc cookie is up in the recipies, its a 8mg nic one but you can go lower if you want......... thats the joy of home mixing The F'Art cookie is lovely and goes well with the choc as with anything else you want to mix it with

If you like sweet things.............. my banana waffle & maple syrup is also up........... must make some more of that BTW

Have fun experimenting

[booblay]

I've had a gander at the recipes page and some of them look bloody lovely. And I am inspired. One thing's for sure - my credit card is gonna get brutalised tomorrow.

Quick question - what, prey, is dulce de leche? A specific flavour or a special wizardy mix thing?

[Perpetua]

It's a flavour Boo, though I wouldn't care to vape it by itself, though I have seen it available . . . said to be based on the creamy Hagen Daz ice cream.

Brilliant for rescuing a mix from disaster, ready mixes as well, or for adding a creamy, non vanilla/cream element to a brew.

[FirinBlanks]

Dulche de leche is a Brazilian sweet sauce that normally goes on ice cream. In the mixing world it adds a slight caramel flavour and smoothens out a mix. It's like a MTS Vape wizard with a big stick!

[OneDay]

woo Perps you've just blasted through 20,000 posts
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[Karma]

Jan 17, 2013 22:18:50 GMT OneDay said:

woo Perps you've just blasted through 20,000 posts

Posting Ninja

[Perpetua]

The vast majority, complete and utter cods most likely Oneday.

[booblay]

And also, I notice that in some recipes, Asda rum was used. This work OK? Cuz I have some lovely spiced rum in the house...

[booblay]

Thanks for the info re dulche de leche btw. I'm sure my recipes will need alot of rescuing.

[FirinBlanks]

Jan 17, 2013 22:20:14 GMT Perpetua said:

The vast majority, complete and utter cods most likely Oneday.

I'll second th...

Sorry congrats P, I'd just like to say your codswallop has helped me no end.

[FirinBlanks]

I would "guess" that the spiced rum won't be concentrated enough for a mix. My advice (as a doctor) would be to drink it.

NB. At no point has FirinBlanks ever been or will likely be a doctor