flavoring ?

[canford]

After reading and you tubing some recipes, some people are using up to 45% flavouring to there mixes, is this safe to do or is it just a waste of flavouring or does it really give your juice that extra taste.

[DiscoDes]

Depends on how strong the flavouring is, I go up to 25% and that's pretty potent, 40% seems too high to me.

[Deleted]

I think you'll likely need to shave your tongue with 45% flavouring ... 35% is the max I've gone to

[chrisjw]

Be interesting to know what flavours they could be..............

[dragon]

I used to start all my mixes at 15% flavouring, after some experimentation, I discovered most of them actually taste better at lower concentrations rather than higher. It does depend on the flavour being used, but I suspect that sometimes the more you add the less flavour you get as an end result. I've never heard of good results from anything over 30% and even that is rare. At the end of the day though .... experiment, do 2ml samples to test, until you get it right (remember that steeping can make a huge difference to flavour too )

[canford]

ok thanks, one of the recipes was using a perfumes apprentice watermelon and the other one was flavourarts banana.

[Blownupdolly]

I think it depends on your taste buds. Mine are dreadful and if I go below 25% in most recipes I can hardly taste anything. Never been brave enough to go higher yet. As I gain experience I will try it.
I have always thought that my beloved GVC is a high percentage flavour purely because I can taste it!

[Deleted]

Jun 11, 2013 12:08:12 GMT canford said:

ok thanks, one of the recipes was using a perfumes apprentice watermelon and the other one was flavourarts banana.

I've mixed with both of those ... 45% F'art Banana will not taste like any banana you have experienced ... 13% is the highest I've gone with it and it's very rich and sweet

[canford]

Got a couple of 2ml sample bottles here, think I will give it a try at 40% with my favourite fruit punch from dec vapours and will let you know in a few weeks once its steeped a bit what its like.

[Perpetua]

I've gone that high on some CCW flavours Canford, just used them as a neat dilution with my Nicotine Base  . . . as some of them are quite weak to my taste.

But by and large between 20 - 25% is adequate for me and I consider my taste buds to be pretty poor.

[kurotoshiro]

I try not to go higher than 20%. And yes, this is a limit I'm imposing on myself for safety reasons. (Specifically: as far as I can see, the potential risks of vaping the chemicals contained in flavourings are much more of an "unknown factor" than the seemingly very minimal risk of vaping PG and VG.)

[lardarse]

I've been wondering about flavour %'s too. What got me thinking was, Pipe sauce from lf is 95%vg so that means only 5% flavour, other juices at 90% vg mean only 10% flavour yet you see recipes at well over that.

[Perpetua]

Jun 12, 2013 8:49:35 GMT lardarse said:

I've been wondering about flavour %'s too. What got me thinking was, Pipe sauce from lf is 95%vg so that means only 5% flavour, other juices at 90% vg mean only 10% flavour yet you see recipes at well over that.

A percentage of the flavouring could also be suspended in VG Lardarse, so it's not necessarily so . . .

[kurotoshiro]

Jun 12, 2013 12:08:32 GMT Perpetua said:

Jun 12, 2013 8:49:35 GMT lardarse said:

I've been wondering about flavour %'s too. What got me thinking was, Pipe sauce from lf is 95%vg so that means only 5% flavour, other juices at 90% vg mean only 10% flavour yet you see recipes at well over that.

A percentage of the flavouring could also be be suspended in VG Lardarse, so it's not necessarily so . . .

Yeah, they must be using VG-based flavours to achieve a final mix of 95% VG / 5% PG. But as Perps says, the fact that it's 95% VG doesn't mean there's only 5% flavour in it. There's probably much more flavour in it than that. In general, the PG/VG ratio of a liquid has no bearing on the percentage of flavouring it contains.