Space Donut

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ok.....so I'm thinking Almond Amaretto .....and a bit of Yellow Cake should get me close enough to a marzipan.

I refuse to make another concentrate order this week.

(Apart from the one I just made with VE Jason )

[spacey]

Oct 6, 2015 20:42:53 GMT kreed said:

ok.....so I'm thinking Almond Amaretto .....and a bit of Yellow Cake should get me close enough to a marzipan.

I refuse to make another concentrate order this week.

(Apart from the one I just made with VE Jason )

Nooooo how could you forget to order Marzipan!!!!

I do actually get a subtle hint of marzipan in Yellow Cake though. Never tried Almond Amaretto so can't help you there. FA Vanilla Tahiti also has that Marzipan taste to me.

This mix does make coils a bit gunky after a full tank, so if you add Yellow Cake it might be wise to just use it on a dripper

[letsavit]

Balls..... I bought Cap Choc Glazed Doughnut so just went for 10% of that instead, marzipan smelt nice so a few more drops of that went in..... Slight detour but smells nice spacey

[letsavit]

Oct 6, 2015 20:42:53 GMT kreed said:

ok.....so I'm thinking Almond Amaretto .....and a bit of Yellow Cake should get me close enough to a marzipan.

I refuse to make another concentrate order this week.

(Apart from the one I just made with VE Jason )

If you still want some marzipan pm me your address, I'll get a few ml in post Monday for yer...

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That's very nice of you letsavit

PM on the way

[spacey]

Oct 8, 2015 22:54:38 GMT letsavit said:

Balls..... I bought Cap Choc Glazed Doughnut so just went for 10% of that instead, marzipan smelt nice so a few more drops of that went in..... Slight detour but smells nice spacey

Hahha oh dear - am sure it will be just as nice though.

I keep meaning to get some Cap Choc glazed dougnut so I can try the famous Bronuts recipe by Mr diy-or-die , although having made some Funfetti I'm realising what a tricky bugger that FA Joy is!! I did try adding a drop of it to an earlier version of my Space Donut recipe, it didn't work well for me

[spacey]

I've now updated this recipe (see first post) and to me it's a million times better! Although I enjoyed it as it was, I've now found that using FA Chocolate and adding either TPA Bavarian or FA Vienna Cream improve it no end

Perpetua - if you get a chance, would you mind altering the verison that is posted in the recipes thread? Many thanks

[Perpetua]

Done did for you spacey.

[spacey]

Nov 12, 2015 18:08:56 GMT Perpetua said:

Done did for you spacey.

Brilliant, Thank you!

[lancashirescott]

spacey I've just recently found Waynes site Diy or Die and ordered a rake of stuff for some of his recipes, the site is great for flavour info especially for me being new, now I'll have to order again lol just need marzipan & chocolate, Chefs Vapour amongst others are having a field day with me at the moment  icon_shoppingm 

[spacey]

Nov 13, 2015 9:06:41 GMT lancashirescott said:

spacey I've just recently found Waynes site Diy or Die and ordered a rake of stuff for some of his recipes, the site is great for flavour info especially for me being new, now I'll have to order again lol just need marzipan & chocolate, Chefs Vapour amongst others are having a field day with me at the moment  icon_shoppingm 

Haha you gotta love diy - there's always one flavour missing!!

Yep, I've watched his diy or die vids and enjoy his style, he makes me laugh

I've been meaning to make Bronuts for ages but am missing CAP choc donut, in fact chefs sent me an email saying it was back in stock yesterday, so I'll order some this weekend. I did make his Funfetti, but so far it isn't really doing it for me. It's been steeping for eons now, but I don't seem to taste what everyone else does unfortunately. Can't win 'em all I suppose!! I just don't seem to like the FA Joy - no matter how long it's steeped for I still get a flat beer taste from it

Have fun making mixes - if I can offer just one piece of advice it would be to learn your flavours individually before making recipes. I know it seems like a pain when you want to just get stuck in, but from my experience I only started having success once I understood each flavour. Plus, you can then mix little bits of your flavour testers together on a dripper to see what works well and what doesn't

[lancashirescott]

Nov 13, 2015 15:52:28 GMT spacey said:

Haha you gotta love diy - there's always one flavour missing!!
Yep, I've watched his diy or die vids and enjoy his style, he makes me laugh

I've been meaning to make Bronuts for ages but am missing CAP choc donut, in fact chefs sent me an email saying it was back in stock yesterday, so I'll order some this weekend. I did make his Funfetti, but so far it isn't really doing it for me. It's been steeping for eons now, but I don't seem to taste what everyone else does unfortunately. Can't win 'em all I suppose!! I just don't seem to like the FA Joy - no matter how long it's steeped for I still get a flat beer taste from it

Have fun making mixes - if I can offer just one piece of advice it would be to learn your flavours individually before making recipes. I know it seems like a pain when you want to just get stuck in, but from my experience I only started having success once I understood each flavour. Plus, you can then mix little bits of your flavour testers together on a dripper to see what works well and what doesn't

Cheers spacey, each week I see a new recipe and bugger I'm short of something and I must have 70 flavours now. I tried to watch his vids but they are a bit too drawn out for me, my attention span isn't the best   


I got part an order through including the CAP Chocolate Glazed Doughnut and it smells and tastes mild choc doughnut, waiting on the other stuff to try Bronuts and now yours 




So how would you go about sampling individual flavours and what proportions?
does it mean more bottles   

[spacey]

Nov 13, 2015 21:10:52 GMT lancashirescott said:

So how would you go about sampling individual flavours and what proportions?
does it mean more bottles   

Yep, more bottles!! I just get packs of the 10ml needle tip ones from FT as they're cheap as chips and ideal for flavour testers.

You can then make up sample bottles using your preferred pg/vg/nic ratio. I know some people do them without nic, but my personal feeling is that I want the nic in there so it all steeps together properly and is a true reflection of the end result.

I usually do a lick test to see how strong a concentate is (do not do this with Koolada!!!) and also google to see what other people recommend it's mixed at. For example, I know FA are alot more concentrated than FW, so I make FA testers at lower % and FW ones I tend to make much higher. (when it comes to using the flavours in recipes you then have a starting idea to work from if you know what x concentrate tastes like at say 4%).

My way of simplifying the above, so you don't have to get all your mixing stuff out and add individual pg/vg/nic to each sample, is that I keep a 100ml bottle made up of my own preferred pg/vg/nic ratio, that I've already factored in adding 5% of concentrate to (obviously sometimes I'll add more than 5%, sometimes less, but it's only a tester so it doesn't matter if this increases or decreases the nic in the tester. It's not going to make a big difference at such a small amount). So then I just pour 5mls of that mixture into a 10ml empty bottle, and add the required amount of concentate. Job Done

As for how I test them - I use my old faithful Igo L dripper, which is as basic a dripper that you can get and absolutely perfect for this. It's single coil, no adjustable airflow, and a push on top cap with one air hole (I drilled mine a bit as the stock hole was just to small). It's the easiest way I've found for doing this anyway. Just drip onto the cotton, and then if you are trying to see what x flavour tastes like with y flavour, then mix away. When you want to change then whip out the cotton and replace, and away you go again. Because its not got a deep drip well you're not wasting loads of juice, you can literally just use enough for your test, or then add a bit more if the other flavour you try with it is overpowering etc.

Sorry for such a long rambling explanation!!!

[chykensa]

Some great advice there spacey, good post and thank you!

[lancashirescott]

Nov 14, 2015 9:55:35 GMT spacey said:

My way of simplifying the above, so you don't have to get all your mixing stuff out and add individual pg/vg/nic to each sample, is that I keep a 100ml bottle made up of my own preferred pg/vg/nic ratio, that I've already factored in adding 5% of concentrate to (obviously sometimes I'll add more than 5%, sometimes less, but it's only a tester so it doesn't matter if this increases or decreases the nic in the tester. It's not going to make a big difference at such a small amount). So then I just pour 5mls of that mixture into a 10ml empty bottle, and add the required amount of concentate. Job Done

Cheers spacey what a fantastic idea and thank you for the advice its very much appreciated   

Just got a few more recipes to do then I will try some experimenting and this has solved my wondering how to do it!