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Cloudbursting

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Hey guys, I'm trying to make High VG liquids that can be pushed to 40watts and above without burning and such. It really is a factor as I've had some liquids that can be pushed on up there while still being delicious (even if the heat transforms the flavor profile somewhat, or maybe the liquid is indeed designed by high watt vapers) and then I've had liquids that burn to a crisp or taste funny.

My first question, does anyone know which brands of flavorings stand up to that heat, and which percentage of flavoring as a whole keeps things smooth as well?

Secondly, I'm very sensitive to how, in my opinion, both PG and VG naturally have a soggy, hollow, wet-dog type of taste in a way, like drinking lukewarm warm water. I like my water either cold or piping hot. I do not like lukewarm water. Nor do I really like the taste of heated PG and VG, and I've had high quality stuff. I'm just one of those folks who can truly taste so many subtles even in water.

So when I mix, I've found that so many flavors taste so dead, hollow, and soggy no matter what the percentage is, if mixed as a simple recipe. %10 Blueberry in High VG? Yeah right. More like Dogberry.

I've found that all sorts of creams don't typically solve the issue, and that creams are extremely delicate in percentages when it comes to finding a recipe that can taste great on both SubOhm tanks and drippers.

So I also want to ask: What in the world might just be the absolute best "Sweet Cream" or "Sugar" base to really get virtually any flavor to have a fluffy, "there", and solid backdrop that neither tastes sucralosey nor burns, but overcomes that "wet dog" hollowness that most flavorings alone just don't seem to fill?

Like, my idea of a "Blueberry" flavor, in terms of SubOhm, is a Blueberry flavor that is beefed up (or even creamed out) by a good percentage of fluffiness that borders on a truly sweet cream. (Not no sour cheese fresh cream bull mess.) PG and VG doesn't have this chatacteristic alone, it just doesn't.

So what is the secret to this? Any juice line worth a grain of salt (Charlie Noble, Clouds of Goodness, and even several local brews I try) have discovered this secret where as, for example, many don't and the ingredients taste sour, flat, and wet (The Grind, White Lightning, heck even Johnson Creek) or oppositely, a little too stark or burny (Artist Collection, Ripe Vapes, Five Pawns)

So what gives? Does anyone want to blow the whistle on this one? What backdrop really keeps things fluffy, neutrally sweet (maybe a tad pointing toward fluffy sweet cream), and most of all, both fluffy in a bodied, neutrally dry way, without pushing the texture to too-crisp, hot, or burny. Thank you!
 
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OBDave

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Odd problem you're describing - I do almost nothing but max-VG blends between 7/93 and 20/80 on the PG/VG scale, and I've had success at 50-70 watts with a wide array of FA, TFA, and CAP flavors...chocolates don't like high wattage, but I haven't come across a lot otherwise that's no good.
 

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It's strange cuz I just whipped up some orange cream at %13 (FA/FW) and it completely burned a fresh Subtank coil to bits - I can still taste the burned ingredients in my mouth a day later!

But that's only one issue, the big issue is that I really need a great sugary sweet cream base. The reality is that most flavorings have no sugar. The extracts don't pull out the "sugar" in the flavor. Capella's Custard for example tastes like crap unless sugar is added, but their Sweetener is wayyyy too much.

Idk why others don't taste this, as these ingredients are really extremely flat and sugar free and hollow without some sort of sweet base. I'm not looking for ultra sweet, just something to add dimension and body.

I mean, maybe my ingredients are outdated or something, but like with Caps Custard, I've tried adding it to water and tasting it, and yuck. Same with coffee. The only time it tasted ok is when I added it to this super sugary *real sugar* hazlenut creamer I have. Else, it tasted like flat, flavorless poop.

Same effect in vapor. So many flavorings seem to require "something else" and though I haven't experimented with EM yet, I do know that I want to keep sugar content low (it'll start hurting my teeth) and I also want my flavorings to pop at %10 or lower as %13 seems to also hurt my teeth and burn coils.

I just don't know what that best base is. There bound to be a "sweet cream base" that will allow my liquids to be slightly sweet, slightly creamy, and will really make low percentages of other flavorings really pop. Something I can virtually add any flavor to and it'll taste OK - blueberry, strawberry, custard, peach, orange, whatever.

That's the best starting place I can think of for me, as single flavorings alone are not doing any tricks, and Caps sweetener is so sweet that one drop in a cup of coffee made me sick as a dog... idk if EM is weaker but honestly I'd rather have a single, balanced truly sweet cream to cover all that, if possible.

The truth is so far, my batches are tasting like when you throw a bunch of E-Liquids together in a tank and it ends up tasting like outdated bubblegum, or they wont have any taste at all. Something needs to give, as none of these online recipes are working. This is something I need to truly have the right building blocks on, yet I'm tired of reading about gloves and techniques.

I need actual information on the essential building blocks of what makes these flavorings truly pop in HIgh VG and PG, and no matter what anyone says, these flavorings just do not taste right by themselves. Anyone saying you can throw some Cap Custard in a bottle and go... I don't see how in the world. Stuff tastes god awful by itself. Some whipped cream flavor and a couple drops of Cap Sweetener barely saves it and by then it's so sweet it'll taste like sweet rubber.

I just don't know, I also could use absolutely one well tested high VG inspired recipe that will absolutely work. I can't keep wasting money doing this. I love the hobby but I'm not Daddy Warbucks. :/
 
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Mattp169

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Have you tried FA marshmellow? it can sweeten and add some body.
 

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One problem that's now jumping out is if you're trying to push 40+ watts on a Subtank - I've never had much luck with those above 30, with the best vape coming somewhere in the mid-20s so far as wattage goes.
 

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One problem that's now jumping out is if you're trying to push 40+ watts on a Subtank - I've never had much luck with those above 30, with the best vape coming somewhere in the mid-20s so far as wattage goes.
was about to say this but ill just echo it, or a 50/50 blend might work but max VG in a kanger sub tank at 40 w = burnt
 

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