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lirruping

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Ew...that is one nasty looking critter LOL

I would happily snuggle with that smallish tarantula if only I never had to see another centipede again.
Those guys are really scary. Plus: OUCH!
I'm not talking abotu the small furry-looking ones you find in the northeastern and southwestern states; the ones here are fully armored and sometimes eight inches long. Practically lobsters. (Maybe FA could make a nice centipede flavor to complement that crab everyone raves over:rolleyes:) Unlike spiders, which are part of the much-appreciated vermin patrol, centipedes seem to bpretty indiscriminately aggressive. Turns out they are not insects as I'd thought, but arthropods, "predatory myriapod invertebrates." Yucko.
 

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This one is a lot cuter than that centipede I can tell you--and she stalks the shadows of my casita even now. I don't ever kill bugs if I can help it, but I made an exception for the individual centipede who wakened me from a sound sleep by biting me on the forehead! Got that motherfucker with the shopvac.

Be nice to the tarantula. He'll eat the centipede babies that your other visitor may have left behind.
 

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I would happily snuggle with that smallish tarantula if only I never had to see another centipede again.
Those guys are really scary. Plus: OUCH!
I'm not talking abotu the small furry-looking ones you find in the northeastern and southwestern states; the ones here are fully armored and sometimes eight inches long. Practically lobsters. (Maybe FA could make a nice centipede flavor to complement that crab everyone raves over:rolleyes:) Unlike spiders, which are part of the much-appreciated vermin patrol, centipedes seem to bpretty indiscriminately aggressive. Turns out they are not insects as I'd thought, but arthropods, "predatory myriapod invertebrates." Yucko.
Oh my, no! I wouldn't want that in my house, either. On occasion, in the Spring or Fall, I see one in my kitchen, but they're only about an inch long.
 

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I still needed to pick up some VT nic, but BCV Has been out for 10+ days. Nabbed some directly from VT with their current sale, but no additional flavorings. :-(
 

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So, now that I officially consider myself a FA convert, what NON FA flavors do you consider most useful? I assume TFA Cheesecake Graham crust and Brown sugar extra at least since FA doesn't make a comparable flavor. Other flavors that FA just doesn't do well (I don't mean bread crust etc)?
 

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So, now that I officially consider myself a FA convert, what NON FA flavors do you consider most useful? I assume TFA Cheesecake Graham crust and Brown sugar extra at least since FA doesn't make a comparable flavor. Other flavors that FA just doesn't do well (I don't mean bread crust etc)?

The non-FA flavors I find most useful for mixing with FlavourArt:

TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust
TFA Brown Sugar Extra
TFA Banana Nut Bread
TFA acetyl pyrazine dilution
TFA Cranberry
TFA Holiday Spice
TFA Kentucky Bourbon
TFA Koolada
TFA Maraschino Cherry
TFA Molasses (has custard notes)
TFA White chocolate (has custard notes)
Inawera Sesame (IMO has custard notes)
NF Organic Ginger
Tasty Puff Root Beer

I have boxes and boxes of others, including many that I use regularly by themselves or with other non-FA flavors.
 

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The non-FA flavors I find most useful for mixing with FlavourArt:

TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust
TFA Brown Sugar Extra
TFA Banana Nut Bread
TFA acetyl pyrazine dilution
TFA Cranberry
TFA Holiday Spice
TFA Kentucky Bourbon
TFA Koolada
TFA Maraschino Cherry
TFA Molasses (has custard notes)
TFA White chocolate (has custard notes)
Inawera Sesame (IMO has custard notes)
NF Organic Ginger
Tasty Puff Root Beer

I have boxes and boxes of others, including many that I use regularly by themselves or with other non-FA flavors.

This ^^^^^^ is a great list.

( a little TFA sweetner or cotton candy might be usefull as well if you have a sweet tooth like myself.......This goes against all of Hics teachings :D ) He has been teaching me to throw in other flavorings to satisfy my sweet tooth though. ;)
 

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I made Huckleberried's Golden Oreo Cookie Cheesecake and that was all I tasted - hazelnut, but both TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust and FA Cookie are in it so I do not know.o_O I also tried HIC's Sugary Almond-Apple Tart and all I tasted was hazelnut.:confused: I know it is not their recipes so it is my taster:(
Your weird like me Dixie. Like Huck said, I get cinnamon where cinnamon does not exist from time to time.......and Im the only one in the entire VU website that does not like Meringue flavoring. :eek:

I dont get the Hazelnut overtaste ( is that a word?) that you get from thise two mixes.

I love HIC's Sugary Almond-Apple Tart mixed fresh. I prefer alot of mixes fresh.

I would suggest cutting the hazelnut in half when you mix a small samplem again. I had o do that with Meringue in a few mixes.
 

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The non-FA flavors I find most useful for mixing with FlavourArt:

TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust
TFA Brown Sugar Extra
TFA Banana Nut Bread
TFA acetyl pyrazine dilution
TFA Cranberry
TFA Holiday Spice
TFA Kentucky Bourbon
TFA Koolada
TFA Maraschino Cherry
TFA Molasses (has custard notes)
TFA White chocolate (has custard notes)
Inawera Sesame (IMO has custard notes)
NF Organic Ginger
Tasty Puff Root Beer

I have boxes and boxes of others, including many that I use regularly by themselves or with other non-FA flavors.

Perfect! Thank you!
 

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I wouldn't be able to live without TFA's Double RY4 or AP.
 

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It doesn't take much to taste the cinnamon ceylon! I forget what percentage is in most of the recipes I use, but I doubt more than 1% - if that. It's totally different, though, from something like TFA cinnamon red hots which kills any other flavors for me!
 

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I did manage to procrastinate till the end of BCV sale. I wanted to score some FA flavors as well as others. I suppose I can wait for the FA espresso and meringue..

Does anyone know if Cinnamon Ceylon is a strong flavor? I would go looking (Google) but a lot of folks have dead taste receptors and recommend high percents.

To add cinnamon to a bakery recipe, I use 1% or less. Best bakery cinnamon there is.

As a hot cinnamon, to imitate Brach's cinnamon candies, takes me at least 3-5% (but I usually use TFA red hots for that).
 

LoveVanilla

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My question is what have you tasted AP in so far? I ask this, because I'll eat my hat if you can taste hazelnut in FA cookie LOL

Everybody can vote on tasting hazelnut in their cookies by clicking "Like" below. Wonder what might mix well with Amanda's hat? Maybe some salt and black pepper, mixed with crab (another arthropod...), or just a little cinnamon sprinkled on top? ;)

BTW, I love a good turn of phrase!
 

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I would happily snuggle with that smallish tarantula if only I never had to see another centipede again.
Those guys are really scary. Plus: OUCH!
I'm not talking abotu the small furry-looking ones you find in the northeastern and southwestern states; the ones here are fully armored and sometimes eight inches long. Practically lobsters. (Maybe FA could make a nice centipede flavor to complement that crab everyone raves over:rolleyes:) Unlike spiders, which are part of the much-appreciated vermin patrol, centipedes seem to bpretty indiscriminately aggressive. Turns out they are not insects as I'd thought, but arthropods, "predatory myriapod invertebrates." Yucko.

But it could be worse... (though you're still in the top five!) No, you have my sympathies. Texas does have its share of poisonous critters -- and scorpions do seem to like boots and hats.
 
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Everybody can vote on tasting hazelnut in their cookies by clicking "Like" below. Wonder what might mix well with Amanda's hat? Maybe some salt and black pepper, mixed with crab (another arthropod...), or just a little cinnamon sprinkled on top? ;)

BTW, I love a good turn of phrase!
I really, really wanted to like this, but I didn't want anyone to confuse my enjoyment of your humor as a like for tasting hazelnut in Amanda's hat. Oh pooh. I'm confused. Anyhow, I know for a fact that Amanda would never season her hat with salt, but she does enjoy it with biscuits.


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Good. Morning all! So I'm lame and never sorted flavors I have here on hand to place order thru one of the sales. I was too busy black Friday / cyber Monday social networking for clients.

Ah well I sense there will be more sales with the same % off or better.
Tball did you pick up hypnotic myst?
 

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Anyone use green tea tfa? Is it any good by itself?

I been drinking Bigelow green tea pomegranate and its yummy.

Ingredients say green tea. Apple. Pomegranate. Rose hips. Licorice root. Id use FA for everything but the green tea.
 

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Anyone use green tea tfa? Is it any good by itself?

I been drinking Bigelow green tea pomegranate and its yummy.

Ingredients say green tea. Apple. Pomegranate. Rose hips. Licorice root. Id use FA for everything but the green tea.

Yes, and yes. TFA beats FA on Green Tea. Standalone TFA Green Tea, around 3-5%, tastes like green tea. FA's tastes like <censored> to me.

I'd try about 3% TFA Green Tea, 1% FA Apple (Fuji overwhelms tea), 0.25-0.5 FA Pomegranate (TFA's would work fine, too). I wouldn't use rose flavor, but would add 0.5% FA Lemon Sicily for the flavor of rose hips. Licorice root could be 0.5% FA Licorice, but I think the same amount of FA Anise would be tastier and get the sweetness of a Bigelow tea better.

I was messing with chai and fruit/spice tea mixes last week, so it's all fresh in my mind. I'm not a huge green tea fan; I used FA Black Tea with most of mine.
 

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I mixed up a cocoa concentrate using FA Cocoa,FA Chocolate and FA Fresh Cream. It is ok but I added some FA Vienna Cream and it is much better but now the recipe I made with it has 9% flavorings:eek: Thank goodness it is all FA lol:) BTW I did not check out the critter I have a real aversion to 8 legged critters :(:D
 

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oh man....in my excitement making my order to Bull City, i accidentally ordered hangsen banana instead of FA. I didnt notice this until the day after i got my shipped notification. It should be at my door tomorrow. So does anyone have experience with the hangsen banana? anything close to the fa? or will it be my first newbie diy bench warmer?
 

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oh man....in my excitement making my order to Bull City, i accidentally ordered hangsen banana instead of FA. I didnt notice this until the day after i got my shipped notification. It should be at my door tomorrow. So does anyone have experience with the hangsen banana? anything close to the fa? or will it be my first newbie diy bench warmer?
http://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/226bzz/my_review_of_hangsen_flavor_concentrates/



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lirruping

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But it could be worse... (though you're still in the top five!) No, you have my sympathies. Texas does have its share of poisonous critters -- and scorpions do seem to like boots and hats.

Yikes! This is substantially worse. I don't know how the person holding it in that photo can stand it. I've always heard not to try to handle them at all, because of their aggressive tendencies & ability to sting from head or tail. The ones we have here look more like the page you linked to's version of the "Peru Centipede", than the Puerto Rican one:

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Here's the peruvian one that looks like mine (I use the term lightly - I'm not building any terrariums, that's for sure):
centipede-peruvian.jpg
The guilty party in my recent assault was only abotu three inches long, though.

BTW, Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol, A 19th century Tibetan poet apparently warns that
"...if you enjoy frightening others, you will be reborn as a centipede."
PS: I'm gonna stop inundating you with scary pictures now, I promise. At least unless I manage to photograph some of the Jamaican Fruit Bats who form part of the indoor mosqito police--until I can move them outdoors. :) They are really amazing creatures. And very good luck, too, I hear!
 

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Good. Morning all! So I'm lame and never sorted flavors I have here on hand to place order thru one of the sales. I was too busy black Friday / cyber Monday social networking for clients.

Ah well I sense there will be more sales with the same % off or better.
Tball did you pick up hypnotic myst?
Yes I did :)


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Yes, and yes. TFA beats FA on Green Tea. Standalone TFA Green Tea, around 3-5%, tastes like green tea. FA's tastes like <censored> to me.

I'd try about 3% TFA Green Tea, 1% FA Apple (Fuji overwhelms tea), 0.25-0.5 FA Pomegranate (TFA's would work fine, too). I wouldn't use rose flavor, but would add 0.5% FA Lemon Sicily for the flavor of rose hips. Licorice root could be 0.5% FA Licorice, but I think the same amount of FA Anise would be tastier and get the sweetness of a Bigelow tea better.

I was messing with chai and fruit/spice tea mixes last week, so it's all fresh in my mind. I'm not a huge green tea fan; I used FA Black Tea with most of mine.

Good to know about fuji. I have fuji but havent used FA apple yet.

Looks like I'll be trying both tfa teas!

Did you find a chai you like?

Thank you!
 

LoveVanilla

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Good to know about fuji. I have fuji but havent used FA apple yet.

Looks like I'll be trying both tfa teas!

Did you find a chai you like?

Thank you!

Just a heads up/caution. Though I love Chai Tea, had a severe allergic reaction to vaping this TFA flavor. I do have allergies -- and this contains multiple essential oils. Still smells great, just won't be vaping. Anyhow you might want to test lightly before going whole hog.
 
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Looks like I'll be trying both tfa teas!

Did you find a chai you like?

Both TFA teas? I hope I wrote the names right. My preferences for the best-tasting versions:
Flavor Apprentice for the best Green Tea
FlavourArt for the best Black Tea

My favorite was a peach chai with both FA peach flavors, FA Black Tea, and a buncha spice flavors and creams. I like my tea as heavily disguised as I like my coffee, lol.
 

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Both TFA teas? I hope I wrote the names right. My preferences for the best-tasting versions:
Flavor Apprentice for the best Green Tea
FlavourArt for the best Black Tea

My favorite was a peach chai with both FA peach flavors, FA Black Tea, and a buncha spice flavors and creams. I like my tea as heavily disguised as I like my coffee, lol.

OOh yes thought you meant both teas were tfa.

Thanks for the feedbsck & correction. :)

I need to order from both tfa and fa. Since I lean towards liking drink vapes better I'll do some experimenTing.
 

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TFA Black tea is horrid. Don't waste your money on that one. I know "taste is subjective", but trust me, that doesn't apply here.

While comparing teas..

From my experience I find NF earl gray to be a bit off / weird but tfa earl gray is good. Have mixed it with grape. Not on my regular vape list but the tfa is something that was ok to my taste buds.

However. I prefer to use as many FA flavors as possible.

Ps. Thank you for the heads up
 

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While comparing teas..

From my experience I find NF earl gray to be a bit off / weird but tfa earl gray is good. Have mixed it with grape. Not on my regular vape list but the tfa is something that was ok to my taste buds.

However. I prefer to use as many FA flavors as possible.

Ps. Thank you for the heads up

Get some FA Bergamot while you're at it - to make your own Earl Gray.
 

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Sorry if this has been covered, I'm a little overwhelmed with the volume in this thread - does anyone use 'floral' flavors? Wife loves rose vapes and these disgusting violet-flavored candies, so I've got some FA rose and violet on the way...wondering where to start as far as strength. The guy that's been mixing for me says his rose (no clue whose) is really strong, and I've heard everything from 2% to 20% as far as flavoring-to-base ratios (one shop I *used* to buy from says they were switching to as high as 40% flavoring!?!)...I'm thinking of starting around 3-4% with a 20/80 PG/VG 3mg nic base - that sound reasonable?
 

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I typically start any flavor new to me at 2%, unless I've read somewhere that it's uber strong. Increase, decrease as needed. @chickenmonkey uses those flavors, I think.
Awesome, thanks! I think starting too weak would be better than too strong, so will give 2% a whirl - worst case scenario I add a few drops at a time until I arrive at a winner.
 

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Awesome, thanks! I think starting too weak would be better than too strong, so will give 2% a whirl - worst case scenario I add a few drops at a time until I arrive at a winner.

@chickenmonkey posted some recipes with rose and with violet in the recipes subforum, including that violet candy you mentioned and a Turkish delight.
 

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Sorry if this has been covered, I'm a little overwhelmed with the volume in this thread - does anyone use 'floral' flavors? Wife loves rose vapes and these disgusting violet-flavored candies, so I've got some FA rose and violet on the way...wondering where to start as far as strength. The guy that's been mixing for me says his rose (no clue whose) is really strong, and I've heard everything from 2% to 20% as far as flavoring-to-base ratios (one shop I *used* to buy from says they were switching to as high as 40% flavoring!?!)...I'm thinking of starting around 3-4% with a 20/80 PG/VG 3mg nic base - that sound reasonable?
The rose and violet flavours are very good. My parma violet recipe is just like the sweets. The turkish delight isn't too bad I would probably cut down the grape. When I do it again.
 

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Hi, slowly building my FA collection and looking to add 5-10 more before the holidays. Looking for recommendations. Bilberry and Cold Pressed Lime have already been shortlisted. Not after tobaccos just now. Thanks.

My current flavors:
FA Apple Pie
FA Catalan Cream
FA Cookie
FA Cream Fresh
FA Custard
FA Lemon Sicily
FA Madagascar (Vanilla Classic)
FA Marshmallow
FA Meringue
FA Strawberry
FA Tiramisu
FA Vanilla Bourbon
FA Vanilla Tahity
FA Vienna Cream
FA Butterscotch
FA Torrone
 

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Hi, slowly building my FA collection and looking to add 5-10 more before the holidays. Looking for recommendations. Bilberry and Cold Pressed Lime have already been shortlisted. Not after tobaccos just now. Thanks.

My current flavors:
FA Apple Pie
FA Catalan Cream
FA Cookie
FA Cream Fresh
FA Custard
FA Lemon Sicily
FA Madagascar (Vanilla Classic)
FA Marshmallow
FA Meringue
FA Strawberry
FA Tiramisu
FA Vanilla Bourbon
FA Vanilla Tahity
FA Vienna Cream
FA Butterscotch
FA Torrone

Given the ones you already have, looks like you might like Coconut, Irish Cream, Marzipan, Fuji. Maybe Peppermint, White Peach, and Papaya to widen your choices a bit.
 

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Given the ones you already have, looks like you might like Coconut, Irish Cream, Marzipan, Fuji. Maybe Peppermint, White Peach, and Papaya to widen your choices a bit.

Thank you HIC. Is White Peach also know as just Peach, cannot find it on Flavorart.co.uk
 

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