Hello HIC
I have been very quiet during all of your many posts but feel it is now time to speak.
I have been vaping almost 8 months and for the first 6 I was concentrating my efforts on “all things” hardware until I was able to find my, and my wife’s “happy place”. Then turned my efforts toward making juices, though I had earlier mixed some single flavors and tried piddling with recipes that I got from other websites, my success had always been far less than anticipated. I do however have a peanut butter that I like, but still trying to walk away from a 43 year long smoking habit I do need/want more than one flavor.
I have viewed all of your recipe posts very closely. I must say you truly display a mastery of understanding flavors. I greatly appreciate the detail and the preciseness of your recipes as well as the suggested deviations you provide, your posts convey a recipe that has been well refined by someone who is conscientious about having their creations reproduced accurately, and are willing to lift up (intellectually) those who wish to try. I now understand that many failures were not only due to myself being a newbie who is completely out of his eliminate, but by having so many recipes on the web (a few on the VU) consisting of a flavor and percentage with no manufacture (let alone comments) has only promoted this failure. I wish to thank you for raising the bar, and setting a new standard that even struggling newbie’s can follow.
I think many veteran vapers out there have either forgotten the struggles they encountered so long ago or do not realize the various levels of talent (or lack of) of those who read their post, and only hope that more will be able to follow your example.
I have also been following your flavor notes as well, and find your descriptions and comments incredibly informative in understanding the affect each flavor has on a recipe. The comparisons and suggested combinations you provide along with them has really helped me to wrap my head around how to use them, and have found myself logging in to see if you have any new posts.
Until recently all of the flavors I have purchased were from The Favor Apprentice. Fortunately I only bought half of the store; unfortunately it was the wrong half. I have seen references you have made about some of them that allowed me understand that I would never gain my desired effect based on flavor name and description (i.e. cheesecake)
I received the UK nicotine you reviewed, the FA flavors, a couple of FW flavors, and yes back to TFA for a few I did not have in order reproduce ten of your recipes that I thought I would like. I mixed the 5 mil recipes in 15 mil glass bottles (a new upgrade from plastic) and placed them in my ultrasonic cleaner for 30 minutes (just to be well mixed) and when I came back I found 10 labels floating in the water. I would normally consider this to be a setback, but instead found myself enjoying my attempt to discern the flavor differences of 10 bottles of very pleasing juice.
On behalf of myself and I’m sure other quiet newbies out there, I wanted you to know that your posts go much farther than the responses you see, and wish to pay homage by saying Thank You for the education and Thank You for your contributions to make the VU the only source that a vaper needs.
I look forward to your future posts.
I have been very quiet during all of your many posts but feel it is now time to speak.
I have been vaping almost 8 months and for the first 6 I was concentrating my efforts on “all things” hardware until I was able to find my, and my wife’s “happy place”. Then turned my efforts toward making juices, though I had earlier mixed some single flavors and tried piddling with recipes that I got from other websites, my success had always been far less than anticipated. I do however have a peanut butter that I like, but still trying to walk away from a 43 year long smoking habit I do need/want more than one flavor.
I have viewed all of your recipe posts very closely. I must say you truly display a mastery of understanding flavors. I greatly appreciate the detail and the preciseness of your recipes as well as the suggested deviations you provide, your posts convey a recipe that has been well refined by someone who is conscientious about having their creations reproduced accurately, and are willing to lift up (intellectually) those who wish to try. I now understand that many failures were not only due to myself being a newbie who is completely out of his eliminate, but by having so many recipes on the web (a few on the VU) consisting of a flavor and percentage with no manufacture (let alone comments) has only promoted this failure. I wish to thank you for raising the bar, and setting a new standard that even struggling newbie’s can follow.
I think many veteran vapers out there have either forgotten the struggles they encountered so long ago or do not realize the various levels of talent (or lack of) of those who read their post, and only hope that more will be able to follow your example.
I have also been following your flavor notes as well, and find your descriptions and comments incredibly informative in understanding the affect each flavor has on a recipe. The comparisons and suggested combinations you provide along with them has really helped me to wrap my head around how to use them, and have found myself logging in to see if you have any new posts.
Until recently all of the flavors I have purchased were from The Favor Apprentice. Fortunately I only bought half of the store; unfortunately it was the wrong half. I have seen references you have made about some of them that allowed me understand that I would never gain my desired effect based on flavor name and description (i.e. cheesecake)
I received the UK nicotine you reviewed, the FA flavors, a couple of FW flavors, and yes back to TFA for a few I did not have in order reproduce ten of your recipes that I thought I would like. I mixed the 5 mil recipes in 15 mil glass bottles (a new upgrade from plastic) and placed them in my ultrasonic cleaner for 30 minutes (just to be well mixed) and when I came back I found 10 labels floating in the water. I would normally consider this to be a setback, but instead found myself enjoying my attempt to discern the flavor differences of 10 bottles of very pleasing juice.
On behalf of myself and I’m sure other quiet newbies out there, I wanted you to know that your posts go much farther than the responses you see, and wish to pay homage by saying Thank You for the education and Thank You for your contributions to make the VU the only source that a vaper needs.
I look forward to your future posts.
