Starting Percents for 20+ Manufacturers' flavors

[HeadInClouds]

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spr..._hQ6Fu8HdEwwR2dLRUJlVjlabEN1NG1ucktuUVE&gid=7
Click tabs across the top to access the spreadsheet for each manufacturer.

The grey column is the manufacturer's recommended starting point, if one exists.

The yellow column is the average for all the people who entered their standalone percent.

Each column is a separate person's data.

It's so helpful to see how many data points went into the average and be able to see the range of recommendations for a given flavoring. If you know your favorite percent for a few flavors, you can find a column for someone who generally agrees with you -- so you can follow their recommendation on flavors you haven't tried yet.

 

[Mr Joshua]

Thanks for the link, very helpful and saves time searching all the flavor threads which on some forums have become very long.

 

[Edd]

Thanks for sure, I have been studying this stuff for awhile and just got my order for DIY today. I mixed a few of your recipes today HeadinClouds. I gotta say this is gonna be addictive ha! So if I am looking at this chart at Strawberry which is at an average of 3.39 %, and I wanted to mix fresh cream with that, average of 4%, how do you come up with the ratio? I don't think one would just guess although I am sure there is trial an error. In other words would you mix 3.3 percent strawberry to 4 % cream for strawberries and cream flavor or is there some way to determine from those numbers a good starting ratio for the mix of the two? I hope that makes sense lol. How would you go about it?

 

[hazozita]

This is wonderful - thanks for the link!!

 

[HeadInClouds]

Thanks for sure, I have been studying this stuff for awhile and just got my order for DIY today. I mixed a few of your recipes today HeadinClouds. I gotta say this is gonna be addictive ha! So if I am looking at this chart at Strawberry which is at an average of 3.39 %, and I wanted to mix fresh cream with that, average of 4%, how do you come up with the ratio? I don't think one would just guess although I am sure there is trial an error. In other words would you mix 3.3 percent strawberry to 4 % cream for strawberries and cream flavor or is there some way to determine from those numbers a good starting ratio for the mix of the two? I hope that makes sense lol. How would you go about it?

So if you want it to taste about half-strawberry, half-cream, you'd cut each percent in half; for these numbers, it's 1.5+% strawberry with 2% cream
Or you could do two-thirds strawberry (2/3 times that percent) plus one-third cream (1/3 times that percent).
That's the basic idea....

BUT - you have to find your own best percent. Those give you a place to start. There isn't any one column on there that suits me just right, though there's one that's pretty close to my preference on most flavors.

(I'd recommend about 2.5% Strawberry with 1% Fresh Cream for a very fluffy berry, or maybe 3% Strawberry with 0.5% Fresh Cream for more berry)

 

[Edd]

Okay that makes perfect sense to me thanks a lot for the tip. Ok yeah I see if I find my stand alone percentage for flavors I want to use then I have a base to go by. It would work with more then 2 flavors also. Thanks for taking the time to explain the process you use so thoroughly.

 

[Mommay]

Wonderful info, HIC. Thanks much.

 

[Thunderball]

Great info as always HIC


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[FL_David]

Thank you so much for posting the spreadsheet. Nice to have an idea of starting points and all in one place.

 

[Zamazam]

Nice, now I have to integrate the spreadsheet into my SQL DB. Looks good.

 

[Bplus]

So in mixing from stand alone %'s and the response on strawberry / cream, would it be ball park for the following?
Stand alone
3% apricot
< 2% apple pie for crust flavor

Mix?
1.5% apr
1% apple pie

 

[maddawg29501]

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spr..._hQ6Fu8HdEwwR2dLRUJlVjlabEN1NG1ucktuUVE&gid=7
Click tabs across the top to access the spreadsheet for each manufacturer.

The grey column is the manufacturer's recommended starting point, if one exists.

The yellow column is the average for all the people who entered their standalone percent.

Each column is a separate person's data.

It's so helpful to see how many data points went into the average and be able to see the range of recommendations for a given flavoring. If you know your favorite percent for a few flavors, you can find a column for someone who generally agrees with you -- so you can follow their recommendation on flavors you haven't tried yet.

I was just about to ask if anyone had this kind of info, I've seen TFA % suggestions around, but none of the others till now...thanks

 

[rob2655]

Wow, thanks so much for sharing this. I can't even express how helpful this is for a new DIY-er!