How is vanilla extract made? 🌸

Kate Quilton heads to Malaysia to find out about vanilla.
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[@younggriff4703]

lol the other guy's reaction 🤣🤣

[@Conceptualcreatures]

Wow! Thank you for your fascinating docos again :)

[@islandfireballkill]

I'm surprised its less than 1 ppm concentration in the vanilla extract. Also you guys should have checked if artifical synthesized vanilla extract has a higher concentration.

[@neilwesley3516]

Interesting information, thank you. 👍👌

[@johnmusselman3246]

Whey are they showing a red torch ginger flower and saying it's a vanilla orchid? The "beans" on the vine are the real deal, but the ginger flower is misleading.

[@RobertBee-fs8hv]

Thanks for pointing that out

[@MsShadoeRunner]

On the USA, in order to be called pure vanilla extract, it have to have two things, 1) have an alcohol content of at least 35% or 70 proof. 2) have 1 ounce by weight of vanilla bean to 8 ounces by volume of alcohol. And leaving your DYI vanilla for 2 weeks, will not allow it to develop a depth of flavor or body. But better than the supermarket stuff.

[@ISBirdbyBirdMusic]

Chocked never thought about this for 45 years 😮

[@kelrune]

well i get now why its so expensive. it takes a long time for one bean pod.

[@glennyoverbeek]

Supply/demand.
It has nothing to do with growing time.

[@MartinelliGang]

You're some kind of genius huh? So you're telling me if the plant produced a bean every day of the year then the supply wouldn't be higher than the demand think about what you're saying bro you literally contradicted yourself​@@glennyoverbeek

[@glennyoverbeek]

@@MartinelliGang thanks for the compliment.
But it's people like you that make me look like a genius, thanks mate.

[@MartinelliGang]

Lmao I just cracked up man there's a word for you and it's narrow minded your so focused on the supply/demand that you fail to see what influences it, must have been sleeping during that part of the economic class

[@RJFlute]

With artificial vanilla flavor being cheaper, and vanilla extract (in ethanol) being more expensive, given that during baking, nearly all of the ethanol-based vanilla extract cooks off, using vanilla extract, you end up spending a lot more, for a lot less flavor.
In the majority of professional kitchens, vanilla beans, paste, or artificial flavor is used. Vanilla extract (in ethanol) is actually rarely used.

[@lh6740]

I just made my own vanilla extract at home.

[@potapotapotapotapotapota]

vanilla extract is very sweet but vanilla essence has more of the potency of vanilla, so I use both

[@RickGrimes007]

Mine say say pure organic vanilla bean.

[@thehazelnutspread]

How on Earth was this even discovered?

[@graphosxp]

I hear Triffid extract is a very good vanilla substitute🤪

[@thehazelnutspread]

Someone needs to give that woman a hair brush.

[@Barbielovesanimals]

Can she brush her hair lol 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴😢 I’m so distracted by that.

[@MrLokme]

It is not vanilla orchid.

[@rushroberts6313]

God she is gorgeous

[@ciaramcwilliams5291]

With her hair like that lol

[@younggriff4703]

uh huh. Hey, you know any p star look alike??

[@jflsdknf]

3% vanilla lol. That's capitalism for you. Best to make your own that isn't watered down.

[@jojoyojimbi]

that's not an orchid flower

[@Mohammedharisabdulla]

There has come to you enlightenment from your Lord. So whoever will see does so for [the benefit of] his soul, and whoever is blind [does harm] against it. And [say], "I am not a guardian over you."
Quran6:104

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