Thank you so much for your video! This secret bean laid in my shelf for many years. Today I decided to put it in my homemade marshmallows. OMG! The flavour!
Greetings all the way from Malaysia, so impressed with the way you use tonka, can’t wait to infuse in vodka, first time doing this, any particular grade of vodka I should be using. TIA , totally excited.
Thanks for giving me some ideas. I first heard of tonka beans via my interest in fragrance as it seems to be a common ingredient in many mens fragrances. When I saw a gourmet food supplier selling them I decided to buy a small amount so I could experience their scent and maybe cook something with them. I was thinking of a panna cotta, creme brûlée or some type of custard based dish. This video has been useful for expanding my options of what to do with them. In terms of quantities to use in the recipe, is one bean roughly equivalent to using a vanilla pod?
Very educational presentation. What about the "fleshy" part of the fruit? What nutrition there? ALSO in Trinidad and Tobago the children shave the outsidw part and make an authentic Indian head and other heads. QUITE CREATIVE uses there.
I thought the children just made dolls with it. I am afro Trinidadian and we made dolls and I learnt it from my mom who got it from her mom. I think its a Trini thing overall.
@@kostaspatra13 grind them. let them infuse your vodka for about 10 days or so and then filter them out. You can leave them for longer if you're patient.
Thank you so much for your video! This secret bean laid in my shelf for many years. Today I decided to put it in my homemade marshmallows. OMG! The flavour!
What a great idea for Tonka Beans. Now that you’ve tried that I’m 100% positive that you’ll find many more uses for it.
Thanks for sharing the High end Brazilian ingredient 😊
Greetings all the way from Malaysia, so impressed with the way you use tonka, can’t wait to infuse in vodka, first time doing this, any particular grade of vodka I should be using. TIA , totally excited.
Hello Lee. Honestly, I use the cheapest vodka I can find. LOL.
@@PHOTOCONVENTION wow that was fast, already saw your reply regarding the ratio. Thank you thank you 🤗
Thanks for these tips! Is there a non-alcoholic version that I can infuse the beans in instead of vodka?
Thank you! ❤
Thanks for giving me some ideas. I first heard of tonka beans via my interest in fragrance as it seems to be a common ingredient in many mens fragrances. When I saw a gourmet food supplier selling them I decided to buy a small amount so I could experience their scent and maybe cook something with them. I was thinking of a panna cotta, creme brûlée or some type of custard based dish. This video has been useful for expanding my options of what to do with them. In terms of quantities to use in the recipe, is one bean roughly equivalent to using a vanilla pod?
I don't measure vanilla either so I just add until it tastes good. One tonka will go a long ways.
Tonka beans is very legal in the USA
Interestingly. One tsp of cassia cinnamon has more Coumarin than is considered safe but it would take thirty tonka beans to be unsafe.
illegal in the US but you can order it on Amazon
yes
Have some beans. Planning to conch some into my next batch of chocolate. Batch is 2 kg so it'll be pretty diluted.
Very educational presentation. What about the "fleshy" part of the fruit? What nutrition there? ALSO in Trinidad and Tobago the children shave the outsidw part and make an authentic Indian head and other heads. QUITE CREATIVE uses there.
I thought the children just made dolls with it. I am afro Trinidadian and we made dolls and I learnt it from my mom who got it from her mom. I think its a Trini thing overall.
I make candies, can I just grate the beans directly into the sugar syrup during cooking? I will heat the sugar until around 250C
Probably yes but then your sugar will be gritty. Better to make yourself a jar of tonka sugar as I've shown, then sift that sugar into the syrup.
Do you keep the extract in the fridge or just the pantry? How small do you crush the beans that you put in the vodka? Like in half or even finer?
Just crush it with a mortar and pestle. The flavour is really strong so do you don’t need to go fine and then I just store it at room temp.
@@PHOTOCONVENTION thanks
Which vodka are you using? 40 degrees? Jow many beans for 1 cup of vodka?
I honestly use the cheapest vodka I can find and I’ve never measured how many beans go into each cup. Let’s say 2-3 beans. Something like that.
Hello again, how many ml of vodka and beans used to infuse. Thanks
I never measured it. I'd roughly guess 250mL vodka to 5 tonka beans.
Hey what is the ratio for the tonka beans to vodka at your extract?
I grind 4 beans into 250mL of vodka.
Thnx for quick response! Totally Grind or chop them?
@@kostaspatra13 grind them. let them infuse your vodka for about 10 days or so and then filter them out. You can leave them for longer if you're patient.
I will go for a 4-6 months time! I just ask cause i see you have some chopped in the jar on video! Anyway many thx
Were do you get tonka bean
I buy it from Silk Road Spice in Canada.
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I used to sell Tonka beans on my Etsy shop but they banned it☹️