Madagascar, Mexican, French vanilla? Tasting 5 types of vanilla beans
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Beyond Mexico and Madagascar, what are the differences in flavor of vanilla varieties?
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Great video for the vanilla lovers...as a Vanilla producer I would love to add what sort of taste and aroma that Ceylon Vanilla beans have. I know Sri Lanka is not famous for Vanilla due to lack of awareness.. but most customers said we got Strong earthy, sweets Vanilla aroma. Also, behind Vanilla you will notice Cocoa scent, hit of resins and dates. This is due to processing of Vanilla beans using traditional curing methods in high altitude climate conditions...if anyone interest
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I love your voice and how you never blink. Thank you for not wasting time with useless info and intro's. Please keep at it. I hope your channel gets bigger. Subscribed!
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0:52 he blinked
ngl I was having a staring contest with him
They say Psychopaths Don't Blink
Why this channel isn't far more popular is honestly beyond me. Really high quality content here
This is the best video you've done on vanilla. From the video framing to overlays to speeded up scenes. Nice work!
I was a vanilla farmer from Kerala, India
Wow, this is such a smart take on vanilla. Thank you.
This guy is really good at packing loads useful information into a sort cast. Thanks; I learned stuff.
A friend of mine brought a few reject beans to the usa from her uncle's vanilla farm-the fragrance was soooo complex and definitely had some floral notes and lemme tell you- if i could grow just one, it would be that one, but im also a fragrance snob. most people think its inferior, but most people don't have the olfactory capacity to detect just how complex tahitensis is.
I wish I could make my whole house smell like this.
I’m a snob as well, but for flavor, and the best vanilla for baking, hands down, has to be Madagascar, but I agree that Tahitian has the best smell out of all the vanillas, and is a close second to Madagascar for me, but I prefer it in lighter desserts like ice cream, different types of custards (ie pana cotta, creme brûlée, etc), and frostings because baking with it, or using it with other flavors that can drown out it’s original flavor instead of letting it be the main flavor is just criminal. The other vanillas are good for specialty desserts, but in general Madagascar is great for baking and flavoring, and Tahitian is perfect for delicate desserts that let it be the star of the show.
It’s the audible noise that came out before you were able to use the words when you drink the Indonesian mix. I think I’ll go with that. I used to go with the feeling that is the precursor before a constant creator start speaking about what they feel so thank you.
Well made video with great info! Good Comparative Analysis! Thanks for the video! Part1
Although you didn't emphatically state your favorite one, your facial expressions clearly show that the Mexican vanilla is best. Just as it should be. Vanilla is Mexican.
I'm Vanilla Beans supplier from Indonesia.. Even for Indonesia alone, We have quite a few varieties nationwide too..
Thank you for making this great video! I'm making vanilla extract at home and this had given me some good ideas about what to expect from the beans I bought! Awesome!
Thank you for the inspiration! My spouse and I are really getting into extracts and such - I'm interested in creating highly concentrated batches of each variety and blending /diluting them to create profiles balanced for different applications. Thanks for this wonderful video.
I'm getting into extracting vanilla too. I recently put Tanzania beans in rum. I just ordered some bourbon cured Madagascar beans, and Sumatra beans. I just learned that bourbon cured has nothing to do with the whiskey haha.
@@countrieboyz2009 Isn't it funny how different niche industries have totally different working definitions for words than we would normally assume? Please let me know how the rum goes!
Wow you made me want to try Mexican vanilla. Never would've though to try it!
My favorite is Ugandan vanilla followed by Tahitian vanilla. Ugandan has a super rich and potent flavor. I’ve got 16oz extracts beaning made of each and will create a blend for a third option once finished.
You should make the vanilla extract with alcohol since many of the aromatic components are only carried away in alcohol.
I could have made egg nog!
Thanks for sharing. Great info👍👍👍
This is such an out of the box video idea and I'm absolutely loving it. Now I just gotta get me some vanilla😂
Your videos are subtly drawing me in, almost giving me the visuals of the flavors when you put them into words. Very helpful in choosing which beans I will use to make homemade vanilla extract! Thank you so much for these videos, subscribed!!
Vanilla beans range from dark brown to black (containing black seeds - the real vanilla depending on the grade (quality) of the
pod it self.
Demand is high, supply is low!
Lovely video, young man. I thoroughly enjoyed your video. Looking forward to more :)
Thanks, this was a really interesting and well-put together video. Colour me impressed!
Excellent Video, thank you!
thank you ! God bless you ! 😊
New subscriber, from your milk and vanilla bean episode. Looked at your other videos available, really like your content and variety. Will be checking out your library while looking forward to new content!
After Madagascar, Indonesia is one of the ten countries with the largest vanilla production in the world.according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 2019.
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Thanks for this man, was really fascinating!
80 or 90 % of ''vanilla'' products you see in your local favourite supermarkt, do not contain any vanilla.
Silent laugh
Thank you for putting the time and effort into this video!
Great info! Nice video!
Awesome video!!!
Here in the UK, vanilla beans are much cheaper if you buy them on Ebay and only cost around a £1 ($1.28) each if you buy in multiples.
Thank you. I may also buy all the varieties I can find.
I'm new to vanilla
Great video, Im glad Florida and Hawaii are growing their own vanilla now
I'm going to get a bottle of coconut rum and throw every different kind of vanilla bean I can find into it.
I did it. blended it in a Ninja a bit and yummmm! Tahitian makes the absolutely most delicious sugar.
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@@FBIagent22-q1d what is Tahitian every time I try to look it up I can only find the sugar scrub one :(
@@Vickyyy- Tahitian beans to me don't make the best extract but it certainly makes the best vanilla sugar. It smells so wonderful. Go to Amazon or Ebay and look up Tahitian vanilla beans. Make sure you always get A grade if you want to make sugar.
Ahhhh nice one Dr Malcolm 😁
You’re so handsome, dude! I really loved your delivery. Thanks for the cool video. Vanilla is so freakin delicious 🙌🏼
Good video man, thanks!
Bourbon vanilla is called like that because the process for manual fécondation of vanilla was discovered in Bourbon island…
Bourbon island today is called Reunion island, it’s my hometown and we still produce vanilla. Our vanilla is known to be higher quality than Madagascar vanilla (probably because we produce less but with more care since we don’t have as much territory )
Reunion is still a French department, so technically it is French Vanilla.
Great video, very informative, Thank you, I just liked and subscribed 😊
A couple of added details…. Cheap Mexican extracts are often adulterated with a different chemical. Coumarin which is actually a blood thinning drug
Tahitian vanilla has less vanillin because it is actually a slightly different plant… a cross between two species. I happen to like it after a trip to Tahiti where they sold it in fresh produce markets
Great episode. Thanks
I think the issue with this is that Madagascan Vanilla is described as "Classic" instead of making out what it actually taste like, which sets Madagascan as the Standard and measuring the others based on that. It would be better if you can come to it from a blank-slate state and just describe how you find everything. For me, Madagascan is more sweet and less pungent compared to other varieties. Indonesian is smoky and woody, and Tahitian is fruity and floraly, it's more that you taste it in your nose than in your tonge for Tahitians,
Also, Mexican and Tahitian Vanilla is two competently different plants from the one in Madagascar. Ugandan and Indonesian Vanilla are usually the same type as Madagascan. Indonesia also have the Tahitian type of Vanilla. It would be better if you can compare type by type, if you're familiar with the type, it's Planifolia for the Classic Vanilla, Tahitensis for the Tahitian varieties, and Pompona for the Mexican varieties.
Definitely fun review thank u ✨💖 I enjoy vanilla
So was there any one bean you preferred overall? Oh, now I want to test them all! I make tinctures and taste that has very little bitterness is important because of other herbs I use, like ginger root and turmeric root. I loved this video by the way.
Can you do a video on US grown vanilla? there are some companies starting to not only grow but also produce it.
Awesome video! Thank you!!!
I’d love to buy direct from Madagascar
I'm the direct buyer from Madagascar
I can help you buy directly from Madagascar. What quantities would you be interested in?
Can I grind these up in my blender when I make my homemade almond milk? So far I've only used extract but I was wondering if I could use the entire bean instead. I have a powerful blender so they would be cut into very small pieces. Your thoughts?
Damn, I was expecting you to cook up five slammin desserts!! lol. Still, a cool and informative video!
Bourbon refers to the manner the beans are cured ( steamed and dried) versus Mexican cure, which is sun dried.
super informative
Cream as a base would be a nice test!!!
Part2 : That voice and on screen characterization is spot on for a DC Marvel Comics super villain, go and audition for a role and tell them I sent you! Keep it up its interesting!
No mention of V.Pompona from Peru?
NICE FILM!
Coming in 3 years late but, what if you mixed them all together?
Is it possible to make extract from the pompona?
Mexican Vanilla is the original and the very best!! 🫶🏻🙌🏻🍦
One other thing, the milk is a good choice but vanilla shines in a SWEET environment.
Great stuff thanks
I'm from Indonesia and I have a lot of vanilla that I can't sell. Do you know where I can sell vanilla
Always go with the Madagascar
Just a suggestion, but make a "Creme Brulee'" out of all of them.
i like the floral and fruity flavours of tahitian vanilla but i find it hard to extract the flavours directly into my recipes' milk, especially compared to what some companies can do with more sophisticated extraction so i tend to use a high quality extract. even then with tahitian vanilla extracts, the vanillin flavour can still be lacking and using too much extract to compensate adds an alcoholic taste to the recipe; instead i can boost the "vanilla flavour" with some vanillin powder (pretty common in professional kitchens). its also really handy to have powder (or artificial extract) around when using vanilla in a way that would destroy its complexity or overpower it and save the good stuff for when it counts.
it might sound a bit heretical to foodies but given how scarce and resource intensive vanilla can be i think being frugal and responsible as possible in using the real stuff is a good thing
Would it help to grind the seeds.?
The seeds don't contain flavor compounds. The "goo" around them does.
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...was eating a peanut butter chocolate chip lara bar and reading the ingredients......saw.....vanilla extract.....was like.....I don't really know anything about vanilla extract.....videos are as follows: random YT shorts about making it at home, Business Insider: Vanilla is the 2nd most expensive spice..., PBS Hawaii: Making Vanilla on the North Shore of Oahu, and yours.....not sure how many more I will watch.... thanks for sharing 👋🏼
Amazing voice!
Can't compare since these are different varieties, Planifolia and Tahitensis, as well as different terroirs, among them some are volcanic soils, some aren't.
It's also complet different refining methods leading to completely different results in matters of aromas and flavours since some will be fresh (still alive and continously bonifying with age), some will be frosted (full of crystallised Vanilline), and the standard ones will be just be dry like most of Planifolia in Madagascar, Uganda, Togo, Tanzania, Indonesia and PNG which are scalded (boiled), while in the Caribbean we scarify our vanilla beans, and in Polynesia they harvest the vanilla beans fully mature already on the vines.
So It's like if you were trying to compare Saint-Emilion wine with "Baume de Venise" and "la veuve cliquot", No sense.
Also milk tests won't extract all components and you lack the most interesting of vanilla complex flavours and aromas.
French vanilla of course refers to vanilla beans from agroforestry culture in French territories, related terroirs and IGP: Planifolia from la Réunion, Mayotte, Seychelles, Mauritius, the Pompona and Planifolia vanilla from Guadeloupe, Martinique, New Caledonia, as well the Tahitensis from French Polynesia, Tahiti, Moorea, Taha'a, Huahine,.... Here are some more informations about the Fédération of French Vanilla conference-vanille.com/conference-2023/ which you can google translate. Also in French vanilla bean is named a "gousse" and not a bean, since in French a bean is a "haricot". And "Bourbon" is an old appelation which protect specific terroirs of vanilla beans, not necessarily French actually, namely Réunion, Mayotte, Mauritius, Comores, Seychelles and Madagascar, and one specific curing method which is to boil the green beans. This is what "Bourbon" vanilla means, and its origin comes from la Réunion Island which was named Bourbon island after the french royal family Bourbon and is where vanilla vines were first introduced, studied and its hand pollination with beans boiling processes created to cure big volume faster.
And last but not least there is absolutely no comparison between bulk (or commodity) greenhouses-grown vanilla beans stored in warehouses, (one standardised monoculture of planifolia variety only that American market focus on and receive) and agroforestry vanilla beans (specialty Vanilla beans producing more than hundreds different varieties, sub-varieties and hybrids) which is what we, French, are looking for to cultivate, to cook and create culinary specialities with.
Better refer to organic vanilla farmers themselves when you wish to learn everything about Vanilla Beans. And when it comes to cooking with vanilla, also better rely on a real professional chef(fe) who actually cook with vanilla beans.
Sylvanilla is one you can rely on for certified varieties and origins of vanilla beans from agroforestry, as well as for actual vanilla related studies and publications.
www.sylvanilla.ch
There is aktualley vanilla grown in france in la reunion
Basically French vanilla is the combination of vanilla and hazelnut
It’s worth the price for
1 bean when making homemade vanilla ice cream.
I don't know why I haven't thought of that, thanks for the amazing idea, I like a really good vanilla ice cream.
Considering everything from nature or the creator specifically is created in abundance. I can’t help thinking that some people keep it all to themselves and lie to us saying that it is not in abundance ... 🤔!
Thanks for the explanation though 🎉
What is it that makes you think everything is created in abundance? If something can only be grown in a few areas of the world, it would make sense that there would be a limited amount. I guess it depends on how you define abundance.
Hello friend where would I find today kilo price any source I can get That info .. I’m a small farmer
Search on Facebook for groups for vanilla buyers and sellers.
Wow cool. Instant sub!
Take a day or at least a few hours in between testing
BEANS CAN RANGET TO >$500 PER KILO. IT IS CRAZY JUDGED FOR QULAITY/FLAVOR & MARKET DEMAND & SUPPLY.
The true reason vanilla beans are so expensive is greed. When severe weather damaged a large number of crops across the plaanet, prices skyrocketed. The crops have stabilized but the prices never returned to an equitable medium. One bean in a spice jar at the local wallyworld was priced at nearly $13. I did not give my rare cash for such an overpriced item. It just reminded of even the poorest wallyworld child is still among the 10 richest people. So, the point is, it is much more a shame those poor farmers are being taken. Especially by greed and arrogant consumers.
You maybe interested in joining via zoom the Vanilla 2021 Symposium Nov. 9 & 10. Experts in this field will share global issues that vanilla growers face.
I love tahitian vanilla 🏝️🤙
Like they could even compete for real please
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Crazy to think Madagascan is the classic one when it originates from Mexico. Ridiculous really. It should be the standard as well
What kind of milk did you use?
2% which is a chemical shit-show with no milk actually existing.
Whole milk which is milk.
Cream which would have made the most sense since it has the highest percentage of fat.
MALAYSIAN 👍
5:16 the word you’re looking for is UMAMI YOU CLASSLESS DEGEN!!! /s
LOL Beans can be had for as little as $9 an ounce. They are NOT that expensive.
Do you blink?
Beans and Mexican….. f yes and rice plus tacos
Please dont take offense to this. I really like the information in your videos, however when you speak into the camera, i find your lack of blinking and sanpaku eyes very unsettling and uncomfortable to watch, and it such that it distracts from the quality of your content. My suggestion is to use a voice over or if you want to be on camera, hire a body language coach to give you advice and tips on what you can do to appear more fluid and likeable on camera.
OMG OF BEAUTIFUL 🌈🌎🛡️
Of Mexican for me
You forgot Australian 🇦🇺
Thank you for the milk tasting, that tells me a lot, cheers from communist CANADA.
How come there is French vanilla? They don't have it unless they import from Madagascar or all over the world and they say it French which is fake cause they don't have it.
@aventureraclette This does not change the fact that Tahitian vanilla is its own brand, it is not sold because it is a French vanilla but very Tahitian with its particularity, you are playing politics.
@aventureraclette but there is no problem with what the person above said. he is right, FRANCE does not produce vanilla. Only the French call Tahitian vanilla FRENCH VANILLA, which actually does not exist.
I understand what geography and nationality mean, but let's give the Polynesians (Tahitians) the credit for what they produce and of which they are proud.
@aventureraclette
hypocrisy? in what ? You are crying for nothing, do you really need to shout that Tahitian vanilla is French vanilla? Will it kill you to say Tahitian vanilla? after all it is true what is said France mainly imports vanilla from Madagascar and shouts to anyone who will listen that Tahitian vanilla is French when it wins prestigious prizes for its quality, otherwise in France no one speaks.
@aventureraclette “Tahiti is French” is what it means. you don't even know me and you insinuate that I'm an independentist 🤣 do you think I'm French or even Tahitian? If I tell you that I am Polynesian, would you be able to guess where I come from? a clue I right next to it. If I read the previous post correctly, it says that France does not produce vanilla, right? and you remember that Tahiti is French. That means what it means, France produces thanks to Tahiti. you're just frustrated by what was said and you feel the need to point out "the obvious" for you.
Tahiti and Réunion belong to France so technically it is french vanilla...
politically perhaps, but Tahitian vanilla is sold because it is Tahitian not because it is French, it is Tahitians who developed the sector, no one else. It's part of their agricultural and natural heritage which makes them known on a global scale and they are proud, we can at least leave it to them, right ?
Vanilla are from Mexico then...
You need the video abruptly
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