Big fiat corporations primarily don’t use premium vanilla beans for products… They generally use what’s called splits and cuts… Pretty much the cheapest beans they can get from any producer…

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In its natural habitat, vanilla is pollinated by melipona bees, a type of stingless bee.

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How vanilla is pollinated

The #vanilla beans from Kenya have been processed and omg did they smell amazing! I have not smelled another vanilla like this! Now the wait begins!

We have something different planned for these beans! Special beans call for special recipes! View quoted note →

The vanilla beans from Kenya just got here 👀

We strive for producing the best quality products… The bare minimum time for vanilla paste production is 2 months… For vanilla extract it’s at least 1 year… Sure we could make a batch of vanilla paste in a day and sell it the same day (like most manufacturers do) or use cheap vanilla powder, but either of those would be a subpar product… Yeah you can take short cuts in the extract production process and cut the time down to 6 months but that would be a subpar product as well… No short cuts used! We want the best quality and that takes time.

The Aztecs called vanilla tlilxóchitl, meaning black flower. This indicates that they were more interested in the cured bean, which is a dark brown, rather than the flower itself which is a greenish white.

The United States is the world's largest consumer of vanilla, followed by Europe - especially France.

Vanilla is the only edible fruit of the orchid family, the largest family of flowering plants in the world. There are over 150 varieties of vanilla plants.

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Now we will use our own homemade invert sugar View quoted note →

Going to try and make a test batch of invert sugar today… If all goes well we will use our own homemade invert sugars in all of our vanilla paste recipes in future batches.

More vanilla beans getting processed

Measured by weight, vanilla is the world's second-most expensive spice after saffron, because growing the vanilla seed pods is labor-intensive.

Vanilla planifolia traditionally grew wild around the Gulf of Mexico from Tampico around to the northeast tip of South America, and from Colima to Ecuador on the Pacific side, as well as throughout the Caribbean.

Take a peek at what just came in!.!.! #vanillabeans

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