Here’s why good vanilla is so expensive.
A pastry chef once told me how she loathed the phrase “plain vanilla." People underestimate vanilla, she said. There is nothing plain about it, she insisted.
So why does a little vial of vanilla beans or a few ounces of pure extract often cost more than $10? A vanilla plant blossoms only one day a year, during a 12-to-16-hour window, and when that happens, it has to be pollinated by hand, Nielsen says. Miss that time frame, and the plant won’t produce any vanilla beans.
“If you can only have one vanilla, make it Madagascar because it’s the most universal within recipes,” Nielsen says.
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