Product Details
- Shipping Weight: 3.4 ounces
- UPC: 632930882205
- Three varieties of 10 vacuum packed vanilla beans for a total of 30 beans
- Grown in Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia
- Use these vanilla beans for making vanilla extract. Use Grade A Gourmet for cooking
- A great way to try different types of vanilla beans
- Vanilla beans by Vanilla Products USA are triple inspected for quality
Here’s what you get: – 10 Extract Grade B Bourbon Planifolia Vanilla Beans grown in Madagascar. 5 to 6 inches. – 10 Extract Grade B Tahitian Vanilla Beans grown in Papua New Guinea. Please note that they are very dry. 3 to 5 inches. Some will snap like a twig, but they are still fine for making extract. – 10 Extract Grade B Mixed Whole and Split Bourbon Planifolia Vanilla Beans grown in Indonesia. Please note that these are very dry. Indonesian Beans have a smoky flavor because of the way they are cured. 3 to 5 inches. Some will snap like a twig, but they are still fine for making extract. These beans are excellent for making vanilla extract. For cooking, where youwant to split the beans and/or scrape out the caviar, you should use Grade AGourmet vanilla beans. Our beans are traditionally cured over several months to ensure that thefull flavor of the vanilla bean is developed. We do not sell quick curedvanilla beans where the beans are cured in 7 to 10 days. These vanilla beans are triple inspected. The first inspection takes placeduring packing and is for smell, appearance, and mold. The next inspectiontakes place during vacuum sealing and is for mold and appearance. The finalinspection takes place before shipment to ensure that the vacuum seal isintact and that there is no mold. Some facts about vanilla beans: – Bourbon refers to the formerly named Bourbon Islands (now Reunion) off of Madagascar. Bourbon alcohol is not used in vanilla beans. – Vanilla beans orginated in Mexico and must be hand pollinated outside of Mexico because the pollinator, the Melipona bee, cannot survive outside of Mexico. – There are over 200 organic compounds in vanilla. Artificial vanilla (vanillin) cannot capture the complexity of natural vanilla.