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Post by cypress on Wed Jun 03, 2020 9:41 am

A niece wants some good vanilla for cooking. Does anyone know where you can buy the real thing these days?

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Post by slainte39 on Wed Jun 03, 2020 10:33 am

Almost all major grocers, read the label and avoid artificial or diluted products, it will be more expensive.

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Post by cypress on Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:48 pm

Thanks but not all the major grocers not Walmart or Bodega Aurrera or Pancho's new store. I haven't been to Soriana yet. Superlake had some. They all seem to contain water-I don't know if that means diluted.


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Post by ferret on Fri Jun 05, 2020 1:14 pm

The process by which vanilla is extracted from the beans is a combo of water and alcohol. It's okay.
Clear vanilla is NOT made from vanilla beans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_extract

In around 1999, I bought twelve one litre bottles of pure vanilla extract from a grower while vacationing in Veracruz. It cost 20 pesos a bottle. Great stuff and made wonderful gifts. Those were the days.
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Post by Gamina on Fri Jun 05, 2020 1:51 pm

I looked on my bottle of really good vanilla and it has the vanilla, water and alcohol. The alcohol burns off. There was some adulterated vanilla years ago that contained, I think, coumadin. Buy only the ingredients I listed.
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Post by cypress on Fri Jun 05, 2020 4:12 pm

Okay. Glad I stayed away from the vanilla claro

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