Vanilla Fever(1843magazine.com)
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Vanilla Fever
https://www.1843magazine.com/features/vanilla-fever
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I have done a ethanol/soxhlet extraction of vanilla beans, and I got vanilla out of it, but no way to quantify how concentrated it was. Do you have any figures that detail what the vanilla bean / oz of vodka ratio should be?
There are recipes online. iirc, it's something like 4 beans to 4oz of vodka for "single fold" extract.
I do one pod per 2oz small bottle.
The price of vanilla beans have already dropped and I thought I would just make my own extract but I also thought I only needed one bean to so many ounces of vodka. Turns out, you need many more than that and I just can't justify the price despite what some online recipes may claim.