What do I do with all these vanilla beans???

[Vanilla]

Sorry if you already mentioned this and I missed it...

What variety of vanilla are you growing?

I want to do this sooo bad!! I just started my vanilla so I know I have a ways to go. Those clusters of pods are AMAZING!!

How is the curing going, have you started?

When I was researching, I got in touch with a man who owns an organic vanilla company and he recommended a book called "Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi" by G. Charalambous. It is available on Amazon at:
Amazon.com: Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi (Developments in Food Science): G. Charalambous: Books

It is very expensive and there are only a few pages on vanilla but it is an excellent resource. You can probably find it at a university library, if you have one near.

I will be watching your progress closely!!!! Please keep us posted

Oh! Will you please take lots of of the process!!!!

!!!!!!!

[Sharlie]

Originally Posted by tennisfreak

I have a vanilla vine with 19 groups of beans or pods. Do any of you know how I should dry them? Do I leave the pods on the vine, do I pick them off? Here is a picture from a few months ago and they look pretty much the same now.
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Thanks,
Penny

I am so jealous... that is crazy!
Are you going to the Orchid Show @ Cocoa Expo this month?

[tennisfreak]

No, I won't be at the orchid show - I'll be in JAMAICA!!!!! Over the entire summer with everyone's schedules, we had exactly 10 days to plan a vacation and of course the orchid show was during the same 10 days.

I have dried all of the beans and they fill a plastic sandwich bag. The fragrance is mild but definately vanilla. I need to buy some vodka and make vanilla liquor and extract.

[Sharlie]

Originally Posted by tennisfreak

No, I won't be at the orchid show - I'll be in JAMAICA!!!!! Over the entire summer with everyone's schedules, we had exactly 10 days to plan a vacation and of course the orchid show was during the same 10 days.

I have dried all of the beans and they fill a plastic sandwich bag. The fragrance is mild but definately vanilla. I need to buy some vodka and make vanilla liquor and extract.

Have fun in Jam! The same thing happened to me when Brevard Orchid Society had their sale... I planned my vacation in the Keys during it. I was so annoyed.

Vanilla liquor....sounds good!

[quiltingwacko]

Wow. The baby must have slept thru the night last night! It is Marty, live and in person. Sort of.
Dorothy you are amazing. I don't know how you do it. I know a lady that used to run a clipping service back before the web. She used to get information for people. You do that. I am going out to the veggie garden to pick now. I am being buried in Sweet Basil. I want some of that vanilla!

[Vanilla]

Originally Posted by tennisfreak

I have dried all of the beans and they fill a plastic sandwich bag. The fragrance is mild but definately vanilla. I need to buy some vodka and make vanilla liquor and extract.

WOW! So did you do any sort of "curing" process or just air dried? I'm so impressed! Can you share a photo?

[quiltingwacko]

Vanilla beans are $8-$9 apiece at local grocers here.

[linda]

I would like an update with photos Please.......

[slpjennifer]

WOW WOW WOW!!!! I just got one of these and mounted it on bark. The one I bought was big. I have only had it about a month. [IMG][/IMG]

This is exactly what I am hoping for. I am newly obsessed with orchids, but have been an avid lover of cooking since I was little and pulling at my grandmas skirt as her kitchen sidekick. I would kill to have my own jar of fresh vanilla beans.

[kinknstein]

Thats is so cool Penny!!!