Grade B Tahitian Vanilla Beans – 10 Total Premium Extract Whole Pods – For Chefs and Home Baking, Cooking & Extract Making – Homemade Vanilla Extract

Decent size, lovely and fragrant. Vacuum sealed so seeds are excellent. Used pod and seeds for rice pudding. Excellent taste. Also use whole to flavour caster sugar and flavour has permeates well.

These are great, vaccum sealed for freshness, and they smelt amazing when I opened the packet. I've used these to make my own vanilla essence and they are already infusing really well.

Have just used this product to make vanilla ice cream and it has an excellent flavour. One pod flavoured 1.5 litres of ice cream. The pods have a lovely vanilla scent not over-powering. Very pleased with the finished results. The are not very long or overly plump but contain a lot of paste inside. Not as powerful as Madagascan vanilla a bit more subtle. Good value for the money.

I'm a bit disappointed. I have used other brands of B grade beans before. These have very little smell. I'm using them to make vanilla extract and they are slow to give off colour and flavour. This brand was recommended by a baker and I hope they just need a bit more time than others I have used in the past.

Excellent quality, out of the 25 pods, maybe 2 were smaller and thinner, the rest were plump, soft pods that were easy to slice in half lengthways and add to a bottle of 40% alcohol (brandy in this instance, but have used vodka previously). A large outlay but left to mature for a few months results in a 70cl bottle of home made vanilla essence that will last a long time even for a keen baker. Quality vanilla pods are not cheap and to get these at 80p a pod is a real bargain. I've been making my own essence for years and it costs less than half the price of the quality brand name ones. The vanilla smell was lush even before I opened the pack, and as there was a sticky residue in the empty pack, I spooned in some caster sugar and shook/rubbed it into the residue resulting in a couple of ounces of vanilla sugar.

I really like these vanilla pods - I've bought quite a few in the past and come back for more! They are very fresh with a lot of seeds, hence flavoursome. Easy to prepare, i.e. cut and deseed, and a good size (some shop bought ones are very dry and thin - and you don't get many for your money). I consider these excellent value for money and would highly recommend.

Great value for money

I have just now taken receipt of these beans and this is the condition they have arrived in. Full of white mould!! Terribly disappointed as they were not cheap for what you get. Contacted seller awaiting a response as to replacement or refund. Let’s see what happens.

Perfect for vanilla essence!

Vainilla de buena calidad y a buen precio. Llega bien envasada para su conservación

The texture was soft, great quality ingredients, still moist as they should be, my vanilla extract tastes amazing in all my baked goods. Very easy to use. Shelf life is great I waited almost six months before I finally used them.

Ich habe etwas mehr gebraucht für eine Vanille-Essenz die ich aus 6 Stück ausgeschabten Vanilleschalen mitsamt den Kernen und etwas zerstückelt mit einem Mini-fläschchen Wodka (200 ml) angesetzt habe. Das Ganze muß 2 Monate ziehen, dann wird die Flüssigkeit kohlrabenschwarz und man hat einen exzellenten Vanilleextrakt. Den habe ich jetzt mittlerweile aber schon mal ausprobiert für Vanilleeis und obwohl er jetzt erst 3 Wochen zieht, hat die Essenz eigentlich jetzt schon einen intensiven Geschmack und man kann sie verwenden. Aber ich halte mich dann doch an das Rezept und warte noch ein bisschen. Wir sind jedenfalls sehr begeistert über die Intensität und den herrlichen Geschmack. Tolles Preis-Leistungsverhältnis und wenn das so bleibt werden wir Kunde bleiben und diese immerhin zehn Stück weiter bestellen. Aus den restlichen werde ich Vanillezucker machen. Ich vertrage nämlich den künstlichen Vanillezucker nicht. Bekomme davon entsetzliches Hautjucken.

Delightful, delicate scent from these B-grade, Tahitian beans. They are different from Madagascar kind, still very much vanilla, but without the heavy bourbony scent. They were vacuum-wrapped, plump, very nice beans. Fast delivery. Thank you! Made today, I cut the beans in half and split them down the middle before dropping them in the bottle to sit for 12 months to infinity. Retop the original vanilla beans with vodka as you use it up over the years to keep the cycle of extraction perpetual. Great present as it keeps on giving. (At the time of purchase, in May 2021, in Canada, these 25 vanilla beans made me seven-and-a-half 16-ounce bottles of vanilla extract for 150 dollars. If I had bought 7.5 bottles at Costco for almost $40 dollars a piece, it would have been 300 dollars, so it's a good savings to make your own. It cost: Vanilla beans, $49.99, two 1.75 litre bottles of vodka, $49.99 +49.99 = approx. $150 instead of 300. You might say, why on earth would anyone make this much vanilla extract? The truth is if you buy smaller quantities of beans and vodka in smaller sizes, half the amount costs you 33% more, and so it's better to just do this amount and basically never buy vanilla extract again. You can give a bottle to someone you love and save them the cost of vanilla extract in perpetuity, too. Vanilla beans are the bean seed pods from Orchids, which only flower one day per year and need to be carefully hand-pollenated, so it's great they can be reused because they so expensive. Also, my American friends can probably cut my total cost by another 3rd because American liquor is usually 1/3 to 1/2 less expensive that in Canada, ergo they can probably make this extract for 65%-75% savings rather than the Canadian 50% savings shown here.)