Countries of Origin
Aside from being the fourth largest island in the world, this country is the world's leading producer of vanilla beans.
What is Madagascar?
While vegetable glycerin can be used to make vanilla extract, this is the traditional liquid base for vanilla extract. Any type in the 70-100 proof range will work.
What is alcohol?
This tool, found on the resources page, allows members to look up and check the status of their group preorders.
What is the Individual Order Look-Up tool?
Livable Nana
What is Vanilla Bean?
Created by volcanic eruptions, this vanilla-friendly country is made up of a bunch of islands. 17,504 of them, to be exact.
What is Indonesia?
The more beans, the merrier, right? This term defines using twice as many beans than the standard ratio, yielding twice as much flavor.
What is doublefold?
This term of endearment is used to define someone who loves all things vanilla.
What is a beanie?
Gad Mascara
What is Madagascar?
Your favorite admin who created a vanilla bean Jeopardy game just to entertain you!
Who is Lisa Sheffer?
Despite being the first cultivators and native home of our favorite flavor, vanilla orchid production has actually decreased in this country in recent years.
What is Mexico?
Because of photosensitive flavor compounds in vanilla extract, it is recommended that vanilla extract be stored in a place that has this feature.
What is dark?
This classification can technically be used to define all vanilla beans--since they're too delicate to tolerate synthetic management--even though it is usually cost-prohibitive for farmers to legally claim.
What is organic?
Overwill Panda
What is Vanilla Powder?
We named our "bean fairy" gift fund after his helpful and kind beanie, after she was diagnosed with cancer.
Who is Sly?
This country is the fourth largest in the world, coming in at a whopping 3.5 million square miles/9.8 million square kilometers. Too bad only a tiny fraction of that can be used for vanilla production!
What is the United States of America?
The FDA's official guideline is 2.64 ounces of vanilla beans to 750 ml of 80 proof alcohol. We like this ratio better for easy math.
What is 1 ounce of beans to 1 cup of alcohol?
This is the hometown of IndriVanilla and Indri's Vanilla Bean Group.
What is Hyrum, Utah?
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When this people conquered the Totonac people in the 15th century, they developed a taste for the edible pods of orchids the Totonacs had been developing.
Who are the Aztecs?
This country's flag features a lion holding a sword, and is considered to be one of the oldest, if not the oldest, flags in human history, dating to 162 BC. We think that's befitting of such a pearl of a country!
What is Sri Lanka?
If gently warming extract to speed it up, we recommend going no higher than 130°F/55°C, despite this being the evaporation point for alcohol.
173.1°F/78.37°C
The best vanilla bean.
What is the one you have?
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Who is Sara Fifield Anderson? (The owner of IndriVanilla and Indri's Vanilla Bean Group)
This man discovered how to hand-pollinate vanilla beans when he was only twelve years old. However, because he was a slave child, others tried to steal the credit of providing the world with an incredible flavor. We owe him so much!
Who is Edmund Albius?