This year's vanilla harvest starting, and with the hot weather, moving fast. This year I'll harvest around 100 pods which I'll process into cured vanilla over the next few months.
It's also the time of year for "tipping", where you go through and break off the growing tips to hopefully induce flowering, which will start as early as October November. I'm going to be rooting and possibly even selling some vine material from the tipping events.
Not enough love for the rich flavor of vanilla out there. Very sweet to grow your own.
It's a tragedy that the word we adopted for "plain and boring" is an incredibly complex flavor derived from a difficult to cultivate tropical vine.
Vanilla is great
It's also basically "dessert MSG". It can go in almost anything and definitely makes it better.
I've though the same. It's because vanilla and vanilla-like flavors are often defaults
They’re really on defaults in America because vanilla flavoring a byproduct of the petroleum industry so it’s very very cheap. In many other countries, “milk” flavor is the default.
Love a good vanilla ice cream
Me too, but only with a shit ton of chocolate syrup on it. I should just buy chocolate ice cream but I'm ashamed to say I'm addicted to the shitty flavor of Hershey's syrup.
I prefer that chocolate coating stuff that hardens when it gets cold. It’s fun!
Yeah that stuff is good too!
I don't otherwise like Hershey chocolate, but their chocolate syrup on good vanilla ice cream slaps.
Chocolate ice cream and vanilla with chocolate syrup are entirely different. You can buy vanilla with chocolate syrup swirls, but it's not as good as drenching it yourself.