|
Premium Bourbon-Madagascar Vanilla Beans - 7 beans | 
| Brand: JR Mushrooms & Specialties
Buy New: $7.95
Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 107
Country: madagascar
Media: Misc.
ASIN: B000CSOZME
Promotion: Data not available Terms and Conditions
| |
| Features:
| • | Genuine Madagascar vanilla beans | | • | Highest quality | | • | The best creme brulee ever recipe enclosed | | • | Seven plump moist beans |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
As an essential ingredient for making creme brulee, vanilla ice cream, and many other dishes, nothing beats a quality vanilla bean. Some recipes call for splitting the bean and using only the tiny black vanilla seeds contained in the bean. Place used and dried vanilla beans in a few cupfuls of sugar. After a few days, you will have delicious vanilla sugar to use in your cookie and cake recipes. Compare these prices to what you pay for one vanilla bean at your local market.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 Food TV is making me hungry... March 26, 2006
Rebecca Johnson (Washington State)
13 out of 19 found this review helpful
Superior vanilla beans come from the Madagascar "Bourbon Islands," Mexico and Indonesia. It took me years to get up the courage to buy a vanilla bean.
When I did, I found the flavor was truly superior to vanilla extract. While you don't want to use vanilla beans in everything (too expensive!), you will definitely want to consider using them in custards and when you make ice cream.
Vanilla enhances everything from creamy porridges to custards and cakes. The list goes on and on. There are so many uses for vanilla. Vanilla is derived from the seductively aromatic vanilla bean.
Vanilla beans are actually the cigar-shaped seed pod from a fragrant climbing orchid native to tropical America.
Yes, vanilla extract is much more economical, but using vanilla beans is rather gourmet. The extract is created from chopped vanilla beans that are soaked in an alcohol/water solution. It takes about 100 beans to make 1 gallon of extract.
I've been using pieces of vanilla beans, but on Food TV
they always split these down the middle and also scrape
out the vanilla for superior vanilla flavor.
~The Rebecca Review
 Very Disappointed March 14, 2007
Chef
12 out of 21 found this review helpful
I placed an order for these beans on March 4th. On the 14th march, I did not receive them as yet. Since the occasion that I needed them for has passed, I sent an email to JR to find out the problem. When he said they were not shipped as yet, I send 2 e-mails requesting cancellation-i sent 2 to make sure they got it and stopped the mailing of my item!
He responded VERY hastily, as used sarcastic comments in his reply.The tone of his reply made me feel as if I did not know anything!!
I am very disappointed with this whole ordeal!!
Love the beans, love JR Mushrooms January 11, 2007
CheeryToes (the First Coast)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I bought these and the greatest thing besides the awesome price and the fabulous beans is that the VP or CEO or some such lovely gentleman actually emailed me and thanked me for my purchase and when I responded, followed up again with a nice response! How nice is that in this day and age!
I used these beans in my home made eggnog this year and it was out of this world. I first scraped the bean and then threw the pod in and left it there till the nog was gone. (not long)
I also use one when I make my hot chocolate "syrup" (Lots of bittersweet chips, melted in milk and a little haff and half and the bean scraped and the pod - once again left in - I mske hot chocolate out of it by adding more milk to taste and a little bitty bit of brandy...decadent...oh my yes!)
This is a great buy, great beans, great company! Buy with assurance!
 Not the highest quality, but still a great deal February 27, 2007
Timothy T. Duncan
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought seven beans for seven dollars, and was a bit unimpressed with the aromatic quality. They didn't have that strong complex aroma right out of the bag that bourbon beans are known for. That is not to say that the inside of the bean isn't aromatic. After all, it's the guts that really count. Even though these beans don't seem to be as aromatic as other beans, this is still a KILLER DEAL!!! I recently purchased one bean from a popular brand "Spice Islands" for seven dollars. An unbelievably aromatic bean, but seven times the cost of these beans!?!?!? I think I'll just buy these and use twice as many as the higher quality beans. I'm still making away like a bandit!
Kudos from an avid baker- February 27, 2007
T. Pinho
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
First off, top notch customer service- there's a personal touch that's rarely seen in on-line purchasing! Please keep it up!
Now for the goods: These vanilla beans are a fantastic value. Seriously, I wasn't expecting much- I was hopeful given the other reviews- but I've learned some hard lessons to not expect such high standards of quality- especially when it comes to gourmand items- These beans are even superior to those I can get from my local provider (at three times the cost, mind you.) I've even ordered online from two other sources (one recommended by Martha Stewart, lol)- and these beans are plumper and more supple than those other pricier providers. (Plump and supple- always a good thing.)
If you're on the fence- I urge you to go for it. You owe it to your recipes to use quality indredients. You will not be disappointed. I know I'm not.
Thank you kindly!
|
|
|
We'll be adding even more exciting features to assist you in the coming year.
Thank you for shopping at the Depot.com online shopping depot.
©2008 Depot.com | |
