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Whistle Stopper - Premium Bourbon-Madagascar Vanilla Beans - 16 beans
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Manufacturer: JR Mushrooms & Specialties
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Address: Array
Binding: Misc.
Brand: JR Mushrooms & Specialties
Country: madagascar
Feature: Genuine Madagascar vanilla beans
Label: JR Mushrooms & Specialties
Manufacturer: JR Mushrooms & Specialties
Publisher: JR Mushrooms & Specialties
Studio: JR Mushrooms & Specialties
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Features
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Genuine Madagascar vanilla beans
Highest quality
The best créme brûlée ever recipe enclosed
Sixteen plump moist beans
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Great Vanilla Beans
Comment: My daughter asked me to make her more vanilla extract for next Christmas. I ordered these beans on the weekend and they arrived early the following week. I could smell the beans through the mailer even though they were in a plastic zip bag. These beans were very plump, fragrant and blemish free. I am mixing these beans with Tahitian vanilla beans (a little more mellow) for a unique flavor. My extract will sit and "work its magic" for 11 months, so by Christmas it will be wonderful. Will definitely order from this company again. Many more beans for my money--making my extract even stronger.
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Summary: EXTREMELY PLUMP & FRAGRANT beans ...every pastry chefs dream!!
Comment: Package arrived in a matter of 3 days after ordering them. WOW! I smelled them through the package and couldnt wait to whip up some creme brulee or pastry cream. The beans were extremely plump and moist.
UNFORTUNATELY, someone must have thrown my beans out not knowing how precious these little gems were. I was devastated. I am about to go re-order some more right now. I will keep a close eye on this batch!!
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Summary: superior products, superior service
Comment: If I could have given this merchant more than five stars, I would have done so. I ordered three items through the Amazon.com site, which was a very unclear, screwy site that did not become clear to me until I had already entered THREE separate items.
When I realized I was going to be charged for three separate deliveries of these three small items, I could find no way on this screwed up-software site at Amazon to make the change. I resigned myself to paying the extra shipping charges for the mistake I made in not being able to indicate that all three items should go into a single, small package to a single address.
At that point I determined never to order grocery items from Amazon again until their site instructions were made clear BEFORE an order is placed rather than AFTER.
But at 9:00 a.m. the next morning the PRESIDENT of JR Mushrooms & Specialties phoned me and asked if I did really want the three items shipped separately to my address. I told him I had tried to correct the problem on the Amazon site and was unable to do so. The president, Mr. Rusnak, immediately had the extra shipping charges deleted from my credit card.
I had placed the order on Sunday, Feb. 10, and all three items were delivered via USPS this morning, Wed. Feb. 13, in one, single package. Without a doubt, this is a company from which I intend to order many items in the future. In addition, all three items are of superior quality. I had ordered pure cinnamon oil and pure vanilla oil along with the vanilla beans. Thank you Mr. Rusnak. Please stay in business for a long, long time with the same superior quality products and SUPERIOR service.
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Summary: Fresh vanilla-mmmmmm
Comment: I had never used fresh vanilla beans, but wanted to try my hand at making vanilla extract. Vanilla beans are EXPENSIVE in the spice aisle of my local grocery store. I did find them in the fresh veggie section, but even those were $3.99 for 2 and I needed at least 16 for the extract. I decided to see what I could find online. This store (JR Mushrooms & Specialties, Inc.) has great reviews and the price of the beans was reasonable. The beans arrived quickly and I was impressed with the quality - plump, NOT dry and the smell was heavenly.
I made a coconut cream pie for Thanksgiving dessert and decided "What the heck. Let's give cooking with the fresh beans a try." In addition to the vanilla extract called for in the recipe, I split a vanilla bean and scraped the seeds into the mixture. OMG! I have never tasted coconut cream pie this good. The only difference was the addition of the fresh vanilla. My BIL called the next day to rave about the pie AGAIN.
I dropped the rest of the cut pod into a bottle of vodka (I'm using Tito's Handmade Vodka) and have continued to add pods as I use them in cooking. The extract isn't ready (it hasn't even been 1 month since I started it), but the smell is wonderful and the taste is well on the way to perfection. I'll definitely be buying fresh beans to use in my baking from now on.
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Summary: vanilla beans
Comment: the beans are good and i am in production of real vanilla extract using the best fire water 151 proof everclear. good stuff!!!!!!
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Editorial Reviews:
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As an essential ingredient for making crème brûlée, 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.
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