Hello, im vanilla farmer from indonesia, thanks your video really help us for know how using our vanilla beans, we only know how to plant it 😀

some tips from someone’s been making vanilla extract for a few years: - For a single-fold extract, use 1 oz of beans per 1 cup of alcohol (i.e. 8 oz). For double-fold, use 2 oz of beans per 1 cup - Use 80-100 proof alcohol - I’d recommend using a neutral spirit (like vodka, or a grain alcohol diluted with distilled water) before diving off into using rum, whiskey, etc. this is because using a neutral spirit will yield the most pure “vanilla” flavor. If you use rum, it’ll taste like… well, rum + vanilla - If not using the heat method, wait a few months (at least 6) if you really want your extract to taste truly vanilla-y

I made homemade vanilla, orange, lemon and peppermint extracts for Christmas gifts 2 years ago, they were a HIT!!! I bought my amber bottles on Amazon and I made my labels on my Cricut machine! Simple and fun gift idea!!! Even my son and his girlfriend loved helping - we had an assembly line going!!! LOVE!!!!

John, you're literally the best teacher-baker mix I know, you explain everything so well with attention to detail, the recipe always turns out right! Thank you!

Man, the joy you are having doing these projects is infectious. Looking forward to more!

Wow, you always giving us some vital information and instructions. I can say personally for me I am so grateful you share your videos. Just learning how to make a lot out of scratch is just amazing. I was never taught on how to create from scratch and your videos have helped me learn so much and accomplish my own personal baking goals. I always have my pen and paper ready to take notes :) Thank You so much John for all your hardwork, your videos, your kind words, and encouragement.

John that was such an interesting, great tutorial, thank you so much. I’m learning endlessly from you. Thank you for sharing all your incredible knowledge with us, l love your channel and really appreciate all you do to pass on this amazing hobby to so many of us , with love from the UK xx🇬🇧💕xx

I have been making extracts for a little over a year now. I absolutely love them.

Your videos have inspired me to start baking! I have made so many of your recipes and my family just cannot get enough. ♥️

John - you are not only informative but you truly entertaining - thanks for another Amazing video 👏👏

I just want to try everything you make! Can't wait to get your book, keep up the great work! 💜💜💜

I’m definitely trying this. Your videos are always helpful and easy to follow. Thank you!

Really good video on this topic. Actually the BEST I’ve watched. You are concise and got to the alcohol to bean ratio right away. THANK YOU!!!

Very nice tips for homemade vanilla extract John! Have a nice day and good weekend! 👍👏🍴

I absolutely adore you John! Everybody select the option to toss a few bucks as thanks for such great content! We need to support great people who are amazing and knowledgeable in what they do!

Thank you for teaching us this and many other amazing recipes. I really appreciate you and all that you do. I hope everything is ok! 🤗

Love your videos John! You're awesome, this sounds like an incredibly fun project!

I made several pints for gifts two Christmas' s ago..used spiced rum and let it sit for at least 18 months. After the 18 months, I added 3 more vanilla beans to each of my pints. Then I let them sit ,shaking them about once a week for the next couple of months. IT IS AMAZING! PLAN AHEAD, Best vanilla ever!

My friend has vanilla beans, like more than I can even imagine, growing on his farm in Oahu. He started making vanilla bean paste and extracts last year and leaves the extracts six months. O. M. G. I can’t explain how amazing it is. He uses bourbon.

You are literally the key to my success in the kitchen!

You make it look so easy!! I'm going to do this as a gift for my baker friends. Thank you!!

I was literally planning on making vanilla TOMORROW for this year’s Christmas gifts! This could not have come at a better time! Thank you so much! 🥰🖤

Thank you so much for sharing this recipe John ❤

Wow!! I’ve always wanted to make my own vanilla extract because I use so much of it while baking and never knew you could make it so fast! Thanks for sharing!❤️

thank you so much im a freshman and just getting into baking and u are amazing baker im going to practice your recipies and get good at baking

I like to put the spent bean pods from vanilla that I've used in baking in a bottle. I think the necessary beans per cup increases pretty drastically because there's less seeds per bean, but I think it's a great way to recycle.

Time to start making my own Vanilla thanks for the tip John as a Baker vanilla is one of the most used flavours and finishes so quick lol. I'm always buying so much. Never thought to make my own.

Great vid. I’ve always looked longingly at V beans, but never taken the plunge. Today is the day. Thanks for the continual inspiration. Your vid on Swiss meringue changed my life!

Ive been making caramel that is beyond delicious and effortless, thanks to your instructions, and this sounds like my next preppy project, diy with swift gratification!!

" It feels wrong, but it's actually right." You're the best John.

If you make your own vanilla, decant the extract after a year, but DON'T throw away the vanilla pods. Just fill back up with more vodka, and reuse them. They are reusable for SEVERAL batches. When your vanilla starts to get too weak to use as extract, use it in vanilla flavored mixed drinks. But STILL don't throw away the pods. They're still up for one more use; just remove the seeds and use them in baking, ice cream, pudding, muffins or any other application calling for vanilla extract. I know John uses plump juicy vanilla pods, but it's really not necessarily. I get the same high quality vanilla extract from cheaper, dryer vanilla pods. They ARE soaking in liquid, and those thirsty beans drink up that liquid, and plump right up. If anything, they extract quicker. I use about 10-12 vanilla pods for each fifth of vodka, and each batch is at full flavor and ready for decanting in about 6 months. I ALSO decant them into amber bottles to protect the vanilla from light that might damage the flavor. And while I don't PERSONALLY do this; you can make a non-alcoholic vanilla by substituting GLYCERIN for the alcohol. I don't do this because I use my extract to flavor sodas, and the glycerin kind floats on top rather than mixing in properly. You can ALSO make OTHER flavors of extract in the same way as the vanilla. Just place the flavoring ingredient in the vodka just like you do the vanilla pods. Citrus peal (pith removed), almonds, black walnuts, cocoa beans, coffee beans, lavender buds.....if they can make essential oil from it, you can make extract from it. Don't use anything (like, say, fruit) unless it has natural oils in it though, since it's the oils that are extracted. I haven't used coconut or peanut yet, but I think the experiment would be worth a try, it can't any more than not work.🤷 Making your own homemade extracts opens up a world of possibilities in deserts and baking. You can make flavors, and even blends that are otherwise unavailable at the grocery store.

John struggling with the lid is so relatable. 😂 Thank you for this video John. This is very helpful information.

Wow thank you for the comparison study - love your vids Sir! I would love to try this out myself.

I never knew you could use a different alcohol than vodka to make vanilla extract. The thought of doing it with brandy makes my mouth water! Thanks, John!

Fascinating video....I have learned sooo much from each one !

Hi John, I made some vanilla in January and I am glad to know I did it right. Thanks for the confidence.

I love your videos so much. You do a great job explaining everything. I have tried several of your recipes and can honestly say they turn out great every time. Keep up the great work, and keep those videos coming. Looking forward to the next one. Thank you.

This tutorial was so interesting and informative. You've inspired me to actually made vanilla. I think I'll wait the year before trying it. Thank you for sharing and keep on caking 💜

I made my vanilla just about a year ago and it it wonderful. I like yo tip it a couple times before using to get some of those pretty seeds. It’s spectacular. And the cost in comparison to buying in a store is amazing!

Thanks, John for another great video! I liked your information on the different sources & differences between the 3 types of vanilla. I’ve got several bottles of homemade vanilla. A few other sources (sorry, John, you are my favorite!) say you don’t have to replenish the vanilla beans - just keep adding vodka. When my bottle is about 2/3 empty, I top it off with more vodka and put the date on it with painters tape. It’s ready for use in about 6 months, but John’s right - the older the better! I have one bottle with bourbon vanilla for certain recipes that call for it.

So cool! My mother in law gave me a bottle of vanilla she had just started brewing - can’t wait to try it in about 9 more months!

I made instant pot vanilla as Christmas gifts in 2020, I am still using it, it is delicious

I so want to make my own Vanilla. Thanks for helping me build up my courage to try.

Thanks for all the recipes ♥️

Thank you! This is exactly the video I needed to see!

Simply amazing can't wait to make my own. I like to add it in banana shakes as well.

Thanks so much. This video is very helpful!! I love that this is cheaper than buying vanilla extract! 😊

Thanks for this video! What a fun project! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

John, I love vanilla flavor, I use it so much. Thank you for all the tips you give us !!!!😜😜 Tracey from Austin Texas

Hi Preppy Kitchen, Loving your videos. This one is lovely and I’m going to try the one year method.

I love your channel and I have learnt a lot. I always have to make your vanilla cupcakes for my grandkids to take to school for there birthday everybody loves them. I have just made your vanilla bean extract, I have made 2 in vodka and 2 in bourbon. Thank you for all your recipes.

I use a quart jar in the IP for my vanilla. Works great and gives me enough to last about six months. I have found that waiting a week after infusing it works best. The flavor develops a bit more, and the alcohol taste disappears completely. I have been using vodka, but we just brought home a nice bottle of rum from the Philippines that I am thinking of using the next time. I have a feeling that dropping a spoonful of that into my smoothies will give a whole new dimension to them. 😁😁

I love you so much! Thanks for this video, I cant wait to try this 😍

Started making my own vanilla about 2 years ago. I love it!

Thank you for this video and show us the difference. 💗

Thanks for doing the comparison taste test! I was considering doing some in the instant pot but I have a batch in a spiced rum bottle(yep, used spiced rum) that's over a year old so I might just split that up and put some beans in the jar for the gifts...and explain how to make it a permanent extract bottle system.

Lovely thank you. Just got my beans ready to try this

This is GREAT!! Love it 😍

Thorough and accurate has been hard to find… Thanks! Yours is… 😊

For those that really bake a lot, especially come Christmas making your own vanilla extract is so worth the time invested, much better value for the money than those premium vanilla extracts at the store. Some bakers or even home bakers have vanilla extract that's like over 30 years old and still going strong.

Love this!! Love your tips!!

I can’t wait to try this!

I made Vanilla for my sister and me, it's almost at the 6 month mark! I can't wait to use it!

I love the way you teach! ❤

Thank you very much for this recipe .

Great, found your extract video. Yesss!

My go-to is Jack Danials, so that's what I use when making vanilla. It's delightful!

I will do this for sure, I use liquid vanilla a lot, thanks for the video 🙏

I loveeee your recipes John!❤️

Wooow very helpful recipe excellent work awasome preparation and presentation stay connected big like for u

I have some brewing for 5 months now in different liquors . Can’t wait till December! Great video John

The longer it sits The better the product. I have a friend that makes it and she leaves it sit for over a year. She makes a killing on her jars. the taste is impeccable and sooo good.

I have batches of vodka, bourbon, and rum vanilla extract that are now 1.5 years old. I really love the bourbon vanilla extract it adds a beautiful complexity to anything chocolatey. When any of my bottles get low, I add more liquor and another vanilla pod or 4 then it gets moved to the back to age.😀

Thank you for saying it takes a good year for full flavor! I started some in vodka, spiced rum and bourbon and give them 15 months before I started using them and gave them away as Christmas gifts. They are awesome, and I was told at that point it's considered triple strength (don't know if that's true). Also, I love the organic Madagascar vanilla beans from Beanilla. A great company and the beans are fat and juicy, unlike when I bought them off Amazon, which were skinny and dry. Just a heads up for your followers:)

My parents and grandparents used homemade vanilla extract all the time. Very good thing.

Thanks, I think I want to use the slow process and have it for 2024 Christmas gifts. Btw your kitchen is just gorgeous 🤩

I started making my own vanilla almost two years ago. it is soon much better than anything you can buy. The slow infusing method for 1 year is the best way to go. My favorite alcohol to use is American Honey Burbon. I have tried a couple different vodkas and burbons and I just love the flavor I get from American Honey. I actually have a bunch of those bottles going now and I can't wait until December when my next batch will be ready just in time for Christmas baking.

I used Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum for my vanilla. It's been brewing for 2 years. I love it.

I made my own vanilla with Madagascar beans one year before my daughter's wedding. We let it steep for a year and I shared the Wedding Vanilla with my mom and my newly wed daughter at Christmas. That was some wonderful vanilla!

Thank you John! 😊

Another awesome video!! Thank you !!

I just love your videos! Muchas gracias!

Just made the vanilla extract like you made it’s about 4 days old thank you 😊

Oh I made my own vanilla about a year and a half ago. Its wonderful.

Thank you for this tutorial!!!

Great video John😊😊

Hey John. I make my own vanilla extract too. So much better than store-bought.

john thank you for the video i will definitely😊 make my own vanilla

I don’t have a pressure cooker but I’m do have a pressure canner and I used that. As soon as it vented for ten mins I turned it off and let it come down itself. Fantastic result.

You are my favorite baker! ❤️

I have a large bottle going since May. It's dark and as rich as some commercial varieties. I also have two new bottles brewing with some more vanilla beans I wanted to try. I have Madagascar beans of different qualities. All splendid.

Guten Tag!!! I just love your Videos ! Wenn I whish to bake something , the first thing is watching you ,for giving me some ideas. You enjoy so much doing this. Thank you! Viel Glück!! Gratuliere! Greetings from Switzerland!!!🥰🤗🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭

I made Six bottles last year the long way. It's amazing!

Absolutely fascinating and sooo super helpful! I can’t wait to make my own! I think I’m going to make one with vodka and one with bourbon and see which I prefer! Thanks again John! 👋🏻♥️

Thank you for the wonderful video I'm going to start calling my cabinets storage compartments

So funny that you post this tutorial on the day that I run out of vanilla while baking some cookies. Thank you, definitely going to try this out! 🙏🏻

I will give your method a try but in the meantime I added a vanilla bean to a store bought pure vanilla and I found it added extra vanilla flavour and it was quick an easy. ❤🇨🇦

This video reminded me to check my 3 year old homemade vanilla stored in the wine cellar…🥰

Yessssss you are a mind reader!!!

Very informative!!!!❤️