It's vanilla bean harvest day!
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After patting the vanilla pods dry, I wrapped them in towels and packed them in an insulated cooler bag with a hot water bottle, wrapped in more towel.
This is the beginning of the "sweating" stage that lasts 10-14 days. The will spend evenings wrapped up with a hot water bottle in an insulated cooler bag, and they will spend daytime drying in the sun.
See process description here: https://www.kingson-foodtech.com/en/a4-11232-16797/The-Journey-of-Vanilla-Beans-Vanilla-Bean-Processing.html
And here: https://www.vanillapura.com/blogs/vanilla-extract-making-101/how-to-cure-vanilla-beans-at-home-a-step-by-step-guidePic 1: I wrapped the pods in their little towels, then packed them in an insulated cooler bag that was lined with a big folded towel.
Pic 2: I put a hot water bottle on top, wrapped it all up in the big towel, and zipped up the cooler bag.They will stay like this till tomorrow (I'll keep an eye on the water bottle and refill with hot water as necessary), then will set to sun dry during the daytime tomorrow.
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@mk30 Holy cow, I learned a lot from this thread.
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@mk30 given all the effort put into them it become honestly incredible that you can buy them for like three euros per bean
@zuthal it's true 😔
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@mk30 that’s amazing, what is your grow zone?
I am also a tad jealous.@CatDragon I'm on the east side of Hawai'i Island in a tropical wet zone.
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@CatDragon I'm on the east side of Hawai'i Island in a tropical wet zone.
@mk30 hi from Maine. Definitely not tropical.
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