David Tamarkin
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Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
Somebody has to go in and pollinate them.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
This is crazy to think about.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
Yeah.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
That's sort of a dark origin story.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
That's the window for which the pollination will take.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
Yes.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
Yeah.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
So... So once the flowers are pollinated, then the seeds begin to grow.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
Yeah.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
The seeds, and that's what we really think of as the vanilla beans, right?
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
Yeah, those seed pods.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
And they sort of look like...
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
Green beans are about the size of a longish green bean.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
Yeah.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
And they're not like the sticky pods we think of when we think of vanilla or like that we would buy at the grocery store.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
Yeah.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
You know, from a wholesaler.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
Before we can use them, those pods have to be cured.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
Yeah.
Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz
If I'm not mistaken.