Jessica Badalana

If I'm making, you know, anything else,

Truly.

I'll use vanilla extract.

And you can substitute them one for one.

So if your recipe calls for a teaspoon of vanilla extract, you can use a teaspoon of vanilla bean paste.

And we always, like you'll see all over King Arthur, we measure vanilla.

they say, with our hearts.

I mean, that's really a, it's a luxury stance.

Yeah, it is.

Because we have an endless supply of vanilla.

At home, I'm like, I don't measure with my heart.

I measure with a measure.

Yeah, the nice thing, too, is, like, vanilla extract, vanilla bean paste, they don't expire.

I mean, maybe—I don't think so.

I don't think they ever expire.

And, you know, I'm always, like—I go to visit my father, and my—one of our family jokes is that I always am, like, finding things in my dad's pantry that are, like—

Like just some really wild stuff.

And recently he was like, I've had this vanilla extract since your mother died.

My mother died, you know, like eight years ago.

And he was like, is it still good?