Why You Shouldn't Make Your Own Vanilla Extract
by Claire Lower from Lifehacker on (#5RFPJ)
Plunking a scraped and spent vanilla bean into an aliquot of alcohol is a good idea. (Those beans are expensive, and you might as well eek out that last bit of flavor.) Buying whole, pricey pods for the express purpose of making your own extract, however, is not a good idea. Simply put: You don't have access to the...