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Based on my personal experience, if you dilute it too much, you're not going to be thrilled with the results. Yes, it will be vanilla-y, but it won't be very strong. I'd leave what you have steeping alone until you can find more vanilla beans.

 

My first attempt at vanilla extract was ok, but I didn't use enough beans, so it was not even up to grocery store vanilla strength. I was much happier when I made a stronger extract.

 

Looks like vanilla beans have really gone up in price, but you can still get them from vanillaproducts on eBay (http://stores.ebay.com/Vanilla-Products-USA). It doesn't look like they have them by the pound, right now, which I found to be the cheapest way to buy beans.

thock

thock

Based on my personal experience, if you dilute it too much, you're not going to be thrilled with the results. Yes, it will be vanilla-y, but it won't be very strong. I'd leave what you have steeping alone until you can find more vanilla beans.

 

My first attempt at vanilla extract was ok, but I didn't use enough beans, so it was not even up to grocery store vanilla strength. I was much happier when I made a stronger extract.

 

Looks like vanilla beans have really gone up in price, but you can still get them from vanilla-products-usa on eBay (http://stores.ebay.com/Vanilla-Products-USA). It doesn't look like they have them by the pound, right now, which I found to be the cheapest way to buy beans.

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