Anonymous wrote:Our chef only uses Nielsen Massey Bourbon Vanilla Paste.
Anonymous wrote:Here is the Serious Eats version.
TLDR: no one can tell in baked goods. In unbaked applications, they preferred the real extract but if they added vodka, it evened the score again. So people seemed to be responding to the alcohol content mainly (which makes perfect sense since that is a clear difference between the two).
Nobody liked the beans better. Fine for if you want the speckles.
Anonymous wrote:I took these amazing continuing ed cooking classes in Arlington from a CIA grad/ personal chef / awesome person named Michelle something and I learned so much from her. One of those lessons was that most chefs use imitation vanilla - there was a specific reason but I forgot why.
Anonymous wrote:Our chef only uses Nielsen Massey Bourbon Vanilla Paste.