Remove Seeds From a Vanilla Bean by Soaking in Rum [Video]

Vanilla bean seeds are useful for many recipes, but can be a pain to get out. If you have a couple of weeks until you need the seeds you can easily remove them by cutting off the ends of the beans and letting them sit in rum for around two weeks. After that, just squeeze the beans and the seeds will come out as a paste.

Using this method will give your dish a hint of rum flavor along with vanilla, but I can think of very few applications of vanilla where additional rum flavor would not be an improvement.

Culinary site Chow.com also recommends that you can dry the leftover pods and grind them in a coffee grinder as though they were a cinnamon stick. Use the resulting powder in your baked goods, coffee, or anything else you'd like to give a vanilla flavor.

If you have a lot of vanilla beans on hand (they're cheaper in bulk) you can also make your own vanilla extract.

How to Get the Seeds Out of a Vanilla Pod | Chow

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