Скачать или смотреть Vanilla Paste in 5 minutes! Alex Green's Recipe *by weight

Making Alex Green's Vanilla Bean Paste is a breeze if you've got a Vitamix!
I've tried it with my immersion blender and I've tried it with my little bullet blender, and it's simply not the same.

This recipe is strictly by WEIGHT:
I used his listed GRAMS in parentheses, instead of going by pounds and ounces.

Tip** If you don't want ANY other dirty dishes at all...the easy way to measure each ingredient from the beginning, is to put your empty blender pitcher on the scale first, then press "tare" to clear the weight measurement down to "0."
After that, every time you put an ingredient in, you can weigh it right on the scale as you're adding it. Then scratch it back down to zero again by pressing "tare," before moving on to the next ingredient.

Owning a scale is necessary, not only for baking but you need to weigh out your vanilla beans, if you want to follow this recipe exactly. There are other recipes out there that are approximate, and those recipes are just fine but I prefer this exact recipe.

Alex Green's Famous Recipe:
makes 1 quart
4 oz(114g) fresh vanilla beans
6 oz (170g) water
16 oz (454g) granulated sugar
12 oz (340g) vodka or light rum (80 proof)
2 ounces (57g) light corn syrup
1⁄2 tsp (1.5g) xanthan gum
*optional thickener, but recommended

I like to run it for 2 minutes on my "soup" setting because it starts out blending slowly and then it gets to the highest speed and warms up whatever you have in the pitcher. It's a professional grade blender. This is why it's perfect to make vanilla paste!

You want everything to be super smooth and no signs of bean pods. The vanilla bean pod fragments should be chopped up so fine that they look just like "caviar" from inside the pods!

Side note... If you have ever thought about purchasing a Vitamix blender, look for one sold directly from Vitamix as a refurbished unit. I got mine from them directly. Since I have a friend who lives in Cleveland, who's obsessed with her Vitamix and that's where they are manufactured, she's the one who shared a link with me! I'm certain you can find their website to buy those refurbished units, so do your research. Maybe give Vitamix a call and that will save you big bucks!

True story:
As soon as I got my Vitamix, I used that SOUP setting on peas and spinach in the blender to really test it out for the first time. I was not expecting that it would work so beautifully. It's like a juicer and blender all in one, but you don't lose any pulp! It literally made a liquefied V8 type
drinkable soup!