• GrafZahl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    23 hours ago

    So I’m assuming they mean kilo = kilogram, so a single Starbucks would be using roughly 0.0175 gram of pure vanilla a day.

    The internet is telling me this equals about 0.00004 pound (3.86*10^-5).

    Anyone a vanilla expert and can tell me how much syrup they make out of that amount of vanilla?

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      22 hours ago

      I’m no expert but a single bean that’s already been scraped of seeds can flavour about 5 kilos of sugar by just leaving it in the box for a day or two. I imagine they use a mix of real vanilla extract and synthetic vanillin to save money though.

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        22 minutes ago

        Oh yea that’s helpful.

        Vanilla beanis weighs 3-6 gram, I’m gonna go with 3 gram.

        3 gram vanilla -> 5 kilogram flavoured sugar

        0.0175 gram vanilla -> 30 gram flavoured sugar (I’m rounding this a little much maybe but I’m too lazy)

        I’ll assume syrup will be something like 2 parts sugar to 1 part water - but I dont really know, probably less water.

        So I get about 45 gram syrup, or 1.6 ounces. So I got 10 teaspoons of vanilla syrup for one Starbucks for a whole day, don’t use it all at once.