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Can someone help me with vanilla equivalents?

Hi y'all, most dessert recipes use vanilla beans, the ones you scrape with the knife, which are also pretty expensive and rare and unfortunately at least where I am we don't really use these. We most commonly use those mini bottles of vanillin here, that strong vanilla powder Im thinking that those are not really true to the recipes im reading and aren't even close to the real vanilla bean flavor (although I've never tried the real thing) , so i thought of using a liquid form vanilla But what I could find on my super market was this small bottle of vanilla bourbon. What even is this? I assume it's not the same as vanilla extract, but I hoped it was better that those vanillin capsule-like things I've been using But how do I convert them? So if the recipe calls for 1 vanilla pod how much is that in vanillin or vanilla bourbon? Can someone tell me, ok not exactly obviously, about how much the equivalent is? submitted by /u/Apprehensive_Toe6736
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