Vanilla offers one of the comforting and distinctive flavors in the world. The aroma is favored not only for baking, but for aromatherapy, candles, and perfumes, among others. Vanilla is available for cooking and baking in a variety of forms, including whole bean, vanilla extract, vanilla paste, and vanilla powder.
The powdered version is probably the least commonly available form, but it offers unique and useful properties that home cooks will appreciate. While the heat of many dishes will diminish the flavor of liquid vanilla extract, vanilla powder tends to retain the flavor much better, as there is no alcohol -a key ingredient in extracts- to evaporate. It also works well in dishes that won’t benefit from added liquid. It is a useful ingredient in baked goods, liquids, and cream based dishes, dissolving easily and imparting a strong flavor.
Vanilla powder is actually available in two different forms, and may be labeled differently depending on the manufacturer. It may be ground vanilla, simply vanilla beans that have been dried and cured, and ground into a fine powder, or a sweetened vanilla powder, which is a very fine mixture of various types of sugars, such […]

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Fragrance lamps have quite the history. The original fragrance lamp has been around since the 1800’s. These special types of lamps have been known by many different names, including fragrance lamps, effusion and perfume lamps, even catalytic lamp. The term catalytic lamp is used because it is catalytic combustion technology that enables the lamp to work. This technology was first put to use in the 1800’s for use in both hospitals and morgues. It was in the year 1897 that a French gentleman named Maurice Berger patented the technology that fuels (no pun intended) fragrance lamps).
The purpose of a fragrance lamp is to eliminate bad orders. It has often been thought that bad smells come from molecules which are unstable, and that the low-temperature combustion that a fragrance lamp provides is able to speed up the decomposing of those molecules. Those molecules can then be converted from bad smells into harmless substances like water and carbon dioxide. In addition to removing bad odors and providing a nice scent (which is provided by fragrance lamp oils), fragrance lamps and their innovative combustion process can also eliminate up to eighty-five percent of the bacteria that is
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