# Does vanilla extract need to be in a dark bottle? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 21, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vanilla-extract-need-to-be-in-a-dark-bottle/385104 "2006-12-21T18:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vanilla-extract-need-to-be-in-a-dark-bottle/385104/21 "2006-12-23T18:45:52Z")
He’s in love with the process and the look of wet-plate. It’s not an equipment issue - he just really wants to do historical photography. (He has a vauge idea of turning a profit at Civil War reenactments and such, but really it’s a personal hobby.) He’s building a case, and he’s got a respirator. I don’t know about his plans to dispose of the chemicals, but I’m sure he’s thought it out - he didn’t just pick this up on a whim or anything, he really has done a lot of research. He’s just trying to steal my damned vanilla bottle, is all, and I don’t wanna give it to him. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vanilla-extract-need-to-be-in-a-dark-bottle/385104/22 "2006-12-24T02:20:51Z")
I didn’t mean to imply he was going to be haphazard- just making suggestions based on my experiences with the noxious stuff of standard paper-print b&w. Hope he has a blast at it ! ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vanilla-extract-need-to-be-in-a-dark-bottle/385104/23 "2006-12-24T17:55:53Z")
Oh, he already is. His enthusiasm is driving me bonkers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vanilla-extract-need-to-be-in-a-dark-bottle/385104/24 "2006-12-24T21:52:21Z")
We artists. We’re like that. 😃 ( Hey, _you_ married him !! ) ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vanilla-extract-need-to-be-in-a-dark-bottle/385104/25 "2006-12-25T01:08:01Z")
I just want to jump in and say: Tell him to join the 20th century! Hasn’t he ever heard of D-76? 😃 (D-76, of course, is the name of the Kodak developing chemicals, and the catch-all name of the related processes for black-and-white film developing, one of the favored hobbies of old-fashioned photographers everywhere). ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vanilla-extract-need-to-be-in-a-dark-bottle/385104/26 "2006-12-25T04:16:23Z")
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse] We artists. We’re like that. 😃 ( Hey, _you_ married him !! ) [/QUOTE] I did not! (Er, yet. It hasn’t come up.) ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vanilla-extract-need-to-be-in-a-dark-bottle/385104/27 "2006-12-25T04:18:11Z")
–gulp-- Oh. Uh. Sorry. Didn’t mean to push things along like that. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vanilla-extract-need-to-be-in-a-dark-bottle/385104/28 "2006-12-25T17:30:30Z")
Just don’t give my mother any ideas! ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vanilla-extract-need-to-be-in-a-dark-bottle/385104/29 "2006-12-26T02:32:51Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] Nitpick, “…slow them _up_.” [The Original](http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Rash/misc/images/fiddlesticks.jpg) [/QUOTE] You’re such a geek 😛 ! Hey, do they have that on a T-shirt? ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vanilla-extract-need-to-be-in-a-dark-bottle/385104/30 "2006-12-26T05:55:26Z")
I don’t get it. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vanilla-extract-need-to-be-in-a-dark-bottle/385104.md?page=1)