Quality is good, as well as price. :) Even if you do not like to make cakes, make vanilla sugar. The seeds of the vanilla bean, you can add and cereals, and beverages, ice cream, cheese and dairy dishes, etc. But it will give your baked vanilla terrific flavor. What you baked earlier and the fact that you bake with natural vanilla - believe, will be very different. Try natural vanilla, you will never want to use the synthetic. Be careful: the vanilla pods need to be stored without access of air, otherwise they will quickly wither and exhale.