 Hey everyone today, I'm going to show you how to make a balsamic reduction So you don't have to go to the store and buy you know buy it You can make it yourself and save yourself some money because what I'm using today is I'm using an inexpensive bottle of Balsamic vinegar, which was this bottle here 16 ounces was probably about six dollars And if you were to buy a reduction already made for you, it would be at least double that So it's really you know easy to do it only takes maybe about a half an hour But the results are really good and you save yourself some money and you can use this for any number of things I mean, it's just limitless what you can use it for I like to put it on strawberries adds a nice little Fancy little touch to it and some nice little flavor Vegetables comes to mind asparagus grilled asparagus with a little drizzle of this is wonderful potatoes You can drizzle some over your chicken. You can put it on your salad. You could even put it on ice cream It's really that good. So I'm rockin Robin and I'm gonna show you how to do it right after this So let's get into making our balsamic reduction So we're gonna take our inexpensive balsamic vinegar and we're gonna place it into a sauce pan We're gonna put that over medium-high heat I want to bring this actually to a boil and then we're gonna drop the temperature down and just simmer it for about 30 minutes or until this reduces by a good half maybe a little more But we don't want to over reduce it It's gonna start getting thick and syrupy and you're gonna think oh, that's wonderful But if you let it go too far while it's hot and we're still cooking it and you think you know, that's perfect Then it's probably not perfect. Then you've probably gone too far. So you want to do it just before that point and One way to tell is by just you know getting it to reduce by half That's pretty much your indicator that you need to stop. So I'm gonna stir this with a wooden spoon and I'm also going to use Sort of a marker This is kind of weird, but that's what I do if I take the the spoon and I just set it in the bottom of the pan when I first pour it in I got a mark as to how how tall it is in the pan, right? So as it cooks down, I can see where I'll test it again when I think it's halfway there halfway Reduced and then I'll know it's pretty much done or pretty close to it All right, it's starting to boil down. So I'm gonna reduce it the temperature down So that it just simmers and then we'll set our timer for about 30 minutes And you can see how you know, it's Very watery right now, but that will change All right, so it's been 30 minutes and you can see here how much that's gone down. I think you can see you see the bubbles That's what we want. That's what it's been doing the whole time I'll go ahead and test it. I have my mark there in my spoon So it's definitely half maybe just a smidge under now another way to tell because this is going to thicken up quite a bit After it cools is does it coat your spoon? Well, you can kind of see here that it's really is coating my spoon quite well If we let this go too long It'll be so thick that we won't be able to get it out of the squeeze bottle once we put it in there So we're going to go ahead and turn this off and we're going to let it just sit So while we're waiting for our uh balsamic reduction to cool off enough so that we can use it Go ahead if you're a new subscriber click the subscribe button and that notification bell And that way you'll be the first to be notified when my new videos come out every week All right, our balsamic has cooled off. It's nice and cool It's ready to put into my little container here this little squeeze bottle these work great because then you can control How it goes out on your plate I don't have a funnel and so i'm going to just eyeball it and get it right Hopefully I can get it all in the container So as you can see we ended up with less than a cup of balsamic reduction But that's okay because you know you're reducing it by half maybe Two-thirds so it just depends All right, so now I am ready to try this out on my strawberries. I have some strawberries here I'm just going to plate them up here and just give a little drizzle I love how this turned out. It's perfect It's not too thick Look at that guys. It's just perfect So that's how you make a balsamic reduction I hope that helps you out saves you a little bit of money And uh, if you like the video, please give me a comment down below Let me know what you think and if you have any recipe requests Please let me know down there as well. All right guys. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time