What's the Best Cinnamon at the Supermarket?

Jack saying “There will be no fire and no one will be hurt” is the intensive, affirmative dad-style reassurance that I need at all times.

Add cinnamon to baking recipes while you are creaming the butter and sugar, to bring out the fat-soluble flavors.

Ceylon cinnamon is the original stuff, the stuff spice traders called cinnamon hundreds of years ago. The stuff we are used to is actually cassia. It's spicier but can overwhelm more subtle flavors. It's still delicious and I'm happy to use it. I love Penzy's Vietnamese cinnamon.

Here in Mexico we distinguish cinnamon by whether it comes as a single curl of bark or as a double curl, the former being preferable.

I bought half a kilo of ceylon cinnamon a few years ago.Ebay sellers charge about $15 or a little higher with free shipping for 1#. I keep a small glass jar of it in my spice cabinet and the remainer in the freezer sealed up tight.It taste as fresh as when I bought it as I just refilled my jar recently. The sticks are available from the same vendors who sell the powder.It's even offered in teabags. I always put more than the recipe calls for as Ceylon isn't as strong tasting.On the subject of cassia type:it almost always gave me heartburn so I used to think I couldn't tolerate cinnamon.I had a cinnamon roll at a friends home knowing that it would be a bad outcome but those rolls looked so good.I was wrong and right:I didn't get heartburn and those rolls were divine.

The high coumarin content in all types of cassia cinnamon (the taste we're familiar with), regardless of country of origin, is toxic to the liver in daily doses, while ceylon cinnamon is harder to come by and more expensive, but much safer for the liver.

The way Bridget wouldn’t stop eating the rice pudding. 😂 You gotta love her.

I ordered from Penzy's for years and then I moved to Chicago and started going to "The Spice House" there. Great, fresh spices from a family owned company. They have an excellent web page, with many great recipes too. You think these spice merchants are expensive until you look at the price per ounce of the store brands, which are nowhere near the quality of Penzy's or the Spice House.

I was SO looking forward to seeing Bridget do a cinnamon challenge.

Watching her eat rice pudding is making me crave some!

Saigon Cinnamon (Vietnamese cinnamon) is the best type of cinnamon out there, in my opinion. It has an intense, smoky smell, it makes everything taste so good, and it complements other spices very well. It’s my favorite. Yes, I’m biased, lol.

I have heard so much about this topic. So glad you did this, thank you.

Thank you for all you do, introducing the best of every thing.

I love Penzey’s Cinnamon, which is a blend of the different types of cinnamons. I also love their Ceylon and Vietnamese cinnamons.

So glad there is a Penzy's store in my town! I would have picked the Vietnamese too!

I absolutely agree with Bridgette with the Vietnamese cinnamon, it's my favorite also

I hadn't realized how important cinnamon is to me until seeing this video. And I was ready for conflict if you disparaged my choice, the M&B. Wow. A partisan spice guy.

Never have I put so much thought into my cinnamon. I'm used to just putting it on buttered toast and getting nostalgic for Saturday morning cartoons.

I'm not surprised at all that Penzey's Vietnamese cinnamon was the top pick of the taste tester because its flavor is outstanding. I discovered it years ago and bought bottles for family members. It's in a class by itself.

I love the flavor of cardamom, that must be why I love Ceylon cinnamon.