Vinegar is a weird thing

[Goldenroad]

I mean I don't really get it. I feel like I look it up on Wikipedia every so often and I still don't quite get what exactly I'm cooking or cleaning with. Like, is there a finite supply of vinegar? Could anyone just make vinegar? It seems cheap, but is someone making mad coin off plain white vinegar? But then other vinegars like balsamic can cost hundreds of dollars.

Anyone here in the vinegar trade and wanna explain what's going on here?

 

[Ferrio]

Is this a real question? It's just juice that's gone bad.

 

[Username1198]

Vinegar is one of those words when I hear it I immediately can smell it. It's also great for cleaning your dirty sink and tastes great on sandwiches! Which is weird to me. I also like the smell, and skunk.

 

[L Thammy]

I just looked up vinegar on Wikipedia and I found like five billion things you can make it from. I think it's about as finite in supply as other plant-based products.

I also like the smell, and skunk.

Let's talk about this instead. How does this happen?

 

[Dynomutt]

It's the secret to a good brine.

 

[mmazurkiewicz]

vinegar is used to kill vampires, isn't it?

 

[Moonkid]

Salt and vinegar chips>

 

[strafer]

I use vinegar on my sandwhiches.

 

[Smellycat]

Red wine Vinegar is delicious

I used to drink it straight from the bottle

 

[Prophaniti]

vinegar is used to kill vampires, isn't it?

No youre thinking of orange juice.

Vinegar kills werewolves. Duh.

 

[Lagamorph]

I love vinegar on sausage sandwiches, combined with some HP Fruity and Colmans English Mustard. Godly.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

I think it's a mix of water and wee wee

 

[Podge293]

It's delicious. Chipper chips without vinegar is a crime

 

[SchrodingerC]

Vinegar is the delicious ingredient to a good dinner or a simple salad. It's also great with fries!

Spoiler

Plus it's a tasty drink

 

[fluffydelusions]

I use vinegar on my sandwhiches.

Salt and vinegar chips>

Fish n chips too!

 

[WedgeX]

Vinegar is great in a number of foods.

With its cleaning abilities, are we getting cleaned from the inside when we consume it?

Apple cider vinegar was surprisingly effective in calming a crazy case of poison ivy before I could see a doctor.

 

[Username1198]

I just looked up vinegar on Wikipedia and I found like five billion things you can make it from. I think it's about as finite in supply as other plant-based products.



Let's talk about this instead. How does this happen?

Well my eyes are really bad and so is my hearing from listening to music so loud, so I think my sense of smell has been enhanced. Plus I smoke a lot of weed and it reminds me of skunk.

Edit yea vinegar is great in salads. Spinach salads not lettuce

 

[Carn82]

Apple vinegar is also great for all kind of healthy shit, you can clean oily skin with it. You can drink a spoonful of it and it does some great stuff regarding killing bad shit in your body. Can also help against eczema, or things like toefunghi 'n shit. It rocks.

 

[jwk94]

It's great for cooking.

It's crazy how versatile that stuff is.

 

[Lucentto]

I only use it to kill gnats.

 

[Draper]

Great in sandwiches and fries and chips!

 

[itwasTuesday]

Is vinegar ever used as a plot device in a horror movie?

I feel garlic gets over hyped in that regard.

 

[Bastos]

Smells like dirty socks

 

[MarkMclovin]

It's rank as fuck.

 

[Kinyou]

Vinegar is rancid yet divine substance.

 

[Lagamorph]

It's rank as fuck.

 

[Red Liquorice]

Red wine Vinegar is delicious

I used to drink it straight from the bottle

If you like that, you should try it before it goes off.

 

[Mato]

Acetic acid + water. Basically it's a diluted acid.

 

[Hubbl3]

I would like to thank the person that gifted the world malt vinegar and balsamic vinegar. 4th and 5th best things to happen to food sauces/condiments behind hot sauce, ranch dressing and tzatziki sauce

 

[TyrantII]

You can fuel a dope ass volcano with it too.

Vinegar, nectar of the gods.

 

[kasrkinsquad]

Apple vinegar is also great for all kind of healthy shit, you can clean oily skin with it. You can drink a spoonful of it and it does some great stuff regarding killing bad shit in your body. Can also help against eczema, or things like toefunghi 'n shit. It rocks.

I can attest to the eczema. I use it everyday wish I found out about it sooner.

 

[Speevy]

You can make tabasco sauce with it.

 

[Ashby]

Apple vinegar is also great for all kind of healthy shit, you can clean oily skin with it. You can drink a spoonful of it and it does some great stuff regarding killing bad shit in your body. Can also help against eczema, or things like toefunghi 'n shit. It rocks.

Why is it apple vinegar specifically that's the magical kind of vinegar?

 

[Icyflamez96]

Chicken Adobo

 

[Ether_Snake]

What's the deal with wiiiine? Isn't it basically grape juice and vinegar? You can pay hundreds, even thousands for a bottle! And aren't both mostly water anyway? Why not just buy waaater?

*Seinfield bass*

 

[Theonik]

Cider Vinegar is pretty good ingredient for sauces and condiments as well as salad dressings. Proper balsamic vinegar is great too albeit expensive. (DOP, avoid the IGP Di Modena stuff or any imitations they are not the same)

Regular white vinegar is great on chips with salt.

 

[StopMakingSense]

Vinegar is just a dilution of ascetic acid in water. Ascetic acid is made by the fermentation of alcohol and certain types of bacteria. Now, the specific manner in which you make a vinegar will result in different additional compounds being included in the fermentation result, hence all the different types of vinegars you see.

 

[lastplayed]

All over my fish & chips please.

 

[Blitzrules240]

I fucking hate vinegar and yet I'll tolerate some salt and vinegar chips/all dressed.

 

[crooked spin]

I used to drink it straight from the bottle

Drinking vinegar does exist. It's usually referred to as "shrub".

 

[Reverend Funk]

Vinegar

 

[dvdjamm]

Chicken Adobo

Soooo good...Pork Adobo is pretty great too.

 

[jelly]

Vinegar and strawberries, oh yes.

 

[DerekOfTheDykes]

I mean I don't really get it. I feel like I look it up on Wikipedia every so often and I still don't quite get what exactly I'm cooking or cleaning with. Like, is there a finite supply of vinegar? Could anyone just make vinegar? It seems cheap, but is someone making mad coin off plain white vinegar? But then other vinegars like balsamic can cost hundreds of dollars.

Anyone here in the vinegar trade and wanna explain what's going on here?

Vinegar is definitely not a renewable resource. We'll likely be running through the world's supply of vinegar well before fossil fuels run out. It's always surprising how little people understand this.

Spoiler

Don't listen to anything I say, vinegar isn't exactly a chemical miracle and isn't super hard to make.

 

[Ashby]

I went to Canada and they put it on their french fries there!

 

[weemadarthur]

I think it's a mix of water and wee wee

No, that's ammonia. A different cleaning product.

 

[Thelonelykoopa]

Vinegar is delicious

 

[Sir Abacus]

I mean I don't really get it. I feel like I look it up on Wikipedia every so often and I still don't quite get what exactly I'm cooking or cleaning with. Like, is there a finite supply of vinegar? Could anyone just make vinegar? It seems cheap, but is someone making mad coin off plain white vinegar? But then other vinegars like balsamic can cost hundreds of dollars.

Anyone here in the vinegar trade and wanna explain what's going on here?

While technically vinegar these days is made from non-renewable resources (in this case, a non-renewable hydrocarbon which liberates copious amounts of CO and H2 to make methanol which is then carbonylated to make acetic acid), the supply of vinegar is technically infinite because all you need is methanol (which is obtained from the destructive distillation of wood) and carbon monoxide (which can be obtained from burning charcoal).

So if you have wood you have the feedstock you need to make vinegar. But we don't make vinegar that way anymore.

 

[cr0w]

The Long John Silver's batter turns into edible angel kisses when it's combined with malt vinegar. I used to douse their chicken planks in that shit.

 

[StopMakingSense]

No, that's ammonia. A different cleaning product.

And a base, not an acid.