101 uses for vinegar

[Shirley]

It's used for many things in my house - how about a list :)

1. To sprinkle on my chips
2. Pickling
3. use herbal or cider vinegar for beestings
4. mix apple cider vinegar with honey and make your own honegar - useful to keep those bugs and sniffs and sneezles away at any time of the year.
5. As an ant repellent (surely that should just be mispelt as repellANT)

[Chickpea]

6. Hardening conkers for small boys to play with
7. Making volcanoes (in combination with bicarbonate of soda) for small boys to play with
9. Shiney hair rinse
10. Cleaning limescale off taps and showerheads
11. Cleaning grease off lots of things, e.g. windows, car windscreen wipers

[wulf]

12. Mix with oil (or even on its own) as salad dressing

[ofGaia]

13. You can use vinegar to make more vinegar. When your bottle of vinegar gets down to the half way mark, just fill it up with water (I use rain water). Leave it undisturbed for a week and the entire bottle will be the same strength as the original half.
You can do this indefinately. So you never have to buy more vinegar again!
Warmly,
Julie

[Shirley]

WOW! That's got to be worth a try..... will that work with ALL types of vinegar? I use loads of white vinegar for cleaning.

[ofGaia]

I know it works for white vinegar. But I'm guessing it works on many others too, but I haven't tried myself so I can't say for sure. If anyone else knows, please share.

[shiney]

You can add one cup white vinegar and one cup water to your kettle to get rid of the scale build up. Bring to boil then pour out and rinse with water. You may need a little elbow grease to help loosen the stubborn bits, but in general it does the job!

[Martin]

giving me a colossal allergic reaction! - hopelessly allergic to the stuff!

[Milims]

An egg cup of vinegar will remove the smell of smoke when left in the room.

Gets rid of the smell of pet wee (yuck!!)

Mixed with luke warm water and salt makes an excellent gargle for sore throats

Rinse aid in your dish washer (white vinegar is the best)

Cider vinegar is good for relieving gout

[Shirley]

Mixed with luke warm water and salt makes an excellent gargle for sore throats

Thanks for that... my daughter has a really bad sore throat at the moment.. I'll pass that on to her. (I bet it tastes awful though bleuch)

[Milims]

Actually it tasted just like fish and chips!! lol

[Shirley]

hmmm... I'll try to convince her!!

[Muddypause]

13. You can use vinegar to make more vinegar. When your bottle of vinegar gets down to the half way mark, just fill it up with water (I use rain water).

You sure that's not just acid rain you've got there?

[Wombat]

13. You can use vinegar to make more vinegar. When your bottle of vinegar gets down to the half way mark, just fill it up with water (I use rain water).

You sure that's not just acid rain you've got there?

Sorry, i can't contribute to this one it would be cheating, I just bought a book called "Vinegar - 1001 Practical Uses".

Although I will add one from my own experience - Mix the vinegar with lime (calcium carbonate or hyroxide), filter off the calcium acetate formed and then heat it in c distillation apparatus and you can condense off acetone! Bingo - DIY nail polish remover!

Nev

[Ranter]

21. take a teaspoon of vinegar to relieve hiccups.

It works, honest.