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RE: How To Make VINEGAR: One of the Cheapest, Healthiest, and Most Useful Solutions!
How do you make it without the mother. I like the idea of making vinegar but I don,t have unprocessed vinegar to get a mother from. Cheers
Great question @mcwhackery! If you cover fruit with a sugar-water solution, put a cheese cloth over it, and set it on a shelf for awhile, it will eventually turn into vinegar because organisms from the air will start the chemical reaction. It takes longer, and results are more varied because you're not so sure about what creatures are in the air, but eventually vinegar will form.
You can also ferment the solution using yeast of any type, even baker's yeast will work. After the fermentation has been accomplished, acetobacterium will be quickly attracted to the alcohol and metabolize the ethyl-alcohol into vinegar.
If you look up "flowers of wine" you will see what this bacterium looks like and can quickly identify whether you have a mold or acetobacter.