Vinegar - 1001 uses!

robedha1

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Don't you ever make salad dressing?

No, I tend to buy a bottle of dressing for less than £1 and it lasts me at least 3 month.

GreenFairy wrote: »

You can use white wine in a pinch, though it's the spendy option. I get a five litre jug of it from the Asian market for a couple of pounds and it lasts for about six months of cleaning, laundry, descaling and chips

Good to know especially since I didn't buy it and have no intention of using it any other way. I would rather use it up then waste it.

silverchair

Just a quick questio. Ive seen on here that if you add vinegar to the fabric softener compartment, it makes the clothes soft & kills bacteria.

Only problem is Im not sure which type of vinegar to use. Is white wine vinegar, pickling vinegar or distilled malt vinegar?

BitterAndTwisted

It's distilled malt vinegar, usually the clear kind but the brown one will be fine as well.

babyshoes

Almost any type of vinegar will work - get the cheapest you can find.

Pickling vinegar which already has the spices in it might leave a smell, but the rest won't - if you can smell the vinegar when you take the clothes out of the machine, it will go very quickly once the clothes are dry.

silverchair

Thank you so much. One last question. How many cups/spoons should I put in the fabric softener drawer?

katieclampet

I use brown/white/cheapest (usually brown) and just a splash in. I never measure it, but its probably a couple of table spoons

katie

sparrer

I buy white vinegar from the farm shop, 5 litres is £3.99p and replaces fabric softener (use the same amount as you would fs), also for cleaning windows, tiles, mirrors, the kitchen floor....endless uses. It lasts at least a year as you need so little.

Linda32

I'm sorry but I've got to ask, what sort of bacteria are you hopeing kill?

I will add that I have no medical training and know next to nothing about bacteria, how it works or how it/they (?) multiply. If bacteria in whatever form can exist/live on clothes, exactly what harm can it do?

Just to add, I don't use vinegar for anything apart from splashing on chips.

silverchair

Bacteria makes the clothes smell (BO under the armpits). I use washable nappies & the last wash I did (I changed the washing powder) they didnt smell so great.

Linda32

I see what you mean now previously I really couldn't think what the problem was, blame the wine :beer:

Which washing powder did you use and which one did you go to. Just wondering if the previous one was a 2-in-1 type.