Vinegar - 1001 uses!

pigpen

krlyr wrote: »

I'd have poured it down the sink or loo - if it's not going to be used for anything else, it can at least deodourise the pipes or de-scale the toilet!

nope.. because then my house stinks for days.

pollypenny

I used vinegar & soda crystals to keep the drains sweet in bathrooms.

Result, leaking sink. The vinegar corroded the metal, so not money saving.

Miss_Ratty

I use it every day, as we don't use chemicals in the house. Fabric softner, cleaning windows, descaling the loo and kettle, polishing stainless steel, stopping the dog from weeing in places...and deoderising when he has! Also to clean our chopping boards and deoderise them. So so many uses!

silverchair

Thank you so much. I added a bit of tea tree oil to the vinegar & the nappies are soft & smell good.

JellyBox- yep its silverchair as in the band

monnagran

Scrubbed my worktops with a mixture of vinegar and stardrops, used it in the fabric softener dish in the WM, made mint sauce and tomorrow will do a hot wash in the DW with a cup of vinegar in it so it's all clean and lovely when I get back from my hols.

Hiccups - I used to drip some vinegar on to a sugar lump for the children at school, poor little souls couldn't stomach just vinegar. I'd be arrested by the 'don't-do-anything-in-case-you-get-sued' police these days.

x

babyshoes

Steve059 wrote: »

Are we sure about using very cheap malt vinegar? It's usually spirit vinegar and malt extract.

I've used it with clothes before. They come out of the machine with a slight chip shop smell, but that goes pretty quickly as they dry. I bet a few drops of essential oil would cover it up well if it bothered you.

Boodle

I once read something like the following figures on a uk gov website (regulations on food hygiene it was), but cannot find it this morning after a quick look; if you have more time and care to Google you might find it...

It seems a 5% dilution of vinegar kills 99 per cent bacteria, 82% mould and 80 per cent germs/viruses. (Not the best article to support the figures but I'm afraid I don't have time this morning to dig further )

Mojisola

Boodle wrote: »

I once read something like the following figures on a uk gov website (regulations on food hygiene it was), but cannot find it this morning after a quick look; if you have more time and care to Google you might find it...

It seems a 5% dilution of vinegar kills 99 per cent bacteria, 82% mould and 80 per cent germs/viruses. (Not the best article to support the figures but I'm afraid I don't have time this morning to dig further )

Is that a 5% dilution of vinegar or 5% vinegar (5% acetic acid and 95% water) used neat?

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Sipping apple cider vinegar stopped my gall stone attack in its tracks. I kept getting awful pain from it every so often and was waiting an age for the operation, I looked online for something to relive an attack and someone suggested apple cider vinegar. It worked, and also I have not had an attack since so I cancelled my operation. Not saying it is a medically proven cure, if you suspect gall bladder issues please go to your doctor! Just saying it worked for me.

tommyknocker

Put it on my chips . . . lovely.

Also good for a pre-clean of your windows, as long as you don't mind the smell.