How much to pay for white vinegar

kar

Hi, This is my first post on moneysaving old style so please be gentle with me.

I really want to try white vinegar for some cleaning as seen in some of the other posts and noticed that some people buy this from 'ethnic supermarkets'.

I was wondering where you buy yours from and how much you pay.

I'm going to visit a chinese supermarket on Friday as I have to go near there anyway but i don't want to pay over the odds for it and as i've never bought it I don't know how much to expect to pay.

Any replys would be gratefully recieved.

pawpurrs

i paid just under a pund for a ltr for the white vinegar in an asian supermarket.

frugglewump

46p for a 500ml bottle in Asda

black-saturn

frugglewump wrote:

46p for a 500ml bottle in Asda

Same here but you can use malt vinegar instead with almost the same effect.

Swan_2

I got mine in a Chinese supermarket, £2.20 for 5 litres, which works out at 44p a litre, not bad at all

they were also selling a gallon of 19:1 Acetic Acid (non-brewed condiment) concentrate for £7.70, which works out at 38.5p a gallon, between 7.5 & 8.5p a litre after dilution

Wirenth

Hello kar, welcome to MSE!

After searching high and low, a friend got me my 5Litre jug of Sarson's from Makro for £3.99.

tr3mor

I think my Chinese Supermarket is about £2 for 5 ltrs, or £8 if you buy 6 bottles, I've never felt the need for 30 litres of vinegar though :eek:

arkonite_babe

My nearest asian supermarket sells a cheapie brand white vinegar at £1.99 for 5 litres if that helps you any??

Prudent

Its shames me to make this confession, but here goes... After all this time using these boards I still am not sure why white vinegar is better than malt?

HopeElizzy

If you don't have or can't get to an asian supermarket Morrisons are doing 2 x 568ml bottles for 80p

Austin_Allegro

Sainsbury's are doing spirit vinegar with brown colouring (Lord knows why they have to colour it brown) for 17p for 568ml in the value range. Would be fine for most things except perhaps using in the whites wash. Otherwise chinese supermarkets seem to have 1l bottles for about 60p. I don't have a car so a gallon of vinegar might be a bit tricky to get home on my bicycle!