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Which vinegar for pickling?
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Yellow40
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Hello, I would like to quick pickle onions and cucumbers as I found some recipes (American). I do love pickles but I find they have too much sugar and are quite expensive, it seems easy to do your own.
The recipes call for white vinegar. I cannot find white vinegar online on the biggest supermarkets, only found it on Amazon, but very expensive, I mean vinegar should be cheap.
Which vinegar do you use for pickling are malted or white wine vinegar any good?
Thanks
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Depends what you are going for... most our pickles (beetroot, mushrooms, cucumber) tend to be lighter pickle and so use cider vinegar. If doing a rapid pickle like red onion slices will normally use a wine vinegar.
For classic pickled onions or eggs etc then it'd be Malt vinegar (white/distilled or normal)... Tesco's sell "white" vinegar but they call it distilled vinegar... its just the colourless version of malt vinegar0 -
I find a recipe on BBC good and they still called for white vinegar… my first attempt I used apple cider vinegar (with the mother) and rice vinegar because it was what I had at home, didn’t like it. I’m going to try with the white malt vinegar I just saw on Asda online next time then. Thanks
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White vinegar is just clear vinegar, as above, called distilled here, you can buy it in 5ltr containers if you like. Use whatever you like. A very quick pickle can be made with thinly sliced [ think mandolin] cucumbers and half wine vinegar, half water, same with thinly sliced onions. The finer the slice, the quicker it pickles.Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi0
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Distilled is about 29p for 500ml in tesco1
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Thank you very much!1
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Also available in Aldi, mixed in with the bottles of malt vinegar.If you've have not made a mistake, you've made nothing0
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