How to make distilled vinegar

At Sunset, we call this a gateway DIY project—it’s surprisingly easy, and the result is an everyday red wine vinegar with far more flavor than what you can buy in the store

An herbal vinegar is a wonderful way to preserve garden herbs and also to give your recipes a boost of flavor.

These are vinegar mothers. A red one for making red wine vinegar and a white one for making white wine vinegar. They'll change colors if you add different wine to them. I keep my separate so the flavor is separate. The mother usually floats on top of the vinegar. It likes warm and dark. As soon as you move it to the light, it sinks into the vinegar and in a few weeks another layer forms at the surface. You can see that I've had this vinegar going for a long time. That's a lot of mothers in…

Learn how to make white vinegar and apple cider vinegar from scratch! You’ll never run out of this staple again once you’ve perfected these easy recipes.

Making rice vinegar takes more time than work. You merely have to add mycoderma aceti – also called mother of vinegar, an acetic acid bacteria – to rice wine and let the “mother” acidify it and the air oxygenate it. You need a thick ceramic crock or an oak kombucha cask to block sunlight, ...

Interested in learning how to make vinegar from scratch? This tutorial will pave the way and give you confidence to take the first step!

Making white vinegar is a cost-effective way to have a versatile food preservative, antiseptic, and cleaner. Here's how to make it.

Apple Cider from Above I ran into a funny story in a Michael Pollan book not long ago: The American pioneer legend, Johnny Appleseed, used to stay two or three hops west of the colonial expansion in t

The two best ways to make an all purpose surface cleaner using vinegar or castile soap. There's no job these homemade recipes can't tackle!

Making your own homemade flavored vinegars to give as gifts is a great idea! It's inexpensive, easy to do and can look very impressive with the right bottle. Plus, you can customize the flavors to make a vinegar that is not easy to find, making your gift truly unique.