{"id":656,"date":"2017-09-23T09:33:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T16:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=656"},"modified":"2017-09-25T10:41:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T17:41:04","slug":"vinegar-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/23\/vinegar-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinegar-making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When friend S was over for <a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/25\/kimchi-making\/\">kimchi making<\/a>, we started talking about other foods we could make. It seems like there&#8217;s the most collective interest in vinegar and in alcohol. ( I&#8217;d like to make hard cheeses in the future as well.) So I embarked on some initial vinegar experiments!<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Make-Your-Own-Vinegar\">this source<\/a>, all you need to do is inoculate an alcoholic liquid with acetic acid-producing bacteria. Some other sites suggested adding sugar, to provide easier-to-access food.\u00a0You can get the bacteria from unpasteurized vinegar (e.g. Braggs brand), but I figured I would try inoculating with kimchi juice, since it&#8217;s sour. I&#8217;m not sure what acid is in kimchi. Some of it is lactic acid, but there might be acetic acid as well.<\/p>\n<p>So I mixed together some kimchi juice (1 part), a pinch of sugar, and sake (5 parts) in a little glass jar. I guess I&#8217;ll just let it sit and see what happens. I wonder if the sake is too alcoholic. It&#8217;s surely possible to kill off all the bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>I also discovered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/vinegar\/\">vinegar subreddit<\/a>\u00a0(I&#8217;m not even surprised at this point). If you just looked at this, you&#8217;d think that everybody&#8217;s making their own vinegar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When friend S was over for kimchi making, we started talking about other foods we could make. It seems like there&#8217;s the most collective interest in vinegar and in alcohol. ( I&#8217;d like to make hard cheeses in the future as well.) So I embarked on some initial vinegar experiments! According to this source, all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/23\/vinegar-making\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vinegar-making&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}