On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:50:57 -0500, Gregory Morrow wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:30:33 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote:
>>
>>> blake murphy wrote:
>>>>
>>>> it's good you put in 'provided you can get all the ingredients.' i
>>>> might not have something like white wine vinegar on hand (just to
>>>> pick an
>>>> example. one of the other half-dozen vinegars will have to do).
>>>
>>> Yup - that's why I put that in. I've seen plenty of recipes posted
>>> here that call for ingredients that aren't readily available over
>>> here - and I either have to ask the group what to substitute (or
>>> look it up on that "Cook's Thesaurus" website. Nifty site that, I
>>> hafta admit).
>>>
>>> Heh. I just checked my cupboards. At the moment I have 4 types of
>>> vinegar: white wine, red wine, balsamic and a bottle of clear vinegar
>>> that just claims to be 'grape' vinegar (don't ask me what kind of
>>> grape, it doesn't say. <grin>
>>>
>>> I also have a bottle of very el cheapo 'spirit' vinegar - but that
>>> only gets used for de-scaling the lime build-up from my tea kettle
>>> element - and cleaning other stuff in the kitchen, not for cooking
>>> or salad dressings...
>>
>> i have a bottle of white that i only bought fairly recently to clean
>> stuff. there aren't many food items i'd use it in, preferring
>> something more interesting.
>
> Apple cider vinagar is a pretty good "all round" vinegar to have on hand,
> blake, plus it's cheap...
>

it's probably a toss-up whether i use more cider vinegar or rice vinegar
(for different things, of course).

blake