On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 20:55:53 GMT, "kilikini"
> wrote:

>Bought a new bottle of rice vinegar about a month and a half ago. I've used
>maybe, I'd say, 4 tablespoons for sushi and also for a cucumber salad.
>Opened the cupboard today and it has this transparent filmy substance on the
>bottom of the bottle.
>
>Isn't vinegar sterile? What is this muck? I'm obviously throwing the
>bottle away, but I've never seen anything like this in a bottle of vinegar
>before. It kind of looks like a thin jelly-fish.
>
>kili
>
Sounds like the vinegar "Mother"... Its supposed to be there, and it
is what makes vinegar. The vinegar is good.
A lot of really good vinegars will have this eventually, if not to
begin with.

Do a google search on vinegar mother, and it will give you a lot more
information than I can.

Christine