"Debbie" > wrote in message
.. .
>
> "kilikini" > wrote in message
> m...
> | 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.
> |
> Thinking it could be the mother. Check out
>
> http://www.solutions.uiuc.edu/conten...Parents=0%7C28
>
> Debbie
>
>

That's what someone else said, although I've never heard of it before. I
don't know why I've never heard of it! Thanks for the affirmation.

kili