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sarah bennett wrote:
> Christine Dabney wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 20:55:53 GMT, "kilikini"
>> > wrote:
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>>> 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
>
> I have had red wine vinegar do that. I agree with christine, it's all
> good.
Shake the bottle 
Jill
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