{"id":316,"date":"2010-07-22T14:40:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T20:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2010-07-22T14:40:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T20:40:01","slug":"vinegar-the-unsung-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/vinegar-the-unsung-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinegar, the unsung hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I call vinegar the unsung hero? Because of its many uses&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cleaner<br \/>\nWhite vinegar (also called distilled vinegar, also called acetic acid) in a 1:1 mix with tap water is a very effective cleaner and steriliser. Use instead of bleach to clean stove tops, windows, bathrooms, and so on.\u00a0 Be careful with tiling grout and marble, though.<\/li>\n<li>Fabric softener<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t need to buy expensive, perfumed, allergy-triggering fabric softener. Use white vinegar instead &#8211; use about 3\/4 cup in the final rinse cycle, or put it into the softener container in your washing machine.<\/li>\n<li>Streak free glass<br \/>\nYou can use it on glass as well. Cleans the glass without a streak.<\/li>\n<li>Dishwasher rinse aid<br \/>\nYup. No more buying goop from the store &#8211; fill your rinse aid container with white vinegar instead.<\/li>\n<li>Prevention \/ treatment of yeast infections<br \/>\nEr&#8230; I&#8217;ll leave that one up to your imagination! If you are cloth diapering, wash the cloth diapers in vinegar and tea tree oil, then put out into the sunshine.<\/li>\n<li>Oh&#8230; and you can use it in food, too \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a lot more uses of our flexible friend, have a look at the Vinegar Institute&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.versatilevinegar.org\/usesandtips.html\">website<\/a>. Who knew that something natural and cheap could be so useful?<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; <strong>we <\/strong>do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I call vinegar the unsung hero? Because of its many uses&#8230; Cleaner White vinegar (also called distilled vinegar, also called acetic acid) in a 1:1 mix with tap water is a very effective cleaner and steriliser. Use instead of bleach to clean stove tops, windows, bathrooms, and so on.\u00a0 Be careful with tiling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frugal-living","category-information","tag-cheap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}