"blake murphy" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:27:48 -0600, Arri London wrote:
>
>> john royce wrote:
>>>
>>> After i've eaten some home made pickled onions (made with half water and
>>> half Sarsons malt vinegar) I'm left with the vinegary and 'cloudy'
>>> juice.
>>>
>>> I thought I would like to use this juice to mix with olive oil and raw
>>> garlic to make a salad dressing. (Vinegrette).
>>>
>>> Is there an easy way to *filter* the particles out of the juice that
>>> make it
>>> cloudy?
>>>
>>> Maybe I could use a white paper kitchen towel. But could it be that I
>>> would
>>> be washing some chemicals out of the towel that would not be good to
>>> eat?
>>> Any suggestions on how to filter these very fine particles appreciated.
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> You can try a coffee filter, but it won't filter out all the fines.
>> Since it's for salad dressing, why bother anyway? By the time you add
>> the olive oil, garlic and seasonings, it's hardly going to show. And
>> 'broken' dressings (ie not fully emulsified) seem to be very trendy.
>
> that was my thought as well.

But it is fun to watch anal retentive people chase their tails!