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Default Pickling and added water

On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 09:04:37 +0100, "Ophelia" >
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>"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
m...
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>> "Ophelia" > wrote
>>>
>>> I use Sarsons but I boil it to reduce the liquid (driving off some of the
>>> water?)
>>>
>>> I am interested to see the responses.
>>>
>>> O in UK

>>
>> You are driving off the water, but you are also driving off the acetic
>> acid at the same time. "The boiling point of vinegar is only 213 degrees
>> at a 5% solution. Does the boiling leave maltose behind? What does it
>> do to the flavor?

>
>Tastes fine I still don't believe diluting the vinegar with a lot of
>water is safe, which was the original question.


Save your breath. They don't care. They just want to out **** each
other with data and then go ahead a do what they want. Hopefully the
OP won't feed it to anyone but himself.
Janet US