"JL" wrote
Gorio wrote:

>> At my local mega food store yesterday I saw they had Kikko rice wine
>> vinegar for 50 cents per bottle with a little coupon on the bottle. Keep

> I wonder if that is any relation to the Japanese "mirin" i hear such good
> things about?

Related but not the same. Mirin is a wine. Rice wine vinegar is a vinegar.
;-)

Mirin is the wine, this stuff would be the vinegar obtained from "rice wine gone bad" as any vinegar is. Easy as heck to make your own vinegars. My knowledge of Asian goodies is limited. I just use this stuff for Thai sweet chili sauce.

Unfortunately, I've had a batch of wine go bad once; and I ended up with 5 gallons of vinegar. Great vinegar, though.

Kikkoman is made in Walworth, WI; so I wouldn't use the stuff for much beyond what I use it for. 50 centavos a bottle is the attraction, here.

10 oz bottle , it says distributed in San Fran (if your "SF" denotes your geography.) There will be a coupon on the neck of the bottle for $1.50.

My real name is Greg, by the way. Greg"orio", ya know? I go by Gorio in the Spanish speaking world.

Sorry if I rubbed you the wrong way. Sheldon just needed the response he wnated. I don't use a ton of EVOO, since I've curtailed my Italian cooking. My latest fave is unfiltered sunflower oil. MMM.

On 7/18/2010 4:37 PM, Gorio wrote:
> cshenk;1506179 Wrote:
>> "JL" wrote
>> Gorio wrote:
>> --
>> At my local mega food store yesterday I saw they had Kikko rice wine
>> vinegar for 50 cents per bottle with a little coupon on the bottle.
>> Keep--
>> -
>> I wonder if that is any relation to the Japanese "mirin" i hear such
>> good
>> things about?-
>>
>> Related but not the same. Mirin is a wine. Rice wine vinegar is a
>> vinegar.
>> ;-)
>
> Mirin is the wine, this stuff would be the vinegar obtained from "rice
> wine gone bad" as any vinegar is. Easy as heck to make your own
> vinegars. My knowledge of Asian goodies is limited. I just use this
> stuff for Thai sweet chili sauce.
>
> Unfortunately, I've had a batch of wine go bad once; and I ended up with
> 5 gallons of vinegar. Great vinegar, though.
>
> Kikkoman is made in Walworth, WI; so I wouldn't use the stuff for much
> beyond what I use it for. 50 centavos a bottle is the attraction, here.

I guess you wouldn't buy a Honda because it's made in Marysville, Ohio.
Kikkoman is a Japanese company that has roots going back more than 4
centuries. However they do not do all their production in Japan.

> 10 oz bottle , it says distributed in San Fran (if your "SF" denotes
> your geography.) There will be a coupon on the neck of the bottle for
> $1.50.
>
> My real name is Greg, by the way. Greg"orio", ya know? I go by Gorio in
> the Spanish speaking world.
>
> Sorry if I rubbed you the wrong way. Sheldon just needed the response he
> wnated. I don't use a ton of EVOO, since I've curtailed my Italian
> cooking. My latest fave is unfiltered sunflower oil. MMM.
>
>
>
>

Wow! I wasn't aware that Kikko had such a history. I just know they brew their soy sauce (at least in the USA) in Walworth, WI. I like the soy and have slready used the rice vinegar, and it is very neutral compared to other vinegars. The rice wine bottle just says "distributed by:". I hate that. Tell me where the heck the stuff was made. You get this same shady citation/reference with olive oils.

Either way, the rice vinegar is good for the purpose of Thai sweet. All I care about at this stage.

On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:37:33 +0000, Gorio wrote:

> cshenk;1506179 Wrote:
>> "JL" wrote
>> Gorio wrote:
>> --
>> At my local mega food store yesterday I saw they had Kikko rice wine
>> vinegar for 50 cents per bottle with a little coupon on the bottle.
>> Keep--
>> -
>> I wonder if that is any relation to the Japanese "mirin" i hear such
>> good
>> things about?-
>>
>> Related but not the same. Mirin is a wine. Rice wine vinegar is a
>> vinegar.
>> ;-)
>
> Mirin is the wine, this stuff would be the vinegar obtained from "rice
> wine gone bad" as any vinegar is. Easy as heck to make your own
> vinegars. My knowledge of Asian goodies is limited. I just use this
> stuff for Thai sweet chili sauce.
>
> Unfortunately, I've had a batch of wine go bad once; and I ended up with
> 5 gallons of vinegar. Great vinegar, though.
>
> Kikkoman is made in Walworth, WI; so I wouldn't use the stuff for much
> beyond what I use it for. 50 centavos a bottle is the attraction, here.

kikkoman products are perfectly respectable (if expensive) in my opinion.
(i have come to prefer soy sauce from china, like pearl river bridge, but
that's a different style.) as far as i know, they use the same processes
and apply the same quality control as kikkoman in japan.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikkoman>

your pal,
blake

On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:57:37 -0400, cshenk wrote:

> "JL" wrote
> Gorio wrote:
>
>>> At my local mega food store yesterday I saw they had Kikko rice wine
>>> vinegar for 50 cents per bottle with a little coupon on the bottle. Keep
>
>> I wonder if that is any relation to the Japanese "mirin" i hear such good
>> things about?
>
> Related but not the same. Mirin is a wine. Rice wine vinegar is a vinegar.
> ;-)

and the taste is very, very different.

your pal,
blake