Vinegar

[missprim]

What is the difference between Malt Vinegar and Distilled Malt Vinegar, and what is your favourite vinegar to have on your fish and chips?

[friedgreentomato]

malt vinegar on fish and chips every time

[tonyav]

Malt on fish and chips, although I also like pickled onion vinegar on fish and chips as well.

[pusskin]

Malt vinegar every time, but very little of it because it makes my tongue sore!

[rojash]

Yep, Malt vinegar.

You wouldn't want distilled vinegar on your chips:
http://en.wikipedia.o...gar#Distilled_vinegar

[missprim]

Thanks for the link rojosh, very interesting.
Tony, I wondered about the vinegar that's used for pickling onions but didn't know what it would be like on fish and chips.
Is the supermarkets own brand as good as say Sarsons?

[missprim]

Sorry rojash not josh.

[heathfield]

Having been brought up in an age when chip shops used what's now called 'non-brewed condiment', (i.e. industially produced dilute acetic acid), it remains my favourite. All others seem to taste odd, most especially with fish and chips, and home-made rollmop herrings. A few years ago, our local Tesco stopped stocking it - customers raised a fuss, so, thankfully, they have it back on sale again!

[gingejbee]

I know it's not very British, but I like mayo on chips. Too European?

[Anngel]

I like Worcestershire sauce on mine. Vinegar...bleaugh

[thenry]

'salt and vinegar'.

[weecalf]

Why is not called vine gar

[missprim]

Heathfield , if you come back to my thread, could you tell me in what form you would by non brewed condiment?
I wonder if this is what I remember from my childhood as the vinegar of today isn't a patch on the taste of what I remember as a child.

[Georgiesmum]

Our local fish and chip shop only sells "non brewed condiment" too.
If you just want ordinary vinegar ie sarsons malt vinegar, ive found the supermarkets own brand is exactly the same. Hope this helps.

[heathfield]

Tesco seem to have dropped non-brewed condiment again. Try Sainsburys, Missprim...

http://www.mysupermar..._condiment_575ml.html

[mrs_overall]

non brewed condiment is an abomination and whoever invented it should be taken outside and shot

[heathfield]

Weecalf... The word vinegar comes from the French, 'vinaigre', and so is similar in pronunciation. 'Vin' for wine, 'aigre' from Common Latin 'acrus' meaning sour, and the source of our word 'acrid'.