Chip shop vinegar - recipe required

[balliali]

Has anyone got a recipe or tips on making Chip Shop vinegar, which bears no resemblance to the types bought in shops. Would like to have authentic fish and chips at home!!
Advice appreciated, please and thanks.

[Buenchico]

Am I missing something here? I've never known a chippy that doesn't sell bottles of vinegar. They are (unsurprisingly) nearly always the same brand as the one that they've got on the counter. So why don't you simply buy a bottle of the stuff (for use at home) the next time you're passing a chip shop?

Chris

[londonlove]

maybe your chippy has non-brewed condiment instead of vinegar, and I don't think you would be able to make that at home without quite a bit of trouble...?

[tamborine]

add water 50-50

[Mamyalynne]

londonlove has it as its non brewed condiment but at home i use good old fashioned malt vinegar and always put iton afore salt as the other way round you rinse the salt off

[ChuckFickens]

I suddenly feel like I know far too much about non brewed condiments....

http://chris.carline.org/000423.html

[zig.zag]

chip shop vinigar is just a bye product of north sea oil

[heathfield]

Look for Gold Star Non Brewed Condiment. Bigger Tesco stores usually have it. It's where I get mine. (Can't stand malt vinegar).

[woozer]

Surely if you want authenticity you will be deep frying your fish and chips in beef fat or lard - wrapping it in newspaper and most definately using proper brewed malt vinegar :-))

[balliali]

Hi Buenchico
Its not as simple as going to chippie to buy vinegar. I live 8 miles from Chippie, there is no public transport available. When I do my shopping in the morning, the Chippie is not open, hence the wish to create authentic fish and chips at home. The chippie nearest me makes their own vinegar, not quite sure how, but it's only gorgeous. So in the meantime I will keep trying, but thanks everyone for help.
Kind regards

[Alibobs]

Ask them for the recipe

[Mctavish]

Isn't it usually white vinegar ?

[Thakey]

Most chips shops use non-brewed condiment which is basically coloured acetic acid. Green-grocers also usually sell this. If you are buying in bulk (usuall 5 ltr plastic bottles) check the concentration of the acetic acid, as some of these come un-diluted! ou should aim for about 4%-4.5% of the base. most small bottles are diluted but the chippies will usually dilute themselves.

supermarkets and general shops usually avoid selling non-brewed cond. because of the uncertainity of the mix and possible recourse.
....but as for making it at home - don't try it unless you have the'bottle' to taste the acid!!

[podstick]

We use Drivers non brewed condiment rather than vinegar - it comes in a 16 to one solution so needs careful dilution before use but tastes fantastic. I have never seen it for sale in the shops so it is probably only available from a cash and carry or wholesaler. It is very nice but if you do manage to get hold of any be careful about diluting it properly.

[mccfluff]

pmsl at chuck, i now feel the same :-)

[kweenii]

I thought chip shop vinegar was just normal vinegar that had been sat around for ages? Don't they use Sarsons but just put it in the white bottle?

[lorri24601]

te one near us uses the vinegar from the pickled onions, maybe yours does too ;-)