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Do you have a use for vinegar other than cooking, pickling or dressings? What are they?

The oddest use for it is to capture fruit flies. Put some in a small bowl with some dish washing detergent (cider vinegar). It works.

Posted - October 19, 2016

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  • 33867
    Cleaning coffee pot.
      October 19, 2016 5:27 PM MDT
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  • 44553
    I use that too.
      October 19, 2016 5:47 PM MDT
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  • 3907
    Hello Chief:

    It's good for sunburn relief.

    excon
      October 19, 2016 5:27 PM MDT
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  • 44553
    I have heard that.
      October 19, 2016 5:47 PM MDT
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  • 55
    If you get salt in your eye, squeeze a drop of vinegar in as well to even things out.
      October 19, 2016 5:30 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    Vinegar being Yin
    and Salt being Yang?
    or is it the other way?
    Acidic and Alkaline
    Acidic being...?
    Alkaline being...?
    my smarts are on vacation
      October 19, 2016 5:51 PM MDT
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  • 44553
    NaCl (salt) is a neutral compound.and vinegar is acidic. I would use filtered water on my eyes...not vinegar.
      October 19, 2016 6:07 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    It's good for a cleaning (White vinegar)
    If i lay some tile and grout it
    the next day they will be a white haze 
    over the tiles from the grout.
    Mop it with water and it doesn't remove it.
     Make a 50/50 solution with white vinegar and water
    wipe over it with a sponge and the haze is gone
    and it doesn't come back.
    Good cleaning agent.



      October 19, 2016 5:40 PM MDT
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  • 44553
    Indeed...a few years ago I re-grouted my kitchen counter tiles. That would have been very useful.
      October 19, 2016 5:46 PM MDT
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  • 5354
    Removin chalk in pots and kettles, cleaning tiles
      October 19, 2016 5:45 PM MDT
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  • Bez

    2148
    I have no use at all for vinegar, I can't even stand being in the same room as such a revolting stinky substance.
      October 19, 2016 6:20 PM MDT
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  • 44553
    I assume you don't eat pickles or drink the juice.
      October 20, 2016 5:37 AM MDT
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  • 2148
    No way. I would get more pleasure from going to the dentist.
      October 20, 2016 8:39 AM MDT
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  • 3191
    Cleaning and along with baking soda (followed shortly after with boiling water) it helps clean drain pipes.  
      October 19, 2016 7:22 PM MDT
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  • 44553
    My sister told me that...I will try it when the occasion arises.
      October 20, 2016 5:38 AM MDT
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  • 19938
    I use it to disinfect my humidifiers. 
      October 20, 2016 8:01 AM MDT
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  • 1523
    I add it to my laundry water to help remove odors.
      October 20, 2016 9:26 AM MDT
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  • 3719
    "Pickling" (that is the correct term here) certain types of metal, to remove oxide or lime scale. Vinegar is not too strong so carries less risk of harming the metal itself, and I think it is more effective on copper and its alloys than on other metals.

    I'm not sure I'd use it as a drain cleaner as suggested by Bozette, as alkalis are better than acids for removing fatty deposits. Don't use both at once as they will merely neutralise each other.

    And I use washing or even caustic, soda, rather than baking soda, as a drain cleaner because although all three are alkaline, baking soda is quite weak.  

    Vinegar's quite a good window-cleaner, too.

    Re Baba's suggestion for using vinegar to remove salt from the eyes. I agree with Element99. It won't work and in fact is more likely to be an irritant than the salt. As Element says, use plain water - I use water straight from the tap if I need to wash my eyes out in a hurry. Once the worst of the contaminant has gone, tears will naturally take over to finish the task.  
      October 21, 2016 10:27 AM MDT
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