apple scrap vinegar

This Apple Scrap Vinegar is a great frugal way to use up apple scraps. This fruity vinegar can be used for many household and cooking recipes and tastes very similar to apple cider vinegar.

Apple Cider Vinegar from Scraps

Apple peelings

Sugar (1 tablespoon per one cup of water used)

Water

Fill the glass jar ¾ of the way with the apple peels and cores.

Stir the sugar into the water until it&#8217;s mostly dissolved, and pour over the apple scraps until they are completely covered. (Leave a few inches of room at the top of the jar.)

Cover loosely (I recommend a coffee filter or fabric scrap secured with a rubber band) and set in a warm, dark place for around two weeks.

You can give it a stir every few days, if you like. If any brownish/greyish scum develops on the top, simply skim it off.

Once two weeks has passed, strain the scraps from the liquid.

At this point, my vinegar usually has a pleasantly sweet apple cider smell, but is still missing that unmistakable tang.

Discard the scraps (or feed them to your chickens!), and set the strained liquid aside for another 2-4 weeks.

You’ll know your apple cider vinegar is complete once it has that unmistakable vinegary smell and taste. If it&#8217;s not quite there yet, simply allow it to sit a while longer.

Once you are happy with the taste of your vinegar, simply cap and store it as long as you like. It won&#8217;t go bad.

If a gelatinous blob develops on the top of your vinegar, congratulations! You have created a vinegar &#8220;mother&#8221;. This mother can be use to jump-start future vinegar batches. You can remove it and store it separately, but I usually just allow mine to float around in the vinegar as I store it.

Use your homemade vinegar just like you would storebought vinegar&#8211; for cooking, cleaning and everything in between!

This is one of my favorite posts!  Raw apple cider is very expensive here and I would love to use more of it but wasn't sure my checkbook could handle it.  Two of my children are VERY picky eaters and refuse to eat apple peels, so this is a win, win for me. Thank you for inspiring so many changes in my life!

I just made a lot of apple cider with some summer apples and thought I'd make some vinegar with some of it. Any reason why this wouldn't be better than the scraps and chunks and sugar method?

WOW!!! Would never have thought it was possible to make vinegar.

This has been on my bucket list...since we have 4 apple trees. I do everything with them, but I've yet to make vinegar. It will be fall (apple season) before I get around to this. Thanks for the nudge!

Did you guys know that apple cider vinegar is GREAT for treating acne? You'd be surprised on how effectively it works!

We are wondering about how to use the vinegar scoby.   We already are using our wonderful scrap apple cider vinegar and have the scoby's.  Do we put the scoby on top of the apple peelings and scraps, or do we wait until we strain the scrap out &amp; then add the scoby? 
Thanks , Renate andDJ

I love your website an recipes. Its a hugh help in making changes in multiple areas of our current lifestyle. Ok so I have a question. Is it possible to leave it on the counter with scraps for too long? With school starting and all I totally forgot when I started the process. Its been on the counter long enough for the scraps to start dropping to the bottom. Have I ruined my vinegar?

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