Honestly very confused by how it can be a mainstream condiment/dressing. For me it’s just acidic. Doesn’t really taste of much but sorta tingles on my tongue/throat. Sorta like when you burp up a little stomach acid or a milder version of when you throw up stomach acid. Very confused about salt and vinegar chips and any sort of vinegar based salad dressing.
Salt & Vinegar chips are amazing
Roger that!
On its own? Absolutely not. But the right amount to balance flavor? Absolutely.
I actually like vinegar by itself but it’s too potent to just drink it straight. Instead I’ll get a bunch of green onions and let them soak in the vinegar, then I suck the vinegar out of the green onions and enjoy the onion itself as a crunchy snack after.
Vinegar with a side of fried potatoes? Absolutely
I love it. And there are so many kinds! I keep a bunch on hand for different things: red wine, white, rice wine, apple cider, balsamic, malt, etc… they all taste quite different.
Vinegar, lemon juice and other acids bring a sour flavor to a dish that when combined with other flavors can add a brightness to it.
German potato salad is vinegar based. Delicious.
I love acidic foods. It’s essential for cutting through the fatty richness of some dishes. Bacon’s nice but bacon with tomato is amazing. Ham and cheese on bread are dece but it’s not really a sandwich without mustard. Most soups are better with a squeeze of citrus. And so on, and so on.
Vinegar is another kind of acid, or really two kinds: Fermented vinegar is very different from distilled vinegar. Most people like fermented vinegar in moderation, and some (including me) like it even out of moderation. I will soak good bread in balsamic and eat it strait, for example. I barely put oil on my salads, it’s mostly vinegar.
Distilled vinegar is the kind you clean with, but you can eat it, too. I think maybe overfamiliarity with it as a cleaning product may dampem some people’s desire to consume vinegar; I myself never used it for cleaning growing up, except small amounts to treat laundry.
Tomato and bacon pizza is godly
I’m a sucker for all kinds of pickles on pizza, especially peperoncini or pickled red onions.
I love vinegar, when I was a kid id drink it straight. And I love salt and vinegar chips.
Alright vinegar gang assemble!
I’ll shoot vinegar into my veins if it wasn’t illegal and salt and vinegar chips are the ultimate flavor.
Your loss.
Do you like other acidic flavours? Lemon juice? Citric acid?
Yes, I thoroughly enjoy vinegar.
By itself? Hell no.
But, like, Frank’s is basically just vinegar and cayenne pepper, and it’s the vinegar that gives it that sour tang to it that I like. It’s what makes pickles pickley.
Love it. Quite apart from the subline perfection of vinegar on fish and chips, I love a good vinaigrette salad dressing. I could drink that. And salt and vinegar crisps are top tier (although Walkers1 Pickled Onion are even sharper). I also like pickles of almost all sorts.
1 Walkers are, of course, deeply suspect. Salt and Vinegar should be in a blue packet, not a green packet!
There are lots of different types of vinegar with different flavors and acidities. I frequently use malt vinegar, rice wine vinegar and balsamic vinegar when I cook and even as a condiment
I don’t see how it’s any different than using lemon or lime juice 🤷♂️
Mm pickles :3
I don’t like pure vinegar, but it’s a nice taste to add to a dish to make it slightly more acidic/fresh tasting.
