danf87 wrote:Will using a shirt as a cheesecloth alternative work for food scrap vinegar or is it too thick for yeast to get in?
For vinegar you probably want acetobacter to make acetic acid. You can introduce commercial yeast and mother of vinegar for a more reliable ferment.
For the shirt, I wouldn't use anything with color, cotton only, no synthetics, and I'd boil it first.
Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen. - Heinrich Heine.