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Will using a shirt as a cheesecloth alternative work for food scrap vinegar or is it too thick for yeast to get in?

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.

I haven't made vinegar (on purpose). But I use a variety of rags (all cotton, I'm pretty sure) (including cut up old t-shirts) on top of various ferments and they all seem to let microorganisms in.