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papapablo
Blanket, TX
(Zone 7b)
September 07, 2009
08:40 AM Post #7035413
| I was in the grocery store the other day and noticed that a gallon of white vinegar has gone up to $3.97 - I bought vinegar earlier in the summer and it was expensive then but I *think* it was only $2.99 if memory serves. And that was higher than last year (when I could have sworn I got it for $1.89 a gallon) Shouldn't plain vinegar be inexpensive?
I've tried doing web searches and can't find anything about it. Does anyone have any idea why the price is going so high? This is more than milk!
Thanks for any insight you can offer!
Tina |
twiggybuds
Moss Point, MS
(Zone 8b)
September 07, 2009
11:41 AM Post #7036094
| Tina I've noticed the same thing. Vinegar has a multitude of uses around the house and hadn't given it much thought other than that everything seems to be going up while we're told inflation is under control. Now that you mention it, I can think of 3 possible reasons.
Cider vinegar is up too. I don't know what the white is made out of these days but many of the commercial apple orchards in the US have been done away with because of high disease pressure and the high cost of producing a crop.
This year there has been a large increase of people canning, pickling, freezing and drying food.
I don't know precisely how they use it but it may be related to drug use. They mix some kind of drug with it and draw it up in a syringe. Seems to me it would burn like the devil. My daughter does my grocery shopping and twice this year Walmart was out of vinegar. She said there was a man looking for some at the same time and he told her that about the drug users. I do know for a fact that drug use is big and growing like a wildfire around here.
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papapablo
Blanket, TX
(Zone 7b)
September 08, 2009
08:11 AM Post #7039623
| Thanks so much for responding, twiggybuds. You are probably right about demand driving the increase: so many companies are pushing vinegar-based cleaning products as "green", and I've heard of it used to kill weeds on farms/ranches, the amount needed by industry is probably more than ever.
I guess I will have to start watching everything so I can stock up for the whole year while it is out of season. :-)
Tina |
Molamola
Christiansted, VI
(Zone 11)
September 09, 2009
06:56 PM Post #7045435
| I saw some Imitation Vinegar once! hahaha. Don't know what it was.
The government calculates inflation using a certain list of things we buy, but they leave out food and fuel!! Inflation is worse than they're telling us, probably around 10% |
garden_mermaid
San Francisco Bay Ar, CA
(Zone 9b)
September 10, 2009
12:27 AM Post #7046527
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According to the Wiki, distilled white vinaegar is usually made from malt vinaegar as the cheapest source. Malt vinaegar is made from malted grains. The price increase in the white vinaegar is probably due to the increase in grain prices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinegar |
Nebraska_Jewel
southeast, NE
September 10, 2009
08:33 AM Post #7047001
| FYI - corn prices are down to 2.70 per bushel (down from $6 last year) and soybean are down to $9.70 per bushel which are higher than several years ago but down from last years highs of $13-$14 per bushel. I'm not sure about the other grains. |
philsgal
Middle River, MD
September 10, 2009
08:47 AM Post #7047038
| still pretty cheap at the warehouse store. think i paid about 6 bucks for a gallon and a half. Still cheaper than any other cleaner out there. |
Molamola
Christiansted, VI
(Zone 11)
September 10, 2009
09:20 AM Post #7047128
| Somebody posted someplace on DG that the soybean crops are having a tough time with a new insect. oboy. |
garden_mermaid
San Francisco Bay Ar, CA
(Zone 9b)
September 10, 2009
10:34 AM Post #7047338
| Are barley prices also down? Perhaps there is a time lag from the time the grain stocks were purchased until they are malted, fermented and distilled.
It could just be the increased popularity and usage of the vinaegar increasing the demand. |
frans530
Rankin, IL
(Zone 5a)
September 10, 2009
10:45 AM Post #7047361
| I bought it last year on sale at 2 gals for $3., since I use it for everything I bought 10 gals.. wow, wonder if I have been put on a watch for drug lists..
Wonder if we will have to show ID for vinegar in the future?
I do use it for a weed killer.. once in the sidwalk cracks early in spring.. no grass all summer long.. careful spray/pour around garden edges.. no grass all year.. It does take more than a quick spray of "weed-b-gone or the like.. but it works better/longer than any of them.. not as fast, but if it takes 3 days instead of 1 but stays dead all year.. who cares.
And I would guess it is the all natural/green cleaning that has demand, thus cost going through the roof. |
gloria125
Greensboro, AL
September 15, 2009
10:17 AM Post #7066565
| frans530: Do you use it straight or diluted? Cider or White?
I noticed there is a horticultural grade of vinegar for weed killing.
Ive been buying more vinegar myself to use as a cleaner [distilled white]. $6 for a gallon and a half of vinegar is an outrageous price.
I worked in an apartment house for a while and one time I decided to help out the maintenance man clean out an apartment. It had been occupied by a smoker for some years. The stove was dripping with greasy cigarette smoke way up into the exhaust hood. I put a few cups of vinegar in my steamer and heated the boiler. WAW!!! It made my eyes water, my nose run and hurt my ears too! I guess that's too high a dose to use as a cleaner. It did work on the smokey grease but I wouldn't recommend it as a "safe" cleaner - at least not at that dose. |
frans530
Rankin, IL
(Zone 5a)
September 15, 2009
12:09 PM Post #7067004
| gloria, I didn't know there was a difference..
I use regular white bottled vineger I bought at the grocery store.
The cider vineger was too expensive.. wouldn't even think of using that on the ground.. lol |
gloria125
Greensboro, AL
September 15, 2009
01:21 PM Post #7067224
| Do you use white vinegar full strength for killing weeds? Ive always used vinegar as a rinse after washing my hair. 1T cider vinegar in about 16 oz of water. It gets the soap residue out and leaves a shine. |
podster
Deep East Texas, TX
(Zone 8a)
September 15, 2009
08:54 PM Post #7068674
| Usually the vinegar used for killing weeds is a 20 % acid strength. The normal strength is 4 %. I believe it can be found thru horticultural sources. It works well with blended with dish soap and/or orange oil. |
frans530
Rankin, IL
(Zone 5a)
September 15, 2009
08:54 PM Post #7068676
| yes full strength |
araness
Orange, TX
(Zone 9a)
October 15, 2009
02:06 PM Post #7172326
| I don't know of any drug use that combines with vinegar. Only method I've ever heard that combines the two is if someone has a needle fetish or fixation then they might use vinegar to shoot up with. But nothing that uses vinegar of any type as a method of delivery or in any form with speed balling. |
