Sglass wrote:Letty wrote:Deb, what you saw may be what is called "the mother" in vinegar. Did it look like this?
What is it Letty? Looks like an enlarged chicken heart.
A mother? A mother of what?
Mother of vinegar:
Mother of vinegar is a slime composed of a form of cellulose and acetic acid bacteria that develops on fermenting alcoholic liquids, which turns alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air. It is added to wine, cider, or other alcoholic liquids to produce vinegar.
Mother of vinegar can also form in store-bought vinegar if there is some non-fermented sugar and/or alcohol contained in the vinegar. While not appetizing in appearance, mother of vinegar is completely harmless and vinegar does not have to be discarded because of it. It can be filtered out using a coffee filter, or simply left in and ignored.
Health food folk say this slime has amazing health properties.
If it WAS some sort of mummy, it was in a nasty bubbling mess, and there were THREE of them.
Perhaps it was a Mormon Mother Monster?????
