OmNomNom!

I love making pickles. It's a recently acquired love, since I avoided pickles for the first 24 1/2 years of my life, but something made me try them last year, and they were delicious and crunchy and something I could make at home. Delicious, crunchy, and labor-intensive kitchen work? Sign me up! The only problem is that white wine vinegar makes for the best pickles (in my experience, pickles made with distilled white vinegar are harsh), as in this recipe for pickled wax beans, and white wine vinegar, particularly in the quantities needed for pickling, is expensive.

Enter home-made wine vinegar. I'd read about how home-made wine vinegar was far more delicious than store-bought wine vinegar, and how it was a great, frugal way to make use of any leftover wine, and so I tried making wine vinegar in a few different ways:

( recipe, method, mistakes to avoid )