How to Make Apple Cider Vinegar - Final Results

[@AntPDC]

This is brilliant ACV-making BDY, and beautifully-presented, if I may say so. I was very much looking forward to the outcome of your initial, airlocked, anaerobic ferment of apple-juice, which you subsequently exposed to air using an ACV inoculate. The results you evidence here are spectacular and serve to vindicate your professional method. Indeed, the acetic acid content of your ACV makes it akin to Braggs', which I very much doubt could have been achieved using the oft-toted jar of sugar-water/apples/open-to-air procedure. As so often on YT, there's a poor signal-to-noise ratio when it comes to delivering reliable information, so it's an absolute pleasure to witness your professionalism here. Thank you (and please exclude me from "the Mother" prize - she wouldn't be happy facing a 3500 mile journey!). Best wishes.

[@BetterDoneYourself]

AntPDC, thanks for noticing. You really made my day with your kind words. I spent a little extra time on the lighting and the various camera angles for this shoot. It's nice when someone notices. I, too, can't stand the I've-never-made-this-before-so-I'm-going-to-record-myself-guessing-for-KZbin videos. These two videos were the culmination of 5 years of research and experimenting. My initial experiments are documented here: betterdoneyourself.com/?s=vinegar

[@devbandy9004]

Best recipe for me. There is always learning from everybody. I make wine at home. Lot of carboys sitting here and there. I will pick up unpasteurized apple cider from store and jump in. Winter is in the corner finding organic unpasteurized apple cider will not be too hard. I have red star distillers yeast in the refrigerator. I do have organic apple cider with mother, which I take every day due to high A1C. Also I was looking for 5 % acidity level in the final product. All in all this recipe fits my project. Great upload . God bless brother. 🙏🙏

[@dianaboughner7977]

Love how you teach anyone willing to learn how to be more self-reliant and healthier by making foods like this themselves at home.

[@janclairlance7345]

Vinegar is very useful in our home....we use it all the time. I think I need to learn how to make it. I use it for cleaning, cooking, and drinking! I would love a mother!

[@ellaradenny5470]

Love all your videos and I am doing my best to watch all. I grew Red Nobel Grapes and after pressing them, started the vinegar process. After a month to my greatest surprise found a beautiful Mother at the bottom. There also seems to be a second Mother forming. I have strained my vinegar and want to start more, so my questions are...1st..Do I refrigerate my new vinegar? 2nd...Do I just add more juice, from the grapes I pressed, to the Mother and wait again, and would I add any sugar? Please continue making your videos..you are easy to listen to and I am learning a lot. Thanks and have a great day, everyday!

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Very cool! You skipped the hard part and still got the reward! No, vinegar doesn't need to be refrigerated, but it does need to be protected from oxygen. Store it in a very full bottle with a very small neck. And, sure! Just add more grape juice to your mother, she'll keep you in delicious vinegar. Sounds like you've got all the sugar that you need right in those lovely grapes. I'm happy you're enjoying the videos--I'll make more!

[@korinagonzalez9102]

I just started making vinegar and i love your video

[@lorettaburt908]

Love it!! Exciting to see a mother..ahhh love to have o e ,I have been tryi g but no luck ..I am in CANADA 🇨🇦♥️♥️♥️

[@max.goldrich]

Awesome video! I'm just getting into fermenting and apple cider vinegar looks fun.

[@havfaith56]

Great video. LOVE fermentation. Thank you.

[@judykeenan8006]

Would love to read a bio about yourself...you are a amazing teacher for all that watch you

[@WorldsFirstACVGummy]

*I've been trying to include apple cider vinegar into my routine for ages, but the taste just made it so hard. Goli Gummies really were a game changer for me* 🍎

[@wchandler1962]

Good Video. When you mail the "Mother" how is the best way to do it. Does it have to be kept wet and how much of the "Mother" would you suggest?

[@hollytree2927]

My husband drinks this stuff in all his water. It keeps his kidney stones dissolving (softer and easier to break up).

[@naturaltrini1]

Awesome video. I have just started fermenting foods and drinks. I have watched a few of yours and learned a great deal. I would love one of those mother.

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Just follow the directions in the description box!

[@whatscookinnashville]

I would love to make my own vinegar. That's really interesting.

[@chawquee]

from uou i learnt the real way of making acv and after months of scientific research i can say now that am a specialist in making anything have sugar in it to wine and then vinegar

[@mehrdad1065]

watched all your three videos. loved them. great presentation

[@derekvalenti9365]

I could use a mother mine didn’t turn out well my acv turned out fine but the mother is still very young and thing only had it fermenting for about a month and a half .. nowhere near 6 months.. those mothers look beautiful

[@anamariasuar]

Thank you for explaining everything so well!!!

[@Jenny-mz4oo]

Please make a video of making apple cider with a mother using that scoby from your first batch

[@beausabreur1759]

Hi...This is the clearest demonstration of the ACV process so far...Thank you for sharing your expertise...I am a fermentation fanatic now, and my artisan sourdough bread is as good as anyone's...Hot relish not far behind (and a great combination of flavor served on top of sourdough rye!...This should top it all off perfectly!...hey, can I use a blob of sourdough starter stirred into water to substitute for the dry yeast?...thanks again.

[@BetterDoneYourself]

John Bowman Thank you for recognizing quality, John! Seriously though, I do appreciate the kind words. Yes, you can use sourdough for starter, but it will die off too fast. The Champaign starter is more resistant to the high alcohol levels here.

[@vernfl291]

Is there a way to preserve the mother long term? Love your videos btw, I got my daughter interested in them too. AND the pickles came out GREAT!!!! 😄

[@BetterDoneYourself]

vernfl291 I just put it in a sealed jar in the pantry. I have heard you can freeze them...

[@oliver2wist]

Watched ur video. Thanks for the tutorial. Here in Nigeria we have imported apples which I believe are not organic. How can I use such apples to make ACV? Thank you

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Wash them, peel them, chop them and press the juice out. I am lucky that my local farm does these things for me because I don't have the tools. Perhaps there is another kind of juice that you can use?

[@TenderHandsIndia]

@@BetterDoneYourself I live in India and have the same problem. When you say 'press the juice' can I just use local apple juice? I assume you don't want pieces of the actual fruit.

[@BetterDoneYourself]

@@TenderHandsIndia That's right!

[@barbarafallin2038]

You can use all of the apple,it doesn't have to be organic, just cut it up peeling and all

[@marcelog.2916]

Very nice video! I've made my ACV and at the end of it I got a nice gel mother. The questuon is: how can I use this already grown mother? Throw inside of my new batch that Im starting to produce now? Again, tnx for the vids, very well made!

[@TheAusprepper]

A great job mate. You are such a great teacher. Wonderful instructional video for the newbie fermenter. What do you do with the extra mother if you don't get to give it away. Does it get tossed out or do you keep it for other batches or can it be frozen. Any ideas on making sherry vinegar?

[@BetterDoneYourself]

TheAusprepper Thank-you! I used to teach professionally at a technical college but my passion is for healthy food preparation.

[@nicolesweetz3123]

That's so cool... I forgot the yeast in my batch only because I didn't know you needed it.

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Nicole Sweetz You can't forget something that you didn't know.

[@lindachandler2293]

For the first time in decades of making vinegar, mine formed a scoby ❤️ I'm curious can I put the scoby back in the vinegar after I strain out the apples and store it in the vinegar, in the fridge?

[@BetterDoneYourself]

linda chandler Yes. Or use it to start another batch.

[@lindachandler2293]

@@BetterDoneYourself Thank you!

[@americantimberwolf]

thanks for showing how to do this with cider ... I'm thinking of trying it with fresh pressed juice ...

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Make sure there are no preservatives! Have fun!

[@newme3304]

I really need that mother

[@angelgrayson5807]

How do you start a new batch using the mother from a previous batch? Can someone please explain or send a link? TIA

[@silglo]

Thank you so much for your video, I would love to try this 💜

[@nicolasgregoire9294]

In your other video about wine vinegar, you tell to pasteurize or put the wine vinegar into narrow necked bottles. I really don't understand what will happen if we don't? The acetobacter should stop fermenting when all the alcohol is transformed, right? Another question: why you don't specify to do the same (pasteurise or narrow necked bottles) for this apple cider vinegar? Last question: my apple cider (with alcohol) is fermenting to vinegar now (1st month done...). At 21degC room temperature, how long should it takes roughly to see the presence of a mother on top of it? Up to now, there's nothing. I did everything as your instructions.

[@BetterDoneYourself]

It MAY take a couple of months. Be patient. It's worth it. Your later batches will be quicker once you get a good healthy mother. The bottle thing is not completely necessary but it is the best way to store live vinegar as in minimizes the surface area of the vinegar in contact with air and slows down the oxidation process as the vinegar begins to break down further.

[@loki_cane_corso_italiano7825]

I'm surprised if anyone sees things moving. That's only going to be before the cider goes acidic. That's when you can still get mold in your apples. Once they smell like alchol, no flies should be in that!!

[@americanmade1701]

AWESOME. ..so happy to see the mother on mothers day...lol

[@nicolesweetz3123]

Can you do this using Grapes ? Or even a combination of Apples & Grapes together?

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Sure. Any kind of fermented fruit wine at about 9% ABV makes great vinegar!

[@mjcubo2246]

What is that gadget you used to measure the pH? Also, can you show us how to use the mother for making another batch or for something else that it would be good for? Thanks!

[@BetterDoneYourself]

I used a pH meter: amzn.to/2EDwolF Just take the old mother and put it in a vessel of preservative-free wine. It contains the acetobacters that will break down the alcohol into vinegar. It's not good for anything else. It's just a disk of cellulose and bacteria.

[@mjcubo2246]

Thanks!

[@carolmckerracher9186]

Very interesting video ! I am just stirring my very first ACV....don’t see a mother in my jar....

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Carol Mckerracher The mother may not form for months. Vinegar is very slow. Stirring is a good way to ensure nothing forms on the surface.

[@Fed2thewolves]

Your videos are awesome. This is a dying art, and I would be honored to grow done vinegar with That mother!

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Just follow the directions in the description box!

[@adrienneblaylock3173]

I will have to google images of vinegar eels because I just need to see what you're talking about...

[@tiffanytaylor6247]

I have my first batch going now with a different technique using cut up apples, no yeast and allowing it to have oxygen. What are your thoughts between the two techniques?

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Tiffany Taylor I've seen recipes for that Apple peel thing but I've never tried it. I would think it would be a battle against spoilage without a culture to get it started.

[@Warbler36]

You posted this three months ago, how about an update of your progress?

[@jenniferdcunha3070]

Tiffany Taylor I just chop apples add water and a half cup of sugar. I tie the mouth with a cotton cloth and rubber band . In a month after stirring daily I have Apple vinegar to strain out. Again I tie the mouth and lo and behold the mother begins to form on top. My query is when is it ready to wean away from Mummy? When can I put on a proper cork or lid on the mouth? Please reply.

[@duramax78]

So sir once I strain the apples I seal her up for at least a month.?

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Ranjit You've got the wrong video. I didn't use apples and I didn't seal anything.

[@susanbrazzell1303]

Please send me one I've just started making my own vinegar at home I would be so blessed to have one! Shall eat and thanks for the great teaching. Susan Brazzell

[@susanbrazzell1303]

Ignore the (shall eat) words in my comment not sure where they came from???

[@jasimkhankhan8793]

Very Nice 👍👍

[@aliciagray___4478]

Love this!

[@cosmo0080]

i have made 2 batches neither had mother ? do not know why any thoughts on that yes i have consumed the asv

[@BetterDoneYourself]

cosmo ianiro The mother is a byproduct of the acetobacters' ferment. If the byproduct didn't form, I don't think the product (ACV) was created. Did your final liquid still taste alcoholic?

[@cbzombiequeen58]

Please excuse me but I cant watch now, I have to download and watch later, but I wanted to ask, can I use real apples instead of the store bought apple cider. I saw a few seconds of the first one and noticed the store bought apple cider.

[@BetterDoneYourself]

If you have an apple press or a juicer!

[@chrislion6777]

Can you use a piece of the MOTHER as a starter for a new batch

[@BetterDoneYourself]

You bet!!

[@starfireevony8796]

I would appreciate a piece of acv mother, we dont have places to buy that here in south africa. I know its ages later, so hope you still read the comments lol

[@Matt-db5sl]

Nice job. 3 mothers?

[@mindyhinders4067]

Darn, I'm to late for the mother.😊 Thanks for the video! I'm trying it your way next time.

[@sallykalya9023]

Can u use the acv vinegar to start Kombucha

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Sanna Kruger Yes, it's useful for lowering the initial pH, but you'll also need a kombucha SCOBY, to ensure you have the proper yeast and bacteria to make kombucha.

[@MegazoneMusic23]

Im making wine Vingar and I have mother thats formed. What do I do with the mother after I discard it?!

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Megazone Music After you discard it you'll only be able to watch the garbage men take it away. But you should Save it to make the next batch. Just put it in a jar with some of the vinegar it made and seal it away from air.

[@MegazoneMusic23]

@@BetterDoneYourself Thanks! I put it in a tupperware container in the fridge, but now Ill put it in a sealed glass container and put it .

[@jukes243]

Wow. Very time consuming. Makes me appreciate ACV more. Thanks!

[@bitwamet]

Mother takes 3weeks to form but apple cider takes 6months to be acidic like bragg

[@reginabrown542]

Thank you so much for this information. I made ACV for the 1st time and was wondering if it would get acidic like Braggs.

[@snv8624]

Which is best? It my first time making ACV... I don't know which is right or wrong... Plz help me out

[@alifnishat2560]

How many month I can keep acv?

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Alif Nishat as long as you like. Keep it in a tightly sealed bottle with no air.

[@elliejoanna5925]

“My hands are super clean don’t get upset” hahaha me to my mom when I grow these alive things

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Ellie bon Good job. People have been eating dead food and preservative leaden food for so long that we have all sorts of new food rules.

[@elliejoanna5925]

Better Done Yourself true. I’m just trying to find the balance between a Big Mac and an acai bowl

[@stephanienarbaez5034]

Where did you buy your crock?

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Stephanie Narbaez It was my grandfather's.

[@JonaChristoe]

If I'm comment number 25 does that mean I get a mother culture? Great video ... Even if I don't get a mother 😎✌🏽️🖖🏽

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Just follow the directions in the description box!

[@Sooper8]

Mail me some mother! haha

[@sylvialankai4269]

I know am late but please I want the mother lol

[@beausabreur1759]

PS...I would love to win the mother!

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Don't worry. You're on the list! Just follow the directions in the description box!

[@lishusc]

Send a mommy home!

[@BetterDoneYourself]

Just follow the directions in the description box!