9 Vinegar Cooking Hacks You Wish You Knew Sooner (3 of 5)

Pickling Vegetables

Pickling your vegetables isn’t an easy thing to do, but it can be a fun thing to try with your fresh vegetables. It’s a lot easier to pickle your veggies with vinegar than it is with salt, and as long as you use vinegar that has an acidity over 5% it shouldn’t be a problem at all to get your vegetables all nice and pickled up. Naturally, you’ll want to use as neutral a vinegar as you can find for this, so it doesn’t alter the flavour too much.

Fluffy Rice

If you’ve ever wondered why sushi rice is so fluffy, wonder no more. Vinegar allows rice to absorb more of the cooking liquid, leading to some nice and beefy bits of rice. It can also help cook brown rice, which is notoriously harder than regular white rice because it doesn’t absorb as much liquid.