white distilled vinegar for cooking

[genevieve154]

I am trying to make a Weight Watchers recipe for brownieds which requires white distilled vinegar. Is that the same as white distilled malt vinegar or something different? if it is something different where can I buy it in the UK? Many thanks.

[oldwoman]

White distilled malt vinegar is usually for pickling,eg eggs,onions. White vinegar should be in supermarkets as a choice to the other vinegars.

[goonerbird]

Some old fashioned/smaller chemists also usually stock this type of non-brewed vinegar.

[heathfield]

Tesco. They have Sarsons distilled white vinegar, and 'non-brewed condiment' . All vinegar is mainly diluted acetic acid. In the case of Sarsons, this should be obtained by brewing cereal grains, followed by a distillation process. The 'non-brewed condiment' is obtained by direct distillation from anything else, from wood to North Sea oil. The 'non-brewed' used to be called vinegar, but vinegar brewers objected and the use of the term was banned. There is a taste difference between the two types, and customers in Scottish fish-and-chip shops still have a preference for the taste of their non-brewed 'chip-shop vinegar'.
But in the case of baking brownies, there shouldn't be any difference. When did you ever taste the vinegar in a brownie?

[genevieve154]

To those of you out there that answered my question about distilled white vinegar, thank you ery much.