Vinegar History
- Vinegar in an ancient product. Its first recorded use was as far back as 5000BC when it was used to preserve food.
- It has a long history as a medicinal tool dating back to 2000BC. Even today many take vinegar for its medicinal properties.
- Modern vinegar making is a complex process and professional vinegar makers have been around since around 3000BC.
- Vinegar is even mentioned several times in the bible.
- The Romans also used vinegar to preserve food and on their travels to purify water.
- During the Black Plague many people took vinegar as a preventative against the disease. The corpses were even treated with vinegar to try to remove the disease.
- Modern ”accelerated vinegar making technology” was only really possible from around 1870 when Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743 – 1794) found out oxygen respiration was essential for the vinegar production. Louis Pasteur built upon this discovery in the early 1800’s in research into the existence of micro-organisms and first identified the particular bacteria that produces vinegar. He named it “aceterbacter”.
- In the 18th century Hermann Boerhaave built the first commercial accelerated vinegar making machinery after discovering the rate of vinegar production is proportional to the amount of air provided
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