Learn How to Make Pine Cleaner Without Vinegar using just a few simple ingredients. If you want to make natural cleaners, but you don’t have any vinegar on hand, this DIY is a simple homemade cleaner that anyone can make.
With this process, you’ll learn how to make homemade vinegar at the same time you are learning how to make homemade cleaning products!
Affiliates note: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. My content may contain affiliate links to products and services. If you click through and make a purchase, I’ll receive a small commission. It does not affect the price you pay.
Table of Contents
- It Just Takes a Few Pine Tree Clippings
- You’ll Make Your Own Vinegar!
- Related Videos
- The Modern Pioneer Cookbook
- The Modern Pioneer Pantry
- Start Your Traditional Foods Journey
- Download Your Free 36-Page Pantry List
- Join the Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy
- Kitchen Academy Videos
- Homemade Pine Cleaner Recipe
- Shop for items used in this blog post or video
It Just Takes a Few Pine Tree Clippings
Any variety of pine needles will work. All you’ll need is enough clippings to fill a half-gallon jar. Then you’ll add a bit of sugar, fill the container with water…and then wait 30 days.
You’ll Make Your Own Vinegar!
What you have started is a very basic aerobic acetobacter fermentation! If you are new to fermenting, this is a great place to begin learning how to ferment.
Stir your mixture each day, and after 30 days, you will have made your own pine-scented vinegar that’s perfect for cleaning anywhere you would use regular vinegar. This process couldn’t be easier! And it literally costs just a few pennies to make.
Related Videos
Now that you’ve made your own Pine Cleaner be sure to check out these other videos where I walk you through the entire 30-day process for making your own Citrus Cleaner!
And for more homemade vinegar recipes, be sure to check out How to Make Apple Cider Vinegar and Strawberry Scrap Vinegar!
Order YOUR COPY Now!
The Modern Pioneer Cookbook
Seasonal ingredients, traditional techniques, and nourishing recipes. Over 85 traditional, from-scratch recipes! Discover for yourself how you can use simple ingredients and traditional techniques to cook the modern pioneer way.
Order YOUR COPY Now!
The Modern Pioneer Pantry
Simple ingredients, timeless techniques, and a well-stocked pantry. Discover over 100 nourishing recipes to preserve food and turn pantry staples into homemade meals. Build a wholesome, traditional pantry—just like a modern pioneer!
Start Your Traditional Foods Journey
Sharing my passion for traditional cooking goes beyond my YouTube cooking school—it also comes to life in the pages of my cookbooks. Both of my books, The Modern Pioneer Cookbook and The Modern Pioneer Pantry, are proudly published by Penguin Random House.
The first is filled with time-honored recipes to help you create a traditional foods kitchen, while the second is your complete guide to home food preservation. Order both books today to start or continue your traditional foods journey.
Download Your Free 36-Page Pantry List
For an extensive list of the traditional foods you can make and purchase to stock your pantry, be sure to download my free 36-page Traditional Foods Pantry List. This comprehensive eBook is full of links to recipe videos, helpful articles, and more!
Join the Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy
Are you looking for more traditional foods videos? If so, I invite you to join the Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy. Members of this optional paid YouTube community get access to exclusive videos and other members-only perks. Plus, your YouTube comments include a special members-only badge.
Kitchen Academy Videos
Baking with Whole Grains: The Maslin Method, Grain Mills, and America’s Bread Basket
Explore whole grain baking with The Maslin Method, fresh-milled flour, grain mills, heritage wheats, and more.
A Sweet Season of Celebration and New Beginnings with The Maslin Method Baking School Series
Celebrate the close of a heartfelt book tour and the exciting launch of The Maslin Method Baking School for traditional baking.
Why We Should Incorporate Mackerel Into Our Diet
Easy and nourishing ways to enjoy mackerel into your meals.
Stay in Touch with Mary’s Nest
- Subscribe to My YouTube Channel for Traditional Foods Videos (Free) - When you subscribe, be sure to click on the notification bell that will let you know each time I upload a new video.
- Subscribe to Mary’s Traditional Foods Newsletter (Free) - Get a free 36-page eBook for signing up: How to Stock Your Essential Traditional Foods Four-Corners Pantry.
- Join the Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy - For more detailed videos and exclusive members-only perks, join my YouTube membership community.
- Order The Modern Pioneer Cookbook - Get a hardcover book of Mary's nourishing recipes from a Traditional Foods Kitchen. This bestselling cookbook is published by Penguin Random House with their DK imprint.
- Order The Modern Pioneer Pantry - Get Mary's latest hardcover cookbook about preserving food and making delicious meals from your Four Corners Pantry. Mary's second cookbook is also published by Penguin Random House.
I look forward to having you join me in my Texas Hill Country Kitchen!
Homemade Pine Cleaner
Equipment
- Half Gallon Jar
- Coffee Filter or Clean Cloth
- Rubber Band or String/Twine
Materials
- Pine clippings Enough to halfway fill a half-gallon jar
- 1/4 – 1/2 cup White sugar
- Filtered water, chlorine-free See "NOTES" below.
Instructions
- Place pine clipping into a half-gallon jar to fill the jar to halfway full.
- Pour a 1/4 cup sugar into the jar over the pine clippings.
- Fill the jar with filtered water to three-quarters full.
- Cover the jar lid with a coffee filter or clean cloth and secure with a rubber band, string, or kitchen twine.
- Each day, remove the coffee filter or cloth and stir pine clippings mixture with a long wooden spoon or chopstick. (See the video.) Re-cover jar with the coffee filter or cloth and secure.
- After a few days, you will notice that the mixture will begin to bubble. This is a good sign that the fermentation process is beginning. The mixture has begun it's journey to becoming vinegar.
- After a more few days, if the bubbling dies down, you can add in another 1/4 cup of sugar and stir well.
- After the second addition of sugar, there will be no need to add more sugar, even though the bubbling will begin to subside again. At that point, the fermentation process is well on its way, and the mixture is becoming vinegar, so there will be less activity visible in the jar.
- Repeat this process for 30 days.
- After 30 days, strain the liquid from solids and decant the liquid. This liquid is pine-scented vinegar and may be used as a cleaner in place of anywhere you would use store-bought vinegar.
Video
Notes
Shop for items used in this blog post or video
Favorite Natural Cleaner Making Supplies
- Long Wooden Chopsticks (Great for stirring your mixture!)
- pH Strips (Helps you check on the acidity of your vinegar)
- Ball Wide Mouth Half Gallon Jars
- Wide Mouth Storage Lids
- Coffee Filters
- Rubber Bands
- Kitchen Twine
- Kitchen Twine Holder
Heidi’s Etsy Shop
As mentioned in the video, I learned how to use chopsticks to stir my homemade vinegar from Heidi. She has an informative YouTube channel and sells homemade aprons and much more from her Etsy shop at Rain Country Homestead.
Heidi makes beautiful aprons that make you feel like a real pioneer woman. They are generous in fabric, and every stitch shows the love that she puts into every apron. I’m thrilled to own one. So be sure to visit Heidi’s Etsy shop to view her lovely collection of handcrafted items, including lovely aprons, lady’s frontier skirts, and more. She takes special orders too!
Amazon Shop and Shopping Guide
- Visit Mary’s Nest Amazon Shop
- Get a 30-day Audible trial with a free audiobook
- Visit my Shopping Guide page
Get up to 15% off for stocking your Traditional Foods Pantry and equipping your Modern Pioneer Kitchen, including discounts from US Wellness Meats, Farmhouse Teas, Backwoods Home, Masontops, Cultures for Health, Survival Garden Seeds, Redmond Real Salt, and More!
Hi Mary, This is Jennifer Graf, I think that I ordered from you the stuff(extra) for my 3qt. instant pot. The extra inner stainless pot, the three sealing rings and the others that you recommended. A total of $52.02. Do you have any idea when I should receive those pieces? I’m so sorry to bother you.
Hi Jennifer, I don’t sell anything on my website. I am guessing that you simply clicked on one of my recommended links. Did you order from Amazon? If so, you would need to contact them to find out when your order will arrive. Love, Mary❤️🤗❤️