Bottle of vinegar
A bottle of sharp acid — a small useful sour that lifts other foods and on its own is harsh.
A bottle of vinegar in a dream is the dream's image of a small useful sour that lifts other foods and on its own is harsh. Vinegar is essential in small amounts and unwelcome in large ones. The dream brings the vinegar bottle when something in your life — a sharp truth, a critical voice, a piece of corrective feedback — is currently being added to a situation in small doses to lift it, and the question of the dose is alive. A few drops measured into a dressing is the dream affirming the use. A bottle poured directly into a dish, ruining the meal, is the dream noting that the useful sour has been delivered in the wrong quantity, and what should have lifted the food has burned the tongue.