Cooking with wine?

firefly171717

Most of the time recipes call for Port Wines which you can usually find a few in the wine section of a grocery store. They also have wine vinegar. For other alcahols the recipe will generally specify. I just made rum cake with 1/3 of a handle of sailor jerry's I highly recomend it

Elleinnz

I ALWAYS keep the little 4 packs of single servings of wine on hand. I keep a Chardonnay or Pinot Grigio for dry white and a Cabernet for red.

This way I don't have to open a big bottle just to cook with, plus you can buy a decent enough wine like that and you could totally drink it.

I would never ever ever use a "cooking" wine from the grocery store.

Now why have I never thought of this - since I am calorie counting there is hardly ever a "open bottle" in the fridge - and I hate opening a bottle just for cooking - what a brilliant idea!!

engineman312

cook with whatever you would put on a table or drink yourself. and dollars spent does not equal good wine. some of my favorite bottles of wine are below $10.

i avoid "cooking" wine because it tend to have a lot of extra sodium.

AlsDonkBoxSquat

I don't cook with anything that I wouldn't drink.

midwifekelley2350

Is there a difference between cooking wine and drinking wine? Or will any white wine do the trick? And what do they mean by "dry"?

yes, buy drinking wine to cook with! a chardonay would be a good dry white wine to cook with and it doesn't need to be expensive.

AlsDonkBoxSquat

I ALWAYS keep the little 4 packs of single servings of wine on hand. I keep a Chardonnay or Pinot Grigio for dry white and a Cabernet for red.

This way I don't have to open a big bottle just to cook with, plus you can buy a decent enough wine like that and you could totally drink it.

I would never ever ever use a "cooking" wine from the grocery store.

Now why have I never thought of this - since I am calorie counting there is hardly ever a "open bottle" in the fridge - and I hate opening a bottle just for cooking - what a brilliant idea!!

yeah, i definitely don't have an issue with a bottle of wine sitting around for a long time. 4 ounces of cab is less than 100 calories, I make sure to fit 1 or 2 in per day.

midwifekelley2350

I ALWAYS keep the little 4 packs of single servings of wine on hand. I keep a Chardonnay or Pinot Grigio for dry white and a Cabernet for red.

That's brilliant!!!!!

agree...but i never have trouble getting rid of the leftovers!

hbart500

I always buy Pinot Grigio for my dry white wine...i have to find sweet red wines if it calls for red. Never buy the cooking wines...i just never heard anything good about them haha.