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Cooking with wine? Cheap Bottle or Expensive Bottle?
Posted on 1/24/19 at 11:21 am
Posted on 1/24/19 at 11:21 am
When you cook with wine, do you use cheap bottle or a nice bottle?
I go with cheap. I have never tried an expensive wine to compare to, but the meals always taste good with the cheap stuff.
I go with cheap. I have never tried an expensive wine to compare to, but the meals always taste good with the cheap stuff.
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Posted on 1/24/19 at 11:24 am to Datfish
My wife likes to drink about a half-bottle and puts the cork back in. It sits for a week or so and instead of drinking the rest of that bottle she opens a new one. So I usually use whatever half of a bottle is laying around that she refuses to finish.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 11:24 am to Datfish
I'm not using an expensive bottle of wine to cook with. That would be retarded.
With that said, I'm also not going to use a wine that I wouldn't drink to cook with, but that has nothing to do with a wine's price.
With that said, I'm also not going to use a wine that I wouldn't drink to cook with, but that has nothing to do with a wine's price.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 11:30 am to Datfish
Shoot for the middle. Add the splash or two most recipes call for, then you have a nice bottle to drink while you cook.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 11:31 am to Datfish
I go sliding scale based on how much of the bottle I’m going to end up drinking.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 11:51 am to Datfish
I will not cook with any of my expensive wine. That;s a damn waste. However, I am not going to cook with Thunderbird either.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 12:03 pm to Salmon
Isn't the general rule of thumb "don't cook with it if you wouldn't drink it"?
Posted on 1/24/19 at 12:57 pm to Datfish
I don't cook with wine much, but when I do, it is always with something I can drink. If I find it not to my taste out of a glass, I'll not use it in my food.
ETA: Hulk beat me to it.
ETA: Hulk beat me to it.
This post was edited on 1/24/19 at 12:59 pm
Posted on 1/24/19 at 1:44 pm to Datfish
When Rouses gets those crates of different wines that are 10 for $10 that's what I buy and use that for cooking. I'll get $20 and they last all year.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 1:48 pm to Datfish
I use bottles that were opened and never finished. Or I'll open a bottle to use then drink the rest.
I only use bottles I would drink. Usually $10-30 everyday bottles. I'm not going to open a nicer bottle just to cook with.
I only use bottles I would drink. Usually $10-30 everyday bottles. I'm not going to open a nicer bottle just to cook with.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 2:03 pm to Datfish
Better boxed wine is ideal for cooking--inexpensive, not terrible, and readily available. Those 3 glass Bota boxes are perfect to keep on hand for braising season.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 2:17 pm to Salmon
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I'm also not going to use a wine that I wouldn't drink to cook with
Same thing Justin Wilson used to say.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 3:22 pm to hungryone
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Better boxed wine is ideal for cooking--inexpensive, not terrible, and readily available. Those 3 glass Bota boxes
I'ma have to disagree there, but I've used box wine for cooking and it was fine.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 3:37 pm to TH03
Re: boxed wine, have you tried La Petite Frog or La Veillie Ferme?
Posted on 1/24/19 at 5:48 pm to Datfish
If you would drink it on its own then you cook with it.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 8:51 pm to Datfish
It’s less about the cost, and more about pairing the proper wine with the protein you’re cooking. That being said, if you wouldn’t enjoy a glass of it then you certainly shouldn’t cook with it.
“If it grows together, it goes together.” If you live by that moto, you basically can’t go wrong.
“If it grows together, it goes together.” If you live by that moto, you basically can’t go wrong.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 8:54 pm to Funreaux
I use a cheap Chianti that I wouldn’t drink to make my bolognese. It’s definitely not my favorite to drink but it makes for a great bolognese.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 9:19 pm to Datfish
Good wine.
I don't use a lot of wine in my cooking - maybe 1 out of 10 dishes, and for that few, I deserve good wine. Also, I am going to drink some or most of the wine I use, and I hate bad/cheap tasting wine. It might cook ok, but then I would have this bad wine that I would enjoy drinking if it was good wine.
Might be different if I was cooking with wine every day, or cooking for inmates at Shawshank Prison. Even then it would hurt my feelings to do that to Morgan Freeman.
I don't use a lot of wine in my cooking - maybe 1 out of 10 dishes, and for that few, I deserve good wine. Also, I am going to drink some or most of the wine I use, and I hate bad/cheap tasting wine. It might cook ok, but then I would have this bad wine that I would enjoy drinking if it was good wine.
Might be different if I was cooking with wine every day, or cooking for inmates at Shawshank Prison. Even then it would hurt my feelings to do that to Morgan Freeman.
Posted on 1/24/19 at 9:40 pm to CoachChappy
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Thunderbird
Ever notice how it has the dramatic after taste (on the back of the tongue) of green pecans?
Well, it does, that and just a hint of shoe polish.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 7:38 am to Datfish
Price isn't the factor, never cook with a wine you wouldn't drink.
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