Re: Cheap Alternative To Red Wine

Is grape juice an alternative to wine with cooking, or is it just a bad
idea? I'm inexperienced with cooking with wine and don't know what an
affordable red or white wine is. Not to mention port, brankdy, cognac, etc.

"salgud" wrote in message

Quoted message said:

I've had this same problem. I do a number of recipes that call for red
(or white) wine, and I hate to waste it. I don't cook these recipes
often enough to use it up, and usually I drink it. The other problem no
one here mentioned, is that, according to all the chefs I've ever read
or seen talk on tv about it is that you shouldn't cook with a wine you
woudn't drink. It makes perfect sense to me. Would I use a cheese I
couldn't stant to eat to cook with? Since you're using the wine to
impart it's flavor to the dish, if the wine taste too awful to drink,
it won't taste very good in the recipe. I like the idea of sherry or
the extracts, but using a box wine I wouldn't feed to my dog just won't
help make a dish taste better. I've found that over the years, it's
hard, though not impossible, to get a decent bottle of wine for under
$10. If I can't afford that, I'd rather, and have many times, just left
the wine out, used water, and cooked away.

I often use the little Sutter Home red (cabernet sauvignon) and white
(sauvignon blanc) wines. The small bottles hold exactly one cup and come
in packs of four. Maybe not gourmet wines, but they're drinkable and
there's no waste.

Dora