Using a corked red wine?!
Answers: In the interests of not wasting anything... can anyone think of ANY uses for a corked red wine? Opened it last week and the cork was stained a good cm up, and the bottom parts were all crumbly... somehow not for drinking! Anyone got anything I can do with this rather than throwing it out, or would it be like using rancid milk?
Depends on the flavour... if it is "corked" then the wine has reacted with the cork and won't taste nice at all, even in food. If it just has bits of cork in it (not corked) then just strain it and drink it, or use a spoon to pull the bits out... use it in cooking if you need to.
Thank god for screw tops.
strain it and use for cooking
I agree, strain it and cook with it. Red wine is great used in gravies. I just had a thought...and I might just try this myself..lol. I'm thinking, if you don't have a use for it right away, maybe pour it into ice cube trays...freeze it and put the cubes in baggies in the freezer for later use. Not sure how it will work as it just popped into my head but it's worth a shot.
Don't cook with any wine you wouldn't drink!
Just because there is cork in the wine doesn't necessarily mean it had gone bad. In the future, if a cork breaks, pour the wine carefully through a coffee filter into a decanter or anything else that has the capacity to hold a bottle of wine (approx 25.3 oz). This will remove the cork and allow you to taste it to see if it is still good to drink.
I agree it's a shame to let good juice go to waste, but if it has been open for a week, chances are it has oxidized.
drink it, don't put it in anything you'd eat either. That "off" taste that you'd taste while drinking it straight WILLL come through in the flavor of whatever you're planning on putting it into. About the only thing left to do with that wine is maybe clean a paintbrush (I kid). Bad wine, sad as it sounds, it pretty much useless. Sorry.
Corked wine has a bad smell and tastes horrible. I wouldn't even usie it in cooking as it may give the dish a bitter taste. i would throw it away.
Or take it back to the shop where you bought it and tell them it is corked and you want a replacement bottle.
If it is actually corked and smells funny and tastes nasty dont cook with it as you will get that scummy off taste through your food. Chuck it. If its just past its best and the cork is degraded then yes cook with it. Trust me you will know if the wine is "corked" immediately you sniff or taste it, its unmistakable.
Just throw it away it is good for nothing,
NO! that is EXCELLENT red wine. But if you feel it has a "corky" taste, use if for cooking.
use it to stain fabric. or as "blood" in a prank. LOL my answer was taken so i figured i would get creative.
A stained and crumbly cork are nothing whatever to do with the wine being 'corked'.
If you think the wine is faulty, return it to your merchant for a refund.
If it is not good enough to drink then it is not good enough to cook with.