What is the difference between regular wine and cooking wine?!
Answers: Will using one or the other in a cooking recipe change the end result?
Cooking wine is a much lower grade than regular wine. It also tends to be a bit more acidic. A simple question to ask would be this: If you would not drink it, why would you want to cook with it?
Cooking wine has more salt in it. It is best to use regular wine the alcohol will burn off while cooking and leave a better taste.
Regular wine is for drinking. Cooking wine is for cooking.
Most chefs recommend to use regular wine for both because cooking wine is not as tasty. Cooking wine is an inferior grade. Bottom line, if it tastes good to drink, it will taste good when cooking with it.
Big difference. I always recommend regular wine for cooking. I like Dry reds for sauteeing and slow cooking. I always save the bottom barrel of wine I didnt finish. Even if it sits in the fridge for awhile it will make great cooking wine later on.
Regular wine is the best for cooking. Now it just depends the quality of the wine you choose which will make the taste even better. As for the cooking wine, someone bored with the desire to profit himself invented cooking wine to make people believe it is for cooking because it says "made for cooking".
If you drink regular wine it still has alcohol in it, if you cook with cooking wine the alcohol burns off.
cooking wine makes you want to give up drinking
Drinking wine makes you happy to be alive
Cooking wine is more vinegar based :-).
The price! You can cook with just about any wine but why would you cook with good stuff? Save the good stuff for your belly!
Agreeing with Butch.
If it's not good enough to drink-it's not good enough to cook with!
On the reverse angle-you wouldn't use second grade mint leaves for your Mint Julep!
Sometimes cooking wine has more vinegar in it.. drinking wine more acohol to it it cooks away! sometimes adds more flovare to foods? cooking wine is good for mixing to foods..like fish casseroles and beef meals casseroles...
cooking wine actually has salt added to it, so you will probably have a more salty dish. do not use it. it is better to use the real deal wine and control your on salt content by tasting the food.
I think so, depending on how much wine is called for in the recipe. I like to make my own pizza, and I often use generous amounts of wine in my marinara sauce. Cooking wine tastes very tart and salty and it's absolutely terrible if you drink it. If the recipe mentions any vinegar or salt, it makes sense that you would put that in anyway, so I personally prefer to just use real drinking wine. There are perfectly decent brands of cheap wine that taste good when either drinked or cooked. Any subtle nuances in the wine that one normally notices when sipping it are going to be lost in the boiling process, so there's no difference from using more expensive brands.
Cooking wine is the lowest quality wine from the vinyard and is salted Yuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Always use the best quality wine you can get because cooking it reduces the volume and concentrates the flavor.