alcohol in cooking

kittiwoz

I just buy the cheap wine from Aldi for £2.69 a bottle. Mind you I will drink that too. I don't drink wine that often since I can't really justify the cost on my budget. I buy it for cooking because I think it gives a real lift to a lot of meals with cheap ingredients so it allows me to economise in other areas.

If I drink wine I tend to have it with half water though I wouldn't do that with good wine and although I don't have very high standards I can tell the difference. The nicest wine I've ever had I was treated to by my housemates parents along with a very nice (and very expensive) meal. I've had a few botles of really horrible wine for about £5 from Tesco's before. I dare say it's not all horrible stuff they sell but without really knowing what I'm looking for I haven't had good luck. If I am buying wine for a treat I'll buy it in M&S and spend about £3-£5. I think their wine is fantastic value, much better than you would get for the price elsewhere. It's out of my way though so I'd have to make a special trip which is more of a deterent than the price.

Chris25

I've used a recipe that calls for lager with beef (and a few prunes mixed in too).

I think the Belgians use a bottle of 'light' beer for beef carbonnade (sp?) which come to think of it, is probably lager?

I use quite a bit of sherry (any type) in cooking for trifles and Chinese dishes and I subscribe to the Keith Floyd method of cooking.............a slurp, then a pour, then another slurp

whistler-alison

I use wine quite a lot in cooking but not too much for drinking. I normally have a bottle open in the fridge or in the garage in cold weather like this which I use for cooking. Will usually take a few weeks to use up. I used to freeze the wine, but then read something by a chef that said a bottle of wine kept in the fridge would be OK for cooking after you got past the point that you wouldn't want to drink it. I tried it and I agree!

colmil

I love to cook with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food.