If a recipe calls for white or red wine, can I use regular wine that you drink to cook with?

Or is cooking wine, a different wine than regular wine. If I need white wine to cook with, what is a good, inexpensive one?|||I ama former chef and we used some specific ones like Kressmanns or Colli Albini, there are purists that say the best is the one you drink, but I would have a hard time using a bottle $80.00 Chateau Palmer for a bordelaise sauce, and even a $ 40.00 Pouilly Fuisse for a reduction in hollandaise is bit much.





Some of the cooking wine in th grocery store will have a salt content inthem, aminly like chinese cooking wine to prevent the winos and teenagers getting a cheap high, any decent wine is fine, if you using a full bottle for a boeuf bourgenoine, a slightly better one, a $4-6 will give the same flavour in a sauce as a $10-15 bottle, save the better one for drinking and use a decent one for cooking, it will make the food go down better.|||cooking wine contains salt that's all. I use wine i drink all the time in recipes that calls for it. and I once heard that most chefs only use wines they like to drink. I think it turns out better anyway.|||You should only cook with a wine you would drink. Think about it. Why would you eat something you wouldnt drink?|||Always, always use a wine that you like to drink to cook with. Because the flavor of the wine will come through and if you don't like it then you won't like the food that it is in. No matter what wine the recipe calls for. I like Duplin Bald Head Red. I use it in any recipe that calls for wine.|||Cooking wines are just as good as drinking wines to me, just go for one you already like.|||Yes, and it can even be sparkling as the gas is cooked out in a very short time. Whatever you have to hand.


A cheap lambrusco is good for red (not too acidic) and a chardonnay for white. By the time wines have been properly cooked (reds need to be especially cooked out) then you've changed the original flavour of the wine anyway. Alcohol is burnt off and so there's no point in picking a fine wine for cooking. Cooking wines however are just horrible.|||Most of the resturaunts I have worked in use wine from the bar for sauces. We use the same at home.|||I would say yes,, cooking wine, is not the best to drink,,,


but any wine you normally drink,, is fine to cook with...


now we have no idea what is on sale at YOUR store..


but wine in the box is just fine for thousands of people..|||i usually cook w the wine that i'd drink. it's usually more flavorful.|||Most chef's or good cooks will tell you to cook with wine you would drink, because when the flavor reduces, you don't want nasty wine taste.