Yay or Nay? We never liked using wine or beer in anything because you don't want your family getting drunk from eating dinner every night. And it always seemed a bit pretentious to me. You're eating at home, not at the Louvre.

>>21405873 (OP)
>you don't want your family getting drunk from eating dinner every night
How many gallons of wine sauce do you expect them to drink exactly

>>21405884
something tells me his family drinks gallons of something but it ain't wine

>>21405873 (OP)
yeah I cook with alcohol all the time. you're not going to get drunk off it, you don't use that much and a lot of the alcohol gets burned off during cooking anyway.

>>21405873 (OP)
There's no reason to not cook with alcohol unless you hate flavour.

>>21405873 (OP)
You're supposed to let wine reduce, during which most of the alcohol evaporates.

>>21405889
>gallons

hey buddy this is home not the louvre

>>21405923
I was trying to give you a compliment but evidently you a one pump chump.

>>21405873 (OP)
I've used dry white wine in many seafood dishes. It's key to getting a specific flavor from the dish.

>>21405873 (OP)
It's just a way to deglaze that adds some extra sugars and tannins and whatnot, gives sauces a little more depth of flavor. I don't use it to cook, anymore, because I'm three years sober and I'll absolutely chug all of my cooking Sherry, I've used that cope before, that I'll just cook with it and I'll just buy the grossest booze to cook with and then I'd chug it, so yeah, at home now I only deglaze with stock. I use it at work, all of the time, but I can at least control myself in a work environment, not at home. Anyways, you don't get drunk because you cook out the alcohol. There may still be a teeny tiny bit left, but we're talking fractions of a single percent, not nearly enough to affect even a child.

>>21405873 (OP)
Let me guess, your family is struggling financially and you cope by claiming that wine is pretentious rather than a freely available ingredient?

>>21405873 (OP)
do it all the time

>>21405873 (OP)
Generally unnecessary unless you enjoy the flavors of alcohol as the purpose they typically serve is to bring acidity to the dish which can be accomplished with a spritz of citrus juice or any good vinegar.

I put cognac in all of my sauces. No idea what it does but probably something.

>>21406049
>cognac
so you're a poopy brown color

>>21405873 (OP)
I've never cooked with beer but wine is very useful. I've tried cooking with whiskey before too but it doesn't seem to work as well as it sounds. It just turns bitter

>>21405873 (OP)
>You don't want your family getting drunk from eating dinner every night
Absolute cooklet, Liquor is only to give flavor, you're supposed to cook it untill it evaporates all the alcohol, retard

>>21406051
Be nice. The babes love gnac

>>21405926
It's almost double that, actually, wise guy.

>>21405873 (OP)
I don't like drinking wine but it's great for cooking.

>>21405873 (OP)
I don't like cooking wine but it's great for drinking.

Call me schizo, but I feel like all these ultra retarded threads that have been popping up lately are made by one guy. Probably got severely btfo one too many times.

>>21406093
>only to give flavor, you're supposed to cook it untill it evaporates all the alcohol, retard
You boil off the flavour, retard. Add some cognac, madeira etc. before serving and see how much more flavourfull the sauce will be.

>add wine to food: alcohol evaporates
>boil mulled wine: alcohol stays
really makes you think

This book I read mentioned steak au povoir and it sounded good. One day.

>>21406742
that's why you don't boil mulled wine

>>21406742
>boil mulled wine
nobody does this, retard

brb, getting shitfaced on bourbon caramel, whatever that is.

>>21406742
>alcohol evaporates
that is because the crux of it is, the alcohol doesnt actually burn off. thats right, adding alcohol to food does increase your blood alcohol levels. nobody ever cooks with enough for it to matter though

>>21406036
I'm just dying to Michiu

Chinese shaoxing cooking wine I use all the time. Not this brand, but I highly recommend it. The cooking quality one tastes vile if you drink it pure though, far too salty.

>>21405884
My family loves my wine sauce (2pt red wine, 1pt fruit juice) and has 3-4 pints of it a night.

I made a peppercorn sauce with whisky in it yesterday. It transforms peppercorns beefstock and cream into a more complex and flavourful sauce somehow.

>>21405873 (OP)
Vodka sauce is delicious but I've never made it at home

>>21406697
What other threads are you talking about

>>21405873 (OP)
There are fat-soluble, water-soluble, and alcohol soluble compounds, so is it truly pretentious to cook with wine? Not at all, and any foodie will want to experience their food to their fullest at most sittings, doing the best they can to cook well, and enjoy their bounty.

So, that said, all assertions about alcohol in your food making you drunk is garbage, abut rather is simply to avoid triggering uncle so-and-so who has a drinking problem or is a recovering alcoholic. Whether you eschew alcohol in your family, it will be based on religious beliefs or to avoid introducing minors to the alcoholism gene others struggled to overcome elsewhere in the gene pool. Religious people who abstain are to be pitied since it barely scriptural, except to cults. Some people have on-call status with work, and if you answer a phone call drunk, you can't then consciencely or ethically prescribe meds on the line, now can you, let alone leave your house now in an emergency. There are reasons not to drink every day other than medical reasons.

I like to deglaze most fond with alcohols, from fortified wines like sherry to bourbon to whisky.

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