Comments on: What’s the Best Wine for Cooking? | America’s Test Kitchen (S24 E1)

By: @nafspark

@nafspark — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:10:53 +0000

Unless I'm doing something like cooking down a full bottle, I only ever use cooking wines. I just adjust the salt level in the rest of the dish to compensate, and I've been perfectly happy with the results.

By: @oldcowbb

@oldcowbb — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:10:53 +0000

real mirin is not a wine, no added sugar either, its rice with it's starch broken down into sugar by koji, its like rice wine just before the sugar got turned into alcohol by the yeast

By: @dayveo

@dayveo — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:10:53 +0000

I hope Barefoot Contessa is watching

By: @mak4374

@mak4374 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:10:53 +0000

Moscato!

By: @emilybh6255

@emilybh6255 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:10:53 +0000

My "Mirin" replacement and actually preferred over Mirin is Taylors dry sherry and I use dry vermouth as a white wine replacement but use less of it and sometimes add purified water also. I keep both in a cabinet and they seem to last forever.

By: @andreapoppini3993

@andreapoppini3993 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:10:53 +0000

A famous chef says: I always use alcohol for cooking. Sometimes I even add it to the food.

By: @CorwynGC

@CorwynGC — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:10:53 +0000

I couldn't believe how much adding Xao Xing wine did for my chinese cooking.

By: @joeseeking3572

@joeseeking3572 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:10:53 +0000

Because I don't drink wine and thus the bottle would go bad, I've always used vermouth and sherry/port/marsala depending on the desired flavor note. Works for me.

By: @jmnindfw

@jmnindfw — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:10:53 +0000

My go-to wines are from Barefoot – Sauvignon Blanc and Merlot. Inexpensive and does a great job

By: @JohnDoe-xr5is

@JohnDoe-xr5is — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:10:53 +0000

Any wine…where I can insert a sipping straw in the bottle…is good for me.