To think that you do NOT use naice wine as cooking wine?!

[MadameLeBean]

DP polished off the 1/3 of a bottle left of wine that I had treated myself to the night before by POURING it into the STEW

He says if it's not good enough to drink, it's not good enough to cook with.

I say that one does not casually use naice wine in cooking especially if it is the last bit in the house and that if you eat food that has been made with wine it does not make a difference if it is £3 plonk or naice.

Who is BU?

[PasswordProtected]

On the contrary, you should only cook with wine that you would drink yourself.

[BadgersRetreat]

And yes - if recipe calls for just a small glass of wine i use port for red and vermouth for white. They last ages in the booze cupboard and you don't have to open a whole bottle if you just need a bit.

Nigella taught me that.

[BadgersRetreat]

I like cooking with wine. Sometimes some even ends up in the dinner.



i'm on the fence - don't use shit wine for cooking because it does make a diff, but don't use up ALL the wine so there's none left to drink!!

[Oblomov]

PatPig: "I've cooked with a full bottle.

And it does make a difference"


Me too
I've cooked. With a full bottle. Of wine. Already inside me.
Improved my culinary skills, no end !!

[Lazyjaney]

Some cooking wine is more expensive than perfectly good table wine (South of France wine still underpriced vs quality IMO)

[daftdame]

Of course you must 'cook' with the good stuff. Its makes cooking more palatable...hic!

[Jux]

I completely agree with your dp, but sadly can't afford to live up to my standards

[MadameLeBean]

Exactly

[HorryIsUpduffed]

"Naice" doesn't mean "nice" though, it means "slightly expensive and slightly special in a vaguely pretentious way". See "naice ham" as opposed to plastic supermarket ham.

So £7 wine rather than £50 wine (no offence to OP who I am sure will know what I'm getting at).

[Tee2072]

Ages ago, Pigs. At least as long as I've been on Mumsnet which is coming up on 5 years.

[Pigsmummy]

Has the word "nice" been replaced with "naice" and I missed the memo or is it a trend??

[MadameLeBean]

Ah well maybe I am not as classy as some on here but I will drink £5 wine from lidl some of it is quite ok actually. Thing is on a weeknight i would feel extravagant getting £7+ wine. So would not put it in stew!

[AKissIsNotAContract]

I don't think I've ever found wine for much less than £7

[MadameLeBean]

Yeah DP is French so I should have known I suppose!

Also this is the second time he has done it!

He did get me another in the end.

I was just surprised as well because my mum only ever used cheap wine for cooking.

[thebody]

Horry, never thought if using port, interesting and will try that.

[Meluzyna]

YABU: believe me, my husband is French and he would never cook or let me cook with wine which was not equally good from a glass. It's all about flavour and if you put nasty wine in your stew, you'll get nasty stew.
However, I do have some sympathy with you if it was a "special" bottle you'd got as a treat..... the stew would have been edible without the addition of wine.... there are other things he could have used for flavour...... Worcester sauce, for example.
In our household we have his bottles and her bottles and neither would touch the other's booze without checking it was OK..... although we mostly share them as a matter of course.

[OldRoan]

IcedTea DP and I have a lovely bottle of (v expensive - Christmas present) red wine one New Year, but we couldn't finish it and there wasn't enough left for us to have a glass each, so I froze it.

When he was working away, I had the most indulgent red wine and mushroom risotto ever using it up. Possibly one of the best things I've ever done with wine.

[Grumpywino]

Yanbu, he would have been wearing the stew for that! I'm no cook, or foodie for that matter, but do love to drink wine and really look forward to a decent glass. Putting it in food is to me a total waste, food is fuel and so quickly devoured while wine should be savoured.

[HorryIsUpduffed]

YABU in general, because it's a great use of leftover naice wine.

However, I find that port is far better than wine for enhancing eg bolognese or casserole, because it adds flavour and richness without adding lots of wet volume.

[IcedTeaOneSugar]

It freezes like a wine slushy, rather than solidly, so it instantly defrosts when dropped into hot stock.

[XiCi]

Your DH was right to use good wine for cooking but I don't blame you for being annoyed if you were looking forward to having a glass.

Btw the wine you mentioned is only a bargain £4.99 at bargain booze

[bsc]

ive found it never freezes properly- perhaps the alcohol content is too high nowadays?
YABU- why would you waste a good wine? Putting it in food isn't wasting it!

[MisselthwaiteManor]

I made a chicken chasseur with fizzy wine once. Nobody noticed, or at least were too polite to say.

[AdoraBell]

YABU I always use wine that I want to drink as once it's cooked and the alcohol has burned off all that's left of the wine is the taste. 'Cooking' wine makes food taste like rough wine. Drinkable wine = drinkable wine taste. It doesn't have to be expensive, just nice tasting.

Your DH was also BU though, because he didn't ask if you were finished with the wine, which is outrageous behavior IMO.

[IcedTeaOneSugar]

I freeze wine, in single glass portions specifically for spag bol etc. we don't really drink alcohol in the week so it saves having an open bottle hanging around.

I know some of you will be horrified but Nigella does it so it must be OK.