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?

[Blu]

I would have wanted to actually drink it, had I bought it as a treat, so I am on your side, OP.

It was bought to drink, not to use in cooking, that is the point.

[Tailtwister]

Don't they always say you should never use a wine you wouldn't drink? Saying that, I certainly wouldn't be pouring very nice wine into a stew. Fairly ok wine yes, but not very nice. Would be a waste.

[MrsJaqenHgar]

I'm also of the opinion that if you wouldn't drink it then you shouldn't cook with it. Cheap wine is like vinegar and you wouldn't put vinegar in your stew.

[Trazzletoes]

5foot5 you cook with wine for the taste, not for the alcohol content. So it makes sense then that you use wine that tastes nice, which is generally not the cheap stuff.

[PatPig]

PrincessRomy: brown ox cheeks, chopped onion in a casserole dish, add entire bottle of red wine (it is vair important), beef stock cube, place in oven at 150C until it's nice and soft and unctuous. Sweeten to taste with redcurrant jelly or honey before serving.

[PrincessRomy]

Mmm, sounds nice and easy and something I could use my beloved Le Creuset pot for. Winner!

[PatPig]

I usually put an entire garlic in it too. We eat lots of garlic.

No vampires here.

[Owllady]

well i don't think you are being unreasonable at all
I would have chopped his bollocks off to be quite frank

[CMP69]

I buy a box of decent white and red wine and keep them for cooking
The "good" wine is for drinking

[ZingWantsCake]

I always use up corked wine or whatever DH deems not nice enough to drink in my stew or bolognese sauce. (I don't drink)
no-one has ever complained.

[filee777]

I cook with nice wine

I don't know what make naice is, I've never used it. How good are we talking?

[DaleyBump]

No, YANBU! You have to drink the nice wine while using the shit wine for cooking

[MadameLeBean]

Lol Owllady I felt like that I was spitting with rage at the time

[ShakeAndVac]

You are. For having left over wine in the first place.

[CSIJanner]

YABU - however as it was your treat for yourself, he should have checked and left enough for a small glass.

Will he go out and buy you another one?

[Jacksterbear]

I once (about 10 years ago) accidently put a £40 bottle of wine (presented to DH as a work leaving gift) into a beef casserole, and have never lived it down!

In my defence it was the nicest beef casserole I've ever tasted!

[thebody]

I cool with wine but never add to the recipie.

[NigellaPleaseComeDineWithMe]

Use wine good enough to drink that you like - Aldi has a few new bottles added sub £5 but taste more like £10ers. Port is good too, get it cheaper around Xmas time, makes fab gravy and of couse Nigellas fave, the Marsala.

[PlasticCups]

Would you use cheap meat? You need decent wine to cook with, just buy two bottles next time and hide one.

Men cooking is a turn on better than wine can give you

[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.

[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.

[MisselthwaiteManor]

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

[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!

[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