AIBU to use wine?

[ElleDubloo]

We’re on a self catering holiday and I’ve forgotten to bring cooking oil. Is it ok to fry sausages in red wine? And is it ok to feed to young kids?

Yes, and yes. The alcohol will be ‘cooked off’.

Why would you waste wine like that?

You don’t need oil, the sausages will have enough fat.

They won't fry in wine. Just cook them as they are. I never add extra oil for sausages. Also I would bake them in the oven, rather than cook on the stove. Easier to make sure they are cooked through without being burned.

Nooooooooo! What a waste of wine! Don't you have any butter? Or just prick them and cook reeeeaaaally slowly, the fat should leak out of the sausages. Or grill them.

Just chuck them in the pan. Sausages don't need oil. They are self oiling.

Put them under the grill or in the oven. I'm sure ww used to say a little bit of water

Are you mad??? Have you by any butter? whatreasonablepersonwastesgoodwinelikethat

But drink the wine!

Thanks for the reply. Indeed they do self oil. I didn’t know that!

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Could you grill them instead?

Drink the wine and the sausages will fry in their own fat.

It’s actually a cheap bottle of wine opened 2 days ago, so I’m not being too wasteful

But the wine won’t help them to fry. There’s no fat in it. You might as well put them in water. But as others have said, they have enough fat in them to fry as they are.

I do mine in the oven. No oil.