Cooking wine recommendations please.

[FuzzySlippers]

What should I look for in a dry white cooking wine? Something good but not too expensive. Thanks for any advice.

[The empressof all]

1. If you live near Trader Joe's

Look for Charles Shaw Chardonnay. It's very inexpensive and fairly good to drink --I prefer the reds.

You generally want to find wines to cook with that you also like to drink. You are adding the flavor to your food- You want to like it

Never ever buy anything labeled as Cooking Wine in the grocery store. They are all just yucky and full of salt.

[Wickster]

2. Try a Sauterne

Sauterne was my grandparents' cooking wine of choice. For many years I couldn't find it - but it is back and really inexpensive. (I can get it in my local grocery for less than $3.00 a bottle). Taylor New York Sauterne is what I use (with great success). :9

[Stinky The Clown]

3. The classic rule of cooking wine is to use the same wine ....

.... you would drink with a particular dish. Also, keep in mind that there is "cooking wine" which is extraordinarily cheap stuff to which salt is added to render it otherwise undrinkable. Avoid it.

The wine to use is wine you "cook with" ... which is to say a drinkable wine. Think of it as a food (which it and beer truly are) and not simply an ingredient. You would not use a bad cut of meat and expect a good result. Same with wine.

[HereSince1628]

7. Economically that is often the cheapest variety you still like.

You do have to match the wine with the dish.

[Trailrider1951]

4. Here's what I use in seafood dishes:

Gallo Twin Valley Sauvinion Blanc. Light, fruity, but not at all sweet. It's an excellent cooking wine, and pretty cheap too.

[matcom]

5. "cooking wine" should be OUTLAWED!

cook with the wine you would drink. better YET! - cook with wine you wouldn't mind serving to GUESTS!

NEVER deviate from this rule. you will regret it BELIEVE ME!

[NMDemDist2]

6. back when I drank and cooked with booze I would open the bottle of

"whatever" (wine, sherry, rum, brandy or beer) pour a glass, drink it, pour another glass and cook with the rest :D

always cook with wine you would drink, same with sherry