How do you cook with wine? I watch a lot of cooking shows and

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2016-01-23 18:38:57 Post No. 7300278
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Anonymous 2016-01-23 18:38:57 Post No. 7300278 [Report]

How do you cook with wine?

I watch a lot of cooking shows and all of them deglaze their pans with wine before making a sauce or just add wine to pasta sauces or might mix it with broth and cook meat in it... I don't get it.

I cook a chicken breast, deglaze with red wine, and my whole kitchen begins to smell like shit. I evaporate the alcohol, then it's just a caramelized mess. I use dry wines, too, it shouldn't be too sweet for this to happen.

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Anonymous 2016-01-23 18:47:14 Post No.7300310
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Anonymous 2016-01-23 18:47:14 Post No.7300310 [Report]

>>7300278
Your pan is too hot when you're adding the wine and/or you're not using enough - you're not supposed to boil all of the liquid away.

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Anonymous 2016-01-23 19:06:46 Post No.7300368
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Anonymous 2016-01-23 19:06:46 Post No.7300368 [Report]

I'll start deglazing with stock to cool the pan off then add wine. Otherwise you can really ruin the flavor or reduce too quickly.

The keys are understanding how little it takes to achieve the profile you want and that wine takes time be "cooked out" and for flavonoids in things like tomatoes to bee pulled out since some of them are strictly alcohol soluble.