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There are many schools of thought when it comes to cooking with wine. Most of us on occasions find ourselves with one or two open bottles of wine in the refrigerator unless of course we belonged to a wine club. After being opened and re-closed, the wine is at its drinkable best within a couple of days, but what about using the wine for cooking? Most top chefs will claim that the brands of wine used in cooking should be of top quality similar to the food products that you are using to prepare the dish.

The background of the dish that is being cooked also seems to be an important factor according to many experts on the subject. For example if you are preparing a good Italian style pasta dish then you should only use Italian wines for cooking and drinking with the meal.

When preparing red meat dishes with wine, a red wine is usually suitable to use for a sauce, lighter meats like chicken, turkey and also fish are enhanced by using white wines in the preparation of a sauce. Foods can be presented in so many different ways and it’s also not only a situation of which wine is used in the preparation, but also how the wine is being used in the recipe.

If it is not necessary to heat the wine in the preparation of the dish, such as in steeped fruits like strawberries, it would be worth choosing an affordable wine. If however the recipe needs the wine to be heated, for a reduced sauce, although a full bodied wine is often recommended, when heated, the wine undergoes many transformations, making the initial flavors of the wine difficult to preserve.

Nevertheless until more research proves otherwise, most of us will continue to see cooking as an excellent way of using up wine leftovers! Of course we must be careful of red wine stains whether it is from cooking with wine or from drinking it. The process of removing wine stains can indeed be very difficult not just from carpets and clothes but also wine stained lips.