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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: phatassphairy on October 11, 2012, 10:33:53 am
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i am not a wine drinker :-)) ??? :-))i have no idea about wines at all and i often seem to end up with wine in my house ... i only use it in cooking ... and it seems such a waste to toss it out ???? so i go on a frantic wine based recipe dinners and then freeze those .... but i am thinking i could just freeze the wine ? what do you think?
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I have no idea. Perhaps try it and see.
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Ummm when I was in grade 8 in high school ...... you know how you freeze drink bottles to take to school in summer, well I froze some wine in mine and snuck it into school lol But not sure about your question reallly but I can tell you we did drink it LOL
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I froze it once - some of it went icy but some stayed liquid which would be the alcohol content as that is not supposed to freeze. That's why I now buy small casks of dry white wine for cooking - don't have to worry about how long it will last.
Just found this on the net
Usually, you can. If the alcohol level is less than 13%, it should freeze solid without trouble. I currently have some in the freezer which is 13.5% and it is not quite completely frozen.
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The simple answer is NO!
For some wine based recipes you could possibly use Vermouth as a white wine substitute. Vermouth keeps in the cupboard forever. For Red you could substitute Port which also keeps forever.
VinoCotto or verjuice might work.
Personally I would just up the stock or water to equal the amount.
I only use wine I would serve to my friends in cooking. In my opinion there is no such thing as "cooking" wine. Then again most of my friends would drunk anything including a $ 3.50 bottle of plonk. Buy that .
A decent 2 litre cask of red will keep a few months and would be useful.. A small cask of white wine would keep,for a few weeks as well
If you live near a big bottle,shop you might be able to get those small pouches of wine. I think about 200 mils.
Most recipes can work without the wine anyway.
Gert
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I agree with Gert. Don't freeze wine, use verjuice or vermouth.
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I agree with Gert don't freeze wine and don't cook with wine that you wouldn't drink.
Your dish is only as good as the ingredients that go into itn ;)
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DH says that he will take it off you LOL
Seriously though, he has a chemistry background and suggests sealing the wine in a container so that it's not in contact with air and it will keep in the fridge for a couple of weeks. He says that you can freeze the leftover wine if you are not going to use it within a couple of weeks.
The alcohol content will mean that it won't freeze solid, but provided the wine was good in the first place, it should be fine to cook with.
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gert DS buys cooking wine from his dry goods supplier its has a pinch of salt and pepper in it, so the supplier does not need a liquor licence to sell it
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agree if you wont drink it, don't use it for cooking
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thanks for the reply guys ..... now Emerald Sue, just because when it comes to wine ..lets say if i was in a freak accident i could not tell the differents between Sh*t and clay if it side swiped me .... so this is what i used --penefolds, Thomas Hyland, cabernet sauignon, sth australia, 2004? is that too his tastes? ....kekeke
Debbie--- we must of went to the same school ... cause i think this is where my distaste to wine started ;)
well i might just pop a cup in the freezer and see what happens ......or looks like i am up for a weekend of wine cooking ;D
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Where did you get that bottle? I would think that wine, although was good vintage, would've on it's way out by now. If it was in pristine condition I would not have used it in cooking. I would have drunk it. Sometimes a wine can be too expensive and too good for cooking .
Yikes I would have liked to,have tasted that wine.
Gert
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DH agrees with Gert - he would have drunk it too
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i was at a fundraising event at the casino about 6months ago and i won 3 bottles of wine and a $150 dinner voucher ;D.
the other two are white wine .... which i still have ...
wolf blass --red label-- chardonnay
hardys voyage gordo riesling, traminer 2005 vintage.
not sure what i will do with these yet :-))
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I'd just open them when you have visitors - share the love around. I'll have a glass of the riesling and the traminer please but not keen on chardonnay.
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i was at a fundraising event at the casino about 6months ago and i won 3 bottles of wine and a $150 dinner voucher ;D.
the other two are white wine .... which i still have ...
wolf blass --red label-- chardonnay
hardys voyage gordo riesling, traminer 2005 vintage.
not sure what i will do with these yet :-))
Chuck them out!
Gert
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;D That's why they raffled them!!
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Too right MJ!
Gert
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thanks for the suggestions :P
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My FIL makes his own red wine (he's Croatian). Now I have never been able to drink it, but something good happens when you add it to red meat based dishes.
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Yep i agree with you Creampuff ... you dont have to drink it to enjoy it in cooking ..esp with beef and lamb dishes .... yummo
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PAP only his mates can drink his stuff. He thinks its very good, but I only take a flagon cos I use it in dishes. Believe it or not, I've even used it in Mediterranean dishes when they've asked for white wine and its worked well.
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hmmmm never though about swapping wines in dishes.
how long can you keep wines that come in a cask or the ole goonie bags for after you have taken a glass out of it ?
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Found this on the net phat
Q. How long does a boxed wine stay fresh?
A. Depending on your storage conditions, an opened wine cask will keep the wine fresh for six to eight weeks. Some wine drinkers have said a wine box will last longer given their experience, especially in a refrigerator.
Wineries mark each wine cask with either a “boxed on” date or a suggested “use before” freshness date for your reference. Scholle and wineries recommend that you enjoy a wine cask within a year from the date it was packed on if you note a “boxed on” date, and always before a “use before” date.