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This recipe calls for white dry wine, I only have white cooking wine. What's the difference?

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Shrimp-Scampi-II/Detail.aspx That's the shrimp scampi I want to make. What is the difference?

Public Comments

1. Cooking wine normally has salt in it. Best bet is to use a dry white wine you would actually enjoy drinking.
2. Cooking wine contains a lot of sodium, and is a poorer quality wine (and more expensive). You can use it in your recipe, but don't add salt until you taste it after adding the wine.
3. It will work fine. Typically you should only cook with wine that you would drink, but in a pinch and if you only need a small amount the cooking wine will be okay.
4. dry white is not sweet, use any wine youi like , chardonay from benziger
5. Salt and in very large amounts. The product called "Cooking Wine " was invented during Prohibition as a way to allow cooks to still use wine but not allow them to consume it in sufficient quantities to get high from It is truly a vile product . If you chose to use it do not add any salt anywhere else in your dish and be aware of the fact that reducing the volume of liquid will increase the amount of salt in the dish . Another solution would be a vinegar that has been further diluted w/ 8 parts of water in order to closely match the pH of wine
6. There is a guideline all chefs use and that is if you can't drink it don't use it to cook with and that includes all wines, not just cooking wine (you don't drink cooking wine). You would be better off using a little chicken broth.
7. well there is a major differance. Any wime that is labled for cooking generally is loaded with sodium. The rule I stand by for cooking with wine is "If you wouldn't drink it don't cook with it." I have been cooking for 20+ years and this rule has never let me down.