Ok, so I'm craving pasta today and want to make it for dinner. I want to cook Frutti di Mare (seafood pasta) and the recipe I found online says I need white wine. What kind do I use? And is it in the wine section of the store?
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Food Pasta and cooking with wine
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I believe the cardinal rule for cooking with wine is not to use a wine that you wouldn't drink normally. A dry white wine is appropriate for seafood dishes. I believe a sauvignon blanc, pinot blanc, or a chardonnay would work well. I just googled it too and saw that some people use a dry white vermouth instead, because it keeps longer and therefore you don't have to buy a bottle of wine every time you need some for cooking. Hope that helps! 
Cooking wine has salt added to it and is the lowest quality wine from the pressing. If you can't drink it, don't cook with it. For a few dollars more you can buy something you can actually drink with the meal.
If only need a small amount, most stores carry the small sampler-sized bottles.
I would try a dry Italian White with that, most stores have someone knowledgeable enough to reccomend something good in your price range.
Please, please do not buy the "cooking wine" yuck! It is, as hyacinth said, terrible quality, and, as Neeya and a few others have pointed out, don't cook with anything you wouldn't drink.
You would be suprised at the difference in the same meal cooked with "cooking wine" and an decent table wine.
You would be suprised at the difference in the same meal cooked with "cooking wine" and an decent table wine.
