Cooking wine is a very familiar condiment, which can remove fishiness and add flavor. Sometimes there is no cooking wine at home. Many friends will replace cooking wine with rice wine, white wine or even beer. Can rice wine and white wine replace cooking wine? Let's take a look.
What can cooking wine replace
Rice wine cannot replace cooking wine
In daily life, people often use rice wine to cook vegetables and seasoning, and get better cooking effect, but if we use white wine instead of rice wine seasoning, it will not play a seasoning role. The biggest difference between cooking wine and rice wine is that rice wine is a kind of beverage wine, and cooking wine is a new variety developed on the basis of rice wine, which can be used only when cooking, and the price is cheaper than rice wine.
Beer can't replace cooking wine
The alcohol concentration of beer is about 35 DEG, and a large part of it is nitrogen dioxide. This nitrogen dioxide gas, its volatility is very large, especially after heating.
If beer is added to the dishes during cooking, the alcohol will evaporate before the smell of the fishy smell is dissolved. Of course, the effect of deodorization and greasiness will not be achieved. In this way, compared with cooking wine, different kinds of wine have different flavors. Therefore, special objects have to be used exclusively.
Liquor cannot replace cooking liquor
The content of alcohol in liquor is higher, generally between 50% and 60%. The content of sugar, amino acid and organic acid molecules are much lower than that in rice wine, so the lipids produced are less. Higher ethanol content has strong permeability and volatility.
To a certain extent, it will destroy the protein and lipid in the meat, seasoning with white wine, and destroy the original taste of the dishes. Of course, the taste is not good, and the ethanol is not easy to volatilize. In this way, the taste of the cooked dishes is not good, and the unique flavor of the dishes will be affected. Therefore, liquor is not suitable for seasoning.
So it's best to use cooking wine when cooking, generally do not use other substitutes.