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Originally Posted by Sly
I always thought people just use cheap wine to cook... that's what we do. What are you using?
Just like people use cheap beer to cook.
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Drinkable yes, cheap some what. Does not always have to be brand new bottle. You can store a bottle in the fridge for a few days re-corked for cooking.
Boy Alley your issue is your confusing the 10.00 rule and the typical guidelines. Often pantry items never count, and on top of that your shopping needs to adjust so what you buy may be over 10.00 yet when streached out over a few meals the total cost comes way down.
Example a bag of frozen boneless, skinless chicken breasts wrapped in pairs and sold in groups of 5 bagies (10 breast halves) costs like 15.00 However that is 5 dinners worth of chicken - thus a dinner cost item of 3.00 or 1.50 a person. A bottle of 20.00 wine when used for cooking, and average usage is 1/4 cup (750 ml, thus 25.4 fl oz) equals 1.58 or so per recipe. Hell I can still add in truffle oil to my pantry items *allow for its cost though and still keep a dinner cost per person below 5.00 or 10.00 for two.
Though again nobody expects the flour, sugar, salt, pepper, oil *common ones, corn meal, etc to really count as full purchases towards your total meal costs.