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You can almost always substitute 3/4 cup white vermouth (e.g. Martini) for 1 cup white wine. Generally tastes just as good, and you don't have to drink the rem
by hacking_again 9y ago
You can almost always substitute 3/4 cup white vermouth (e.g. Martini) for 1 cup white wine. Generally tastes just as good, and you don't have to drink the remainder of the bottle.
- noonespecial 9y ago>and you don't have to drink the remainder of the bottle. You say that like its a bad thing. Cooking with the wine is a great way for it to end up on the table surrounded by random glasses where "I don't want to trouble you", becomes "well, since its open anyway".
- hacking_again 9y agoOh, I'm not really a drinker, so I miss these things. Do you mean for getting girls drunk with plausible deniability?
- QuercusMax 9y agoPretty sure nothing that creepy was intended. More like wine is often thought of a "special occasion" type of drink (especially in the US), and so opening a bottle is a non-standard occurrence at dinner time. If you're a guest, it may seem rude to ask somebody to open their "special" wine. But if you are cooking with the wine, you already have the bottle open. Since an opened bottle of wine will rapidly deteriorate if you don't drink it within a fairly short time period (day or so), you may as well drink the remainder, thus put the open bottle on the table (where family/guests are gathered), and it will be consumed with relish.
- hacking_again 9y agoAh, thanks for the explanation. For whatever reason, the idea of finding ways to encourage dinner guests to accept food or drink is foreign to me.