I am 19, can I buy Cooking Sherri White Wine?

Answer 1

Don't waste your time buying cooking sherry. It is awful. It's loaded with salt and preservatives. Have someone who's 21 buy you a bottle of real sherry. Your meals will be tastier and healthier.

Answer 2

First, do not I repeat do NOT use any type of vinegar in place of the wine. That would be the equivalent to using a bottle of wine you opened last year and had sitting by the stove the whole time. Bad mojo into your cooking I tell you.

Second, I assume you are buying this to cook with? Seriously, if you get your hands on cooking wine and try to drink it for the buzz you will vomit. Nasty stuff. It is so salty it is going to make your dish bitter. If I had a say in the wine world, cooking wine would cease to exist.

Soooo, what I suggest is find someone, a neighbor, a friend, a family member, who is 21 or older and likes wine. Have them purchase the wine (with your cash of course) and give you the amount you need to cook with and they can have some wine to enjoy for their trouble!

Answer 3

Yes you can because it would be completely impossible to drink enough cooking wine to get anything even close to a buzz on.
Cooking wine is a mediocre wine -Sherry in your case- that has enough salt added to to render it undrinkable.It was invented during the Prohibition Era as a way for chef's to still cook with wine and not run afoul of the law.
I don't recommend that anybody ever use it but if you choose to ignore my good advice then don't add salt to your food and don't reduce the liquid volumes.

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure you can, but you shouldn't.

Cooking wines tend to have TONS of salt and the rule about cooking with wine is: if you wouldn't drink a glass of it, you shouldn't cook with it.

That doesn't mean you have to sell the farm though. I cook with the crap $5 Sutter Home Chardonnay all the time and it tastes fine. I'm sure some vino is falling over right now of a heart attack, but you don't taste all the little flavor notes once you cook with it.

If you parents believe you, I'd have them buy you a bottle (they have tiny little individual serving bottles too, if they don't want the whole bottle just hanging around).

I really shouldn't be suggesting this, but if you don't live with your parents anymore... find someone who's 21 and have them help you out. ALL IN THE NAME OF COOKING!!!

That's what I did when I was under 21, anyways.

Good luck!

Answer 5

I was never carded for buying cooking wines. Cooking wine has salt added (1tsp/cup) so the taste by itself is nasty enough that only the very desperate will use it for a buzz.

My dad used to grow his own vanilla. You soak the fermented pods in the liquor of your choice (my dad would use Hana brand rum).

Answer 6

There are non-alcoholic cooking sherries, but even the alcoholic kinds aren't that great (they're either too salty or too vinegary for my taste).

You can get the same "kick" with a LOT more flavor by using a white, non-alcholic "champagne". It'll be less expensive, too!

For reds, try using cherry syrup! Yummy, but you may have to "cut" it with water or lemon juice to thin it out.

Answer 7

No but you can buy champagne vinegar or red wine vinegar and it will serve pretty much the same purpose. Cooking Sherry is still alcohol so it must be purchased by someone of the appropriate age in your community.
Good Luck!

Answer 8

I'm 18 & i've bought it before. I was grocery shopping and had other stuff too, so it's just mixed in with your other stuff. You prolly look old enough anyway, i'm always getting mistaken for being like 23. I wouldn't worry about it unless they say anything.

Answer 9

Not if you live in the USA... I do believe every state the drinking and "buying" of alcohol is 21.. and even if your "cooking" with it, it's still got alcohol in it... find someone 21~

Answer 10

Come to England love

you can buy all the wine, beer, rum, etc you want as long as you have the dosh