Good uses for bad wine
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Good uses for bad wine
So, somebody gave me a bottle of wine a little while ago. Arbor Mist cherry red moscato. Now, I've never really been a fan of wine, but this manages to stand out even from the usual level of blech. Try to imagine a bottle of children's cough syrup that somebody decided to try to ferment.
Normally when I end up with wine somehow, I'll use it in cooking. The problem is how to use about a litre of something as. . .uniquely flavourful as this. Adding it to a pot roast or stir-fry probably won't result in something that anybody would want on their plate. I was thinking about perhaps some sort of cake, similar to a Black Forest cherry cake (only without the chocolate, because I'm also not all that fond of chocolate). Any other ideas?
Normally when I end up with wine somehow, I'll use it in cooking. The problem is how to use about a litre of something as. . .uniquely flavourful as this. Adding it to a pot roast or stir-fry probably won't result in something that anybody would want on their plate. I was thinking about perhaps some sort of cake, similar to a Black Forest cherry cake (only without the chocolate, because I'm also not all that fond of chocolate). Any other ideas?
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That flavour suggests it's turned, so the only thing to do is give it a Plucky duck special...yucky go down the hole...
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It's a shame the Sourdough bread trick doesn't work with wine.
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Let it age a few more months and you might get a very flavourful vinegar.
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Re: Good uses for bad wine
You could maybe baste a ham with it, if you like a sweet glaze on ham.
I am a big fan of wine, but have no use for sweet wines. Except maybe a good dessert wine or porto once in a while, in small amounts. And then only if someone else is pouring.
I am a big fan of wine, but have no use for sweet wines. Except maybe a good dessert wine or porto once in a while, in small amounts. And then only if someone else is pouring.
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The disturbing thing is that I think it hasn't. This is what it is supposed to taste like.DinkyInky wrote:That flavour suggests it's turned. . .
That might actually work. . .maybe with a little pineapple juice. Or a lot of pineapple juice.Typeminer wrote:You could maybe baste a ham with it, if you like a sweet glaze on ham.
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You could distill out the alcohol,
make an alcohol-fueled flamethrower,
put the remainder back into the bottle,
and kill it with fire!
make an alcohol-fueled flamethrower,
put the remainder back into the bottle,
and kill it with fire!
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Cooking wines are supposed to be ok, but I agree with the sentiment of if you wouldn't drink it why would you want it in your food?
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Wulp, I was going to post what Dave did, at least the first line...Dave wrote:You could distill out the alcohol,
make an alcohol-fueled flamethrower,
put the remainder back into the bottle,
and kill it with fire!
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We need a love it button(cause damn if failbook gets any credits)...TazManiac wrote:Wulp, I was going to post what Dave did, at least the first line...Dave wrote:You could distill out the alcohol,
make an alcohol-fueled flamethrower,
put the remainder back into the bottle,
and kill it with fire!
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Actually, that's pretty close to what I did. Some of the kids I'm looking after are interested in science, so I showed them how distillation works and then made some alcohol-powered rocket cars.Dave wrote:You could distill out the alcohol,
make an alcohol-fueled flamethrower,
put the remainder back into the bottle,
and kill it with fire!
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Always good to show kids real-life applications for science.Catawampus wrote:Some of the kids I'm looking after are interested in science, so I showed them how distillation works and then made some alcohol-powered rocket cars.
Sometime in the late '60s, some of my friends ordered plans for a pulse-jet go-kart engine from Popular Mechanics, or one of those mags. It burned acetylene and I forget what else, and was supposed to drive a kart over 90 mph at an absolutely deafening decibel level. Sadly, the machining required was way beyond anything they could manage.
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When I was a young'un, I had some notions about trying to build a hang-glider. At one point, I also briefly considered the idea of dismantling some RPG-7 rockets and attaching the motors to the theoretical hang-glider.Typeminer wrote:Sometime in the late '60s, some of my friends ordered plans for a pulse-jet go-kart engine from Popular Mechanics, or one of those mags. It burned acetylene and I forget what else, and was supposed to drive a kart over 90 mph at an absolutely deafening decibel level. Sadly, the machining required was way beyond anything they could manage.
I never actually got around to trying to build it, though, which is probably the reason why I'm still able to think back on such things.
I did manage to build a compressed-air powered go-kart in later years for a science and engineering competition, and it actually sorta kind of worked. Slowly and inefficiently, but it worked.
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Actually, most cooking/chefy types will specifically tell you not to cook with it if you wouldn't drink it...so this sentiment is right on target. *nodsnods*shadowinthelight wrote:Cooking wines are supposed to be ok, but I agree with the sentiment of if you wouldn't drink it why would you want it in your food?
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About the only suggestion I can come up with is probably not realistic for most- but an old party trick (pre-AIDS) in preparation for a 'Crisco party' was a wine enema- for those who enjoy anal- gets you clean and drunk at the same time.
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o_OSgt. Howard wrote:About the only suggestion I can come up with is probably not realistic for most- but an old party trick (pre-AIDS) in preparation for a 'Crisco party' was a wine enema- for those who enjoy anal- gets you clean and drunk at the same time.
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I agree Glytch.GlytchMeister wrote:o_OSgt. Howard wrote:NSFVF
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