The biggest difference between yellow wine and cooking wine is that yellow wine is a kind of beverage wine, which can be drunk directly. It is a brewed wine made from glutinous rice that has been soaked, steamed and fermented, and has a very long history in China. On the other hand, cooking wine is made from yellow wine by adding pepper, dashi, cinnamon, cloves and other spices and seasonings.
Both yellow wine and cooking wine have the effect of deodorizing and enhancing the aroma, such as in the cooking of some fish, shrimp, crab and other fishy ingredients, add an appropriate amount of yellow wine or cooking wine, when heated with the fishy amines will be volatilized with the alcohol, so as to achieve the purpose of deodorization. The amino acids in yellow wine and cooking wine can also be combined with salt to produce sodium salt of amino acids during cooking, which makes the flavor of fish and meat more delicious. The richly flavored esters contained in yellow wine and cooking wine also soak into the dishes during cooking, adding flavor.
While yellow wine and cooking wine both have the effect of removing fishy and increasing freshness, but because yellow wine has no added flavorings, it is not as effective as cooking wine for stir-frying and seasoning. And the price of yellow wine is much higher than wine, used to cook a little waste, so it is not recommended to replace the use of wine. The wine is more suitable for use in the stir-fry dishes, the dishes made with the wine will taste better. The price of cooking wine is cheaper than that of yellow wine, so it is more suitable for cooking.
In a word, yellow wine is a drinking wine, more suitable for drinking; and cooking wine is specially used for seasoning, deodorization and aroma effect is good, more suitable for frying vegetables. The two kinds of wine have their own strengths, with the right place in order to play its maximum effect. For example, if you use yellow wine to stir-fry vegetables, the price is expensive, and then the effect is not good, which is not appropriate? So it is not recommended to use yellow wine instead of cooking wine.
There are also people who cook with white wine instead of cooking wine, in fact, this practice is also not right. Because white wine ethanol content is too high will destroy the original flavor of the dishes, the taste is naturally bad. Beer instead of wine is also inappropriate, because if you add beer to the dish, the alcohol in the dissolution of the fishy flavor before it has been volatilized, and can not play the effect of fishy and unctuous.