Is Shaoxing wine just cooking wine?

Yes.

Shaoxing wine, also known as Shaoxing yellow wine and Shaoxing old wine, also belongs to the category of cooking wine. Shaoxing wine has an attractive and rich aroma, which is not a particularly heavy aroma, but a compound aroma that is composed of a variety of components such as esters, alcohols, aldehydes, acids, carbonyl compounds and phenols.

Cooking with a little Shaoxing wine, fish, shrimp, crabs in the phase of fishy amines dissolved in alcohol, volatilized with the alcohol when heated, to achieve the purpose of deodorization. In addition, cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, etc. with different degrees of fishy, cooking with a little Shaoxing wine, the same can also remove fishy.

Expanded Information:

Shopping for Cooking Wine:

1, try to shop for Yellow wine and cooking yellow wine series. In terms of product function, yellow wine and cooking yellow wine are products without added edible alcohol, the effect of deodorization and aroma enhancement is better than that of flavored wine containing alcohol.

2. When shopping, check the label carefully, especially the alcohol content. The higher the alcohol content, the better the quality. Generally, the alcohol content of the original yellow wine is more than 14.5 degrees.

3, try to buy branded alcohol, yellow wine, cooking wine products are traditional food, its quality and price is relatively stable and moderate. Aged yellow wine has a strong wine flavor, and yellow wine in Jiangnan is brewed with rice, which can be smelled through the packaging. The alcohol blended yellow wine does not have the characteristic lipid aroma of aged yellow wine, only the flavor of alcohol.

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