Wine Chemistry
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Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food List Price: $34.99 Sale Price: $23.09 Average Rating:   |
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Are you the innovative type, the cook who marches to a different drummer -- used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Are you interested in the science behind what happens to food while it's cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own unique dish? More than just a cookbook, Cooking for Geeks applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen... |
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Understanding Food: Principles and Preparation List Price: $179.95 Sale Price: $143.96 Average Rating:  |
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UNDERSTANDING FOOD: PRINCIPLES AND PREPARATION is your introductory guide to learning about foods, food preparation, food service, and food science. Integrating these key topics with relevant information about nutrition and the food industry, the fourth edition gives you a thorough overview of the different dimensions of food principles--and insight into the variety of career options available in the food industry... |
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Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work List Price: $25.00 Sale Price: $16.50 |
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Alex Talbot and Aki Kamozawa, husband-and-wife chefs and the forces behind the popular blog Ideas in Food, have made a living out of being inquisitive in the kitchen. Their book shares the knowledge they have gleaned from numerous cooking adventures, from why tapioca flour makes a silkier chocolate pudding than the traditional cornstarch or flour to how to cold smoke just about any ingredient you can think of to impart a new savory dimension to everyday dishes... |
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Wine Enthusiast Vino Vac Wine Saver Extra Stoppers (Set of 2) $8.95 Set of 2 extra stoppers for the Wine Enthusiast Vino Vac Wine Saver. |
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Wine Enthusiast Wine Tasting Party Kit $29.99 Make wine your next party theme! Consider this your personal party planner! Step-by-step instructions and essentials make hosting a wine tasting easy. Includes 100 wine tasting sheets 6 cloth blind wine tasting bottle bags with embroidered letters A through F 6 wine tasting masts Wine Enthusiast Magazine vintage chart corkscrew and a 15% Off Coupon for Wine Enthusiast glassware. Sip save enjoy! |
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skybar Wine System Stand $249 Showcase your skybar Wine System and enhance your in home wine experience with the skybar Wine Stand. The metropolitan designed Wine Stand stores and displays your favorite wines and stemmed wine glasses. The Wine Stand is the perfect complement to the skybar Wine System completing your in-home wine entertainment center. Accommodates up to 20 750ml wine bottles and 12 full sized stemmed wine glasses. Designed to work exclusively with the skybar Wine System. Size: 30'H x 23'W x 15'D |
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The Wine Whisk Wine Aerator & Bottle Stopper $14.99 Make an inexpensive wine taste like a high-priced bottle! Hailed by independent wine experts as the simplest most effective wine aeration tool to date the patented Wine Whisk instantly aerates wine in its glassdramatically improving and softening the wines bouquet and taste. The Wine Whisk is easy to use. Simply pour your wine into a glass. Then froth the wine briskly in the glass using the stainless steel Wine Whisk. Wait a few seconds for the bubbles to fade then enjoy. No need to wait 30 minutes for it to breathe in a decanter. Specially designed as a combination whisk and bottle stopper the Wine Whisk is balanced to make whisking almost effortless and dual seals on the stopper lock tight to preserve your wine for next time. Use the Wine Whisk to stir mixed drinks or to seal olive oil and vinegar bottles. It is a perfect bar and kitchen utensil. Keep it handy for whatever needs whisking! Size: 7-1/2'L x 1-1/2'W |
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Wine Enthusiast U Wine Decanter $19.95 The elegance of the Wine Enthusiast lead-free crystal 'U' Decanter enhances your wine experience with an inner dome to increase the oxygenation of fine wines. The finger-hold punt ensures controlled pouring every time. Gift Boxed. Recommend to hand wash. Size: 10-3/4'H 46 oz. |
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Wine Saver PRO Preserve & Serve Wine System $895 Attract more wine loversglass by glass! Increase your bar or restaurant sales by offering a wider selection of premium wines 'on tap'. This professional preserve-and-serve system keeps 5 opened wine bottles fresh for weeks and primed for pouring. Spigots serve as bottle stoppers. With each pour argon gas is dispensed into each bottle to blanket the wine's surface from oxygen and prevent it oxidizing and spoiling over time. Wine Saver PRO's commercial grade quality is ideal for restaurants hotels bars and wineries or for any wine lover that enjoys serving wine. Wine Saver HOME also makes the ultimate addition to any home wine cellar. Accommodates most standard-size wine bottles. Non-electric and compact. Black with stainless steel trim. The argon gas cartridges are hidden in a compartment underneath your wine bottles. Available here and sold seperately argon cartridges will power 12 to 15 wine bottles each. |
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Wine Enthusiast Essential Wine Buying Guide 2009 $29.95 Choose the right wine every time! From the editors of Wine Enthusiast Magazine comes the most current comprehensive and informative wine buying guide on the market. Based on tastings by a distinguished in-house panel this wine buying guide features qualitative ratings reviews and prices for more than 50 000 wines. Plus tips on when each wine is best enjoyed. Also includes expert advice on tasting and storing vintage wine charts and Top 10 lists. 990 pages. Softcover. |
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Wine Aerator Table Stand $14.99 With the Wine Aerator Table Stand you've got a simple hands-free platform for pouring wine through the Decantus or Vinturi wine aerators. A protective plastic tubing at the top prevents scratching of the aerators. Wine Aerators are sold separately. Size: 13'H x 6-1/4'W |
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Wine Enthusiast Wine & Food Pairings Cookbook $29.95 Pair your wine with top chef recipes! A memorable meal starts with the wine! Find over 80 delectable recipes organized by wine style. This first cookbook by the editors of Wine Enthusiast Magazine guides you in selecting the right recipe for your wine. Includes recipes from top chefs such as Bobby Flay and Rick Bayless along with expert wine pairing tips. Whether you're serving a light aromatic white or a big powerful red you'll choose the right dish here! 256 pages with full color photography. Hardcover. Take A Look Inside At Sample Recipes. |
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Wine Cork Board Kit $24.95 Pop those wine corks...and create a wine cork bulletin board. Our wine cork kits are one of our most popular products since half the fun is in the making! The bulletin board made in mahogany wood is perfect for the kitchen home office or wine cellar. We supply the hardwood frame and instructions. You supply the wine corks. Gift boxed. Size: 16'L x 16'W Also available in a larger size. Approximately 128 wine corks are required to complete bulletin board kit. Note: Wine corks vary in size. |
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Carbs in Wine
If you remember your elementary chemistry before, a simple mathematical formula has been devised which helps determine the levels of alcohol content of any given alcoholic beverage. Please restudy this formula below:
1.6 x % alcohol x oz. of liquid
Let’s say you have an alcoholic drink that is about 5 oz. and which has 12% alcohol. We use the above formula to know how much carbs it contains. Therefore:
1.6 x 12 x 5 = 96
This clearly shows that the 5 oz. of alcoholic beverage you’re drinking which has a 12% alcohol will yield 96 calories.
It is important to take note that the calories you get here did not come from the sugar content of the alcoholic drink but from the alcohol itself, meaning, from the fermented sugars. The keyword here is the word “fermented” because once it’s fermented, it has already undergone a chemical process and therefore is no longer the simple sugar that it was. Furthermore, aside from the calories, there are also traces of other nutrients like protein. As for saturated fats and fat, it actually has none and the company would usually just put 0.0 grams of saturated fats and 0 grams of fat. This is another proof that there are no carbs in wine. Wine is just primarily water and alcohol.
At this day and age, people are always concerned about having the right diet. Because of this consciousness, they come to think that red wines offer less carbs since they tend to taste more bitter and less sweet. Again, this is not true. There are no carbs in wine. Even red wine. Plus, the red color or dark color that is characteristic of red wines is due to the skin of the grapes that was present during the process of fermentation. This helps bring a thicker and richer quality to the wine. On the other hand, the bitterness comes from the tannins used and not from the lack of sugar in the ingredients, because honestly, fermentation won’t happen in the first place without the sugar content. For white wines, this just means that the grape skins were taken out while the process of fermentation was taking place. Less tannin was also used in order for the sweetness to come out rather than the tannic taste.
It’s all very simple actually. Wine production happens when sugar feeds on the yeast in the process called fermentation where carbon dioxide and alcohol are created. You can see this in any wine making instruction book or recipe that you may have. It’s a basic principle in all the wine making processes, whether it be red or white wine that you are trying to make. So enjoy and have feast with your wine. Don’t mind about the calories much. There are no carbs in wine. It’s a pretty healthy and safe drink when taken in moderation.
About the Author
Simon Thomas is a homemade winemaker, enthusiast and author. He lives in California and spends his time teaching others how to setup an amazing boutique winery. His latest book, “Homemade Wine: Great Secrets on How to Turn Your Winemaking Hobby Into a Profitable Business” is available at http://www.homemadewinesecrets.com