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December 10, 2008
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What’s the difference between rice wine and rice vinegar?

I’m planning to cook tausi spareribs (dimsum) and I’ve searched the internet for the ingredients. It includes rice wine but we only have rice vinegar in our house. Can I subtitute it? Thank you. :)

If you take cooked rice, mash it up to a pulp and add water, you now have water that constains starch and sugars (simple carbohydrates). If you add brewers or bread yeast, the yeast will convert the sugar and some of the starch into carbon dioxide and alcohol. If you add lactobacillus acidopholus bacteria, they will convert the sugar and some of the starch to carbon dioxide, alcohol (less than yeast) and lactic acid.

So, can you substitute rice vinegar for rice wine? Not if you want a similar result. Alcohol and acid are two different things. That the sugar/starch came from rice doesn’t really matter as much as what the yeast or bacteria did with it. So most white wines or even mild beers (grain wines + hops) would be a more suitable substitution than any kind of vinegar.

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