Which is a better cooking ingredient: colas or beers?

It has coca-cola and COFFE GROUNDS (but my dad is Mormon so he uses Pero).

Beer is also good in soup, stews, marinades and chili

gotta go with beer. fuck that corn syrup stuff.

things I have used beer in:

- red beans and rice
- BBQ sauce
- fry batter

Coca-cola cake is very good, but that's all I know that uses it. So beer wins, which is usually the case with me.

What is Q sauce?

Beer of course. I can't imagine wanting to cook anything with cola.

Barbecue sauce is Q sauce, not TNG continuum of omnipotent beings sauce, sorry. (TNG here equals "Star Trek: The Next Generation" to avoid further confusion).

Thanks

I have never had anything cooked with beer that was even kind of remarkable, but the people get so fully stoked fratted-out on it like "WHOA! THE BEER! THIS FISH HAS BEER!" The alcohol has dissipated, you sillies!

coke-braised pork carnitas

Also: beer bread

Beer = more versatile

Yes but versatility does not equal the yum. I mean, flour is like the most versatile thing, but I do not eat something and say, "Oh my god this has flour in it? Awesome!"

I have not tried this beer bread, but I do know it has OMG flour! I am sure it is pretty good, tho, Jaq.

I have never made bread so, like people who have never done algebra, the process scares me.

I used PBR to braise a nice little pot roast last week and it was delish.

oh yeah beer bread! I've made that - delish.

Dr Pepper for the BBQ sauce, serious

I think the "WHOAH BEER" factor has something to do with the possibility that the person preparing the food might have had 17 or 18 beers while cooking, so the end result is more prone to be interesting.

Maybe that's just my family though.

the thing is beer can add a fairly wide range of flavors. cola just adds... corn syrup.

Roasting ham in cola is good. Beer probably is more versatile but half the time you wouldn't know it was in there.

Beer has the excellent bready yeastiness. Not so for cola. Adding fizzy liquid to any batter makes it lighter and crispier when you fry it, but alcohol makes it even more so. So beer wins for that too. Cola makes okay glaze for ham, but not so good in chili/stews. Stout makes a great ice cream float, but so does cola, so there they are even. I still say beer wins. Also, the cook is made happier when there is beer (or wine) to sample, but is only made edgier when there is only cola.

My sherry amour.

Jaq knows what's up

I get in trouble when cooking drunk, not so much hurting the food as hurting myself (with heat & knives & bonking my head when I open a cupboard door). But it is 8 billion times smarter than cutting someone's hair while drunk.

at least you don't have to eat the hair

Cutting someone's hair while drunk is fine. Letting a drunk cut your hair, not so much.

hahaha

It lead to something weird.