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August 25, 2026
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Approved child of Cocktails and Service for whiskey used as a food ingredient.
Definition
Cooking with whiskey covers culinary applications in which whiskey's aroma, flavor, solvent behavior, preservation role, or flammability interacts with food and recipe process.
Scope
Use this tag when
- Whiskey is an ingredient in a sauce, glaze, marinade, preserve, batter, dessert, braise, or another food preparation.
- A source compares bottle selection for food with selection for neat drinking or cocktails.
- Heat, reduction, dilution, fat, sugar, acidity, or timing changes how whiskey presents in food.
Do not use this tag when
- The item concerns beverage cocktails or neat service without a culinary comparison.
- Whiskey appears only as a brand mention or garnish.
- The source is about production rather than food use.
Boundary examples
- Included: choosing bourbon for a glaze; a late whiskey addition to a sauce; rye in a pickle brine.
- Excluded: an Old Fashioned recipe; neat tasting notes; mash-bill formulation.
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Usage notes
Created in Batch 032 because the library contained a distinct culinary source with no existing food-use retrieval term. Sensory and Flavor remains an associative tag, not a parent.