Yes, but the flavors will be different. And you should use real wine or real sherry, not the salt heavy 'cooking' versions found in many grocery stores. The alcohol releases and dissolves some flavors that water based recipes will not, adding to the flavors.
Essentially any alcohol should be allowed to evaporate through heating to leave the flavor of the wine used. Whether a recipe calls for cooking sherry, wine, or not, I often deglaze any meats cooked in a frying pan with red or white wine. The French say that you should use the best wine you can afford for this process but I use whatever I have to hand.
brown rice vinegar OR Chinese black vinegar (cheaper) OR red wine vinegar + sugar or honey OR sherry vinegar OR fruit vinegar
You could substitute rice vinegar for cooking sherry. Rice vinegar has a mild, sweet flavor.
you can and cant
No. Sherry wine is a drinkable sherry, that can be used in cooking, while sherry vinegar is used only for cooking.
It will change the taste.
yes you can _______ Red cooking wine would be a better substitute as sherry has a red wine base. White cooking wine wouldn't have the same depth.
Two different items you will change the outcome of the dish. I would stick to the recipe.
No, vinegar contains no wine and tastes very different than sherry.
You can use equal parts dry sherry/pale sherry wine; not the cooking wine... the drinking wine. :)
I would not recomment it. Sherry is a fortified red wine. You can use vinegar or lemon juice in most recipes calling for white wine.
Yes, any good quality white wine can be used instead of sherry.
Wine, when left exposed to air and light will eventually turn to vinegar. The ethanol (alchohol) oxidizes and becomes acetic acid. Sherry vinegar is vinegar made from Sherry wine. This oxidation process explains why red wines are best right after the bottle is opened, and decline in quality over a relatively short period of time thereafter. White wines are refrigerated, which retards the oxidation process after opening.