Yes
It is best to use a regular burgandy (not a cooking wine) in cooking. Cooking wines often contain salt and can change the flavor of the dish. I'd choose a moderately priced wine intended for drinking.
French Burgundy is pinot noir if it's red, chardonnay if it's white. The subsection of Burgundy called Beaujolais is made from the gamay grape. You will also, rarely, find the white grape called alicante bouchet.
Cooking wine is usually of inferior quality.
you can and cant
If the "cooking wine" is form a food supplier and states for cooking only then salt has been added to the wine so that it is not fit for drinking. If you have a recipe that calls for cooking wine then use what you have on hand. You can add salt to taste.
You can use any wine you wish in the recipe. The wine substitute would yield a different flavor. The flavor may be more sour or sweet, depending on the tendencies of the wine.
Cooking wine is simply wine that also contains salt to discourage its use as a beverage. It was developed by temperance advocates.
Yes, any good quality white wine can be used instead of sherry.
You can use equal parts dry sherry/pale sherry wine; not the cooking wine... the drinking wine. :)
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.
No.