Yeah, I have a recipe that uses this.

Basically if I remember right, you put a cup of ketchup and a half cup (maybe) of coke in a skillet. Stir. Place in chicken breasts. Simmer for 45 minutes.

It comes out like a sweet BBQ sauce.

There are quite a few marinades that are quite good with coke as their main ingredient. I'm sure a few simple searches would yield some results similar to what I use. I was quite surprised at how good it could actually be.

I use that same recipe, except I like to use Dr. Pepper instead. Great way to make some quick BBQ.

@GreatMoose: Try it with Moxie (if available in your area). Moxie tastes like liquid ashtray, but cooking with it gives an interesting bittersweet taste to the BBQ sauce.

i made a dr pepper glazed ham once. fantastico!

'Passover coke' is also supposed to be the same as the coke made in Mexico. Look for the yellow caps on the 2 liter bottles.

pour the coke into a sauce pan and reduce on a low heat till it's thickens, and becomes syrupy enough to thinly coat the back of a spoon. Let it cool then drizzle on tuna tartar, with a little sesame chili oil.

Please don't try this with diet coke.

My mother used to cook some coke-infused pork ribs that were absolutely out of this world. Glad to see other people know the "secret". :-)

Not at all surprised to see this is in my hometown paper. Southern cooks have been using Coke in recipes for years.

Funny just last nite someone was telling me that they had went out for fondue that was made with beer.

That sounds fairly unhealthy.

we were just talking at work about a guy who drank a 2 liter of coke every day and got diabetes and went blind.

I have a recipe for a Coca-Cola cake. It's pretty good, because it has some chocolate in it, but it's not overpoweringly chocolaty.

coke bbq sauce is pretty good actually. I make a lot of bbq sauces and that's a good one for beer can chicken. Yep, beer can chicken, coke bbq sauce...hmmm

You can get coke with real sugar from most any hispanic grocery... two or three near me have it in the glass bottles. I thought about cooking with it, but it just plain tastes better - forget that high fructose corn syrup crap.

What's with the camo Coke truck?

Coca-Cola cake is very popular in the South, and you can be assured of finding at least one on any pot-luck dessert table.

As far as the sauce that "sounds fairly unhealthy," it's not really any more unhealthy than any other barbecue-type sauce. You have to have some form of sugar for a proper sauce--have you ever seen how much sugar is in ketchup?

Lileks shows a lot of images from a Cooking With 7-Up cookbook on his site. He also has some from a similar booklet on Dr. Pepper. My personal favorite is "Moms know!" that mixing 7-Up and milk is a wholesome and delicious thing to feed to children. Which...we do?! Wholesome???!!!

@Buran
What's with the camo Coke truck?

You see, the truck is on a NASCAR track as well as being camouflaged. It is common knowledge we Southerners all like hunting and NASCAR.

NASCAR = Non-Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks

@acambras: @

Oh, like baseball you mean?

@dohtem:

Fondue is generally made with alcohol, that's not quite the same as cooking with pop.

I remember seeing an episode of America's Test Kitchen on PBS where they determined that one of the best ways to brine pork was in a solution containing one or two bottles of cola, as I recall. Pretty strange to me, but I am a weirdo vegetarian, anyway.

@ChiefDanGeorge:

I don't know -- are there a lot of rednecks in Cuba and the Dominican Republic?

Hm, am I the only one who likes their coke flat? I find that it's easier to drink that way, and it's sweeter and smoother as well.

Not that I'm saying that I prefer flat coke, but sometimes it's better if 3/4 of the bottle isn't CO2 bubbling up from the depths.

excellent simmering sauce for brisket or meatballs:

1 can of Coke(tm)
1 bottle of Heinz(tm) Chili Sauce
3 lbs cooked brisket SLICED ACROSS THE GRAIN - or cooked meatballs

put everything into a crockpot on lowest setting for 3-6 hours until brisket starts to crumble when prodded by a fork (or for meat balls, when sauce has begun to carmelize)

Serve over rice (I prefer either parboiled long-grain brown rice which is easy to prepare in a microwave, or if you have a rice cooker, long grain brown Basmati rice).

Ugh. Why not throw a bottle of corn syrup in instead and be done with it :P

I can vouch that this recipe for coke-braised carnitas is fantastic: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/23584...

Whether or not it is carnitas is another issue.

"we suppose you'll have to wait for Passover Coke. (Hint: It's made with real sugar"

Or live anywhere close to the Mexican border or near a relatively large hispanic/Mexican community.