Use of alcohol in cooking

[TaffyW]

For those incorrectly stating the alcohol would cook off..... According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), baked or simmered dishes that contain alcohol will retain 40% of the original amount after 15 minutes of cooking, 35% after 30 minutes and 25% after an hour. But there’s no point at which all of the alcohol disappears. Baking or simmering an alcohol-containing dish for 2.5 hours will still leave 5% of the alcohol content behind.

This is also backed up by UK scientific studies.

That’s a bit of an extreme reaction to dogs!

I couldn't give a shit whether the alcohol completely cooks out or only partially cooks out. The amount of alcohol in one portion of a meal would still be so minimal as to be of zero concern even for a child, and therefore (unless I'm cooking for someone with an allergy or a religious alcohol objection, in which case I wouldn't be putting booze in the dish in the first place) I don't care. A kid isn't going to be harmed by the minimal alcohol content in a fucking casserole or something, whether it 'cooks off' or not. Get a grip.

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Only 2 posts from the OP - this one, and an identical post resurrecting a thread from 2018!

Trying to get a posting history started @TaffyW? Or some other bizarre agenda?!

Nope. I was researching something and I saw a post from Mumsnet come up on the listings. So I replied with the correct information. We all know the possible impacts of alcohol during pregnancy.

Of course. It’s well known that the main risk event for fetal alcohol syndrome is a glass of red wine in a spag bol for 6 people.

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Poor labradors 😭😭

Please link to the study that showed that consuming 1 - 2 glasses of wine at Christmas or a wedding posed a risk to the developing foetus. In fact, link to all of them, because they're always researching this and telling incubators pregnant women what to do.
I'll wait.............

bet you’re fun at parties

Obviously there's no point discussing this.

i have presented the facts. Yours to do with as you please

There's also alcohol in bread

Ah because all posters on MN are pregnant or breastfeeding women. Not that any of us have teenaged children, adult children, no children or are even….men!

The tiny amount of alcohol in food is not going to affect a pregnancy, but pregnant women who are concerned can always avoid food cooked with alcohol. I don't see the problem.

You’ve presented a fact, which doesn’t have any relevance to alcohol risks in pregnancy. There is no point discussing it because the fact you’ve presented has zero relevance.

You didn’t reply though. You started a new thread which plopped this information into the middle of nowhere. If you wanted to tell off the pregnant women then you should have replied to that thread rather than start a new one.

You didn't reply though, you started a whole new thread to lecture people apropos of nothing.

If someone can't have alcohol no one normal would put it in their food, regardless of if they think it would cook out or not.

As I don't routinely stick half a bottle of vodka in the dinner, and have no religious or medical objections to a glug of wine in the bolognese, I'm really not worried about it, I think that's a pretty normal attitude. Probably get more alcohol from my mouthwash.

Such a friendly forum

It's also widely known that smoking is harmful in pregnancy (everyone knows that, same as boozing in pregnancy), but accidentally inhaling second hand smoke as someone wafts past you with a ciggy on the go isn't going to have any impact at all. One glass of wine in a spag bol for 6 is such a teeny amount I wouldn't even think about worrying about it.

Allergies and religious reasons aside, this is a daft thread op.

Why are people so terrified of alcohol? I mean, we have muslim family members and I would not use red wine in spaghetti bolognaise for them, but it doesn't even occur to me to worry about this for children or pregnant women! It's just such a non issue.

But then, there was a thread a few weeks ago where there was a lot of melting down about people having more than one cup of tea a day while pregnant so....

Orange juice has an alcohol content of 0.5%, you would commonly drink 300mls of that.

One might add 50 mls of a 12.5% wine to a meal for 4.

Even using your figures for alcohol breakdown, which I completely disagree with, the orange juice contains more alcohol.

I hope you are going to start an urgent campaign banning all women from drinking orange juice just in case they are pregnant.

Right, imagine you walk into a coffee shop or a social club of people you don't know and, with no introduction or context, proclaim your original post to everyone.

What would you expect them to say?

I think lecturing random people uninvited is a smidgen more rude than asking said lecturer wtf they're on about...

What is up with people on here! @TaffyW thank you for sharing this. I didnt know and I cook with alcohol regularly always thinking it completely cooked off. Agreed its a small amount but it is useful to know. I have several people in my life who don't drink, I dont know if its because of religious reasons, addiction, personal preference but I maybe would have added a glug of wine thinking it will completely cook off. I'm glad I know this.

For lots of people a glass of alcohol is a bit of fun and that's wonderful, genuinely, it can be a lovely thing but other people maybe have reasons for being a bit sensitive around it. Is there any need to be so unnecessary mean for someone flagging a common misconception.

Yes that's true. You can't use alcohol in cooking for people who can't have alcohol as it doesn't all burn off, and it only burns off when used correctly so adding a glug of wine to food will result in barely any burn off.

Anything that uses yeast will have traces of alcohol, are we going to ban yeast and all yeast products?

By the time you dissolve a glass of wine in a pint of water in a casserole, the mixture is already pretty low in alcohol, boil it for an hour and there will be very little left. More things to worry about in life, the worst thing may be the sulphites used to stop the fermentation causing an allergic reaction. My DH does get asthma attacks related to sulphites in processed foods (sausages, haggis, etc) and in some wine, never had a reaction to a spag bog though.