To cook a dish with alcohol free wine for children?

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I want to make chicken casserole and one of the ingredients is white wine.
Would you put alcohol free wine in for children?
Older children are 8 and 10 but also youngest one is a toddler.
Or any other alternative suggestions if you probably wouldn’t put it in.
We’re talking 100ml.

I've always just used normal wine, same for ragu

Does the alcohol get burnt off, I just use normal wine in cooking.

I’d either put it in (the alcohol will cook off) or leave it out entirely. Nothing was ever enhanced by alcohol free wine.

I read that it takes 3 hours to burn off the alcohol and this will only want an hour in the oven.

I just use normal wine, the alcohol evaporates.

You can use apple or grape juice instead, but I'd just chuck in the wine.

Just use normal wine. The alcohol content will cook off, the casserole once cooked will not contain any alcohol.

You can buy white wine stock pots!

I didn’t know this. Thanks

I don’t cook with wine often but I wouldn’t have really given it a second thought even if cooking for kids, glad to see I’m not the only one 🙈

It’s 100ml of cooked wine in dish with more than 3 portions what do you think could possibly happen? I wouldn’t even think to ask question.

Ah ok I hope so I don’t want a drunk toddler. I did a quick google and it said it would only cook off after about 3 hours so I thought of alcohol free but maybe won’t taste the same.

Normal wine is fine. If there is 100ml of wine in 1litre of casserole you’ve diluted the alcohol from 12% to 1.2%. Then you’ve boiled off most of it so there is no impact left.

Well nor would I usually but I’m feeding a 14 month so wanted to be absolutely sure it would be ok.

100ml of wine cooked even just for an hour, presumably with other liquid, split between what, 4/6 people? You aren't going to get anyone drunk on that, not even a toddler.

The alcohol cooks off, and you are just left with the flavour. No need for alcohol free.

We’ve always just used wine where a recipe called for it, even when cooking for small kids.

Just use normal wine.

Oh dear, mine have had coq au vin and beef bourguignon at that age and didn’t think anything of it! They weren’t drunk, nor sadly even slightly sleepy after!

If you deglaze with wine so it bubbles and reduces, the alcohol will evaporate really quickly after a few minutes - boiling point of alcohol is lower than the water the wine also contains. If you were to add it cold to a casserole which you put in the oven it would take much longer. So depends on cooking style.

You can just leave out the wine if you’re worried. No need for alcohol free wine.

I've always just used regular wine in caseroles, bolognaise and risotto for family meals. If you are worried just leave it out. Ironically now the kids are older I use it less because I've virtually given up drinking so never have an open bottle in the house. I think the flavour does suffer but I'm not going to open a bottle of wine just to stick half a glass in a meal so we put up with it.

Just use the wine. If you pop it in near the beginning to deglaze the pan then all the alcohol will burn off. Even if you add it later with the other sauce components the alcohol content will be pretty non-existent.

Alchohol will cook off. My kids don’t like the taste so I’ve been doing wine free bolognaise and risotto for years.

I use normal wine but I put it in at the beginning to deglaze so the alcohol cooks off. I wouldn't pour wine in after the initial frying (sauteeing?) stage and serve it to kids.