to be annoyed at being given a really boozey meal

[BodyBagEgg]

chicken cooked in wine, then brandy pudd what could strip paint!

yuk!

Hey does alcohol all burn off during cooking? If I cook a casserole with loads of red wine can I feed it to the kiddies?

YABU btw.

CS, yes i think so. Dd had chicken cassarole when she was 3.5. My grandparents had cooked but i was a little worried. My grandad called someone who really does know about stuff like this who confirmed it was perfectly fine.

Alcohol has a lower boilng point than water. So if you cook something enough that water steam is coming off, the alcohol will already have evaporated. It doesn't burn off (unless you're setting fire to the Christmas pudding) it just sort of floats away.

Yeah sorry i used a bad choice of words with "burn off" I guess "evaporates" is better

S'okay, I'm just being precise so it looks like I am an expert when actually I think the stuff about boiling points is in GCSE Chemistry

YABVU

I have to say I would hate someone like you to come to mine for a meal if you bitch about it like this on a public forum.

You are being ungrateful and very bitchy.

Your host deserves a medal as others have said.

If you dont like it, dont eat it and as for the worrying about being over the drink/drive level, if at all you are unsure then dont bloody drive!

the alcohol in the chicken would have 'cooked out' and there's no way that the booze in a pudding can make you over the limit. Get real.

Sounds like somebody made an effort for you and you threw it back in their face. Maybe you're more of a turkey twizzler and Vienetta sort of a girl.

Booze in a pudding could put you over the limit, but if it's just poured onto the cake as you said you wuld be able to taste it and could just have a small spoonful (or none) if you were worried. It's nto as if a big glug of brandy is too subtle to notice.

Wow a proper MN kicking

I haven't seen any previous trheads [over-my-head emoticon]

I do think it was a bit thoughtless of her to drench the pudding in uncooked booze if she knew you were driving. Is she the sort of person who would pull a deeply-wounded act if you didn't eat every scrap?

I do think your OP is a bit objectionable but can't see how it warrants such an explosive response - I must be missing something!

My Mum pours Cointreau on Vienetta -she calls it gravy .

I do not understand why you ate it if you did not like it?

Mmm, sounds good Simplysally!

(I wouldn't call it gravy though)

simplysally

Jeez, if someone cooks ME something for a change I am pathetically grateful - regardless of how crap it might actually be. I smile and eat it up and I certainly don't complain to other people about it. This is because I have manners.

It is a bit rude to cook really heavily boozy pudding if people are driving.

Not rude, thoughtless maybe, but not rude. Rude is bitching about it afterwards.

Did she physically force you to eat it?

Could you have just declined politely?

You're right Orm, thoughtless rather than rude.

You should have declined the pudding after a mouthful if you were driving.

I still say that one portion of a pudding can't put you over the limit.

most of the wine would have cooked off in the chicken, and i don;t think one piece of brandy soaked pud would put you over the limit

sounds a very rich and heavy meal though

i would have either eaten a little bit of pud

declined due to driving

or got a taxi home

suggest next time they come to yours or you get a take out