Can you eat food made with alcohol?

[Nikki2ol6]

My mum made some beef stew but it's made from red wine! Does anyone know if this is ok ?

Yes it's fine

That should be ok, the alcohol will have mostly evaporated.

Best swerve the vodka jelly dessert though

Yes it's fine the alcohol evaporates during the cooking. But a very small amount of alcohol is fine anyway!

It depends. Do you prefer to avoid alcohol entirely? Some alcohol evaporates during cooking but it depends upon how something is cooked and for how long. It's almost certainly safe to eat but if your preferences tend towards zero alcohol, you might prefer not to eat it. Otherwise, tuck in. It's perfect stew weather.

I don't mind a tiny amount at all but I wouldn't have a glass of red wine that's for sure as aslong as it's not that amount

Alcohol boils at a lower temperature than water, so majority of the alcohol is evaporated during cooking and just leaves the flavour behind it will be fine!

The alcohol doesn't all evaporate while cooking. Quite a bit gets left . The paper and new scientist article the figures are in are paywalled but here's a summary
www.businessinsider.com/can-food-cooked-with-alcohol-make-you-drunk?r=UK&IR=T&IR=T

It will be absolutely fine! You can have a small amount of alcohol when pregnant!

I'm not drinking alcohol, but have had beef in a red wine stew as like PPs have said, it's such a tiny amount if anything at all

It doesn't all evaporate!

Why are you so worried about small quantities of alcohol?

Im sure quite a lot of folk here will go "what????" As we were pregnant 10 years ago when the advice was "1-2 units 1-2 times a week" and I think k it's none now? I certainly drank at a low level after 12 weeks and also while breastfeeding (was advised by FIL who was one of the biggest authorities on alcohol in pg in the 80s). I think I'd drink less these days. But I'm not sure how many babies suffered from a glass of red o. Friday night and I think the "none" advice is to stop the ones who would drink lots.
So I'd say a stew with partially evaporated wine is totally fine. But that's just my old lush of an opinion !

A beef stew would, I imagine, be cooked for a couple of hours. Which would mean that only a small amount (5-10%) of alcohol would remain. Which then shared amongst all those eating it would mean that it would be a very small amount of alcohol

Yes it's a small amount. But if you'd prefer to avoid it altogether then you might not want to.
Op asked if any alcohol was left (to which the answer is yes)

No she asked if it was ok to eat.

The amount of alcohol left in a portion of, say, stew or spag bol, assuming it has been cooked for 40 mins plus at a medium temperature is less than a teaspoon. Enjoy!