NicholasTHarris
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When you cook with alcohol does it all cook off? also how do you pick a wine for cooking? In my religion we don't drink so I dont know about these things
Hi
From a chemist point of view you can burn off ALL the alc, given the right amount of time, heat, pressure and other factors. But this will take quite some time...University of Idaho once stated that even after 2,5 Hours of cooking, there are still 5% of the initial amount of ethanol present in a sauce.
But from another point of view this is not the point. If you measure the absolut amount of alcohol on your plate, you will that this is a very very small one. Religious reasons aside of course.
Lets say you are a homecook. You prepare 500ml of sauce with a glass of wine (100ml/15%). That leaves you a initial content of 3%. Now let it cook for 2,5h, that leaves you with a content of 0.15%. Then you put the sauce on the plate and eat all of it, lets say 50ml, containing 0.075ml of pure alcohol. If you now look at the alcoholic content of ripe fruits (e.g.bananas 0,6%) or bread (0,2-0.3%), it it most likely that you have a much higer alcoholic intake at the starters or the dessert...
Please excuse my poor english
Benjamin
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