Cooking with alcohol Puns

I have a two year old son, and so far I’ve avoided cooking with alcohol, and just substituted other liquids or skipped a recipe if I couldn’t figure out a way to substitute. Am I being overly cautious? Is it fine to cook with wine or beer for very young kids? For example, I was going to make a beef stew tonight and substitute the cup of red wine with beef broth, but is that really necessary? Am I fine to cook with a cup of red wine for a 2 year old?

I’m LDS and I have a bakery where I mostly specialize in deluxe chocolate covered strawberries. I see a lot these popular alcohol infused strawberries and gift boxes that include a dozen roses, berries, and a bottle of wine or rose. In your opinion, would this be ok to offer in my business while not compromising the word of wisdom? Or do you think it’s wrong because it’s “encouraging” or “enabling” someone else to break the word of wisdom? And how do you feel about cooking with alcohol in general? Thanks for your thoughts!

What do you guys think? Do you cook with alcohol or do you find a substitute? If you do substitute, what do you use?

Is it allowed to eat a dish cooked with alcohol if you're under 21? Because I want to cook a dish for a date night and it needs marsala cooking wine. I'm 19, is it alright to eat that dish while being under 21? This dish looks really good and I'd like to cook it with my boyfriend but I just want to make sure it's legal.

I don't know if it varies by state, but I live in New Mexico if that info is needed. For clarification, I would not be drinking the alcohol, just eating a dish with it cooked into it.

So one thing I am struggling with is cooking with alcohol. I work with food and I love cooking and baking at home. Many of the meals I make utilize white wine and cooking wine/sherry is shite.

Weekends are really hard. Usually I would spend my weekends preparing big meals and getting hammered in the process.

Sorry if this reads like a diary entry. I’m not looking for solutions or anything just wanted to get this out there.

Is eating things like rum cake a bad idea?

What about using sleep aid products like Nyquil or Zquil?

I'm about ready to make some vanilla, and was planning on doing cold-extraction, but then I read this wonderful idea of accelerating the process by cooking the vodka and vanilla beans in the pressure cooker. Apparently this is a normal thing to do, but I'm a little terrified it's going to blow up.

Can anybody reassure me that bringing 2 liters of vodka to pressure in my 8qt IP is not going to blow to smithereens? Anyone cooked in straight alcohol? Anyone know the physics involved? Since alcohol has a lower boiling point, will the IP "know" the correct pressure, or is it calibrated to water?

Thanks for any advice. :-D

Thoughts?

If I am cooking something with wine, does its point value change since the alcohol will be cooking out of it?

Hey guys, getting into some more complex recipes. I don't drink at all, so ignore that aspect. My main question is what sort of alcohol to used for various recipes. I.e. for pan sauces what sort of Red Wine, what sort of cognac for steak au poivre, beer for beer battering, and similar. Thanks for any and all help!

When you quit drinking, did you end up participating in/consuming more of something else to fill the void?

For example, when I first quit drinking (and smoking cigarettes), I relied on food hard. I used to go to the store by my house on a biweekly basis to get: chips, candy, and sparkling water. I needed the trio to feel satisfied. I became obsessed with drinking sparkling water, just to feel like I was drinking something "interesting."

I also went hardcore into dating casually (not recommended in early sobriety, but I was feeling suddenly open and positive about the world again). Someone in AA advised me "not to replace booze with dick" but I kinda did, haha.

Does it extract, dissolve, blend flavours, add flavour? And when is the right time to use it in a dish? Thanks

I graduated with a B.S. in Nutrition (with an emphasis on Culinary Arts) in 2013. In our Whole Foods Nutrition courses we were taught about cooking oils and what ones to use when. We were told that you should not cook with olive oil because it has a low smoke point and denatures quickly when heated, turning it into a trans fat. My understanding is that olive oil is an incredibly healthy oil, but should be used raw for dressings and drizzling, or cooked on very low heat. This does not seem to be common knowledge 7 years later and I am wondering if anyone here can confirm for me that this is true. Researching on the internet I have found conflicting information and most articles say that olive oil is stable at high heat with a smoke point of 374-405 degrees F (190-207 C). Any thoughts, comments or links to peer reviewed research would be much appreciated!

Hello all,

I'm a recovering alcoholic, so whilst I can usually trust a restaurant to cook off the alcohol, say, in a white wine sauce, it's not something I can replicate at home. To elaborate, I could cook off the alcohol but it's not wise for me to have the majority of an open bottle of wine kicking about my flat.

So far in recipes with alcohol I just omit it entirely but I was curious if anyone had some experience or suggestions with suitable substitutions.

For example, making a risotto or beef bourguignon...would white/red wine vinegar work in place of the wine or is it best to just keep on omitting it? Has anyone had any experience cooking with non alcoholic wines? Similarly is sherry vinegar an acceptable sub for sherry?

I'm already resigned to the fact I'll probably never be able to replicate a vodka sauce for pasta or whisky sauce for chicken/haggis but so be it.

Edit: to be clear, I am aware of course red or white wine vinegar would not be used in the same quantities as wine. I'm more curious if some of the flavour still comes across.

Hey there! I was wondering if anyone has recommendations of any good farming sims that also have good in-depth(?) cooking mechanics? Or even just crafting mechanics? I love Stardew but one of the things that was really missing for me that I really liked in the old harvest moons was a lot of cooking. I enjoyed having to discover/collect recipes either from experimenting or buying food from the folks in town or watching TV. I also think it motivated me to actually diversify my crops? Right now in Stardew I just do the old rotate through the same three crops and stick ancient fruit in the greenhouse... So far the farming sims I've played that have some sort of cooking mechanic are:

Stardew Valley

Harvest Moon (Magical Melody, Grand Bazaar, and a little bit of a few of the others)

Story of seasons (PoOT and FoMT)

Staxel

Littlewood

My Time at Portia

Animal Crossing New Horizons (not technically a farming sim I think but close enough lol)

The only cooking mechanics I really enjoyed were the ones in Harvest moon and Staxel. Littlewood was also alright because it had a little bit of experimentation, but it wasn't too in depth as every single recipe was limited to two ingredients.

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Hello fellow Minnesotans!

Tomorrow is the neighborhood progressive dinner and I’m the soup house. I’ve decided to recreate Byerlys’ creamy wild rice soup (with ham) recipe. I’m wondering what alcohol I should pair with the soup? I was thinking some sort of white wine?

Thanks in advance!

I have bipolar II so I have never had a manic episode. But when I’m hypomanic I will seek out thrills like casual sex, going to clubs, drugs etc. most of this time these include heavy binge drinking. I have been told by others that I have had short term psychosis during a blackout. Some examples include: thinking I was in the show charmed and I had superpowers and saw demons, having conversations with hallucinations of people I know, thinking something evil was after me, things like that.

I was wondering if I am more likely to have these because of my bipolar or it is just the heavy drinking. I have never met someone that has also experienced things like this and would like to know if anyone has gone through something similar

Ps. I have been sober for three years

In a couple of weekends time a friend with UC is coming to stay.

Is there any alcohol I can buy her that you guys have found won’t necessarily cause a flare up? (I’m in the UK for purchasing)

I also would like to make a nice dinner / lunch for her. I have only a microwave, a 4 ring hob and NO oven, NO grill. I also have a blender/ food processor.

Can you help me out with any simple recipes as I’ll be cooking straight from coming in from work on the Friday night but I can make her a lunch with a lot more effort on the Sunday. (We are out Saturday.)

Thank you in advance everyone...

While I don't drink alcohol, I have a soft spot for many dishes that include alcohol as part of the recipe. Wine based sauces for example, or crêpes with beer batter. What about you guys? Since the alcohol evaporates during cooking and leaves only thr flavours behind, this doesn't count as breaking the rules of teetotaling?

What do you guys think about this? Would you get back with your ex?

We mutually agreed to break our relationship off and stop seeing each other because he needed to stop drinking and work on that. We never talked about getting back together.

Now it's been a year, he's lost so much weight, he's been sober for 11 months and I'm starting to miss him again. I always loved him the way he was. I'm not saying because he lost weight I want to get back with him, but he genuinely seems happier, healthier, and has stopped drinking. I feel like I met him at the wrong time and things would have been different if he weren't depressed, etc.

We've texted a couple of times this year, duringy birthday, and pride month. His birthday is coming up next month and I'm probably going to text him. But I want to meet him in person and just talk.

Is this a bad idea? I do intend to see if he's willing to get back together and that's the reason I want to meet him.

This Thanksgiving, I am making a traditional stuffing. I love making the stuffing but have been requested to cook it in the roasting pan while the bird cooks on top of it and I have never done this (I always do it in a separate pan).

To be clear—I’m not actually STUFFING the bird. Imagine your roasting pan where your drippings would collect and just fill it with stuffing.

In my head, it seems like this just comes out super dry but it is the request and one I’d like to honor.

Has anyone done this? Suggestions on the right technique to make this work? Cover it with foil or something? Regularly spoon some broth over top? Am I just overthinking this?

For the record—9 lb. dry brined turkey will be sitting on top.

Sorry if this is a really, really dumb question.

Some recipes require alcohol such as brandy or wine to be involved, however in the cooking process the actual alcohol content is reduced to zero. Is it still haram?

[Uwell Caliburn KOKO] Today I've noticed a few drops of juice on the hole on the body where the cartridge is supposed to go. I think this this might be an issue, it's going to become gunked up over time or something. What can I do to go in there and clean that juice?

Also, I might've overfilled my cartridge. I noticed there's a min line, but not a max one. And there was a liiiiitle leakage. I'm not certain. Maybe PG/VG ratio, overenthusiasm Okay I googled it. "Do not leave the drip tip off for a long time to avoid leaking". Okay, but now that it has already leaked, how can I clean it? And if I refill correctly the connectors should never have juice on them, or over time it accumulates?

Often I see recipes involving alcohol (like vodka or wine) when making sauces or treating protein. Why can't we simply substitute with grape juice for wine to replicate the flavor? Is there something more than simply flavor going on?

E: follow-up question: besides tomatoes, what other flavors are alcohol soluble? Like the Guinness lamb stew, or adding mat-sul (맛술, flavor liquor?) when making suyuk?

Say you use a tablespoon of vodka in a batch of ice cream (as a softener) or cook something in some wine, etc...

What are the legalities on something like this?