Alcohol buring off while cooking? Is it a myth?

[bebo]

Re: Alcohol buring off while cooking? Is it a myth?

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You could not even describe what it would taste without wine. So how is your experience be valid?

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My experience is valid because I have eaten and I personally cook both ways. I know the difference in taste. You cannot make certain dises such as seafood cioppino without adding white wine. I mean you can but it would not taste the same. It would not be autentic. Just like you can make biryani without adding jefal and star anise but you won't get the authentic taste of birayani.
I respect the dietary choices of people but not the arrogant know it all attitude.

[Reha]

Re: Alcohol buring off while cooking? Is it a myth?

@diwana

**mean if flavor is all what is intended then use flavor, rather than trying to and making fool those who like to abstain from alcohol.

**The flavor that is being achieved is through the actual wine. Ive no idea how and why you keep going on and on about separating drink from flavor.

Also, people are not using rubbing alcohol in food.**

Come one,… this is a trick/gimmick restaurants play with people to make it look like the food cooked with alcoholic beverage is something cool-n- out-a-world…so they will be happy to pay the ludicrously jacked up price for the meal and go home proud that they had 'beer battered chicken or had anything cooked with wine.

**diwana,

Sometimes, I do not understand where you come up with these things. If you go to a real restaurant (not the ones that serve beer battered chicken) you shall find the prices very much the same for dishes cooked with or without alcohol. Anyone ever had an expensive version of beer battered chicken by the way? That sounds like something off of a Hooter’s menu.**

@bebo

but giving as a matter of fact statements about something that you have no knowledge of or ever experienced is ludicrous.

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@diwana

Second: Anyone who claims there is really an appreciable change in taste is just fooled by false advertisement or trying to show as being ‘cultured’. Great taste can still be achieved without adding alcoholic beverages.

It has nothing to do with culture……lol. Blanket statements that have no real basis are annoying. You should take the time to really think about what you write.

Yes, there is no need to add any alcoholic drink to food items for flavor. Just add flavor if one really will die without so called flavor. People ‘taste’ something just because they are told.

When you go to a restaurant…you’re told to order off the menu? Im sorry for your bad experiences but a change of scenery might help.

This is called fools falling for ‘delicacy’ or power of suggestion!

The post sounds a bit too…naive…to put it delicately. Sorry.

[English_lady]

Re: Alcohol buring off while cooking? Is it a myth?

The thing is that in islam we are not allowed to drink alcohal as by the command of Allah so eating alcohal base food or drinking is totalllly ignoring Allah's will .So as far as we know that a dish contains it we should avoid it untill we know that its just for enjoyment sake not necessary .There are a hell lot of variety of dishes in the world why bothered for the alcohal ones only.

[diwana]

Re: Alcohol buring off while cooking? Is it a myth?

@Reha

**diwana,

Sometimes, I do not understand where you come up with these things. If you go to a real restaurant (not the ones that serve beer battered chicken) you shall find the prices very much the same for dishes cooked with or without alcohol. Anyone ever had an expensive version of beer battered chicken by the way? That sounds like something off of a Hooter’s menu.**

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The post sounds a bit too…naive…to put it delicately. Sorry.

Let’s just say I edited what I wanted to answer. Chaliye Maaf kia.

Still believe these food items are to fool people. If fools are happy so why wake them up.

[aurchaepiyo]

Re: Alcohol buring off while cooking? Is it a myth?

Bebo is right. I also don't have a problem with people abstaining from consuming whatever, but the holier-than-thou arrogance and sheer ignorance is annoying.

You all do know that vanillla flavouring is about 60 proof alcohol?

I always understood that it is nasha which is haraam. You don't get nasha from Coq au vin. And when you flambe something the alcohol burns off. That's what flames. You get less nasha than when smoking a cigarette or eating a paan. Way less than a paan with tambaaku -- That's nasha!

[diwana]

Re: Alcohol buring off while cooking? Is it a myth?

Bebo is right. I also don't have a problem with people abstaining from consuming whatever, but the holier-than-thou arrogance and sheer ignorance is annoying.

You all do know that vanillla flavouring is about 60 proof alcohol?

I always understood that it is nasha which is haraam. You don't get nasha from Coq au vin. And when you flambe something the alcohol burns off. That's what flames. You get less nasha than when smoking a cigarette or eating a paan. Way less than a paan with tambaaku -- That's nasha!

Just to clarify,

Its a myth/misunderstanding that nasha is the only reason something would be haram.

We make it up and say cigarerette paan tambaaku are/should be haram.

I do not want to go on detail to explain here.

[girl_on_ice]

Re: Alcohol buring off while cooking? Is it a myth?

the only benefit of wine beer and alcohol is to the brewery…££££££

some sauces,medicines etc bought from the supermarkets may have traces of alcohol cologne included,these we may not be able to avoid
but going to a restaurant and ordering a meal is in our power there we can abstain,my sister abstains by not eating out at western/cultured restaurants and does us all a favour by having the family gathering at her place a glutton for work bless her…