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I broiled my my fish in white wine wondering does most of the alcholol get get cooked off? And is this ok for cutting ;) Please say yes as I already cooked a weeks worth of talapia in it.
 
No.
Alcohol does not all evaporate

But 80% will

so will 80% of the calories
 
Anthrax said:
No.
Alcohol does not all evaporate

But 80% will

so will 80% of the calories

Really?
Are you sure that's not just for alcohol (other than wine)?

(not beig a wise ass - just curious?)
 
velvett said:
Really?
Are you sure that's not just for alcohol (other than wine)?

(not beig a wise ass - just curious?)
dang, I'm going to start dousing all my stuff in wine...first up...mac and cheese...
 
The majority of the alcohol will burn off..... but not all of it...

It's very hard to determine exactly how much remains....so you might want to count "X" ounces of wine towards your totals....but just a portion...
 
velvett said:
Really?
Are you sure that's not just for alcohol (other than wine)?

(not beig a wise ass - just curious?)

Many people believe that because alcohol is sensitive to heat, it is eliminated with cooking. However, not all the alcohol content of alcoholic drinks is removed with heat; it depends on the type and time of cooking.

For instance you add beer or wine to boiling liquid, then immediately remove it from the heat, 85 per cent of the alcohol content will remain. If you light the alcohol, as in flambé dishes, 75 per cent will remain. Even after simmering the dish for one and a half hours, it will still have 20 per cent of the original alcohol content.

It is only if you simmer the mixture for two or more hours, (as you would with a wine-based beef casserole), that as much as five to 10 per cent of the original alcohol content still remains.
Alcohol Retention During Cooking
Source: USDA
Process Used


1 hour Evaporated= 75% ---- Amount Retained = 25%
1.5 hour Evaporated= 80% ---- Amount Retained = 20%
2 hours Evaporated= 90% ---- Amount Retained = 15%
 
Anthrax said:
Many people believe that because alcohol is sensitive to heat, it is eliminated with cooking. However, not all the alcohol content of alcoholic drinks is removed with heat; it depends on the type and time of cooking.

For instance you add beer or wine to boiling liquid, then immediately remove it from the heat, 85 per cent of the alcohol content will remain. If you light the alcohol, as in flambé dishes, 75 per cent will remain. Even after simmering the dish for one and a half hours, it will still have 20 per cent of the original alcohol content.

It is only if you simmer the mixture for two or more hours, (as you would with a wine-based beef casserole), that as much as five to 10 per cent of the original alcohol content still remains.
Alcohol Retention During Cooking
Source: USDA
Process Used


1 hour Evaporated= 75% ---- Amount Retained = 25%
1.5 hour Evaporated= 80% ---- Amount Retained = 20%
2 hours Evaporated= 90% ---- Amount Retained = 15%

Huh.
I always thought that was for non wine alcohol.

Good to know.
 
The Shadow said:
those numbers dont add up to 100%...

LOL

It never would anyway, cuz all alcohols don't burn off the same way nor will the same alcohol always burn off the same way -- you can't determine precisely how much will be left....only a guideline...
 
I like to put salsa on my fish and steam it in foil.
(you can make your own salsa so there's no sugar in it)

I like Goya brand salsa
 
jenscats5 said:
It never would anyway, cuz all alcohols don't burn off the same way nor will the same alcohol always burn off the same way -- you can't determine precisely how much will be left....only a guideline...


the amount "burned" plus tha amount "left" should still be 100%.
 
The Shadow said:
the amount "burned" plus tha amount "left" should still be 100%.

Right, but I'm not sending my food to a lab to figure that out.... it's all guesswork at home...
 
The Shadow said:
the amount "burned" plus tha amount "left" should still be 100%.


Sorry, my bad

I copy a table from the USDA website

For 2 hours it is
Evaporated= 90% ---- Amount Retained = 10%
 
depends on a couple of things. i have a little experience in distillation :) as well as my pharma background, so heres about how it is:

a standard stovetop element is between 1200 and 1800 watts. heat transfer into the liquid isnt perfect, and so youre going to lose a big chunk of energy to the environment without heating your food - say 30% ish. now, with a submersed element rated at 1800 watts (commonly used in low end water heaters, and sometimes as the element in a home distillation apparatus) youre talking about collecting around 400g of pure ethanol in about an hour. a standard bottle of wine has about 11% alcohol, theres 700ml of it, so logically, you have 77g or so of total ethanol, which is about 20% of what the stovetop element would likely vaporise in an hour. if we take away 30% to adjust for our energy loss, we get about 280g ethanol removal per hour, meaning that you could, in theory, get rid of all that alcohol in as little as 15 minutes on a large cooktop.

so it depends on how long you cooked it for, and how long it was hot (sitting on the counter or whatever).

other things that will affect whats happening (in my very very very rough model) are things like solutes in the solution (eg salt) which will make the ethanol vaporise a lot faster, ambient temperature, a lid on the cooking vessel...that sort of thing.

bottom line is that you can bank on the vast majority of the ethanol being gone if you added the wine early or midway through cooking :)


omg, i just dislocated my elbow patting myself on the back for being such a genius, im going to go do my mel gibson lethal weapon trick, brb ;)
 
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