Cooking with wine and kids

[Anonymous]

I have a meal that I make for DH and me that uses around a half cup of red wine. Maybe more, I don't usually measure. If I make it for the family, including a 2 and 4 year old, should I sub something else? Just leave it out? Not worry about it and make it as usual?

[Anonymous]

It's fine. The alcohol burns off.

[Anonymous]

As long as it's a cooked meal, the alcohol cooks off.--Just don't add the wine right before taking it off the stove, and you'll be fine.

[Anonymous]

It's fine, even if the alcohol doesn't burn off. Half a cup divided among four people is such a small amount, and I doubt the kids eat as much as the adults.

[Anonymous]

Don't worry about it. Charge ahead.

[Anonymous]

Cooking wine is not real wine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cooking wine is not real wine

Cooking WITH wine. Not cooking wine.

[Anonymous]

People persistently and massively over-estimate how much alcohol is burning off when they cook dishes.

When you add alcohol late in the cooking process or you flame alcohol, you burn off well less than half of the alcohol, usually retaining more than 75%. Braised dishes where you add the alcohol at the beginning and simmer for more than 3 hours do burn a substantial majority of the alcohol off.

All that being said, if your kids each straight up chugged a half cup of red wine I doubt there would be any negative long term affects, so eating a helping or two of a larger dish containing a half cup, partially burnt off, really does not seem like a big deal.

[alexascott]

I try to cook with wine, but usually my cooking with wine finish witout wine and drunk me
And now without joking. Ladies, I need your advice! Can you help me?

[Anonymous]

Unless you are reserving the half cup of wine and feeding the rest of the bottle to your toddlers, you are totally fine. A) the alcohol will burn off and B) if that does not happen, half a cup dispersed throughout a recipe for 4 people is not going to do anything to any of you other than improve the flavor of whatever you're cooking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cooking wine is not real wine

Cooking WITH wine. Not cooking wine.

Um, you missed the joke

[Anonymous]

I do it all the time. My kids love chicken marsala. Their behavior has never been different after eating it, so I assume they aren't getting drunk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do it all the time. My kids love chicken marsala. Their behavior has never been different after eating it, so I assume they aren't getting drunk.

Either that or they have learnt to take their liquor.

[Anonymous]

I poach salmon with white wine, and seems fine to me. I use 1/4 cup for 2 salmon fillets, and poach for about 7 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do it all the time. My kids love chicken marsala. Their behavior has never been different after eating it, so I assume they aren't getting drunk.

Either that or they have learnt to take their liquor.

Which is a vital life skill, natch.