Cooking with Wine
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Topic: Cooking with Wine
Posted By: Mel&Kel
Subject: Cooking with Wine
Date Posted: 14 July 2008 at 6:07pm
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Hello
I wanted to get people's thoughts on cooking with wine while pregnant... I used to do quite a bit of cooking with wine before I was preggers. I have looked it up on the internet and lots of sites say the alcohol is burnt off so it is safe but I wondered if all the alcohol was burnt off or if some stays... help!! Mel ------------- Mummy to Eva born 11 Feburary 2009 and Charlotte born 18 April 2011 |
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 14 July 2008 at 6:09pm
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As far as I know it's fine coz the alcohol cooks out. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: Mum2L
Date Posted: 14 July 2008 at 6:13pm
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The alcohol cooks off. The boiling point for ethanol in alcoholic beverages is about 76 degrees, and when you cook, the temperature will go over 80 degrees. Just make sure you cook your food for more than 10 minutes over 80 degrees, so all of the alcohol is cooked off. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mrshouse
Date Posted: 14 July 2008 at 6:19pm
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thanks lady asset- yeah thats what i thought- that it is safe as all the alcohol is cooked off- good to know ------------- http://www.baby-gaga.com/"> 
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Posted By: Mum2L
Date Posted: 14 July 2008 at 6:29pm
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mrshouse - that is ok :-) I studied chemistry at school, and have done 4 chemistry papers at uni, so remember all that I have learnt!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Mel&Kel
Date Posted: 14 July 2008 at 8:10pm
Yay thanks everyone!!  ------------- Mummy to Eva born 11 Feburary 2009 and Charlotte born 18 April 2011 |
Posted By: Natalie_G
Date Posted: 17 July 2008 at 10:50am
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We are going to a french resturant for DH birthday on Saturday night, and I am looking forward to flamed crepes, now since it is flamed with alcohol leaving this to flame for a long time that should be safe to eat wouldnt it?? ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 17 July 2008 at 12:16pm
| I would think so. They only put in enough to infuse the food, its not for the liquid so I'm sure it would be just fine. yum yum btw! |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 17 July 2008 at 2:02pm
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I would have thought so too...as the alcohol burns/Evaps out while cooking just leaving the flav in the food.. Yuummm...what are you cooking Mel&Kel?? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Mum2L
Date Posted: 17 July 2008 at 3:17pm
dagster, because they use a spirits on crepes, the alcohol evaporates at a higher rate than in wine (wine has other types of alcohol in it, which have varying boiling points). They also light it as well, so it only takes about 30 seconds to burn off the alcohol. Also lighting the alcohol makes it burn off faster as well. I had a cousin who lives in France, and she told me one of her addictions was crepes when pregnant :-) ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Dagster wrote:Posted By: Mel&Kel
Date Posted: 19 July 2008 at 3:23pm
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I really want to have a cheese fondue.... and it just isn't the same without the wine in it.
Also really like lamb shanks which I cook in red wine, we have some in the freezer which will have to be eaten soon!! DH is quite nervous about having cheese fondue because of the wine. ------------- Mummy to Eva born 11 Feburary 2009 and Charlotte born 18 April 2011 |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 19 July 2008 at 3:48pm
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Do you have to use wine in the fondue? I've never made it before but could you use a bit of stock instead? I don't use alcohol at all in cooking and if I have a recipe that needs alcohol in it I tend to use a substitute like chicken stock. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: BugTeeny
Date Posted: 20 July 2008 at 6:21am
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Never had cheese fondue...
But I can't make a spag bol without putting half a bottle of red in it. (simmered for 90 mins... *dool*) ------------- 
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Posted By: ItchyFeet
Date Posted: 20 July 2008 at 4:44pm
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I never bother with wine now as I use the Prenzel vincon concentrates. They're alcohol free but the same taste and effect when cooking with them in place of wine. It also doesn't go off once it's opened.
http://www.prenzel.com/vincon.htm - Vincon |
Posted By: Mel&Kel
Date Posted: 20 July 2008 at 7:08pm
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Have just been looking up that prenzel stuff and it sounds awesome, I am going to buy that and put it in my cheese fondue... mmmm yum!!
Thanks heaps ------------- Mummy to Eva born 11 Feburary 2009 and Charlotte born 18 April 2011 |
Posted By: Mel&Kel
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 6:00pm
Hey ItchyFeet, I brought some Vincon and had cheese fondue for lunch today, was soo good, that wine stock is awesome. Am going to use some of the red wine stock to try my red wine lamb shanks!! Thanks so much!!  ------------- Mummy to Eva born 11 Feburary 2009 and Charlotte born 18 April 2011 |