Common Wisdom Busted: How Much Alcohol Survives Cooking?
January 17, 2007 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Diets and Dieting, Drink, Food and Drink
Trying to decide whether your bud on his 7th step can partake in the Bananas Foster?
Don’t believe that old yarn about all the alcohol used in cooking burning off. Here’s the real deal:
| Alcohol added to boiling liquid & removed from heat | 85% |
| Alcohol flamed | 75% |
| No heat, stored overnight | 70% |
| Baked, 25 minutes, alcohol not stirred into mixture | 45% |
| Baked/simmered, alcohol stirred into mixture: | |
| 15 minutes | 40% |
| 30 minutes | 35% |
| 1 hour | 25% |
| 1.5 hours | 20% |
| 2 hours | 10% |
| 2.5 hours | 5% |
