On Aug 2, 11:44�am, "cybercat" > wrote:
> "Goomba" > wrote in message
>
> ...
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> > When using alcohol to deglaze a pan or into a sauce, I'm wondering what
> > the difference in taste is if you do or don't set it ablaze? I mean, how
> > does burning it change the flavor?
> > Anyone know?
>
> If you burn off the alcohol you don't taste alcohol. D-uh.

Pure alcohol has no flavor. D-uh

Only pure alcohol vapors ignite... they would evaporate anyway,
whether ignited or not. You can't cook off all the alcohol before
making the dish inedible. Igniting the alcohol vapors changes the
dish's flavor not one iota. Evaporating the alcohol through cooking
is what changes the flavor, but by reduction... the same effect will
occur were the flavoring addition alcohol free.