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Default If you don't burn off the alcohol?

On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:08:19 -0400, Goomba >
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>sf wrote:
>> On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:02:09 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I know there are supposed to be studies out there that say that the alcohol
>>> does not all burn off ia flambe or boil off in a braised dish, but that
>>> leaves me wondering. You have to use alcohol to flambe because there is not
>>> enough alcohol in wine.

>>
>> From what I've read *here* in quoted studies, some but not all of the
>> alcohol burns off. Why anyone cares is beyond me.

>
>The only reason I can think of (that makes sense to me) for people to
>care would be the raging alcoholic who is taking the drug Antabuse. ANY
>contact with alcohol causes them to become violently sick to their
>stomach. It is the purpose of this drug (adversion therapy) and those
>folks might want to know?
>


Thanks, that's a good answer, but it seems to me that a caring person
who made a meal for someone taking that drug would NOT use alcohol in
any dish and it wouldn't be a hardship on the cook. How often do you
use alcohol when cooking? Slim to none? If the cook knows a guest is
taking the drug, it's easy enough to plan around it.


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