Eating Food Cooked with Alcohol
Question Is it permissible to eat dishes cooked with alcohol? It is well-known that alcohol evaporates with heat. Praise be to Allah. It is not permissible to eat dishes cooked with alcohol, as ALL the alcohol is not evaporated with cooking or heat. Refer to the following, quoted from the famous Mayo Clinic: [Begin quote]…
Question
Praise be to Allah.
It is not permissible to eat dishes cooked with
alcohol, as ALL the alcohol is not evaporated with cooking or heat. Refer to
the following, quoted from the famous Mayo Clinic:
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Many people believe that
because alcohol is sensitive to heat, it is eliminated with cooking. However,
not all the alcohol content of alcoholic drinks is removed with heat; it depends
on the type and time of cooking. For instance if you add beer or wine to boiling
liquid, then immediately remove it from the heat, 85 per cent of the alcohol
content will remain. If you light the alcohol, as in flambé dishes, 75
per cent will remain. Even after simmering the dish for one and a half hours,
it will still have 20 per cent of the original alcohol content.
It is only if you simmer
the mixture for two or more hours, (as you would with a wine-based beef casserole),
that as little as five to 10 per cent of the original alcohol content remains.
