Wouldn't just the taste of it drive alcoholics into addiction again?
2007-03-26 19:49:25 · 16 answers · asked by BUNguyenI 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
It is perfectly safe to cook with alcohol. The actual alcohol cooks out of the food leaving only the "flavor" of the spirit. If in doubt, or using for a non cooked, cold dish, use a flavoring substitute that does not use alcohol. If it's that bad of a situation, I recommend Betty Ford.
2007-04-01 11:32:03 · answer #1 · answered by David H 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Alcoholics "can" do whatever they want.
However, there is a false notion that people have that alcohol boils off when cooked. Not so. Traces of alcohol ALWAYS remain when something is cooked with it. Most of it may in fact "boil away," but some still remains because it has permeated inot the food being cooked.
So it is wise for an recovered alcholic to abstain from food prepared in this way. It is not so much the flavor, but just the fact of alcohol (even a tiny amount) being reintroduced to the brain that may cause problems.
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2007-04-03 03:32:14 · answer #2 · answered by Jack 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alcohol is volatile and boils off quickly once it is heated, so if it is used to flavor a dish no alcohol remains to affect you-you can't get drunk eating chicken cooked in wine for example. As for the taste triggering a craving, I would think that would be too variable to predict-depends on how the alcohol is used in the dish as the first answer said, as well as the individual alcoholic. If it's a question I'd avoid using it, out of respect for the person's recovery. Recovered alcoholics have to fight off responses to triggers all the time, why make it harder?
2007-03-27 03:11:08 · answer #3 · answered by Mother Amethyst 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cooking food with alcohol is used for the flavour not the alcoholic effects. The alcohol content usually gets evaporated when the food is being cooked leaving behind the tastes.
But i guess even the taste of the liquor could set them off again
2007-03-27 03:07:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They shouldn't . Yes, the reason as you say, would be that even if the alcohol is cooked off, the taste might still remind the person of the very thing that has kept them in bondage. It would be the same (but not as extreme as this example) as a person getting a job as a clerk in a liquor store or as a person trying to lose weight working in a candy store, etc.
2007-03-27 03:28:12 · answer #5 · answered by grizzeybear1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're not supposed to if they're a recovering alcoholic. Even something as little as vanilla extract should be avoided. not that they're going to sniff it out in the cookies they're eating and get drunk from it, but a temptation is a temptation. NO alcohol is to be consumed, whether from a glass, can, or cooked in something (even if all the alcohol is cooked out).
2007-03-27 11:17:49 · answer #6 · answered by brevejunkie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really depends.Like if you use a strong liquor[whiskeys,scotch]onto ribs,meat,etc.,then yes,it might bring the craving back.But other liquors like light Sherry or red and rice wines only add flavor to the food and the alcohol flavor is disguised.Beer battered foods are another example that shouldnt interfere with recovery from alcohol addiction.
2007-03-27 02:57:29 · answer #7 · answered by ♠ Oscillate Wildly ♠ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think the taste would drive them back into addiction because it probably wouldn't taste like alcohol
2007-04-02 19:53:13 · answer #8 · answered by ~rock-on~ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't drink alcohol or eat it with any food, I have to avoid it and so do all alcoholics.
2007-04-03 15:33:07 · answer #9 · answered by CrazedPscyhoticKillerBunny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When alcohol is cooked the alcohol is is dissolved. Do you understand?
2007-04-02 19:18:55 · answer #10 · answered by Hales 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋