cooking with wine

[lucylou3208]

Just a quick question out there, and please direct me if I am asking in the wrong place. If you cook with wine, to make a wine sauce for steak or something (no flour or cornstarch) do you count it as the regular 2 carbs for 4 oz of wine, or does it get altered since you are cooking the alcohol out? thanks.

[Elizellen]

I found this handy table which tells you how much of the alcohol remains depending on cooking method

Preparation Method .. . . . . . . . . . . . .Percent of Alcohol Retained
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 for
15 minutes ... . . . 40%
30 minutes ... . . . 35%
1 hour ... . . . . . . 25%
1.5 hours .. . . . . .20%
2 hours .... . . . . . 10%
2.5 hours ... . . . . . 5%

[Elizellen]

I have moved this into the Main forum from the 14-day induction forum to avoid confusing new inductioneers, as alcohol is not 'legal' till we reach the alcohol rung of OWL.

[sallyseachange]

If in induction and you want to cook with wine, you can use very watered down wine vinegar as a reasonable substitute. Somehow, it's different if you water it down, than it would be just adding a small amount of vinegar neat.

[lucylou3208]

Thank you for that chart, very cool. But would you still count the full carb amounts for the wine, or does it reduce since the alcohol reduces? Thanks again.