Does all the alcohol really burn off when you cook?
Does all the alcohol really burn off when you cook? Not as much as you probably thought …
| 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: | |
| 15 minutes | 40% |
| 30 minutes | 35% |
| 1 hour | 25% |
| 1.5 hours | 20% |
| 2 hours | 10% |
| 2.5 hours | 5% |
I found this answer in multiple blogs and it supposedly comes from the US Department of Agriculture but I couldn’t find the information on their website.
