Does Alcohol Really Burn Off When Cooked?

[@aragusea]

Q: Does Wonder Bread contain alcohol because it's so heavily processed? What about real bread? A: Other than that 1926 study (of which I would be skeptical), Garland and I weren't able to find any research where they tested the alcohol content of bread from a normal bakery or home oven. However, we both think it's likely that homemade bread has just as much alcohol, or perhaps even more. Certainly I know with my long-fermented pizza dough, the beer-like smell of that knocks me down sometimes (in a good way). Q: Would you feed any of this food to your kids? A: I have no trouble feeding a long-cooked alcohol dish to my kids. The amount of alcohol they're getting is, again, probably less than they're getting from the bread in their peanut butter sandwiches. I probably wouldn't give them those cherries jubilee, but even that might be too cautious. Q: What about uncooked alcohol dishes, like tiramisu soaked in Marsala? A: You gotta figure raw alcohol is raw alcohol, regardless of whether you consume it from a glass or soaked into a ladyfinger. However, the quantities you're consuming from something like that are probably still very small, and it would be pretty easy to work out that math if you're worried. Just divide the quantity of alcohol in the recipe by the number of servings. Q: You understand I'm not able to pick and choose how I interpret my religion's law against alcoholic beverages, right? A: Honestly, I prob don't know enough about your religion to have an opinion on that. I tried to provide you with facts to inform your own opinions. I very deliberately couched that last bit of theological interpretation in highly personal terms - that's how I might think about the issue. But you're obviously capable of figuring out that kind of stuff for yourself. Q: Are you only gonna do videos about booze? A: Nah, got lots of other cool topics planned. I'm just making an effort to answer common questions as they come up, and this is a question that came up a lot in responses to prior videos. Q: Why do you keep roasting Gordon Ramsay? A: I respect all of that guy's accomplishments, but the fact remains he rose to fame by turning workplace sadism into entertainment, going all the way back to "Boiling Point." I find few things more loathsome than somebody punching down, and that guy punches down like nobody else. Whether it's real or an act doesn't really matter to me; he's a role model for authority figures around the world. Q: Do you know your camera has a dead pixel? A: Yep, sorry about that. I have a big KZbin check coming this week. Planing to use that to buy a new camera and a fancy lens. Q: Why did you say "ethyl alcohol" instead of "ethanol"? A: Yes, I know "ethanol" is now the preferred scientific name for the specific kind of alcohol that we drink. I didn't want to take time out in this video to explain the term. For American audiences, they know "ethanol" as a gasoline additive. If I didn't explain it, they'd think, "Wait, what, he's putting gas in his food?" I reckon most Americans don't realize they're literally filling up their tanks with highly-subsidized corn hooch because politicians want to win the Iowa caucuses.

[@yaboipatrick]

Despacito

[@niallsulcer600]

Hi Adam, love your stuff. Let's say I'm in this un-ideal scenario: I'm cooking a long simmered dish like French Onion Soup or a Tomato Sauce, and I only have access to a flavored sauce (like green apple vodka or a particularly fruity wine), would it be better to omit the booze entirely or still throw them in?

[@xlittlep]

You deal with a lot of "devout" Baptists down in Macon, Adam? Reminds me of the old fishing joke: Never take a Baptist fishing or he'll drink all your beer -- Instead, take TWO Baptists fishing and have all of your beer to yourself!

[@youssefmaksoud89]

@@xlittlep holy fuck i love this

[@Crazy727King]

What about beer batter fish?

[@Fexzz]

"That's a lot of potroast." Well, that's just like your opinion man

[@sinnison23]

The Dude abides.

[@GameCyborgCh]

1/5 of my bodyweight seems like too much

[@TreR90]

The potroast is not the issue here!

[@Eidolon5150]

Easy, could finish that entire potroast in like 30 minutes

[@Tenems941]

any pizza is a personal pizza if you believe in yourself enough

[@seneca983]

3:30 Housewife: "Hey! Who are you and what are you doing in my house?" Chemist: "Oh, don't mind me. I'm just collecting samples from your oven."

[@angelwhispers2060]

I'm totally sure they just went by in their lab coats showing official documentation and requesting voluntary samples. Remember door-to-door salesman were still common at this point

[@gavind351]

@@angelwhispers2060 this is funnier, though

[@Halberddent]

Sounds like the beginning to a porno

[@Keithustus]

before the handyman became popular

[@mcklinky2400]

Ah shit I just ate 1379 Twinkies and I'm under 18

[@thebiggestcarl]

I’m calling the police

[@JSVR62BATXSH]

911

[@Tyrone-Ward]

Nope but I'm too drink to drive

[@reeseruss]

Diabeetus

[@4ppl3z59]

"under 18"

[@dnwalkingoneggshells]

gasp! i cant believe my mormon self has been boozing it up eating bread all these years! what a wild ride this has been!

[@meesalikeu]

as long as you keep your wife in the kitchen while we talk man stuff over here

[@andmicbro1]

It's also kind of ironic that the sacrament is often just Wonder bread from whichever 14 year old's pantry that brought it that day.

[@thomasr1051]

Naughty girl (or boy/other)!

[@aaronrobinson2121]

I feel like bread isn't that great of a comparison since, as a solid, it takes much longer to process all of that ethanol. Mint-chocolate chip ice cream, however... (Am also a member and I definitely eat both bread and mint ice cream)

[@craigwiddison4118]

At a reception McKay attended, the hostess served rum cake. “All the guests hesitated, watching to see what McKay would do. He smacked his lips and began to eat.” When one guest expostulated, “‘But President McKay, don’t you know that is rum cake?’ McKay smiled and reminded the guest that the Word of Wisdom forbade drinking alcohol, not eating it.” This is a quote from a Mormon (lds) prophet. just an fyi. ya I'm one of them. Member, not a prophet. ;)

[@lostuser1094]

Adam continues to play with fire (literally) by roasting Ramsay... and it’s glorious

[@chrissotiriou5028]

What do you mean?

[@unfixablegop]

@@chrissotiriou5028 Not so fast, Gordon.

[@shortrefmegaref]

Can't wait till he picks apart his "don't salt the eggs beforehand" (for scrambled eggs)

[@chrissotiriou5028]

@@unfixablegop what?

[@unfixablegop]

@@chrissotiriou5028 He is criticizing the famous tv cook Gordon Ramsey for claiming that almost all the alcohol gets removed by flambeing.

[@DGPHolyHandgrenade]

After a chemistry class I knew that it wasnt actually getting rid of the alcohol. I've always perpetuated the myth though because I thought it was more about calming the nerves of parents thinking the booze in the food will affect their children. Also knowing the fact that the alcohol used is usually such a miniscule amount so as to not be a real issue. I mean, a good amount of our flavorings, either natural or imitation, are alcohol solutions (vanilla, almond, etc.)

[@Revelwoodie]

Came here to say exactly this. When someone doesn't want to bring their kids to your house once they find out you're making coq au vin or beef bourguignon, the correct answer is always, "the alcohol cooks out of it." It's like getting a kid to stop insisting you cut the crusts off their bread. If saying "the crust will make you taller" gets your 3 year old past their need for sandwich surgery, go for it.

[@axe4770]

I literally sate my onions until it is bone dry no liquid left in the bottom with only fat sizzling and the pan starts smoking that is when I turned off the heat and use it with other recipes. Pretty sure if there’s almost no liquid left that means the alcohol is also near fully evaporate too. It is impossible to have much alcohol leftover when its carrier is already gone to begin with.

[@ZilveriCosas]

SOOO much needed! I am a muslim and your information helped a lot! I really appreciate the work you put in your videos and research! thanks!

[@Tekiruru]

I'm more confused about how they halal labelled breads now...

[@Tekiruru]

@@nowtmrb3337 you can't really make bread without yeast :/ in where i live even the yeast itself has a halal label

[@shermuhammadkhan3383]

Islam basically doesn't inherently have anything against alcohol( from what i understand ofcourse ), it has problems with intoxication and thus alcohol through that line, all other intoxicants are compared to alcohol in the Qur'an because that was the most popular intoxicant at the time of its revelation , and serves as a good example of what's prohibited, alcohol is allowed for medicinal use even if it intoxicates you , because then it becomes important / necessary for your survival so you can consume alcohol in medicine, also , alcohol in thing's that don't intoxicate you , like bread or perfumes is completely okay.

[@nowtmrb3337]

@@shermuhammadkhan3383 what type of alcohol medicinal alcohol or DRINK alcohol

[@shermuhammadkhan3383]

@@nowtmrb3337 to re-iterate , alcahol is good to be used as long as it doesn't intoxicate you, this applies to all forms of alcahol, including alcahol from yeast in Bread, alcahol in perfumes, rubbing alcohol as an antiseptic , and even regular drinking alcohol used in cooking ( in my opinion inferred from reading religious sources, i may be wrong as certain groups prohibit such use but the prohibition seema baseless if bread is considered halal and widely consumed you know.) In the olden days regular drinking alcohol was also used in medication and as a numbing agent / painkiller when nothing else was available, so in that sense even drinking alcohol is allowed, but then again actions are judged by intentions, if you have pain, we have very good painkillers in the market these days and under most normally circumstances they should be taken as they're s Much Better alternative which just keeps you away from alcahol in general

[@hadenbuckman357]

Try and make a meal that gets you drunk!

[@Philitron128]

Rum ham

[@ladybooog]

Rum ham

[@joeyw.2976]

Rum ham

[@Hatim.13]

Ham rum

[@Jepysauce]

Hum ram.

[@juju-been]

When I was a kid I always dreaded going to italian restaurants because there was wine in every sauce and my dad would always say that it was wrong to consume alcohol even if it won’t intoxicate you at all. I would always snap back with “There’s alcohol in bread!” Lol

[@josenellandrewtumulak2400]

Adam "alcohol science" Ragusea

[@bp.4928]

Joe "Rogan'

[@26dollar]

@@bp.4928 Joe "Dimethyl Tryptamine" Rogan

[@bp.4928]

@@26dollar Have you tried elk meat?

[@thorinoakenshield2517]

Don't bless this useless information swine with a good KZbin meme

[@DannyPhntm777]

@@thorinoakenshield2517 you suck

[@rickpickle]

reasonable information. i used to be addicted to alcohol, and quit drinking years back. i cook with wine, not all the time, but every now and then. i have a couple bottles of wine about the house, and several beers, that I keep to cook with. i didn't do this newly sober, it was a milestone in my recovery to maintain a healthy relationship with the sauce. one of my last great ideas as a drunk was that nothing could keep me from it. i taught myself not to say i can't drink, but rather i don't. it's one of the marvelous contradictions in recovery. i totally can drink. in fact, i could bring myself to far greater ruin than i ever could in my past feeble, broken state of existence. the "miracle", it seems, is that i have the choice to not do so. it works, it really does ;-)

[@Smoji069]

25 pounds of pot roast to get wasted? *CHALLENGE ACCEPTED*

[@s4b521]

Closer to about 200 pounds, but still doable

[@christopherjohnson7729]

25 for a can of beer, if i aint ate nothing it takes about 6 to start feeling anything

[@danielhu6485]

A single can of beer can’t even get u wasted and that’s what 25 pound of pot roast is equivalent to lmao

[@daveh7720]

With that much fat and protein in your stomach it's going to slow the absorpion of alcohol WAY down. A better method might be to simmer the pot roast in a still and collect the meaty, boozy goodness in a jar. Or, you know, just drink the wine.

[@kingofbosnia2500]

If you get wasted by drinking a single beer can.

[@ryanm9566]

Appreciate the well-researched video as always and fully support your conclusions. I myself can't cook with alcohol, being a recovering alcoholic I don't want to keep alcohol around the house. I've been searching for a way around this for a while and based on your advice, picked up a really nice bottle of white balsalmic vinegar which I'm gonna try. Hopefully it works out, thanks for the suggestion!

[@user-gs6zx8rg7i]

My new favorite KZbinr. Cooks Teaches me more science than my actual lesson does. Looks like Keanu Reeves.

[@jrrpkm]

Josh Groban of the kitchen

[@AnontheGOAT]

and is funny AF

[@EmmyV2002]

He looks like a nerdy Keanu Reeves, but he's still good looking just like him.

[@donavonheim559]

He looks like discount markiplier

[@cadikai]

he looks like a perfect mix between keanu and Adam driver

[@osamsal]

As a Muslim who researched the religious edicts (and science) behind this for a very long time, I have to say: "You NAILED it, sir!" You're no theologian, but your 5-min of a video answers the dilemma of so religious folks! Kudos

[@revimfadli4666]

So what would the answer be for Muslims?

[@kamikazeblackjack]

Alcohol in in it self is not haram it consumption of anything that can make you drunk but puting wine ir beer in food even when you cook them until there is no alcohol left is haram because you supporting the company that nake beer and wine ​@@revimfadli4666

[@WealthyWalnut]

I struggle to determine which I prefer - your cooking videos or you food science videos Another day, another struggle. Still can't decide. Keep it up!

[@VesicantRedds]

por qué no ambos ?

[@TxNgu]

oof same

[@thewindgamer2607]

IamMe The comment above you said literally the same thing but in spanish 😂

[@theodoreklopman7057]

@@VesicantRedds wouldn’t it be ambas? Not sure.

[@aboldone3991]

food cooking videos ARE food science videos and vv

[@Krawurxus]

I have several Muslim friends and colleagues and brought this topic up at some point with every single one of them. A few went and actually asked their imam but they had no clue either and just went with " better not risk it". I personally would make the argument that the spirit of a commandment is more along the lines of "Don't get drunk" or even just "Don't consume alcohol with the intention to get drunk". I mean if this was really commanded by an omniscient god he had to be aware of the naturally ocurring alcohol in leavened dough and basically any open liquid with sugar in it, so having some alcohol develop in food and drink was unavoidable when this commandment was supposedly made.

[@tedlaygaming5830]

sorry master i am 2 minutes late. forgive me.

[@Yguefrt]

Tedlay Gaming 4 mins

[@Gregory_12]

😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

[@9tr0n]

1 year late lol

[@lidular]

I don't cook with alcohol because I don't want to buy it. However it might be the dumbest reason. I don't want to buy it because I have never bought it and don't want to break my streak

[@imarknutt5638]

I’m going to Mercer next year I hope to meet you

[@aragusea]

Come by my office any time! CCJ 117.

[@Menacetouniverse]

How lucky

[@someone2697]

Billy Batson Applying to Mercer my senior year and im in 9th grade going to 10th (summer break rn) Adam dad stay there for me

[@anjanachandran2701]

Makes me want to visit Mercer now!

[@haydenoliver88]

Adam Ragusea so wait Alex How do you not have a deep southern draw if your from Macon

[@drbiryani]

Just found this channel and have been binging on them all weekend. Appreciate the info on alcohol! In Islam (where alcohol is prohibited), there is a differentiation between the minuscule amounts of alcohol that is naturally formed in things such as bread (which is ok to consume) and eating beer battered fish (which is not ok to consume) as you're intentionally adding alcohol to the food.

[@SaeedMSR]

Hi there. This is just an addition to your general knowledge: The rule in Islam regarding alcohol consumption is that (ما أسكر كثيره فقليله حرام) which roughly translate to: "if a lot makes you drunk, the smallest amount is prohibited", and the word "a lot" naturally falls within human limits! 😊 So, I won't drink the white wine, but I will gladly eat Adam's famous Bolognese sauce cooked with white wine... but no pork!

[@raisofahri5797]

@@SaeedMSR yup because it's still bellow the threshold for it becomes prohibited Based on religious institute decree here alcohol must above 0.5% to become forbidden

[@aarnedo]

"You'd have to eat about 1400 twinkies to equal 1 beer" Challenge accepted

[@blooBerry371]

570 down only 830 to go😂

[@aamnotsuree5653]

@@blooBerry371 **passes out**

[@Eralen00]

You'd probably go into a sugar coma first

[@fetusgriffin9897]

Diabetes time

[@westwardeggplantstudios9715]

The virgin "drinking alcohol to get drunk" vs the Chad "Eating an ungodly amount of pot roast to get drunk"

[@redflags6583]

"You probably shouldn't eat my sauce." Oh, Adam. You can't stop them.

[@LentPanic7]

Cop: How much have you had to drink tonight? Me: I had about 4,000 twinkies officer.

[@Leonsimages]

*me as a student* Oh so there's still alcohol left after cooking? Nice!

[@Gregory_12]

4:00 *nice hilighting*

[@spookyshark632]

Just pour some more on top after you're done.

[@mynexusca]

Asalamalaikum As a muslim I want to thank you for this video. I've been to several fine dining restaurant where the waiter/waitress would always tell me that if the sauce was cooked with alcohol it would be burned off from the heat. As a muslim I could never chance it and just tell them please no alcohol in my sauce (spaghetti etc.). Now thanks to your video i am happy that I never accepted alcohol in my food. Thank you brother and God bless you Asalamalaikum beautiful video and thanks for making it. From the bottom of my heart thank you for this video.

[@livinglifeform7974]

I am not a muslim but have heard that many islamic leaders say it to be fine to consume things with small alcohol content as long as you cannot get intoxicated by it in a physically possible dose (e.g permitting vinegar but not beer).

[@lemons1559]

@@livinglifeform7974 some scholars do see an issue in that since (not sure if supported by the Qur'an) you're not allowed to handle, sell or buy or make anything intoxicating so buying a plate of pasta with white wine sauce would to some be haram because you're indirectly buying that wine.

[@DimT670]

​@@lemons1559 but wouldn't that be almost everyhting, including all bread, or indeed most medicine, buying rubbing alcohol to clean tools, or even glue which you could sniff

[@lemons1559]

@@DimT670 the difference there is the purpose of the product. You can't make bread that gets you drunk and no one sells bread to get you drunk so it's fine. I'm not a Muslim but I remember that Mohammed loved vinegar which is made from wine. The way people justify consuming vinegar is that once you put the juice to ferment, you can't open the container until it's vinegar.

[@MrJahka]

@@lemons1559 the purpose of a vodka pasta sauce isn’t to get you drunk

[@nis5e]

Next episode: Is there a *lethal dose* of Lasagna? (Guest-starring Vsauce Michael)

[@TheEchelon1619]

No vsauce crap please. I hate when these "celebrity" youtubers latch onto another show

[@TheAkashicTraveller]

Well, you could drown in it.

[@meesalikeu]

rip vsauce its been dead for years micheal killed it thru greed

[@gravysamich]

@@meesalikeu yeah, greed... get over yourself. vsauce was never dead. it just shifted focus and scope with the mind field series. it went from a small show filmed in a single room to an actual media production with a crew behind it. that isn't greed, that is ambition.

[@koohejif]

Hey Adam, thank you for this video! I'm Muslim and I've known about the fact that alcohol is present in a lot of the food we eat. It's not about the alcohol molecules, it's about the consumption of the alcohol itself that I can't support. Like you said, buying the bottle supports the industry, and also opens up the risk for children/adolescents to find them and well....get drunk on them. Not having them at home is a way of avoiding this altogether. Great video, and great approach to the discussion!

[@Menzobarrenza]

That makes sense. Another way to look at it is through the Sunnah. If Muhammad ate bread (I would assume he did), then technically he consumed alcohol molecules. This would show that the Qur'ans ban on alcohol does not relate to such ineffective and unavoidable quantities. Though I vaguely remember that there is a Hadith where Muhammad says that anything that is harmful is forbidden in any quantity, but I'll have to look into its soundness (and if he really did say that, he would have contradicted himself (or sinned) every time he ate bread).

[@zaidmadi318]

Menzobarrenza I love your understanding of the topic, as a muslim, based on my understanding, I believe that that verse of the Qur’an was to make alcoholic drinks completely forbidden, as in islam, it’s stated that the main reason for banning alcoholic drinks is to stop people being drunk, and some would argue that drinking a small quantity wouldn’t get you drunk, so that verse was to stop them from drinking it in any quantity

[@Menzobarrenza]

@@zaidmadi318 I'm glad you think so 😁 Your explanation makes perfect sense. There are 2 verses about alcohol prior to the complete ban, that discourage alcohol, one of which forbids praying while intoxicated. If some Muslims had a hard time obeying, it wouldn't be surprising if it was banned altogether for that reason. As a side note, the Arabic word used for alcohol, if memory serves, is khamr, which literally refers to wine from fermented dates, but the term was used for all alcoholic beverages in practice. This makes it easy to argue that the ban only applies to drinking alcoholic drinks (and therefore might allow cooking with either wine, or more likely wine vinegar), but since chemistry hadn't been invented yet they didn't have a word for the alcohol compound yet, so the intent could still refer to the alcohol itself (in which case you just rely on Hadith for understanding).

[@zaidmadi318]

Menzobarrenza Cooking with wine is somewhat controversial ( I wouldn’t do it just to be safe) but the verse banning praying while intoxicated was to make the complete ban easier, as completely stopping alcohol would’ve been easier for muslims if they were already used to not being intoxicated more than half of the time (as prayers in islam are widely spread throughout the day), you’re right about the word khamr, which stems from the arabic word for fermentation and means wine in modern arabic. I’m honestly surprised by how educated you are considering you’re not muslim :)

[@Menzobarrenza]

@@zaidmadi318 Thank you again for the compliment 😁 Your explanation makes a lot of sense. I have been casually studying Islam for just about a year now. I find topics like theology, philosophy and quantum physics extremely interesting, so it falls within my range of interests.

[@ol_fortune9474]

not only making some cooking videos, this guy is also making a Science Of Cooking™ video too, neat.

[@joselynm5634]

Its called food science

[@giahuynguyenkim6389]

@@joselynm5634 also food history and ethnicity

[@davekachel]

I once made a dinner sauce with almost only red whine in it. I further experimented. I had a small portion of fond with pepper and stuff and poured the whine in at a very late stage. Almost tripled the amount of liquid. It just had enough time to warm up. We basically ate pork with warm, spicy whine. It was a great time. I will never ever do it again. My wife had a hangover.

[@elonmust7470]

you're a liar.

[@a.lollipop]

I'm 5 years late but what did you expect 😭

[@Lifelightning]

"My taxes pay your salary!" lmao

[@RamadaArtist]

I've often said that beer is just liquid bread; good to know that bread is also just solid beer.

[@Passionforfoodrecipes]

Not only baked goods, you will find trace amounts of alcohol in things like Pop/Soda as well! Turns out alcohol is a great solvent for delivering concentrated flavors, in all sorts of ways!

[@dalebumpaous1502]

Awesome video, I like seeing all the research that went into it. For anyone curious, since the notion of the reason for religious abstaining from cooking alcohol was brought up, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (most know us as Mormons), cooking with alcohol is not allowed. Not because we think we'll get drunk, but rather to avoid risking a higher temptation to drink alcohol. It all boils down (no pun intended) to the idea of "getting a taste for it."

[@electronpusher604]

As a chemistry person and amateur chef I love this video. Just found your channel and it's great!

[@thenintendoboy1]

Same!

[@carbonsinatrenchcoat]

This format is great! It's so nice to see your channel growing and breaking these weird food related stigmas with factual and practical evidence. Keep it up bro!

[@aryasinha5718]

Add vodka to pizza dough. Eat it and take an alcohol test to prove the theory

[@LeonRedfields]

I like this idea

[@aragusea]

I'm not sure how much of it you could add to the dough - at some point it would kill the yeast. Alcohol sterilizes, after all.

[@aryasinha5718]

@@aragusea I know I just wanna see you act drunk

[@davidfuller581]

@@aragusea Beyond that it would kill the yeast, alcohol apparently inhibits gluten formation - which is why pie dough recipes sometimes call for vodka instead of water.

[@jamesarthurkimbell]

Adam Ragusea I wonder if that happens accidentally sometimes: your yeast grows too much too fast and produces enough alcohol to kill itself

[@gagek4330]

This video is presented much in the style of an Alton Brown episode, and you sound and research food science just like him. I really love your videos and love when food personalities add a science element to their videos. all the more reason to subscribe and to soak in this absolute plethora of food information. Love the videos!

[@mugensamurai]

1979 is hilariously old? Damn i must be hilariously old.

[@aragusea]

right there with you, buddy

[@meesalikeu]

did you see and hear those recipies? it might as well have been from the 1950s

[@manualidadesconchris]

That "My taxes pay your salary" with a mouthful of twinkie belongs on an "Out of Context Ragusea" twitter account.

[@nilsblackwell5212]

Always good videos. Thanks for doing the research. It must be tough to find new angles for cooking videos, but you always seem to be able to (and consistently).

[@tianagonzalez340]

I LOVE this. Basically crosses my affinity for chemistry with food. Fantastic job❤️

[@Bot-ec5cp]

I love your videos short and sweet, amazing!

[@Gardor]

as always

[@bestsnowboarderuknow]

So... if I go down on a girl with a yeast infection, I could get a buzz?

[@MuffScuffler]

Damn this was entertaing. Don't let my carefully selected profile picture and my unashamedly immature name fool you, I'm a sucker for a well articulated lesson (backed up by interesting studies as well) on exactly how my Nana's rum-balls got me WRECKED last christmas thanks Adam

[@007bistromath]

"We need about 25 lbs of pot roast to get that effect." CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

[@LouisWhitworth]

Adam, you’re quickly becoming my favorite cooking channel. Your presentation and delivery do a wonderful job of keeping me excited every time I see a new video of yours on my feed. I followed your pizza recipe a few nights ago and it was fantastic!

[@TheMilitantHorse]

1400 twinkies to get drunk? Sounds more like a challenge than a warning.

[@eirikco]

I adore your videos Adam. Your channel have quickly become one of my favourites.

[@lelandunruh7896]

This has come up in conversations I've had with Muslim friends when cooking for them (one in particular loved my boeuf bourguignon). Two friends, both Sunni and both of South Asian descent, came to exact opposite conclusions. One of them reasoned just as Mr. Ragusea has here (as do I when I give up alcohol for Lent, which I do every year). Even within the same religion you often get different interpretations.

[@PotatoTheProgrammer]

Adult 1: Why are you drunk? Adult 2: I drank wine Adult 3: I drank another alcoholic beverage Kid: I ate bread

[@bhume7535]

"That's a lot of pot roast." It isn't _enough_ pot roast!!

[@FishSkeleton-]

As someone who takes medication which is vital to not mix with alcohol, this video was pretty interesting. I was curious if I should, say, avoid a steak made with bourbon sauce, but it sounds like the risk factor involved would be pretty minor, much as I had hoped for. Good to know! Thanks, Adam!

[@nmyhv1]

"my beloved Marco Pierre White" A MAN OF CULTURE

[@Blueshirt38]

Your channel makes me so happy, because you really do feel like the modern Alton Brown. I know Good Eats will never return to a full TV run, and I've accepted that, but you help fill a void in thoughtful cooking that has existed since the show was cancelled.

[@Halberddent]

My grandpa used to give his kids whiskey with honey as a cold cure, and they seem to have turned out alright. (I'm imagining the whiskey was diluted. I didn't ask.)

[@calebbabcock5687]

4:12 congrats, you just watched a grown man shout and spit a mouthful of Twinsies at an imaginary person.

[@user-sh8kc4kz2h]

This man is creepy. Eyes are huge. I like it when the video has just his voice over not seeing him. No offense. Just some tips. Like the channel though.

[@SuperCookieGaming_]

Is it really burning off when you don't flambe? isn't more like evaporating?

[@gingainfinity1034]

Yep

[@Kelnx]

Old video but I guess I missed this one. I've often told people there's no way alcohol can all cook off so quickly, but I've never seen anyone break it down like this. I'd add one more thing to the discussion of alcohol being in a lot of foods like bread...alcohol is also produced in your body, primarily in your gut. The same chemistry is going on there, with certain microbes in your gut breaking down sugars and producing alcohols. There's also small amounts of alcohol in fruits and vegetables. In fact, pretty much anything with sugars that can be exposed at any point to certain microbes (which are everywhere) will produce some alcohol. So it would be impossible to be alive and also avoid any and all alcohol. It's simply a byproduct of biology. But it (generally) takes a deliberate effort to ferment something into booze, and those with religious or other objections to alcohol only need to worry about that.

[@mitchellkensen6857]

Hello, thanks for the infomative video! Question: I live in a sober house for drug and alcohol abuse and I regularly get urine test for ethyl glucuronide ( metabolite of alcohol ) . They have warned me numerous times to watch what I eat because it may have alcohol in it (especially fermented stuff). My question: How much bread or anything else do i have to eat before it shows on my urine test? And do you have any tips on what foods i should avoid? I hope that you can answer this question because I'm super parenoïd ever since I found out almost everything has traces of alcohol in it. Thank you very much!

[@gemstonegynoid7475]

Might have to look at autobrewery syndrome if you know you arent ingesting any alcohol.

[@hithere1036]

In south Africa a guy got arrested by eating a hot cross bun and doing breath aliser test with 0 alcohol in system and now there's a meme of hot cross buns in south Africa

[@amusliminusa]

Thanks for covering this topic in so much detail. I learned a lot. I do try to avoid alcohol. Could you please advise what to use instead of wine in cooked dishes? I don't really see what it adds to a cooked dish so it's hard to think of how to substitute. Thanks again.

[@andreibratosin]

See a previous video of his on why he cooks with white wine. In it, he recommends using balsamic white vinegar instead of white wine if you don't cook with alcohol

[@XPrincess30]

Am I the only one that doesn’t like this guy? He rubs me the wrong way and he’s creepy

[@psychomaji]

That was actually fascinating, I've often wondered this so it's nice to have someone else do the research for me. Thanks

[@mrgallbladder]

But shouldn't there be a difference between boiling off the alcohol and setting it on fire? When you set fire to alcohol or gasoline it literally burns off and disappears, shouldn't the same thing happen during flambeing? Just thinking out loud.

[@ronaldtownsend9569]

i put off watching this guy for a long time thinking he was someone else... this channel seems legit

[@Movie_Games]

Why would you want it all burned off anyway?

[@nateg452]

This was my favorite one so far, getting into Alton Brown territory. Love it man.

[@PoserGalore]

I don’t know why but I really get a bunch nostalgic feels when I watch these videos. It feels like week day mornings and clicking on PBS .

[@seanwalsh5717]

Most fruit has some alcohol molecules in it, but it won't affect you at all.

[@Ericbryanmr]

That chemistry professor is really going for the gym teacher vibe.

[@jonathannagel7427]

Life’s like a box of chocolates, you never know who you’re gonna get

[@hosseynshanbehzaadeh9342]

I live in Iran. Booze is totally banned in here, good alcohol is very rare and ridiculously expensive , the bootleggers make horrible stuff (I call them very concentrated blood of Jesus), and if you get caught, you'll be flogged 80 times while being STRIPPED OFF OF ALMOST ALL YOUR CLOTHES, and it hurts so much you can't even imagine (I've been flogged myself. The whip, believe it or not, was made out of STEEL MARBLES covered with a black cloth. I could feel them on my back and butt and the back of my legs, and with the last lashes, blood drops came out of the wounds. It was so heavy. And my hands were cuffed to a chair legs that they had it stood up. I've never been so humiliated and so hurt in my whole very hard life). I must say, I'm not THAT fond of alcohol, I was just trying to get rid of my addiction to drugs by using alcohol. Drugs are not that heavily banned here. Everybody uses them, including me, to get rid of the oppressor government and fucked up economy. I couldn't drink in home because my mom, although she's a very nice lady, is religious. So I used to go out every night and drank a cup of Arak (most horrible shit you can imagine). One night I drank a little too much and I was caught throwing up in a corner in a park, and the rest of the story haunts me to this day. I can't even believe what they did that to me. I thought they whip you very softly just for the rituals to be held. But they hit me much, much harder than you ever can imagine. That was horrible. That's barbaric. Being scourged to the point that a grown man (I was 24 at the time) cries his ass off from pain, in fucking 21st century, just for a sip of alcohol, is just ridiculous. If your religion does that to people, it's not the alcohol that has problems, it's your religion. The thing about west that I'm mostly jealous of, besides the freedom of speech (I was also a political prisoner last year, and will be, the next year; but that's another story; and judging by my comment, you can see why) is your freedom of choice in foods and drinks. I've never eaten pork in my life (I'm 32), and I wish to do that. Those are the things you take for granted. Excuse my elementary level of English. I've never actually spoken to any English-speaking person in my life. Learnt it via movies, clips and books.

[@benjaminstiles]

Glad God said “don’t get drunk.” And not “don’t consume alcohol.”

[@bosstyrant]

“What is that? You want me to put you on lucky charms?” *slinks out of view with bottle* I love the execution of that.

[@Stuvi]

Markiplier being hitting the gym smh

[@thebeast88_]

I watched the previous alcohol video half an our ago. nice

[@honzareality]

I don't drink because of religious reasons but also I want to keep my head function at 100% and some red wine in my spaghetti does not harm. The "commandment" is for people not people for the "commandment" 👍 Thank you for good vid.

[@MarkParkTech]

As someone who understands how distillation works, I already knew this. Alcohol has a stronger bond to the water than the water has to itself, and the water bonds to the alcohol stronger than alcohol bonds to itself. So while you can "burn" ( you're actually evaporating ) off most of the alcohol, you will never get all of it out without using some sort of molecular sieve.

[@luismoref]

Just a random question.. if I want to distills most of the alcohol of something how do I do that?

[@jennhoff03]

That is so interesting!

[@MarkParkTech]

@@luismoref It all boils ( lol ) down to heat and time. To go into detail, I'd need to put it somewhere to give me more room to document outside a comments thread. There's lots of documentation and youtube videos about it if you really want to know. Just make sure you check your local laws so you don't run afoul of the authorities before you put anything to practice.

[@lemons1559]

@@luismoref Distil it over and over and over again until it's 95%. That's a gross oversimplification but that's pretty much how everclear is made.

[@aetu35]

1:57 I guess my house is stuck in the 70's then, we serve a lot of stews and pot roasts with pasta (or rice).

[@elsuperdog123]

“Mom, dad is telling at the wine again!”

[@ke6gwf]

Growing up in a very strict conservative religious environment, I frequently heard arguments about whether the alcohol evaporated if you used a few drops of vanilla extract! Lol

[@KENANSSS]

Just found out about you're youtube channel today and bro you are killing it everything is on point you're cooking skills you're knowledge about cooking i dont even know how to cook and i love watching it keep going and that 1m plaque be yours :)

[@demstudios5799]

So what you’re telling me is I can eat 700 twinkies to equal the feeling of half a beer. Sobriety is gonna be lit.

[@TheRealSamtrex]

This has become my favorite KZbin channel. Keep it up sir

[@stevemoppett2759]

Who looks at their new-born child and thinks 'Garland'?

This is good for someone with alcohol allergy like me. Thank you! :D

[@bobbywhite5319]

Liver broke?

[@EggEnjoyer]

Bobby White Some people's bodies don't produce the enzymes needed to process and break down alcohol

[@JamieTyson]

"what's that? you want me to put you on lucky charms?" dude, you cracked me up so hard. Thanks again, love it.

[@cr1sprarchives408]

"you shouldn't eat my sauce" Sounds like a line from an amateur hentai but ok

[@ccaffie1231]

*"oh no my sauce is spilling!"*

[@RustyDust101]

Standard juices from ANY fruit contain more alcohol due to natural yeast on the fruit converting the fructose into CO2 and alcohol than most 'non-alcoholic beers'. Especially if they have been stored for some time. Some juices range up to more than 2% vol. of alcohol content, naturally, without any intention of the producers. Cherry juice is particularly susceptible to that. Non-alcoholic beers most often are standard beers which have been treated to remove the alcohol from them. But like any chemist will tell you, NO reaction is 100% efficient so there will ALWAYS be some residue, even in the best of non-alcoholic beers. Yes, cooking off alcohol IS possible (well, at least to the level that consuming the food takes more time than our body takes to metabolize the alcohol). But most of the time "burning off" is quicker than "cooking off". Burning off generates additional heat, which turns more liquid alcohol into gaseous alcohol, which then burns off again, etc, until the alcohol level drops to JUST below the point where the ratio of alcohol to other liquids (water and fat, mostly) is too low to keep burning. At that point, keep cooking for some minutes to reduce alcohol levels even further, especially if it is a roiling bubbling cook-off, instead of a slow simmer. Cooking off in a slow roast takes time; a LOT of time. Certainly not the amount of time that most TV or internet chefs take to 'cook off the alcohol' in their shows. BTW: for all extremist religious people out there who don't want to come into contact with alcohol, I've got some terrible news for you. Your body produces alcohol by itsself. Yes, it is in absolutely minute amounts, but if tested with sufficiently precise and exact tests alcohol CAN be found in the most abstinent human being. Heck, even breathing makes you consume a few molecules of alcohol every day unless you live in an environment where absolutely every last particle is filtered from your air. To all sane religious people, I understand the concept of intention and intoxication, as well as necessity. But don't worry; you will never be able to become drunk from your own body's alcohol (unless you suffer from a very rare disease where this natural process is increased by many times).

[@Murmurrr]

Oh dude, you’re totally blowing up.

[@sydneygorelick7484]

Absolutely criminal you didn't end with a cut to you eating lucky charms in Pinot gringo. 0/10 amazing well-researched video, very informative and entertaining, but no commitment to the bit

[@robertsistrunk6631]

Ever think about doing voice overs? You've got the voice for it.

[@PandaCatXD]

Hello any other chronic migrainers, or chronically ill spoonies! I'd like to know if any of you cook with alcohol and if it has any effect on your migraines or body, because I'd love to try some of Mr Ragusea's recipes but he uses white wine a lot and i get migraines from apple cider (aka hard cider i think for Americans?) so my alcohol tolerance is abysmal. And like, yeah Mr Ragusea explains the statistics, but also people's experiences would be helpful!

[@Alaskan-Armadillo]

You are like a food journalist where you dispel myths and hold chefs accountable as though they are politicians.

[@SoumilSahu]

He does teach journalism at his university, makes sense

[@PuffPastry-ke3cm]

Thanks for making this video, Adam. I personally made a choice to abstain from alcohol, so the thought of cooking with alcohol makes me nervous. This really helped me out.

[@raynmanshorts9275]

As a person with very sensitive tastebuds and a *strong* distaste for alcohol, I can always taste the alcohol when alcoholic beverages are used in cooking. When the alcohol comes from yeast (bread and related products) or extracts, though... not so much.

[@imamwiratmadja]

As a muslim, ny understanding is that Quran prohibits khamr (booze) rather than alcohol. The difference is khamr is made for the intoxicating effect, while alcohol is the product of fermentation and there's distinction between the two. For example I eat ripe banana, bread, and shoyu although they might contain alcohol.