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 TH-cam 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.
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?
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!
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
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 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
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.)
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.
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.
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)
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. ;)
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 ;-)
I think you just touched on the reason my partner's mom isn't a fan of a lot of sobriety programs. She just could not deal with how those programs relied on the idea that she didn't have any real agency (usually with a subtext of spiritual surrender). She got sober though, and still is because she has that sense of agency.
@ajchapeliere I can't speak for some, but my abuse came out of a lack of control. Both neurological and psychological. I climbed out by insisting it was my right to drink what I wanted. I drank a lot of tea for a while. Worked, though.
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
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!
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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).
@@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.
@@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
@@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.
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!
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!
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).
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
@@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).
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 :)
@@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.
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.
I just discovered your channel but i can't wait for other videos. You show not only passion for cooking, but also a lot of useful knowledge. Don't stop it ;)
Why are these videos so fucking good it's just cooking yet it's politics, comedy, religion, history. Between all the videos on this channel we have a wide variety of wonderful things. Engrave these on records and send them to aliens.
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!
My boyfriend and I really enjoy your videos and we look forward to them every week. You make great content and we have fun being inspired by your cooking tips.
This is why youre my only followed food cooking channel. You add science into it and thus it interests me to know your processes for how the food is cooked.
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.
Just when I thought your content couldn’t get any better, this pops up. Great video, just the right mix of information and entertainment. You’re lovely, man. Keep at it! :)
@@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.
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
As well as bread, alcohol is ubiquitous in fruit. I can't remember the papers I used but in college I wrote a paper on humans' relationship with yeast, which exist anywhere that fruit is present. I learned that every fruit-eating animal is exposed to low levels of alcohol purely due to fermentation by natural yeasts, and our early ancestors were largely fruit-eaters. There is a hypothesis that the reason we seek alcohol and feel its effects as rewarding is that its presence generally coincides with the fruit-based nutrition we evolved to seek out. But we also evolved to metabolize alcohol, as is said in the video, so none of the fruit we eat is over-ripe enough for the alcohol content to have any effect.
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!
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).
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.
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!
@@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
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!
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.
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
Adam, I know you're working your ass off churning out 2 videos a week, and maybe you dont have time or energy to do this type of humor anymore, but i love this style. keep up the good work!
I wasn't sure about this at first, but it was mighty interesting and am looking forward to more of these types of videos along with the standard cooking ones!
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."
Very good information in the video. Only thing I have to critique is the age of the studies you used in the video. Science has gotten much better over time, and newer studies will most likely have a lot less error than these old ones.
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 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.
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 :)
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.
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!
Aight, this video got me. I've been binging your content for a spell with the rona and everything that's going on. You have my subscription good sir... You have not disappointed thus far. Also, have an upvote and a bell notification.
Subscribed. I always considered cooking as kitchen chemistry, but the fact that you're actually talking science has made me fall in love. ...I get a really strong Alton Brown vibe. Great stuff!
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 TH-cam 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.
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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?
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!
@@xlittlep holy fuck i love this
What about beer batter fish?
"That's a lot of potroast." Well, that's just like your opinion man
The Dude abides.
1/5 of my bodyweight seems like too much
The potroast is not the issue here!
Easy, could finish that entire potroast in like 30 minutes
any pizza is a personal pizza if you believe in yourself enough
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."
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
@@angelwhispers2060 this is funnier, though
Sounds like the beginning to a porno
before the handyman became popular
Adam continues to play with fire (literally) by roasting Ramsay... and it’s glorious
What do you mean?
@@chrissotiriou5028 Not so fast, Gordon.
Can't wait till he picks apart his "don't salt the eggs beforehand" (for scrambled eggs)
@@unfixablegop what?
@@chrissotiriou5028 He is criticizing the famous tv cook Gordon Ramsey for claiming that almost all the alcohol gets removed by flambeing.
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!
I'm more confused about how they halal labelled breads now...
@@nowtmrb3337 you can't really make bread without yeast :/ in where i live even the yeast itself has a halal label
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.
@@shermuhammadkhan3383 what type of alcohol medicinal alcohol or DRINK alcohol
@@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
Ah shit I just ate 1379 Twinkies and I'm under 18
I’m calling the police
911
Nope but I'm too drink to drive
Diabeetus
"under 18"
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.)
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.
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.
This TH-cam channel is #1 in being respectful. Literally second to none.
gasp! i cant believe my mormon self has been boozing it up eating bread all these years! what a wild ride this has been!
as long as you keep your wife in the kitchen while we talk man stuff over here
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.
Naughty girl (or boy/other)!
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)
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. ;)
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 ;-)
I think you just touched on the reason my partner's mom isn't a fan of a lot of sobriety programs. She just could not deal with how those programs relied on the idea that she didn't have any real agency (usually with a subtext of spiritual surrender). She got sober though, and still is because she has that sense of agency.
@ajchapeliere I can't speak for some, but my abuse came out of a lack of control. Both neurological and psychological. I climbed out by insisting it was my right to drink what I wanted. I drank a lot of tea for a while. Worked, though.
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!
por qué no ambos
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oof same
IamMe The comment above you said literally the same thing but in spanish 😂
@@VesicantRedds wouldn’t it be ambas? Not sure.
food cooking videos ARE food science videos and vv
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
Try and make a meal that gets you drunk!
Rum ham
Rum ham
Rum ham
Ham rum
Hum ram.
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!
25 pounds of pot roast to get wasted?
*CHALLENGE ACCEPTED*
Closer to about 200 pounds, but still doable
25 for a can of beer, if i aint ate nothing it takes about 6 to start feeling anything
A single can of beer can’t even get u wasted and that’s what 25 pound of pot roast is equivalent to lmao
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.
If you get wasted by drinking a single beer can.
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
So what would the answer be for Muslims?
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
"You probably shouldn't eat my sauce."
Oh, Adam. You can't stop them.
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.
you're a liar.
I'm 5 years late but what did you expect 😭
As a chemistry person and amateur chef I love this video. Just found your channel and it's great!
Same!
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.
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!
Definitely, the fancy/strong vanilla extract I use is the same, it's dissolved in ethanol.
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.
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).
@@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.
@@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
@@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.
@@lemons1559 the purpose of a vodka pasta sauce isn’t to get you drunk
Adam "alcohol science" Ragusea
Joe "Rogan'
@@bp.4928 Joe "Dimethyl Tryptamine" Rogan
@@26dollar Have you tried elk meat?
Don't bless this useless information swine with a good TH-cam meme
@@thorinoakenshield2517 you suck
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!
"You'd have to eat about 1400 twinkies to equal 1 beer"
Challenge accepted
570 down only 830 to go😂
@@blooBerry371 **passes out**
You'd probably go into a sugar coma first
Diabetes time
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!
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).
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
@@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).
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 :)
@@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.
My new favorite TH-camr.
Cooks
Teaches me more science than my actual lesson does.
Looks like Keanu Reeves.
Josh Groban of the kitchen
and is funny AF
He looks like a nerdy Keanu Reeves, but he's still good looking just like him.
He looks like discount markiplier
he looks like a perfect mix between keanu and Adam driver
Your radio training really makes your videos... fast-paced and intense, to the point of frenetic.
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.
I just discovered your channel but i can't wait for other videos. You show not only passion for cooking, but also a lot of useful knowledge. Don't stop it ;)
I’m going to Mercer next year I hope to meet you
Come by my office any time! CCJ 117.
How lucky
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
Makes me want to visit Mercer now!
Adam Ragusea so wait Alex
How do you not have a deep southern draw if your from Macon
Why are these videos so fucking good it's just cooking yet it's politics, comedy, religion, history. Between all the videos on this channel we have a wide variety of wonderful things. Engrave these on records and send them to aliens.
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!
My boyfriend and I really enjoy your videos and we look forward to them every week. You make great content and we have fun being inspired by your cooking tips.
I adore your videos Adam. Your channel have quickly become one of my favourites.
This is why youre my only followed food cooking channel. You add science into it and thus it interests me to know your processes for how the food is cooked.
*me as a student*
Oh so there's still alcohol left after cooking? Nice!
4:00 *nice hilighting*
Just pour some more on top after you're done.
4:40 , Man you just gave a very practical example of "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted" , fratello mio
not only making some cooking videos, this guy is also making a Science Of Cooking™ video too, neat.
Its called food science
@@joselynm5634 also food history and ethnicity
"what's that? you want me to put you on lucky charms?" dude, you cracked me up so hard. Thanks again, love it.
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.
Just when I thought your content couldn’t get any better, this pops up. Great video, just the right mix of information and entertainment. You’re lovely, man. Keep at it! :)
Next episode: Is there a *lethal dose* of Lasagna? (Guest-starring Vsauce Michael)
No vsauce crap please. I hate when these "celebrity" youtubers latch onto another show
Well, you could drown in it.
rip vsauce its been dead for years micheal killed it thru greed
@@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.
One of the better bits of journalism I have seen recently. Apparently journalism can be unbiased of it's about food
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
It's the cooking channel we need but don't deserve.
I LOVE this. Basically crosses my affinity for chemistry with food. Fantastic job❤️
As well as bread, alcohol is ubiquitous in fruit. I can't remember the papers I used but in college I wrote a paper on humans' relationship with yeast, which exist anywhere that fruit is present. I learned that every fruit-eating animal is exposed to low levels of alcohol purely due to fermentation by natural yeasts, and our early ancestors were largely fruit-eaters. There is a hypothesis that the reason we seek alcohol and feel its effects as rewarding is that its presence generally coincides with the fruit-based nutrition we evolved to seek out. But we also evolved to metabolize alcohol, as is said in the video, so none of the fruit we eat is over-ripe enough for the alcohol content to have any effect.
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!
Your channel is one of the biggest discovery in this year for me!
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).
Adam, I don’t comment on TH-cam Videos often, but I have to say you have something awesome here! Thanks for this and all of your other videos.
That was actually fascinating, I've often wondered this so it's nice to have someone else do the research for me. Thanks
Big fan of these kinds of collaborations with your colleagues. I'm interested in where you might go with this format, keep up the good work!
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.
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!
@@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
Excellent video!
Please keep that good quality, nice voice, and logic.
The virgin "drinking alcohol to get drunk" vs the Chad "Eating an ungodly amount of pot roast to get drunk"
You actually show the studies you conduct, I applaud you for that.
This has become my favorite TH-cam channel. Keep it up sir
I’m a student and I never cook, but you videos are so entertaining and easy i can’t not watch them. You’re doin awesome!
"My taxes pay your salary!" lmao
I love how you address commonly asked questions with videos
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!
I was just looking for a video like this the other day for dietary reasons. Thanks for uploading this!
I've often said that beer is just liquid bread; good to know that bread is also just solid beer.
gotta love how he prints out the research instead of showing it on screen
Way less work than motion graphics.
i put off watching this guy for a long time thinking he was someone else... this channel seems legit
This channel is so fantastic, I can't believe I never found you earlier!
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.
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
I love Adam. Informative, entertaining, and the right amount of cheeky.
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 .
You're like a mad scientist who is obsessed over something. Appreciate the effort & entertainment you dish out sir...
sorry master i am 2 minutes late. forgive me.
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1 year late lol
Entertaining and insightful, Adam has been one of the best channel's I've found so far in 2019!
I love your videos short and sweet, amazing!
as always
Adam, I know you're working your ass off churning out 2 videos a week, and maybe you dont have time or energy to do this type of humor anymore, but i love this style. keep up the good work!
"We need about 25 lbs of pot roast to get that effect."
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
How tf do you hit every single point so well you inspire me and ive noticed ive started to act like you
Cop: How much have you had to drink tonight?
Me: I had about 4,000 twinkies officer.
I wasn't sure about this at first, but it was mighty interesting and am looking forward to more of these types of videos along with the standard cooking ones!
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."
Very good information in the video. Only thing I have to critique is the age of the studies you used in the video. Science has gotten much better over time, and newer studies will most likely have a lot less error than these old ones.
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.
Just a random question.. if I want to distills most of the alcohol of something how do I do that?
That is so interesting!
@@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.
@@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.
Just seeing you bring up research articles (I think I saw one from JSTOR) reminds me of my recent university days. Great video as always!
This was my favorite one so far, getting into Alton Brown territory. Love it man.
Oh man. That cookbook brings back memories. My mom would make cherries jubilee all the time when I was a kid. No wonder I loved that dish!
4:12 congrats, you just watched a grown man shout and spit a mouthful of Twinsies at an imaginary person.
Another great, short video. Loving all your content Adam!
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 :)
Just ran into this. Very informative! Thanks Adam (always love your humor as well!)
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.
I love how Ragusea is kind of huge nerd. He is cooking, but at the same time he talks about chemistry, teology, and even history of cooking.
“What is that? You want me to put you on lucky charms?” *slinks out of view with bottle* I love the execution of that.
you make genuinely quality videos dont stop
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!
Might have to look at autobrewery syndrome if you know you arent ingesting any alcohol.
Adam, you have quickly become one of my favorite TH-cam chefs, along with Food Wishes and Vahchef.
This is good for someone with alcohol allergy like me. Thank you! :D
Liver broke?
Bobby White Some people's bodies don't produce the enzymes needed to process and break down alcohol
Aight, this video got me. I've been binging your content for a spell with the rona and everything that's going on. You have my subscription good sir... You have not disappointed thus far. Also, have an upvote and a bell notification.
Is it really burning off when you don't flambe? isn't more like evaporating?
Yep
Subscribed. I always considered cooking as kitchen chemistry, but the fact that you're actually talking science has made me fall in love.
...I get a really strong Alton Brown vibe. Great stuff!