Personally, I’m not too worried about it. I’m not going to cook with alcohol myself (other than extracts), but if someone else does, I’m okay with eating it.
Unless there’s a pronounced alcohol taste, and then the problem won’t be about consuming the substance, it will be about not liking the flavor.
I always got the impression that Alton brown was talking to people who were avoiding alcohol because of addiction.
I could be wrong though. I have no idea if a red wine reduction would knock somebody off the wagon.
Sure it could. It is a potent reminder of wine, and that wine can be pleasant to consume. I don’t think it’s a physiological trigger so much as a psychological one.
At any rate, my MIL was a recovering alcoholic. She hadn’t had a drink for years when i met her, and i don’t believe she ever did after that. But when she visited we hid all the booze, and never cooked with it. That may have been more to be polite than a real fear that she’d take up drinking again. But still, it’s a complicated and emotionally charged issue for a recovering alcoholic. Why bring it up.
It’s weird to me that I could send my 6 y/o son to the store to buy a bottle of Angostura bitters and it would be no problem at all. It’s over 100 proof but it’s legally considered “non-alcoholic” because it’s so bitter. I’ll put a couple of dashes into some plain soda water during dry January as a simple mocktail and I don’t consider that a violation. A practicing Mormon might have a different opinion.
A practicing Mormon wouldn’t consider it. They’ve probably never heard of whatever that is, and would have no hankering for it.
Am I the only one very confused about how a thread about threesomes ended up about Mormanism?
Must be a sister wives thing.
12-way…
Approximate thread progression:
A) 3-ways: ménage a trois or spaghetti, chili, cheese? (correct answer: spaghetti, chili, cheese of course)
B) PG-13 innuendo
C) regional food in general
D) Northwest food: geoduck or Dungeness crab & coffee
E) Lucy doesn’t think Dungeness crab and coffee go together
F) the phrase “coffee doesn’t go well with _____” doesn’t make sense to twig.
G) has twig ever heard of a Mormon?
H) yes, but twig meant for a coffee drinker to say that is the part that doesn’t make sense
I) what about all this other stuff that Mormons can/can’t eat/drink?
I’m here for the three way.
See getting A wrong was your first mistake. Thread went to hell from there.
SMH
I added in some additional context.
I believe it was the NSFW thread, not the SFW thread.
I forgot about that part, but with that minor adjustment, yes.
link by the OP confirms; so I’ve made an edit to reflect this.
Same here. Strangely enough, Joseph Smith recreationally drank beer and wine, even after the Word of Wisdom was revealed. But I digress…
The revelation warns against drinking “wine” and “strong drinks” - with an exception for sacramental wine.
Later, it says that one use for barley is “for mild drinks”.
I’m pretty sure they would have considered beer a “mild drink” at the time.
It also says that tobacco “is an herb for bruises and all sick cattle”.
Has anyone looked into those possible uses of tobacco?
Mmm, smoked beef
Yeah, I think that putting tobacco leaves on bruised skin used to be a pretty common remedy. I’m guessing it’s less effective than ice, but prior to refrigeration ice was hard to come by for much of the year.
I assume it’s better than nothing but I’ve never tried it. I’ve never lived anywhere that tobacco leaves were more plentiful than ice cubes.