Eating Food Cooked with Alcohol


Question:


Is it permissible to eat dishes cooked with alcohol? It is well-known that alcohol evaporates with heat.



Answer:



Praise be to Allaah.


It is not permissible to eat dishes cooked with alcohol, as ALL the alcohol is not evaporated with cooking or heat. Refer to the following, quoted from the famous Mayo Clinic:



Many people believe that because alcohol is sensitive to heat, it is eliminated with cooking. However, not all the alcohol content of alcoholic drinks is removed with heat; it depends on the type and time of cooking. For instance if you add beer or wine to boiling liquid, then immediately remove it from the heat, 85 per cent of the alcohol content will remain. If you light the alcohol, as in flambé dishes, 75 per cent will remain. Even after simmering the dish for one and a half hours, it will still have 20 per cent of the original alcohol content.




It is only if you simmer the mixture for two or more hours, (as you would with a wine-based beef casserole), that as little as five to 10 per cent of the original alcohol content remains



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Jazakallau khairan akhi bilal, this is very important information

Thanks for your feedback,

It should be noted that the same applies for non-alcoholic beer.

you mean that it does not evaporate with cooking or that it is not really non-alcoholic?

Non-alcoholic beer is nothing but a diluted beer. They try to evaporate the alcohol from it.

Some Muslims love to drink it without knowing that they are falling in a shoubha.

bilal

if it a diluted beer that means it is not a shoubha it is haram 100%

but are u sure that it contains alcohol

just to say the infos for people we know

and i think that even if it is 100% alcohol free there is a shoubha like the bottle shape and the name etc...

JAK

Salam Brothers

It is so important what you said Bilal..
Personaly, i am one of many people who like to drink non-alcoholic beer. Actually, what made me drink it wihtout any fear or doubt is that in KSA they sell it like water, and as you know, KSA will not allow any drink that is not tested to be non-alcoholic.

I got this habit from there, Saudi Arabia :???: .. and i am taking it everywhere i go. I am addicted now and i can't leave it :) :) :)

It was a joke.. but pls i am still interested to know from where did you get this info.. clarifcation pls.

Yalla Salamz

where r you bilal?

why u r not answering our questions?

Yes Farouk...
I think he has no answer :)

Salam 3alaykoum,
I do not know why I did not get a notification for your addition before akhi Riad. I just got it right now after Farouck addition only.

I got the info from Mayo Clinic newsletter.

If you are asking where I got my info about Laziza in Lebanon, I got it from an accounting course in Lebanon. We have done a case about the cost of switching the production mode in that factory and how much it is costing them to switch the production line from one mode to the other.

Basically, the factory has one production line only that they use for both regular Beer and non-alcoholic beer. They do not produce non-alcoholic but what they do is that they evaporate it to dilute the content of alcohol. I tried to ask one guy there whether this is true r not but did not accept to give me any info.

Try ur luck and ask them how they proceess it?

In Saudi, they might be producin a non-alcoholic directly but not in Lebanon and I am almost sure that this is what used to happen untill 2002. Since then, I do not have more info.

As far as I know, you can find a variety of brands in Saudia imported from all over the world including Lebanon and some Europian countries like Germany.


In the states, Budweiser sells a non-alcoholic beer on the label of which they declare that its alcohol content is 0.05% which is negligible but does not make it halal.


So when I saw the brands being sold in our countries with 0.0% on the label I was suspicious, because while this is technically true it does not mean that there is absolutely no alcohol in it.


Then I was told what Riad mentioned about how these things undergo regorous testing in Saudia and that if there was even a trace of alcohol in it they would not allow it, and I asked a couple of scholars about the seriousness of the relevant agencies about this and I was told that they were extremely serious and extremely competent


So I started drinking the stuff because it also has medicinal benefits as well. so any documented information that you have on this subject will be greatly appreciated

i have heard once that from production prospective no pure beer could be made without Alcohol regardless the quantity. it means that what so called beer should have some alcohol. he was a production engineer from Czech republic.

Dear Brothers,
If you are looking for the benefits, just go and by some sh-3ir and boil it.

Back to the alcohol issue, what measures does these agency in Saudi has to test?

They might be testing a sample that the company is sending but if you like to be sure 100%, get some coloring indicators urself and try it.

I am sure you would find traces of alcohol.

best luck

of all the drinks available in markets, you choose to chase after beer!!!
:roll:

what is your favorate drink

أذكر إخواني أن الأصل في الأمور الحل ولا بد من دليل قاطع للتحريم

معك يا مقاوم...ولكن الا يجدر بنا الابتعاد عن الشبهات...

والشبهة هي ما لا نملك دليلا قاطعا على حرمتها....

ما رايك معلمي؟

لا شك أخي فاروق فذلك من الورع.
إنه يمكن لنا أن نعرض عن شربهاتورعا واتقاءا للشبهات لكن أن نفتي
بحرمتها؟؟ تلك مسألة أخرى ومع ذلك فنرجو ممن يملك دليلا على ذلك
الا يبخل به علينا

I remember that this was Free Speech and no Farouck Speech ;)

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