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I love cooking with wine, what effect does this have on the food regarding nutritional value and kilojoules?

I use red wine in meat dishes and marinades and white in sauces and fish/chicken dishes. i know wine has lots of calories but if you cook it doesnt the alcohol evaporate? what effect does this have on the nutritional value? can children also eat dishes with wine in?

Public Comments

1. I don't recommend feeding children dishes, or cups for that matter, with or without wine.
2. The rest of the world calls kilojoules calories. Alcohol has a lower boiling point than water. Much of the calories are in the alcohol, which will boil off if you add the wine early enough in the cooking process---which you should, because you don't want to taste alcohol in your final dish. Children can eat dishes with wine in it, as long as the alcohol has boiled off. Generally wine is used to make a pan sauce from the brown bits in a pan you just sauteed in. The wine deglazes the pan and the alcohol boils off, all at the same time.