Cooking with alcohol! Do you syn it?

jodidi

Silver Member

• 20 July 2009

• #1

If you cook with alcohol the alcohol burns off so does the wine etc still have as many, if any, syns?

 

jaylou

Gold Member

• 20 July 2009

• #2

Tee hee, nice thought but I think it's the same (sadly!)

 

HellieCopter

Gold Member

• 20 July 2009

• #3

If I put a dash of wine in a tomato sauce, I usually don't syn it, but if it's anything more than about half a glass, then I will 'fess up and syn. Better to over-allocate syns than underestimate I think!

 

jodidi

Silver Member

• 20 July 2009

• #4

Oh darn it, lol! Syn it I shall! On another post Ive put how ive made a beef stew with a glass of wine and my mother in law who we live with and is doing slimming world, just queried whether the wine would be syned or not!

 

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kazpeza

Silver Member

• 20 July 2009

• #5

its probably the sugars in wines that are the syns over the alchohol anyway

 

Sticky

I will succeed!!!

• 20 July 2009

• #6

I would just to be on the safe side. I generally syn everything but realised recently I was being a muppet whenever I was adding 'extras' into SW recipes/using own recipes. Say I was adding something with 4 syns to a recipe that SW said was 4 syns a serving, I'd add 4 onto it, making it 8, when in fact it was 6 (as OH had half the meal). I was diddling self massively! So yes, syn it, but don't overly syn it like I was doing! Hehe x

 

charlottegrace1

Gold Member

• 20 July 2009

• #7

I don't usually syn it as I thought the sugars in the wine were turned to alcohol and it you are actually burning the alcohol off and not just cooking with it then is there in fact anything left to syn other than just flavour. Maybe I should start syning it now you got me wondering.

 

Minders

Finding inspiration

• 20 July 2009

• #8

Actually, I've heard the alcohol doesn't burn off... not as much as you'd think... I'd syn it.

 

Princess Sausage

Silver Member

• 20 July 2009

• #9

yes, sorry, sins it is!

 

jodidi

Silver Member

• 20 July 2009

• #10

kristin1 said:

I think if you cook with wine but pour it in your mouth rather than the dish it's free?

Yes?

No?

Hmmm......

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Me thinks you could be right, !