Should a Christian avoid cooking with alcohol?

Most of the alcohol loses its effect through the heat, so there is nothing wrong with using it. ---

Christian Cooking

No.

All alcohol is burned away during cooking.

Jesus told them, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, "Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter." So they took it. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, ... (John 2:7-9)

Wine is used throughout both the Old and New Testaments. The first recorded miracle of Jesus was to turn water into wine at the wedding in Cana.

It is true that we should not become drunk but used in moderation, wine is a biblically acceptable beverage.

Go, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a merry heart, because it is now that God favors your works. (Ecclesiastes 9:7)

Stop drinking only water, but have a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent illnesses. (1 Timothy 5:23)

Wine and music delight the soul. (Sirach 40:20)

WWJD? What would Jesus do? Jesus had a cup of wine with dinner. In fact, because of this practice, some teetotalers accused him of being a drunkard. See Matthew 11:19 and Luke 7:34.

If some people wish to totally forego alcohol to eliminate the temptation to over indulge, that is fine. However, I do not think they should force that unbiblical practice onto others.

By the way, for those who argue that Jesus and other people in the Bible only drank fruit juice, a process that would stop grape juice from fermenting into wine was not even invented until 1869 by Dr Thomas B Welch when he invented Welch's Unfermented Wine which was renamed later to Welch's Grape Juice. http://www.welchs.com/about-welchs/history

With love in Christ.

When it comes to primitive control methods contained in mythology, it revolves around stopping people from doing harm to themselves.

The people didn't know why booze did what it did and since moderation is something that those with the genetics for addiction don't have because of their brain biology, the creators of the Torah, Bible, Quran, etc. took the choice away from everyone and said "Alcohol is BAD!"

But the same way that pork USED to be potentially harmful and banned, today we understand Alcohol and as with pork, the "Ban" is nothing but left over primitive bullshit.

Putting a shot of vodka in a pot of marinara sauce to allow the alcohol soluble flavors to be extracted won't get you drunk. It won't trigger addiction. If won't kill anyone.

Putting beer in beer batter for chicken isn't about intoxication...

Therefore, the ban or restrictions are, as I said before, bullshit and nonsense.

And unlike what most people believe, it is impossible to cook out "All" the alcohol. There will always remain a small amount, but again, it's not enough to make anyone worry unless they're mind-raped fools that can't tell the difference between myth and reality and the motives behind the myths.

While drinking to excess is frowned upon, there is NOTHING in Christianity that bans alcohol. So, cooking with it is fine, and besides, the heat drives off the alcohol, leaving behind the flavour.

Even if it wasn't, this would not be bad at all.

Nope! You're recipe should be totally fine! What did Jesus turn the water into at the wedding banquet? Water into WINE. Alcohol is not a sin, it leads to sins. Though I personally choose not to drink any alcohol at all, I do use it to cook! It is relatively small amounts, and it does burn off leaving only flavour!

You are right about excess, the bible forbids drunkenness.

I think this would be on the edge of legalism and it would be fine to cook it and eat it.

You may want to avoid taking such a dish to the Churches pot luck dinner.

If a believer thinks it is wrong you should avoid trying to convince them it is not wrong.

The Bible talks about causing others to stumble and what is not done in faith is sin.

There is a freedom that some disagree with. If you are raised to believe wearing lipstick is

a sin and you believe it is and wear it anyway then you would be sinning while others not

holding that belief could wear it and not sin.

Hope all that helps, bon appetit !

You obviously didn't do chemistry at school. If one heats alcohol, it evaporates. It evaporates at a lower temperature than water. So if one cooks with alcohol, wine or beer, the alcohol in both will have evaporated during the cooking process.

If moderate consumption of alcohol was sinful, Jesus would not have turned water into to wine at the wedding in Cana. He would not have referred to putting new wine in old wine skins in Luke chapter 5. There would be no reason to keep wine, if consumption of it was sinful. He would not have had wine at the Last Supper and told us to "do this in remembrance of me".

Also in cooking the alcohol that is added beforehand evaporates.

Satanic or atheistic? you're loose to eat the place you and your group experience soft, of direction, yet i've got in no way had or heard of everybody else having an "atheistic" journey at a cafe. in simple terms my 2 cents, yet being a Christian does no longer mean keeping apart your self from people who stay in any different case. i might think of which you would be searching for opportunities to minister, extremely than clustering with others like your self.

Alcohol evaporates at a fairly low temperature.

What's left is the flavor of the spirit in the food, not the alcohol...

IMHO