Will the wine in Sauerbraten set off a breathalyzer?
I was going to be making Sauerbraten for my family over the holidays, and you first marinate that in wine and Red Wine vinegar for a few days, then simmer it on the stove for a couple of hours. I was lead to understand that alcohol cooks off this way, but certainly the smell and richness of the alcohol remains. Since some of my worthless family members are on probation due to DUI and have breathalyzers on their car a certain amount of paranoia has set in. Ideally none of them would show up, or I’d just make pot roast without alcohol, but of course they’re the ones giving the old people who were really looking forward to the dish rides so I need to figure this out to decide who will be pissed off.
NO
The alcohol will boil off as it only needs to get to about 80 C for this to happen.
A pot roast may be worse as you leave the lid on so the alcohol drops back into the sauce.
Having said that, isn’t Sauerbraten normally made with beer not wine?
EDIT: flowers – Sauerbraten is a German slow braised dish so the alcohol cooks out.
SIMON LEACH – making a goblet
