Foods are cooked in alcohol to enhance the flavor or to impart a distinctive
flavor. Wine is the most common form of alcohol used in cooking. Although it
may seem that all of the added alcohol evaporates or burns off during cooking, it
does not. Rena Cultrufelli of the USDA prepared a table listing the amount of
retained alcohol in foods cooked in alcohol. The retained alcohol varies depending
on the cooking method. The following are some of the retained alcohol contents
of foods prepared by different cooking methods (Larsen, 1995