"Burning off" alcohol

[byak]

My mom makes this vodka stuff with vanilla beans soaking in it.. homemade vanilla extract. (Is this the normal "vanilla" extract style, or do they sell/normal people buy bottles of the stuff premade?)

Anyway, the alcohol is the carrier for the flavor. When you put it in desserts you're baking, etc., it all "burns off." I'm just reading some stuff about homemade carbonation, making your own carbonated drinks, cream soda, etc. at http://truetex.com/carbonation.htm . Vanilla extract is used to make cream soda.. but I don't want it to be alcoholic in any sense or stretch.

So I want to pour this straight into a drink. Logic tells me that I can't burn off the alcohol in.. alcohol. Doh. Is there anything do non-alcoholize it?

(Note: well, I just realized that I could add the vanilla extract when boiling the water/sugar syrup and that would solve my problem, but it would still be able to use this stuff straight in other things. Also, I could just buy the stuff from the store for cheap, but oh well, I'm interested in if there is anything that could be done if you were stuck using this.)

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

boil off a small amount of the alcohol until it reaches a point where such a small amount of alcohol doesn't matter

 

[DerwenArtos12]

yeah you can do that for cooking or for alchohaulic bevarages but for drinks you don't want to be alchohaulic then just go out and buy a bottle of vanilla extract.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: byak
My mom makes this vodka stuff with vanilla beans soaking in it.. homemade vanilla extract. (Is this the normal "vanilla" extract style, or do they sell/normal people buy bottles of the stuff premade?)

Anyway, the alcohol is the carrier for the flavor. When you put it in desserts you're baking, etc., it all "burns off." I'm just reading some stuff about homemade carbonation, making your own carbonated drinks, cream soda, etc. at http://truetex.com/carbonation.htm . Vanilla extract is used to make cream soda.. but I don't want it to be alcoholic in any sense or stretch.

So I want to pour this straight into a drink. Logic tells me that I can't burn off the alcohol in.. alcohol. Doh. Is there anything do non-alcoholize it?

(Note: well, I just realized that I could add the vanilla extract when boiling the water/sugar syrup and that would solve my problem, but it would still be able to use this stuff straight in other things. Also, I could just buy the stuff from the store for cheap, but oh well, I'm interested in if there is anything that could be done if you were stuck using this.)

Don't worry about it. You have been eating products that have flavors with an alcohol solvent all your life.

 

[crumpet19]

prebottled vanilla extract has alcohol in it too.
The bottle in my kitchen has 11% alcohol.

 

[dawop]

wow that much.

 

[dighn]

cook it for a while. that'll burn off enough alcohol for sure.

 

[dawop]

y kill da licker.