Waleed Basyouni – Can I Eat Foods Cooked with Alcohol- Ask The

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This question is about food again, it is

whether it is allowed to use alcohol in

cooking and if you go to a restaurant

that uses alcohol in cooking, if you are

allowed to eat it or not.

That is a good question, you bring on

our community, you bring all these real questions.

So the food that contains alcohol, if that

alcohol is part of it, like some candy

that has a liquor in it, some cake

cooked with alcohol, it is part of it,

it is clearly can be tasted like some

tiramisu for example, you can taste the liquor

in it and so forth or some chocolate,

that is haram by the consensus of the

Muslim scholars.

Also there is another area all agreed, a

Muslim is not allowed to cook with alcohol

at all.

So if you are a chef or you

want to make a food, you are not

allowed to do that and haram for you

to cook with any type of alcohol because

alcohol is najis.

And you are not even supposed to buy

it.

Yeah, you are not supposed to buy it,

let's say somebody gifted it to you, it

is najis, not allowed to use.

But what about a food that is cooked

with it?

I didn't cook it, it was cooked for

me, I am in the restaurant.

Here the scholars said, because sometimes they use

alcohol, for example steak, to burn the steak

from inside, or because of it is the

smell, or because of it is the aftertaste,

the mix of the taste and stuff like

that, the burn of it, it gives a

kind of flavor to it.

We say if you can taste alcohol, if

you can smell the alcohol, if you can

identify alcohol like the liquor, the drops in

it, it is not allowed.

But if it is completely observed, or the

amount of it, it is completely insignificant, cannot

be traced, cannot be recognized, evaporated because of

the cooking.

And, you know, it is not there anymore.

In this case, we would say that this

is disliked to eat, but the food is

halal to eat.

The food is halal to eat, because the

food, nothing to make it haram, it does

not have alcohol, the alcohol disappeared, you know,

it was cooked completely, evaporated completely.

So that's, but it is still something we

dislike it because we don't encourage such behavior,

we don't encourage a Muslim to be in

such places in general, but it is ala

asl al-hil, and that's the fatwa of

Amja, which I'm part of it, simply a

Muslim jurist in North America.

We say it's disliked, but it is permissible

as long as it is completely disappeared.

Okay.

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