Help: Cooking meats w/high carb liquids?

[kpegasus]

I would like to know if anyone out there has an opinion about cooking meats in high carb (no sugar added) liquids like tomato sauce/paste, apple juice, beer, wine, pineapple, etc. The liquids would only be used for flavoring during marinating (8hrs or more) or stewing or braising/roasting and then will be discarded or served to people not on the Akins lifestyle (who could that be?)

How do you think I can count the carbs in this meal if the liquid is not actually being incorporated/eaten? Do you think it would add much? I thought about measuring the liquid ahead and then measuring it after (to see if any got absorbed) but that doesn't account for any liquids/juices/fats lost by the meat or evaporation.

What do you think?

[not2late]

Re: Help: Cooking meats w/high carb liquids?

The food will absorb some of the marinating liquid---that's why it acquires some of its taste. If it didn't absorb it, it wouldn't taste like it.

How much it absorbs, I don't know--you would need a laboratory to analyse it. To be on the safe side, I never used a marinating liquid that wasn't legal for my phase of Atkins. I know there will be folks who will say they had no weight loss issues when they had foods marinated in red wine or beer or whatever. Well, goodie for them. Each of us reacts differently to foods, so it's virtually impossible to say you will be completely safe eating carbonnade a la Flamande made with a Yuengling lage because I was able to eat it and "had no problems with my weight loss."

[quotidianlight]

Re: Help: Cooking meats w/high carb liquids?

I only marinate my foods in liquids that are legal, so like tomatos, peppers etc. My only exception is spirits and wine and other low carb alcohols (never beer or juice). Even then, I only use them in small amounts for sauteing since the alcohol gets cooked off at high heats. For baking... I'm not sure how much burns off for shorter projects, so I wouldn't use it unless it was something like a roast that was going to bake for a long period of time.

BTW: I would cound all the carbs for the liquid since that gets absorbed or usually poured over the top for sauce. I wouldn't count the alcohol since it burns off. But that is just me and I am sure there are people who could stall even at that.