What’s the point of cooking with alcohol?

Question

What’s the goal and why adding something like vodka if you’re just going to cook it out anyway? Why add it if it’s all going to evaporate in the end?

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Answer 1

First of all, alcoholic beverages like wine or whisky bring flsvors that may pair well with the rest of the ingredients. Secondly, ethanol may dissolve some organic compunds that water cannot allowing them to be more easily detected.

PD: When cooking, a part of the alcohol remains