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It's not Haram to eat because all of the alcohol is cooked out when it is prepared. So, it has wine in it, but it's not alcoholic.

Actually no, alcohol rarely *completely* evaporates when the dish is cooked, depending on the cooking time etc. There'll usually be a small percentage left over.

Furthermore, you'll have paid for the wine used in this dish, and buying wine is haram.

So, please avoid this =)

Strange, I'm not sure to be honest. From what I can gather cooking wine is just cheap, low quality wine. However, as far as I understand most chefs (and so, restaurants) prefer to cook with proper wine anyway because it's of a higher quality.

I cannot claim to know the exact answer. However, as mentioned by other Nennies at least, you should completely avoid using wine or any alcoholic beverages in cooking. They are unclean and physical contact should be avoided as much as possible (let alone consumption).

Nennies also raises an important point: purchasing alcohol is forbidden, as is consuming it.

However, to the best of my knowledge, vinegar prepared from alcoholic beverages is halal, but purchasing an alcoholic beverage is forbidden even if the aim is to ferment it into vinegar. The alternative would be to ferment a solution into vinegar directly, and not into alcohol then vinegar.

To explain better, the boiling temperature of ethanol (the intoxicating chemical in alcohol) is in the upper 70's C. Water's boiling point is 100 C, and even when cooking food at very high temperatures (a searing 600 C or so), some of the moisture, or water, will still remain in the food. That's the whole point, or else, it would not be very edible. Alcohol has a lower boiling point which, making it evaporate more readily than water. Nonetheless, there will remain at least a small amount mixed in the food.

Vinegar made from alcoholic beverages is different because after it is completely fermented, all the alcohol gets converted into acetic acid (which makes vinegar so bitter and sour), and is no longer intoxicating.

The only situation I can think of where injecting ethanol into the blood stream intravenously would be OK is when a patient is suffering from methanol poisoning (which ironically is sometimes a byproduct in improperly prepared alcoholic beverages). It's a lesser of two evils: either get intoxicated and kill a couple of brain cells (ethanol), or go blind and die from severe liver damage (methanol).

Ultimately, to bring the point home, think of alcohol as an impure substance, like animal blood, urine or pork. There are people who have no problem consuming all or any of the above. For us Muslims, alcohol is up in that list as well.

At the same time, medical or industrial grade alcohol to the best of my knowledge are halal to use in their particular context (disinfectants, solvents, reagents... etc.).

Allâh knows best.