Originally Posted by
Ainslie 
I never really questioned that because many chefs told me it burned off - I wrongly assumed they were correct, just because they were chefs and they should know?....but still for the reasons stated above, I refuse to eat anything with alcohol or alcoholic flavouring in it.
Then I remembered, many years back we used to drink flaming sambucca shots. They still got me drunk
Alcohol does burn off, it just takes a long time to burn off.
On the subject of food, if anyone wonders about vanilla, just buy whole vanilla beans, split it down the side, and scrape out the inners. It will add a couple of bucks to your baked goods, but it's better than alcoholic vanilla extract.