[Stoves] Methanol stove fuel. was Re: [Gasification] Methanoltoxicity?

[Harmon Seaver]

   I well remember this exact procedure being passed around when I was
a kid, as to how you made anti-freeze drinkable. Same loaf of bread
BS, etc.
I also knew 3 guys who tried it, 2 died, one was permanently blind and
very, very sick for a long time.
   Some denatured ethanol is denatured with methanol, some with gasoline.

On 7/5/06, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <crispin at newdawn.sz> wrote:
> Dear Paul
>
> Thanks for asking the question.  Very relevant these days.
>
> Denatured alcohol is apparently ethanol with a bitter additive to keep it
> off the booze market, coloured to show it is 'different'.  It is still plain
> ethanol.  It burns quite well.  It has an octane rating of 106 if you want
> to throw it into your street dragster.
>
> Drinking Denatured Alcohol - A Practical Guide
>
> Cut off one end of a load of break
>
> Pour the denatured alcohol into the end holding the bread vertically with
> the open end on top so the alcohol runs through the length of the loaf.  It
> will eventually pass out of the bottom into a container in which you collect
> it.
>
> This effect, running the denatured product through a yeasty bread, renders
> the product drinkable - at least if your REALLY need a drink.
>
> Then, to dilute the yukky taste a little more and to share it with your
> (drinking) friends, heat a bucket of water on a small fire - not too hot
> because you will have to swallow it quickly.
>
> The add what quantity of 'strained' alcohol you have to the bucket and drink
> as much as you can as fast as you can.  The hot water will ensure that the
> alcohol is taken up rapidly through the stomach wall and quick as a flash,
> you are drunk!
>
> There is no warning needed with this list of instructions.  The denaturing
> agent in the ethanol provides its own bitter lesson.  This method of having
> fun with friends was provided to me by a reliable source though I have not
> taken steps to confirm the veracity of its assertions.
>
> Best regards
> Crispin the tea-totaller
>
>
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Harmon Seaver