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@claralistensprechen5th LOL well, I know how to make alcohol well enough now to make prison hooch 🤪

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Only flammable with help (must be aerosolized with heat) #dangerdangerwillrobinson

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that's not how you do bomb calorimetry with any precision
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AI crap has taken over the internet, can't find any charts of what what minimum percentage alcohol ignites under heat. A cursory search of AI-regurgitated crap webpages says you usually us a 80 proof (40% alcohol) for flambe. Those are self sustaining after being lit, though, and don't require heat to be continued to be applied.
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Should I dig through my cookbooks or does it not matter that much? (I have about 20 minutes to spare right now.)
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I thought Harold McGee (On Food and Cooking) might have something useful to say on the subject...but no such luck. It's a wonderful book, though.
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@LPerry2 I tested noai.duckduckgo and set a custom time range between 2012 and 2014. Maybe that would get the chart you want - It seems like it - but
I'm not sure if my query words would match your query words.
in reply to AI6YR Ben

I believe but can't confirm it's supposed to be half, so 50% alcohol, or 100 proof.
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@jhv Yeah, I just learned tonight "100 proof" means it lights up.
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So "proof" wasn't just an obscure unit that was made up to mean 0.5%? Cool!

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@chunshek I have a vision in my head of a pirate putting some gunpowder on the railing of a ship & splashing unproven booze on it, then trying to light it with a match. If it lights, the formerly unproven booze is now proofed, & is at least half alcohol. If it doesn't light, there's a big pirate fight! 😂
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I was hoping I could have used some of my Weird Fire Science and Safety Analysis chops to find a decent reference but sadly, I failed. The US Bureau of Mines has a few classic technical bulletins on flammability and explosive concentrations - you can find those on OSTI. The IATA and ICAO regulations on the transport of dangerous goods are stupid expensive ($400+ for this year's regs) so I can't even get you a decent reference for the 80% ABV limit.
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@arclight LOL hoping my mead does not become a case study in fire safety 🤪
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@arclight
Anecdotally, 30% / 60 proof will flame easily when deglazing over a gas flame. But anything under 40% / 80 proof sucks for lighting on top of a dessert.
in reply to John Timaeus

@johntimaeus @arclight LOL would have to hand deliver and only if you live in California, those shipment-of-liquor laws are FIERCE.
in reply to AI6YR Ben

I’m going to be disappointed if you don’t experiment with this to find out. 🤣 Obviously when you toss some 80 proof brandy in a dish of bananas foster, the alcohol boils off and the vapor has a lot more alcohol which helps it burn.

From college days, if you want to do a room temperature flaming shot, wild turkey at 101 proof worked well. Don’t try it with 151 rum. We lit the bar on fire. 👀

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@CavedaleRhones Oops! I'm going to freeze some of the mead and see if I can get self sustaining flames without heat. 🤪

(I mean... might as well, the resulting mead is more alcohol than anything else, and not great flavor).

I'm finding -- with the mead, wine experiments, etc... getting the character/flavor of the base ingredients to stick around is very difficult. My strawberry guava wine had a strong strawberry guava flavor last week (when I bottled some), but the remainder I put in a jar lost most of those aromatics over the last week.

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although distilling that mash would break federal law, some freezing (like our
ancestors did) or a plastic still and running it thru activated charcoal a few times may make a passable vodka.
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