@smerk85 If it’s expired, that means the alcohol has mostly evaporated, leaving behind the aloe-flavored glycerin goop, maybe scented with some essential oils if you’re lucky.
@ShotgunX@smerk85 The expired hand sanitizer burns with a nice pretty blue flame, thank you very much. I have video, but the interface does not like direct uploads of that format.
@smerk85@werehatrack To be fair, it would take many years past the date for hand sanitizer to truly “expire.” I still have some bottles from the beginning of COVID, and only some are showing the faintest signs of tangible alcohol evaporation. So the ones from Meh should be good to go for a while.
I’d be concerned about any possible fumes from any added ingredients, though.
@ShotgunX Not exactly. The expiration date on the bottle is just a guess that the seal may have gotten a small leak and it may have evaporated off to the point that the manufacturer will no longer guarantee it kills germs to the same level. So then Meh sticks it in IRKs since it is “expired”.
In reality, most of the seals on the bottles are perfectly good, and zero evaporation has taken place, so it is still full of alcohol that is flammable.
But to your point if it were truly no longer good as hand sanitizer, it is just goop. It is just that that isn’t something an expiration date printed a year in advance can actually detect.
At first I was going to poo-poo this because the images in the listing are all photoshopped. To me that just screams “POS product.” But the Amazon reviews with videos changed my mind. This might actually be a fun winter/rainy day thing.
A word - actually several - regarding use of isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol, either 70 or 91 percent: these types of alcohols burn with a very sooty flame. If you have one of those Happis or any device which cleanses the air indoors, they will become big mad and start throwing PM2.5 numbers in the high hundreds if they are in the same room as one of these burning such fuels. I’d stick with the gels, or with a high test rotgut vodka.
@awright69@xarophti “Bio-ethanol” is one of those SMH terms. Fermentation and distillation is the cheapest way to make ethanol. (And it still consumes more energy than the ethanol can return when used as fuel.)
@Kyeh@lisagd her face there looks like someone blew up a peach coloured balloon, glued some hair to it and scribbled on it with a marker.
She’s just following the time honoured tradition that child stars go through- going bat-crazy for a while as they turn into adults to try and still stay famous and get attention… in a few years she probably won’t be so crazy anymore.
@werehatrack Okay, just checking. I’ve used gel fuel canisters to cook things outside. However, I much prefer not to have an indoor fire made from napalm. I’m just picky like that.
@goldnectar Super late to this, but it does come with some (not much) wick material to soak up some alcohol. A common upgrade for these alcohol burners is to get some carbon fiber or mineral wool felt, coil it up, and fill the chamber with it. You can then dampen it enough with alcohol for it to burn for awhile, but not so much that it would drip out when overturned.
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Product: Home Zone Living Concrete Portable Table-Top Fire Bowl
Model: KMF0354U, KMF0355U, KMF0356U, KMF0357U
Condition: New
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Price Comparison
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Warranty
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/giphy large-loose-joke
In the words of that famous rich chick …
/giphy that’s hot
Portable Concrete Fire? What is an oxymoron times 2, an oxymoromoron?
@hchavers Oxyvenmoron.
All I can think of is…
/showme a Living Concrete Portable Table-Top Fire Bowl
@mediocrebot I’d buy THIS one!!
@IndifferentDude @mediocrebot
ME TOO!
Does it burn slightly expired hand sanitizer from IRKs?
Where’s the link to the slightly expired hand sanitizer Side Deal?
@smerk85 If it’s expired, that means the alcohol has mostly evaporated, leaving behind the aloe-flavored glycerin goop, maybe scented with some essential oils if you’re lucky.
@ShotgunX @smerk85 The expired hand sanitizer burns with a nice pretty blue flame, thank you very much. I have video, but the interface does not like direct uploads of that format.
@smerk85 @werehatrack To be fair, it would take many years past the date for hand sanitizer to truly “expire.” I still have some bottles from the beginning of COVID, and only some are showing the faintest signs of tangible alcohol evaporation. So the ones from Meh should be good to go for a while.
I’d be concerned about any possible fumes from any added ingredients, though.
@ShotgunX Not exactly. The expiration date on the bottle is just a guess that the seal may have gotten a small leak and it may have evaporated off to the point that the manufacturer will no longer guarantee it kills germs to the same level. So then Meh sticks it in IRKs since it is “expired”.
In reality, most of the seals on the bottles are perfectly good, and zero evaporation has taken place, so it is still full of alcohol that is flammable.
But to your point if it were truly no longer good as hand sanitizer, it is just goop. It is just that that isn’t something an expiration date printed a year in advance can actually detect.
/showme Snoop Dogg smoking a Living Concrete Portable Table-Top Fire Bowl in his Home Zone
Close enough. I tried like 10 times and 8 of those it was a white dude.
[Nobody said it yet? OK, I will.]
This deal’s on fire!
Why do I get the funny feeling that if I order this, I’m going to get burned?
S’mores indoors? Or perhaps it’s just a fancy way to keep a pan heated.
/youtube talking heads, burning down the house
At first I was going to poo-poo this because the images in the listing are all photoshopped. To me that just screams “POS product.” But the Amazon reviews with videos changed my mind. This might actually be a fun winter/rainy day thing.
Still not buying one, though. I already have too much crap in my house.
@Willijs3 And for those of us who have a gas stove, it’s kind of irrelevant.
@werehatrack @Willijs3 But can you put your gas stove on your picnic table?
@Willijs3 @xarophti The butane one? Sure! Ditto for the Coleman, running propane or liquid fuel.
@Kerig3 So the moral of the videos above is, “Keep these away from stupid people.” Got it.
@Kerig3 “'cause ethanol is a silent killer, you have to smother it”
Brilliant.
It can make margaritas hot.
@OnionSoup I prefer doing that by adding a few drops of cinnamon oil to a frozen peach 'rita.
@OnionSoup @werehatrack I prefer to do it by surrounding the margarita with a nice, warm stomach.
A word - actually several - regarding use of isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol, either 70 or 91 percent: these types of alcohols burn with a very sooty flame. If you have one of those Happis or any device which cleanses the air indoors, they will become big mad and start throwing PM2.5 numbers in the high hundreds if they are in the same room as one of these burning such fuels. I’d stick with the gels, or with a high test rotgut vodka.
@awright69 Probably why they recommend the bio-ethanol
@awright69 @xarophti “Bio-ethanol” is one of those SMH terms. Fermentation and distillation is the cheapest way to make ethanol. (And it still consumes more energy than the ethanol can return when used as fuel.)
Got something very similar from a well-meaning relative for Christmas 2014. Have yet to use it…
@MrNews So in other words a typical Meh purchase…
What could possibly go wrong!?
The Meh button reminds me of Gene Simmons.
@lisagd Have you seen Jojo Siwa’s goofy imitation of this?
@Kyeh @lisagd her face there looks like someone blew up a peach coloured balloon, glued some hair to it and scribbled on it with a marker.
She’s just following the time honoured tradition that child stars go through- going bat-crazy for a while as they turn into adults to try and still stay famous and get attention… in a few years she probably won’t be so crazy anymore.
So - this is a gussied-up Sterno stove that you can’t put anything on top of to heat?
@rockblossom Looks like that to me, from this safe distance.
@werehatrack Okay, just checking. I’ve used gel fuel canisters to cook things outside. However, I much prefer not to have an indoor fire made from napalm. I’m just picky like that.
@rockblossom Really. If you’re going to have an indoor fire, do it right and use a turkey fryer.
Hmmm… An indoor open flame fueled with a flammable liquid sounds like it would make for an interesting day when my pugs knock it over.
@goldnectar Super late to this, but it does come with some (not much) wick material to soak up some alcohol. A common upgrade for these alcohol burners is to get some carbon fiber or mineral wool felt, coil it up, and fill the chamber with it. You can then dampen it enough with alcohol for it to burn for awhile, but not so much that it would drip out when overturned.
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