Ordered a glass spray bottle for my alcohol spray, plastic is poisoning us

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[–]Questionable 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Rubbing alcohol is literally poison. If you feel you must use alcohol, use a high quality consumable one without sugars such as Everclear.

[–]Musky[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I could switch to denatured ethanol, that might be slightly less toxic overall, but it's cost ineffective to use drinking alcohol for cleaning and I'm not sure how valid concern is over exposure to small amounts of it. It is safe enough to be commonly used in antiseptics, disinfectants, hand sanitizer and detergents.

I don't even think it matters for kitchen chemistry if one was so inclined. Gasoline is used as the solvent for cocaine, carburator starter for meth. These are not lab grade solvents, but out of sight out of mind it's apparently no problem.

[–]Questionable 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Are you noticing the disconnect in your level of concerns? You seem to think that industrial solvents are fine for kitchen use, and that small plastic bottles are bad. You have a very fine house to concern yourself over the price of a bottle of Everclear. Though it makes a better muscle rub, then to simply spend time walking about needlessly spraying it away.

My take is simple:

  1. High quality food oils should be purchased and stored in glass bottles.

  2. Use baking soda and sea salt to clean everything, and act as an insect deterrent.

  3. A light rubbing of food oils on metal to restore luster. Both are anti-bacterial.

That is all.

[–]Musky[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You have a very fine house to concern yourself over the price of a bottle of Everclear.

That's my parents's house, I live in a shitty apartment. The cost of everclear is very much an issue.
Although I am considering doing it anyways, mainly because everclear doesn't come in plastic bottles. I'll dope it with salt so I don't drink it. That's going to hurt my soul a little bit to make perfectly good booze undrinkable-ish.

You seem to think that industrial solvents are fine for kitchen use, and that small plastic bottles are bad

I believe isopropyl alcohol to be relatively safe. I don't think baking soda and sea salt is really going to do what I want. Other options I like are vinegar, or rosemary extract, but you have odors and potential flavor transfer. Star-san is an option but that's just some other acid I believe. Or if you're going to wash it anyways, just good old soap and water. Yet another option is boiling water. Mainly I'm trying here to avoid using ammonia and bleach based cleansers around food areas.

And yes, I am starting to think small plastic bottles are really, really bad for people.