I just love the taste of ethanol, I once tried ethanol for disinfection and it was so good. And I always drink alcohol purely for taste, I drink it very rarely and when I do it is for taste. But like it is so tasty. And I love bitter and all sorts of strong tastes. Now I will not drink alcohol too much because I do not love getting drunk, and especially not disinfection alcohol because of toxicity it was just taste test, but why is it so tasty??

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    21 hours ago

    Actually, not really sure what kinda alcohol it is. But I have small plastic bottle of alcohol that was used for disinfection during covid and I tried it and it was tasty.

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      Depends on where you’re from and what the regulations are, might have been just non-denatured high% vodka essentially. As so much was needed regulations weren’t the strictest everywhere.

      Anyway, I’m not gonna believe you before I see you take a mouthful of 80% alc and swirl it around your mouth and smack smack smack mmm. Without making any sort of sour face.

      Because if you do, then that’s actually medically concerning, because that’s a poison and we have systems in our bodies to make us not ingest poisons easily. As in, that’s why we can taste bitter. Alcohol isn’t bitter per se but it’s a volatile solvent, and at those percentages it’s just not in anything way a taste. It’s a sensation.

      I may be wrong, but I don’t believe you. You also say you don’t "really drink, so I’m thinking a younger person who’s had a small hit and enjoyed the aftereffects and can’t now discern them.

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        21 hours ago

        True, I do wish there are some non alcoholic alternative to ethanol taste