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TW asked in Food & DrinkBeer, Wine & Spirits · 9 years ago

Question about homemade Whisky vaporiser ?

I saw on TV (James May's Man Lab) how to make a whisky vaporiser/atomiser.

Basically you pressurise a small amount of whisky with a bicycle pump, then when the pressure is released the whisky turns to vapour and you can inhale it.

Well I made one, and it works well, although you use so little whisky I doubt you will ever get drunk from it.

My question is.... Is the vapour more likely to be made of the whole liquid, or would the alcohol be 'pulled out' of the solution and vaporised more readily.

Also would it enter my bloodstream quicker or at all being inhaled.

Thanks

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  • 9 years ago
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    You can get drunk when exposed to alcohol smells long enough.

    Like kids of parents who own a bar, and the kid stays at the bar for hours while doing his/her homework.

    When I was a little girl, I had a friend who had parents who owned a bar, and I could not bike with her in the evening...she was too drunk to bike straight.

    Bartenders are known to get a little drunk while not even drinking.

    You buy them a shot of whisky and they’ll do a switcheroo on you and drink a shot of tea instead (while you’re paying for the whiskey).

    They have little shot glasses full of tea or apple juice behind the bar, for the switcheroo or just plain water for the switcheroo for vodka.

    Now, I get the vaporization for tobacco so you inhale the nicotine vapors and not the carcinogenic smoke into your lungs.

    I don’t get the vaporization of whiskey as if you drink it, the alcohol gets to your blood stream through your stomach and if you inhale it, it would get to your blood stream through your lungs instead...which I suppose would be much faster to get you drunk, not having to deal with stomach acids.

    Maybe if you have some stomach problems, like an ulcer and cannot tolerate alcohol in your stomach or some esophagus condition, you could use your lungs to get your dose of alcohol.

    Alcohol content is “pulled out” when cooking. Like my beef burgundy (using red wine) or my onion soup (using white wine) or my chicken with cherry sauce (using cherry) do not contain alcohol, just the remnant taste of the red wine or the white wine or the cherry. The alcohol went away with the vapors I guess you could breathe in your dish while it’s cooking. Still, do not cook those for a recovering alcoholic (who cannot drink alcohol) as just the taste of alcohol, not even the alcohol, can send them to relapse.

    I make an awesome rum raisin cake (I soak my raisins in rum overnight) but sometimes I have to soak my raisins in water so recovering alcoholics can eat my cake...then it is just an average raisin cake.

    Edit:

    I’m skeptic about the theory that pressurized whiskey (or any liquid) would turn to vapor, that you could breathe in, without heat.

    You can breathe in tiny droplets of liquid...like walking in the rain, but vapors are not droplets of liquids, more like steam or fog.

  • 9 years ago

    It is possible to get drunk with this method, however why would you not just enjoy the drink? breathing it in is a risk because you have no real way to gauge how much alcohol you have in your system. I think this sounds dangerous and less effective than using the product for what it was intended. IF you have time to get drunk you have a lot of time on your hands. If you are trying to find new ways to get drunk, you have too much time. be careful.

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