Originally Posted by
Rowan
Isn;t that what he said in his post? Denatured alcohol is denatured with methanol, and cannot be drunk, either. He referred to research grade alcohol, which is supposedly pure ethanol. But a cycle tourist would have to be desperate to want to drink stove fuel.
No, that is not what he said. He said it will make you go blind. I added the 'dead' part. And "denatured alcohol" is really ethanol that has been adulterated to make it undrinkable. Methanol is but one of many, many ways that it is 'denatured'. It is also the crudest way. You could still drink it and not know that you had ingested deadly materials until you were, well, dead. Other compounds are often added that give the denatured alcohol a foul taste to keep anyone from drinking even a small amount of it.