Kerosene. Good to drink?

[Orrex]

When the winter finally passes, I'm likely going to be left with a few gallons of kerosene after we put the heater away for the season. It's in a blue five-gallon jug, so what should I do with it?

Will it keep until the weather turns cold again? Should I dump it in my compost heap along with the batteries and spray cans?

Or should I just run the heater outdoors repeatedly until all the excess kerosene is burned off? That seems like a waste, but I don't want to open the jug in eight months to find it full of condensation, either.


Suggestions?


Here's the rule before we begin: for each goofy suggestion that you offer, you must offer at least one good one, too.

[Parche]

1. Sell It To USAir

:woohoo: :hi:

[Lucian]

2. Nothing like a good kerosene drink after work.

Helps me relax.

[Deja Q]

3. I wouldn't drink it; it would kill you.

Gas for automobiles becomes worthless after about a month in storage, without additional chemicals. If kerosene is the same way...

I am not the best qualified person to ask...

Does your local government have a hazardous waste office?

[montanto]

19. I recently started my 63 Falcon which

had been sitting unstarted in my garage for three years. Same old gas, no addatives. Ran just fine.

Tasted ok too. Just sayin.

[no name no slogan]

4. Soak some styrofoam in it

then put it on the end of bamboo sticks. Voila, instant tiki torches for the garden.

[TZ]

5. Well duh: Give it to Mr. Coffee!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8499308&mesg_id=8499308

:rofl:

[MajorChode]

6. It's good for killing grass and the neighbor's trees

[HopeHoops]

7. Have you considered a new career as an arsonist?

Just kidding, of course.

[SacredCow]

8. It makes a good solvent for cleaning bicycle chains....

then you can dump the dirty kerosene with any used motor oil for reprocessing.

[Roon]

9. get pretty hurricane lamps and tiki torches

and use them all spring/summer.

[Jamastiene]

12. That was what I was going to suggest too.

Great minds and all. :pals:

[Roon]

13. Wonderful!

Been using those for 35 years at our cabin.

[Jamastiene]

15. We have always kept them around as decorations in the house.

They are decorations for most of the year, but come in handy during actual hurricane season. They are gorgeous too.

[Roon]

16. Nice!

[PVnRT]

10. Use it to burn off unwanted pubic hair

What?

[sarge43]

11. A jigger of kerosene is an essential ingredient in the drink, The Flaming Boudicca.

It'll keep. Unlike gasoline, kerosene is very stable. It takes years for it to start breaking down. Just store the jug out of direct sunlight.

[trof]

14. Easy Peasey. Roadkill flambe'.

"you must offer at least one good one, too."

Tiki Torches


Or: The Tiki Torch
Ingredients

* 1/2 oz of Malibu® coconut rum
* 1/4 oz of Peach schnapps
* 1 splash of Pineapple juice
* 1/4 oz of DeKuyper® Razzmatazz liqueur
* 6 oz of Smirnoff® Ice
* 1 splash of Bacardi® 151 rum

[Strong Atheist]

17. Of course you are UNCERTAIN what to do with it.

That is your ground state...

[Orrex]

18. So where'd you go, anyway?

I haven't seen you here in months?

Of course, this DU member has had you on Ignore, so... :evilgrin:

[Strong Atheist]

21. Not months. Years.

2 1/2, to be more accurate. I left after the rawsewage fiasco...

... and you did not have me on ignore when I left, so it seems unlikely you would have me on ignore when I came back ...:shrug:

:hi:

[KamaAina]

20. I'm more of a turpentine guy myself

Lincoln, Lincoln, I've been thinkin',
What the hell have you been drinkin'?
Smells like whiskey, tastes like wine,
Oh my god, it's turpentine!

:puke: