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Pineapple and ham on pizza seem to be more popular in Asia. Last fall, our dealer in China thought I was getting tired of Chinese food...

Both items have different aldehydes in them that some people taste as soap. Red bell peppers have fewer of these compounds and so might...

The Romans thought it was :):):) Lupanare di Pompei by Jack Silver, on Flickr

It is denatured ethanol to avoid taxes on it. They can put 2-propanol, gasoline (hydrocarbons and aromatic compounds), or other things...

Cilantro. Some people like it but other people think it tastes like soap. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11398 The same...

Yes, exactly! Apparently, Parker/Stratoflex will.

Don't try drinking it. It's another way to go blind as methanol preferentially damages the optic nerve.

Ethanol and methanol does not have the same BTUs as gasoline, it has less. You get less mpg with E10 gas versus straight gasoline. We...

Same with gasoline. That's why we have turbochargers, superchargers, etc. Stuffing more fuel into a cylinder does nothing unless you can...

Please see my citations in post #64 for Aircraft Spruce and Parker/Stratoflex. Aircraft Spruce lists fuel hoses for various Cessna and...

It's not one or the other. After fermentation, the remaining material becomes "distiller's grain" and is then fed to livestock, or used...

No, mainly because I'm not an A&P. I don't pretend to knowledge I don't have. I don't know which lines have a TSO approval, PMA...

Not ALL of them, but enough to see they are all nearly the same. There really aren't that many refineries. Oxygenates are ethanol...

What planes use NBR formulations for hoses? Some planes don't. The oil lines don't count because no fuel should be in those. If it is, a...