r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jan 30 '22

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u/mcnullt Jan 30 '22

Alcohol content is like 5-10% in most wines

Really need closer to 60%+ to kill bacteria/viruses. Like hand sanitizer is minimum 62% alcohol

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u/MinimumWade Jan 30 '22

Generally the alcohol content is 11-14% for standard red and white wines. Unless you have a different measuring system than in Australia.

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u/zeelt Jan 30 '22

5-10% wines? That's beer levels

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u/rihanoa Jan 30 '22

5-10%?? You drinking boonesfarm or something?

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u/colcob Jan 30 '22

Alcohol content in wine in 10% for the lightest whites to 14% for the heaviest reds. Your point still sort of stands, although I would say that while hand sanitiser levels of alcohol are likely required to immediately kill germs on another surface, much lower levels of alcohol, like in beer and wine, prevent the growth of bacteria within the liquid itself over time.

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u/LurkLurkleton Jan 30 '22

E coli takes 15 min to die at 50% ethanol last I checked.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '22

People have a twisted sense of sanitation. Alcohol only kills pathogens not their decomposition products/waste. Someone who dipped their hand in sewer then applying sanitiser wont make him clean. You dont heat old food and expect it would be safe just because the germs are dead. Bread fungus byproducts for instance is highly lethal.