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Gas Chambers (Inhaling Sambuca Fumes)
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I just thought i would start a post about the practice of doing 'Gas Chambers'; inhaling the fumes given off by lighting Sambuca.
The process is thus: take a tumbler (Whiskey glass) and place a shot of Sambuca in it
Light it and hold a wine glass over the top of the burning spirit so that you trap the vapours.
Then place a straw up inside the wine glass and inhale.
i was just wondering, does anyone know any of the health implications of this?
I served 3 lads this on Saturday night, but stopped them after about 4-5 inhalations each. (All off one shot 25ml mind). I felt i had to limit this because i was not totally aware of what Gas Chmabers can do to people (well obviously it gets you pissed, but these guys had never done one before)
Any info on this, would be nice to know what i am doing to my customers:D
The process is thus: take a tumbler (Whiskey glass) and place a shot of Sambuca in it
Light it and hold a wine glass over the top of the burning spirit so that you trap the vapours.
Then place a straw up inside the wine glass and inhale.
i was just wondering, does anyone know any of the health implications of this?
I served 3 lads this on Saturday night, but stopped them after about 4-5 inhalations each. (All off one shot 25ml mind). I felt i had to limit this because i was not totally aware of what Gas Chmabers can do to people (well obviously it gets you pissed, but these guys had never done one before)
Any info on this, would be nice to know what i am doing to my customers:D
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My mate tried to do one of these gas chamber things with a shot of sambuca last summer in the busy pub garden by lighting his sambuca and putting his hand over the glass to seal it and put the flame out before inhaling all the fumes.
All he achieved was burning his hand, launching his glass up into the air and shattering it on a light above, covering himself in bits of sambuca and shards of glass. He looked up at me and said in a really tiny whisper: "Is anyone looking at me?"
I was trying to fight back the laughter as every single person in the beer garden was sat, fully staring at him. :crazyeyes Made it even more funny that he had a big fuck off blister on his hand that didn't go for weeks.
How people took the piss! Bring s atear to my eye even today..
Alcohol is the only active ingredient in Sambuca right?
So, when you set fire to it, you are buring the alcohol, alcohol is a clean fuel so there shouldnt be any fumes you could get high on.
I guess the burning could vapourise some of the alcohol and then you inhale that into your lungs and it is absorbed there, but I think that unlikely.
It could be that the burning produces something like carbon dioxide and that the effects you get are minor suffocation, just a thought.
It doesnt sound wise though, mainly because Sambuca is the foulest tasting drink known to man, no, second worst there is Ozo.
It definately does have an intoxicating effect, i would suggest that some amount of alcohol has been absorbed, due to the duration of the intoxicant effect.
Or, maybe, I know this sounds odd, you could sit there and just drink the alcohol, just a thought, it might never take off.
“What is getting into your brain could be the equivalent of many times more than by drinking it.
“This will not only make you very drunk very quickly but is also likely to increase the risk of direct alcohol damage to the brain. This could do irreversible damage to nerves, lead to swelling and possibly lead to dementia in the long term.”
So there you go. From the BBC website.
Edited to say - mea culpa, I pulled the quote from a different article that mis-quoted the good professor
i have injected alcohol before.
opium tincture is opium dissolved in alcohol.
the prickly hot flush the alcohol gives you is fucking awful but ...when your a junkie you gotta do what you gotta do.
i can't believe i used to be that way!
So i shouldn't of done that then with vodka?! oops
Think it was last year we'd bought some vodka for this little pissup we were having and more people than we thought turned up and so we didnt have enough to get pissed (sad drinking just to get pissed i know but oh well!) so my mate came up with the 'clever' idea of snorting it aswell!
It worked we were absolutly fucked but yeah didnt feel to nice!
Found out the next morning doing it too much can blind you! :nervous:
I remember having this evil drink in Spain, the bar tender got us to cover the glass with our hands, then stick a straw through and "breathe till it burn throat"
It most certainly did and it didnt taste any better either.