[TheForge] Garlic & Olive oil, again

[peter fels]

Thanks Andy!

On Aug 27, 2011, at 6:04 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:

> Depending on how pure is "pure", be careful with that stuff.  When my 
> mom was a lab chemist she showed me a vial of truly pure garlic extract. 
>  I was going to give it a smell and she pulled it away.  We were under 
> a fume hood and she warned me that it was nothing to trifle with - could 
> make one rather ill.  What you have probably is not the same, but 
> thought I would bring it up in case.
> 
> On 8/26/2011 2:40 PM, peter fels wrote:
>> "pure garlic oil", no added diluting  oil as is usual.
>> I thought that would be the right thing for the experiment.
>> Probably not economical for a metal finish.
>> I was going to test a couple of different % mixes too.
>> 
>> On Aug 26, 2011, at 3:13 AM, Bruce Freeman wrote:
>> 
>>> Any idea how much garlic is in that extract, or how the extract is
>>> made?  Something called an "extract" could be a dilute solution.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:53 PM, peter fels<artgawk at thegrid.net>  wrote:
>>>> I actually followed Frosty's lead and ordered pure garlic oil extract. He'd recommended it for controlling mosquitos,
>>>>  and it's used in gardening as a diluted insect repellant. Costly stuff, it turned out.
>>>> We raise a fair amount of garlic of several varieties for the kitchen..But Phoebe's jealous of that...
>>>> And i'd be accused of sacrilege and deprived of pesto for such crass misuse.
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 25, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Saint Phlip wrote:
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Bruce
>>> NJ
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