i'v been hearig alot about ageing twinkies to make pure alcohol, some thing about like 10 years?
2007-11-27 03:34:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
*I think twinkies last forever... if ever a nuclear war, the twinkies and cockroaches would survive unharmed.... So I suppose if they did ferment and turn into alcohol at least the cockroaches would be getting drunk*
2007-11-27 03:39:31 · answer #1 · answered by rollins_freak_21361 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just about anything with sugar/carbs in it can be fermented
I'm not entirely sure what twinkies are made from (don't think we have them, or they're called something different in the UK)
so you'll have to check the ingredients. Sometimes products have chemicals added hinder the growth of alcohol producing yeasts. There can vary from fungicides, to simple household salt.
If you want to try making booze from them, just try adding them/some brewers yeast to water, in a demi-john, and using that as the starting ingredients, similar to how you make other home brew.
You can only get up about 22% aalcohol by fermentation. To get higher you'd need to use distillation.
2007-11-28 17:28:59 · answer #2 · answered by Steve C 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
New Twinkies, after 10 years, are simply way old Twinkies, and they really don't taste that good. They do NOT turn into alcohol.
Besides, who wants to wait around 10 years to see what happens? That sounds dumb to me.
2007-11-27 19:56:50 · answer #3 · answered by Carlos R 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Although sugar will turn to alcohol after some time in contact with bread yeast, Twinkies contain preservatives which will inhibit that process.
2007-11-27 11:44:58 · answer #4 · answered by Reverend Black Grape 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am sure that could be done but it would be for household use only like used to remove rust or something! Ha Weeeewweeee! Ohhh my God I killed the cow when my twinkie exploded after it fermented 2 years. And I agree that would be exellent for mythbusters.
2007-11-27 11:40:18 · answer #5 · answered by seaturtle36 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wait 10 years then let us know.
There are so many preservatives in twinkies to prevent fermentation that I doubt you could get yeast to do much with a twinkie at all.
2007-11-27 11:43:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, they uncovered a twinkie in King Tut's tomb that was preserved better than him and it still was a twinkie - lol
Twinkie Trivia: It used to be filled with a banana cream filling
2007-11-27 11:39:17 · answer #7 · answered by golfengineer3 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think MOST thinks that ferment will become alcohol at some point...
but twinkies have a plastic in it... and the shelf life is like YEARS
2007-11-27 11:37:26 · answer #8 · answered by The WingHunter 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If this were true, then Hillbillies would be throwing away their backwoods stills and going over to the Stop N Shop for their twinkie fix.
Hillbillies got to have their booze ya know.
2007-11-27 11:40:33 · answer #9 · answered by gato_del_sol_3 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Somewhere there's a college student studying this with grant money.
Ask mythbusters.
2007-11-27 11:37:34 · answer #10 · answered by Greywolf 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋