It turns out such ethanol does exist and I found it on DIO (even though I later realized both etos and Kruidvat also sell them). There’s the alcohol shops, and the supermarkets, and they all sell wines and all kinds of distilled drinks but I could never find the pure ethanol which we in Portugal use to cook chouriça laid on an assador de barro.
Some background… whilst living in the Netherlands, I often wondered why was “pure alcohol” nowhere to be found. Essentially, alcohol that through the usage of a ketone (in the Netherlands it’s usually butanone) is made undrinkable and should not be used for human consumption. In English: A simple and one-sentence answer is alcohol ketonatus is the Dutch nomenclature for alcohol that’s been “denaturated”. Het zou dus niet gebruikt zijn om te drinken (waarom willen mensen 96% alcohol drinken is wel buiten mijn verstanding maar ja…). In het Nederlands: een simpel en een-zin antwoord is alcohol ketonatus is alcohol die door gebruik van een ketone (meestal is butanon in Nederland gebruikt) zijn geur veranderd is om het ondrinkbaar te maken.
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