Eating moldy food, with a very few exceptions, such as foods that are deliberately cultured and infected with molds as part of the preparation, such as blue cheese, is a stupid idea. There are plenty of microfungi that produce some pretty seriously heavy-duty toxins, such as Aspergillus species (aflatoxins, some of the most powerful, potent liver toxins known), or even T2 toxin and other trichothecene mycotoxins, these have seen use in bio-chemical warfare and are of very high, possibly fatal toxicity).
There is a kind of tofu-like product, a kind of tempeh, that is still made clandestinely, but has become illegal due to the dangerous nature of contaminants, called tempeh bongkrek, an indonesian thing thats made from fermented coconut pulp IIRC, and there is a common contaminant that feeds off some of the fats in it to produce a pair of toxins, toxoflavin which isn't so well understood, and is unsurprisingly given the name, yellow and poisonous, and an ionophore type toxin (ionophores act as direct ion carriers through cells forming temporary ion channels that aren't meant to be there and destroy ion gradients in cells, often deadly to the cell by collapsing the ion gradients, the highly toxic dinitrophenol, known to bodybuilders and weight loss seekers as DNP acts as a proton ionophore, decoupling ATP production from energy production and use in cells, making it go to waste as heat instead of being utilized for example can cause somebody to overheat to death, really nasty way to go too, as well as starving cells of energy, killing them, by essentially shuttling protons into cells bypassing the electron transport chain thats responsible for energy production and utilization)
That tofu-like dish had to be banned because it was so dangerous, and consumers were dying, although illicit home-manufacture with occasional contamination and death continues.
And ty ren, although don't worry, not much damage done to my hair, and the face shield made sure that it was just some shrivelled locks reduced to ashes rather than the same happening to my face, full thickness third degree burns and potentially fatal poisoning, loss of my eyes etc. That face shield is worth its weight in gold:)
As it was, just lots of smoke, and stink of burnt hair, and a loud THWACK! as the amp shattered, peppering the shield with phosphorus-covered broken glass fragments. no white phosphorus burns. Found bits of the amp and got rid of them, but it appears that most of it was disintegrated into dust.
As for what I'm doing today, I've got a load of muscle-rub type sprays that are made primarily, aside from propellant and a bit of menthol, with just denatured alcohol and n-pentane. So I'm doing a distillation, I need the alcohol for crystallizations and extractions since I've none left and need to order more methanol, ethanol and isopropanol, but I decided I'd fractionally distill it and save the rather useful hydrocarbon solvent pentane, since its unreactive, but very volatile, being just a little higher boiling than the next less heavy alkane hydrocarbons, the butanes, and n-pentane has a boiling point of just 35.9 'C so can be removed from things, and used very handily for crystallizations with speed and ease with just a warm water bath.
So the still is set up and a water bath set up on the hotplate, with the receiver going into an bath of salted ice, lots of it, water, acetone and antifreeze. Down to about -10 'C to maybe -15 'C to catch the pentane, for future use. I ended up sleeping for much of today after being awake last night, so had turned the still off and just left plenty ice to keep the pentane boiling off at room temperature, time to go get it cooking again
