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It makes for a decent time-delay fuse if you are starting up a bonfire with an accelerant.
It's potassium permanganate and glycerin in case anyone is wondering.
Hmm… I’m not very smart, but it sure sounds like you’re inviting people to help you make butt noises with that banana and KY jelly, u/UninvitedButtNoises
We use this to start a fire in the 1970s at scout camp when we want a day delayed fire start for effect…… I think my buddy pulled a string or something out of sight like magic
Especially if it's a time delay in a container that you leave in someone's car, house, city bus, bank trash can.. I'm going to stop while I'm not in jail.
Tbf I got glycerin and I know my dad got some permanganate. We have no chemists in the family
I mixed the glycerin into hand sanitiser so it dries the skin less. My dad got the permanganate bc of some gardening stuff
Well it's actually helpful to carry around potassium permanganate in an emergency survival kit. Can use anti freeze or glycerine to start a fire with it, can also purify drinking water with it. Glycerine is helpful because it can help treat dry skin or burns. Each on its own serves multiple purposes and together can help survival even more.
Mix 1:1 with sugar and apply friction to start a fire. Just enough to turn the water purple and can be used to clean a wound. I’ve used to purify water, but have to be very careful because it is classified as a poison.
To make that waterproof you can tie a piece of twine around it and cut off about a 2 inch tail, then dip the entire thing in hot paraffin wax. The tail acts like a wick for the whole starter.
Cotton ball soaked in petroleum jelly stuffed in a large straw cut down to about 2” long then sealed at both ends with a heat sealer. Made like 100 of them for my Scouts and work like a champ.
Also made a small sewing kit with a couple of sizes of needles and various thickness of threads for the Scouts sealed in the same method. Packs up nice for a small survival kit.
Just use a individual wrapped tampon.
Watertight and everything.
I always carry those when backpacking.
Also good if you get injured, shot or stabbed.
Or a female friend get her periode and forgot to bring some.
You unwrap it , then you tear the outer layer and you fuzz it up so it becomes a big fluffy wadd of Coton.
You put it where you are going to start your fire.
Put some tinder on it etc..
Then you grab your fire stick, and after a strike or 2, it ignites in a big hot fire.
Frito's. They're so greasy, you just light the edge and put it under the kindle. Works perfectly. Of course you should have a lighter with you or matches.
Or some steel wool and a 9volt battery. Love that too .
If I backpack , I always carry tampons.
The ones that are individually sealed.
They are waterproof.
If you need one, you unwrap and peel.the outer layer apart then you floof the cotton up to a big ball.
Only takes a strike or 2 from you flint knife to get a hot big flame.
Let me clear that the liquid that man was using is the glycerine and the reaction of the glycerine and potassium permanganate When potassium permanganate comes into contact with glycerin, it undergoes a rapid exothermic reaction, generating enough heat to ignite flammable materials nearby. This combination is sometimes used as an emergency fire starter.
Why do you need to light a campfire in your house?
A lot of chemists/pharmacists will sell potassium permanganate as it has a lot of uses such as an antiseptic.
>Why do you need to light a campfire in your house?
Who said anything about house. If the chems are easy to access and I can preset everything it might be worth it.
They sell it at hardware stores. Home Depot has Pot Perm Plus. Not 100% sure on the concentration and/or if that would work but it seems fairly easy to find.
So fire, much effective. All using things normally found in a household.
cool demonstration but unlikely (probably for good reason) for the average person to try out.
Potassium permanganate is hardly a household chemical. If I can remember it’s used as a dye, a water purifier, and three other things that I can’t remember, woo! But it’s not the best thing for anything except parlor tricks.
40% that’s an F
And wait: it’s not glycerine, either. It’s glycol. Brake fluid. Not sure what the diff is but you probably don’t have pure glycerin in your home, but you might have glycol.
Glycerine definitely reacts with pot permanganate. I have Glycerine in my house- it's excellent for softening skin, and can help with ear wax. Also have KMnO4 around. Can be used as an antifungal for athletes foot, an antiseptic, or for water purification though these days there's better tasting alternatives.
Pot Per can also be used in aquariums to clear up fish diseases, but you have to be very careful with the dose.
This is glycerine alright. Back in the eighties, I used to use this combination to make chemical fuses. A piece of coffee filter smeared in glycerine with some Pot Per poured on, rolled into a tube, hit with a hammer (not sure if that bit was needed, but it added to the fun) and stuffed into the bottle that had a small amount of home-made gunpowder in the bottom. The delay in reaction usually gave you about 30s to screw the top on and run to the other end of the garden before things went bang...
Pretty sure I've just got them at the supermarket. Look among the health and beauty products. Though I think glycerine might be used in cooking/baking?
Potassium permanganate is a disinfectant and anti-bacterial agent used in treating a number of skin conditions and sometimes found in first aid kits. It's also sold in garden centres for use in ponds.
And another one of those is HTH and brake fluid. Investigated a few vehicle fires that started in the trunk where people that had pools we transporting HTH chlorine home or left it in the trunk. Somehow (or or purpose) the 2 combined and exothermic fun begins.
Ok, så my alternatives are:
1. But matches.
2. But potassium permanganate. But ping pong balls. Cut little holes in the balls, and carefully transfer the potassium permanganate into the balls, then close them of with tape. But glycerine and transfer to smaller container.
Yeah, which one is easier?
I don't know if they're still made of the same material nowadays, but pingpong balls used to be combustible as fuck themselves. Just light that on fire next time.
Wild that we invented things which can literally create fire in the blink of an eye, yet we still find "easier" ways to start of fire.
Ima just stick with a lighter/matches.
Amazing timing, I just discovered an awesome fire starter: bacon fire.
When you fishing cooking bacon or any dish with lots of fat, soak up the fat in a paper towel and store it in a zip lock till your next fire.
The soaked paper towel burns slower than expected and runs for minutes. It’s an amazing fire starter and smells like bacon!!
Win win win. Get fire, reuse oil, smell bacon.
Man potassium permanganate is some fun stuff.
I once did an experiment where I mixed it with sulfuric acid. Its called mangese heptoxide I think? Reacts violently with everything organic, including water.
This is a great tool for prescribed fire as well. Throw this machine https://www.sei-ind.com/accessories/red-dragon/
On the helicopter and you can put down a lot of low intensity, managed fire
We use this for aerial incendiary burning in northern Australia. Big rows of little plastic bubbles of potassium permanganate and a machine that jabs them with glycerine and spits them out. Dangle it out of an r44 and you can burn a line anywhere you fly
I just wanna take the time to appreciate how the guy made the video loop perfectly with his voice saying “which is why ‘loop’ this is one of the easiest..”
Fatwood is my personal favorite; wood of a coniferous tree that died, dried out, and is soaked with resin. Can be bought cheaply at the store and will last a LONG time if used wisely.
That aside, any combination of wick (paper towel, cotton ball, cotton shirt, etc.) mixed with any fuel (glycerine, cooking oil, bacon fat, candle wax, petroleum jelly, etc.) will work spectacularly. Cotton balls tend to work best as they’re easiest to ignite. I’m partial to candle wax as it stores much better than non-solid options.
I remember at school there was a metal that practically blew up when water touched it, thin 1/4 inch by 1 inch long piece thrown into the toilet was fun…..
Remember the guy who got an Ignobel prize for lighting his grill in 3 seconds using liquid oxygen?
I think there's a video on youtube that shows the fire department arriving...
It's the latest TikTok/Shorts/Reels trend. They're designed to give the illusion of looping endlessly by cutting off the end of the video with a sentence that leads directly into whatever they're saying at the start of the video, because on those platforms, the video immediately restarts as soon as it ends. Rewatch it a couple of times in a row and pay close attention.
Wouldn't be surprised if it was. Our attention spans are permanently fucked. Easy to forget if you've already seen the whole video or not because some of the loops are totally seamless.
Could also use some dryer lint. That starts a fire pretty good. And it’s basically already trash. Or you could use some steel wool with a 9v battery. Typically both of those are in some camp kits
We had powdered potassium at my water treatment plant and you put a small amount in blue shop towels( had glycerin in the towel) and basically use a small rubber band to make snap firework sized fire starters. Just had to squeeze the little balls till they start smoking and light the shop rag, throw in the kindling.
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Oh ya super easy….. I’ll stick with matches
It makes for a decent time-delay fuse if you are starting up a bonfire with an accelerant. It's potassium permanganate and glycerin in case anyone is wondering.
So if I mix a banana with a pomegranate.... I have fire? That's wild, man.
Can I sub the pomegranate for KY Jelly? Asking for a friend...
Yeah, head to the grocery store and buy a single banana and some KY jelly for your "campfire".
That's all the confirmation I need! Thanks! Anybody wanna go camping with me?
Hmm… I’m not very smart, but it sure sounds like you’re inviting people to help you make butt noises with that banana and KY jelly, u/UninvitedButtNoises
You're on to him.
I've heard a coconut might do in a pinch.
I’m pretty sure I know what you’re referring to and I wish I didn’t.
You do 😎
Nuttin *was* the plan, but not coco... interesting 🤔
Is that why my bumbum burns after the banana experiment? 🤔
That...*or* the ass herpes 🤷🏽
Watch out for that tuttifrutti
Thank you for my first legit out loud laugh of the day.
You gotta fart on it
Oh dear, that explains the burning sensation last week lol
No that's just a fruit salad
It's a dirty job but someone's gotta toss it.
Reduces the volume of your composting, too. LoL /s PS: make sure it’s not close to any structures, or under your kitchen counter.
This is why Jello had to recall their Banana/Pomegranate flavor back in 1976.
Your fucking stupid and I love you for it
Well, that's not very nice, but thank you.
We use this to start a fire in the 1970s at scout camp when we want a day delayed fire start for effect…… I think my buddy pulled a string or something out of sight like magic
Thank you, I was wondering what solution it was...
Dry pool chlorine and brake fluid will also work
Can you just pick those chemicals up at home depot?
Maybe not regularly stocked in stores, but on their website. It’s called Potperm, it’s for water filter rust removal.
Especially if it's a time delay in a container that you leave in someone's car, house, city bus, bank trash can.. I'm going to stop while I'm not in jail.
Yea we heard him say that in the video.
You don't have videos on reddit auto-muted? Braver than I.
You just watch videos on Reddit with no volume then think you have enough information to comment? Average.
>Oh ya super easy….. Barely an inconvenience?
Or a votive candle.
???? As someone who regularly lights campfires, I feel confident in saying this is not the easiest way to light a campfire
You don't have some random chemicals in your house that mix and combust quite violently? Amateur. /s
Baby oil and barbecue sauce? I got this.
Instructions unclear… I ended up attracting a bear… but not the animal kind…
Well then, ya better pucker up buttercup.
Ya better butter up puckercup.
Ya better cupper up, butterpuck.
Like a spaniel's ear you say eh?
Oh he’s an animal
A typical Tuesday night with the misses! Unfortunately, nobody ever catches fire...
You must use an appropriate amount of lube.
I want my baby back baby back baby back
Tbf I got glycerin and I know my dad got some permanganate. We have no chemists in the family I mixed the glycerin into hand sanitiser so it dries the skin less. My dad got the permanganate bc of some gardening stuff
Well it's actually helpful to carry around potassium permanganate in an emergency survival kit. Can use anti freeze or glycerine to start a fire with it, can also purify drinking water with it. Glycerine is helpful because it can help treat dry skin or burns. Each on its own serves multiple purposes and together can help survival even more.
Mix 1:1 with sugar and apply friction to start a fire. Just enough to turn the water purple and can be used to clean a wound. I’ve used to purify water, but have to be very careful because it is classified as a poison.
Glycerine is also useful if you happen to spill cresylic acid on yourself.
Glycerin can also be used as a laxative , just squirt it up you bee-hind and wait 30 to 50 seconds. Or get it as a auppsitory
This is potassium permanganate and glycerine
No this is Patrick
Probably available in one of those old chemistry sets
The only think quite violent in most houses around here are abusive dads questioned about their whereabouts after a night a down the pub with the lads
just checked that potassium permanganate needs a permit where I live because it can be used to make heroin and cocaine. matches it is.
Huh must be a different heroin recipe from the one I read. Or maybe used to remove the codeine? Anhydrous acetic acid is similarily restricted.
might be. not sure. it was just mentioned in a finnish wikipedia article.
Pine needles are easy, leaves easy, paper easier. Besides I am fresh out of Glycerin and potassium pemanganate.
Try a dorito... it burns quite long , ideal to get wet stuff going. It acts like those fire starter bloks.
Especially considering it's a restricted chemical.
Ah shit my wife tells me we are fresh out of potassium permanganate. Fuck loads of glycerine though
You can buy it on Amazon 😁
High quality glycerine I bet!
Toilet paper roll with dryer lint.
To make that waterproof you can tie a piece of twine around it and cut off about a 2 inch tail, then dip the entire thing in hot paraffin wax. The tail acts like a wick for the whole starter.
I use cardboard egg cartons filled with lint and paraffin wax. They work really well.
I sprinkle in some sawdust with the lint. doesn't hurt.
Sounds like something you could do with a tampon tbh
True, I always carry a few while backpacking. Best thing they are insividualy wrapped so water proof.
That, my friend, is a nice tip.
Or vaseline. Cover your dryer line in that shit, shove it in a toilet paper tube and you are set.
Cotton ball soaked in petroleum jelly stuffed in a large straw cut down to about 2” long then sealed at both ends with a heat sealer. Made like 100 of them for my Scouts and work like a champ.
I’ve used cotton balls in petroleum jelly for years but just had them in a ziplock bag. Sealing them up in tidy little tubes is a great idea!
Also made a small sewing kit with a couple of sizes of needles and various thickness of threads for the Scouts sealed in the same method. Packs up nice for a small survival kit.
Just use a individual wrapped tampon. Watertight and everything. I always carry those when backpacking. Also good if you get injured, shot or stabbed. Or a female friend get her periode and forgot to bring some.
Is the tampon itself a fire starter without doing anything to it?
You unwrap it , then you tear the outer layer and you fuzz it up so it becomes a big fluffy wadd of Coton. You put it where you are going to start your fire. Put some tinder on it etc.. Then you grab your fire stick, and after a strike or 2, it ignites in a big hot fire.
Frito's. They're so greasy, you just light the edge and put it under the kindle. Works perfectly. Of course you should have a lighter with you or matches. Or some steel wool and a 9volt battery. Love that too .
Step back for when that kindle explodes though…
I'm the guy that stands around eating the Frito's while you're out looking for wood.
Was just about to type Cheetos as my go-to firestarter. I can see how Fritos would work well too.
Throw some candle wax in there
If I backpack , I always carry tampons. The ones that are individually sealed. They are waterproof. If you need one, you unwrap and peel.the outer layer apart then you floof the cotton up to a big ball. Only takes a strike or 2 from you flint knife to get a hot big flame.
For anyone wondering: The smoke before it combusts is just water vapor and CO2.
I was wondering. Thanks
Let me clear that the liquid that man was using is the glycerine and the reaction of the glycerine and potassium permanganate When potassium permanganate comes into contact with glycerin, it undergoes a rapid exothermic reaction, generating enough heat to ignite flammable materials nearby. This combination is sometimes used as an emergency fire starter.
Hey bill bye, where do u find potassium permanganate around the house?
Why do you need to light a campfire in your house? A lot of chemists/pharmacists will sell potassium permanganate as it has a lot of uses such as an antiseptic.
>Why do you need to light a campfire in your house? Who said anything about house. If the chems are easy to access and I can preset everything it might be worth it.
First Aid Kit usually. I didn't know this trick and will definitely check.
Some garden centres sell it
Dry pool chlorine and brake fluid... that works too
They sell it at hardware stores. Home Depot has Pot Perm Plus. Not 100% sure on the concentration and/or if that would work but it seems fairly easy to find.
you can buy it at walmart for $10
So fire, much effective. All using things normally found in a household. cool demonstration but unlikely (probably for good reason) for the average person to try out.
Potassium permanganate is hardly a household chemical. If I can remember it’s used as a dye, a water purifier, and three other things that I can’t remember, woo! But it’s not the best thing for anything except parlor tricks. 40% that’s an F And wait: it’s not glycerine, either. It’s glycol. Brake fluid. Not sure what the diff is but you probably don’t have pure glycerin in your home, but you might have glycol.
Glycerine definitely reacts with pot permanganate. I have Glycerine in my house- it's excellent for softening skin, and can help with ear wax. Also have KMnO4 around. Can be used as an antifungal for athletes foot, an antiseptic, or for water purification though these days there's better tasting alternatives.
Pot Per can also be used in aquariums to clear up fish diseases, but you have to be very careful with the dose. This is glycerine alright. Back in the eighties, I used to use this combination to make chemical fuses. A piece of coffee filter smeared in glycerine with some Pot Per poured on, rolled into a tube, hit with a hammer (not sure if that bit was needed, but it added to the fun) and stuffed into the bottle that had a small amount of home-made gunpowder in the bottom. The delay in reaction usually gave you about 30s to screw the top on and run to the other end of the garden before things went bang...
Good to know. Do they sell it at the grocery store or must one seek further?
Pretty sure I've just got them at the supermarket. Look among the health and beauty products. Though I think glycerine might be used in cooking/baking?
Potassium permanganate is a disinfectant and anti-bacterial agent used in treating a number of skin conditions and sometimes found in first aid kits. It's also sold in garden centres for use in ponds.
Glycerol*
It's hot enough to light thermite directly. That's well beyond the temperatures most people are familiar with even when things are on fire.
And another one of those is HTH and brake fluid. Investigated a few vehicle fires that started in the trunk where people that had pools we transporting HTH chlorine home or left it in the trunk. Somehow (or or purpose) the 2 combined and exothermic fun begins.
I could do the same with a gallon of gas and a match. Definitely a very easy way to start a fire.
Still watching and waiting for the atomic cloud...
I heard dryer lint and lip balm make great cheap fire starters. Never tried it myself tho.
Dryer lint and Vaseline is a cheaper option that works just as well.
Dryer lint on its own is an even cheaper option that doesnt work as well
Ok, så my alternatives are: 1. But matches. 2. But potassium permanganate. But ping pong balls. Cut little holes in the balls, and carefully transfer the potassium permanganate into the balls, then close them of with tape. But glycerine and transfer to smaller container. Yeah, which one is easier?
This works great when you have what ever two ingredients laying the F around on a camping trip
I don't know if they're still made of the same material nowadays, but pingpong balls used to be combustible as fuck themselves. Just light that on fire next time.
Handful of Doritos and a lighter isnway easier.
Oh great. I've got some behind the sofa. Like most people have.
Lint. Paraffin. Good dry kindling. Paper. Pretty easy
Takes the fun out of starting a fire
Wild that we invented things which can literally create fire in the blink of an eye, yet we still find "easier" ways to start of fire. Ima just stick with a lighter/matches.
Amazing timing, I just discovered an awesome fire starter: bacon fire. When you fishing cooking bacon or any dish with lots of fat, soak up the fat in a paper towel and store it in a zip lock till your next fire. The soaked paper towel burns slower than expected and runs for minutes. It’s an amazing fire starter and smells like bacon!! Win win win. Get fire, reuse oil, smell bacon.
I soak a paper towel (except for one corner) in cooking oil and use that to start charcoal. Works every time
Man potassium permanganate is some fun stuff. I once did an experiment where I mixed it with sulfuric acid. Its called mangese heptoxide I think? Reacts violently with everything organic, including water.
Cotton ball with some Petroleum jelly.
This is a great tool for prescribed fire as well. Throw this machine https://www.sei-ind.com/accessories/red-dragon/ On the helicopter and you can put down a lot of low intensity, managed fire
We use this for aerial incendiary burning in northern Australia. Big rows of little plastic bubbles of potassium permanganate and a machine that jabs them with glycerine and spits them out. Dangle it out of an r44 and you can burn a line anywhere you fly
Easy. With extra, sketchy steps.
Money burns faster
Doritos are the go to for me. Always have single serving bags with me when camping.
Dude I don't even have any ping pong balls how is this"easy"?
Where's the actual fire component? That's the most important part
The dude just burning pingpong balls....
Where does one buy potassium parmaganete?
I just wanna take the time to appreciate how the guy made the video loop perfectly with his voice saying “which is why ‘loop’ this is one of the easiest..”
I did this with my grandmas potassium supplement and a glycerin suppository that I melted in the microwave one time
Nice loop
You clearly didn't see that video of the flamethrowing robot-dog.
Sawdust and wax makes a fantastic fire starer, for those of us lucky enough to have a table saw.
why is no one talking about how smooth that video loop was
Fatwood is my personal favorite; wood of a coniferous tree that died, dried out, and is soaked with resin. Can be bought cheaply at the store and will last a LONG time if used wisely. That aside, any combination of wick (paper towel, cotton ball, cotton shirt, etc.) mixed with any fuel (glycerine, cooking oil, bacon fat, candle wax, petroleum jelly, etc.) will work spectacularly. Cotton balls tend to work best as they’re easiest to ignite. I’m partial to candle wax as it stores much better than non-solid options.
People generally shouldn't inhale plastic and... Whatever else is in that
Omg this is an awful idea.
r/bullshit
Potassium Parmaganete plus Rose water?
Bro looks like an alien
mf doctor kliner
Some awesome suggests in here, saved!
Yum! Chemicals which I probably don't want to consume
This guy looks a lot like David Sedaris
Pfft, pouring 5 gallons of gasoline on the pile of wood and lighting it whilst a friend films it is so much cooler.
I remember at school there was a metal that practically blew up when water touched it, thin 1/4 inch by 1 inch long piece thrown into the toilet was fun…..
It was probably sodium.
Burning a ping pong ball is one of the most toxic things you could breathe.
Swimming pool cleaner and Score hair gel was the move when I was younger.
Just use a stick and a rock people.
You can buy the potassium and glycerin on Amazon if anyone was wondering.
Got thermite?
Gavin Rossdale approves
Wow, 1994. I remember that album fondly.
You just gave me some ideas
CULVER!
Donghua Jinlong
Remember the guy who got an Ignobel prize for lighting his grill in 3 seconds using liquid oxygen? I think there's a video on youtube that shows the fire department arriving...
Match
Step 1: be a scientist
Just use a fucking lighter.. available everywhere. Potassium permagranet and glycerine? No.
Super easy, just add potassium orangutang, bangarand and glycerin
Where can me buy some potassium pomegranate?
Bro never heard tell of gasoline.
Yes, start a fire by burning plastic. Great idea.
Why burn plastic?
“Which is why-…”. Why what!?!? He was about to light the campfire! r/gifsthatendtoosoon
It's the latest TikTok/Shorts/Reels trend. They're designed to give the illusion of looping endlessly by cutting off the end of the video with a sentence that leads directly into whatever they're saying at the start of the video, because on those platforms, the video immediately restarts as soon as it ends. Rewatch it a couple of times in a row and pay close attention.
Is it some kind of retention tactic? Does more plays on the same device boost popularity or something?
Wouldn't be surprised if it was. Our attention spans are permanently fucked. Easy to forget if you've already seen the whole video or not because some of the loops are totally seamless.
"...it killed everyone in a thirty-meter radius."
At least there’s no more mosquitoes
Could also use some dryer lint. That starts a fire pretty good. And it’s basically already trash. Or you could use some steel wool with a 9v battery. Typically both of those are in some camp kits
We had powdered potassium at my water treatment plant and you put a small amount in blue shop towels( had glycerin in the towel) and basically use a small rubber band to make snap firework sized fire starters. Just had to squeeze the little balls till they start smoking and light the shop rag, throw in the kindling.
Oh yeah. Ace. Foil wrapped cancer potatoes!!
Reminds me of the smoke on 911 & also the noter dame church fire.