Sweet-sweet smoky goodness.

Now you've got me wondering what I should avoid ordering at the same time that might be interpreted as "fuel."

Rocket candy. Main fuel for rocketeers. Tons of info on YT.

Smokin'!

An egg carton will sustain a smoulder on its own. While getting our fireplace ready to light, I threw in an old egg carton and lit it, but the flame went out. At the time I thought I'll wait a little later to light the fire. After about 10 minutes, I noticed about half of the egg carton had burned away, still smouldering with an orange glow along the edge. I continued to watch it and it took another 10 minutes for the rest to burn. With the amount of smoke it gave off, I wouldn't try this out in the open indoors with a full egg carton, but might be worth trying with strips cut out.

Seán Byrne

Use citronella oil, and "stuff" the midges.

Ian James

Good advice. Well received. Cheers.

David Pearson

It's always worth researching the subject online and comparing different research. If anything it might make you more relaxed using the stuff.

Big Clive

Must have been misinformed Clive. I never bothered to check. Didn’t intend being alarmist, just passing on what I’d been told.

David Pearson

That might be a bit alarmist. There's mixed info online, but in the MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) The fatal dose is considered somewhat higher at over 3g per kilogram of body weight. But it's definitely not something you'd want to ingest raw. One of the main issues is that it reduces the blood's ability to carry oxygen for a while, resulting in a blue tinge (cyanosis) at the body's extremities.

Big Clive

The anti insect ones list Transfluthrin and potassium nitrate in the ingredients.

Big Clive

Cigarette manufacturers add it to keep cigarettes burning.

Big Clive

Made many a dozen toffee smoke thingies with my son a few years back. Some were quite spectacular. As a butcher I have access to larger quantities of salt petre for our bacon curing activities. One thing worth mentioning, and not wishing to spoil the fun aspect here, I was once informed by our seasonings specialist that if ingested it is lethal at 1 gram. Do not try that one Clive!!

David Pearson

Always fun to mess with oxidisers

What a fun video! Are they using the regular stuff you've mentioned on the anti-insect ones?

Michael Thompson

Once tried buying salt peter whilst at high school after getting hold of the anarchists cookbook...didnt even make it back to school before the police had arrived!

Ben O'Hara

Clive you are the ultimate big kid, it's a good thing your mum is not around to see all this, she'd be like "Clive stop setting fires in the house, stop taking things to bits, stop playing with live electric wires" 😄

The Tinkering Shed

Most tailor made cigarettes use saltpetre to make the cigarette burn faster and thus sell more cigarettes. I am sure that deep inhalation of this chemical does much damage to your lungs.

Many many years ago, Rizla (cigarette papers) tried out papers that kept your roll up going. I guess it was salt Peter based.

Neil Tonks

I've taken a few small ultrasonic misters apart.

Big Clive

Not as much fun, but more effective, is to use a diffuser. This uses ultra-sonics to vibrate a water and oil mix. Have you pulled one of these apart?

Cinnamon and apple oil would make your neighbors think you were a world class baker.

If you use 100% cotton paper you won't have as much ash as printer paper produces.

Mark Trombley

Oh.. remember the days when you could get 500g of oxidising agent from Wilko's gardening section for under a quid?

Andy Brown

When my dad was living on a farm in Iowa in the 50s, they used a combination of sugar and potassium nitrate to split large logs. I'm not sure if they used it in powder form or if they melted it down into little drops with fuses added. It apparently worked pretty well when confined.

Chris Kelley