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Ralph

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Picture the scene. A friend an I were having a day out in the local woods and were just tucking in to our freshly brewed tea, when My friend put too much powdered milk (mmm, delicious...) in the tea. A normal occurrence, you might say, but... He spooned it onto a leaf and I threw the leaf on the fire so there wasn't loads of milk everywhere when we left and it went up in very large, very bright flames! We tried it with a bit more and up it went again. On checking the label it appeared that there are many other ingredients in the stuff than just milk, including vegetable oil. I think it must have been this coupled with the large surface area of the powder. Oh and also teabags make good tinder in a wet wood. I wasnt sure whether to put this in firecraft or food, but I thought it might be useful. :eek: :lmao:
 
That'll be the large surface area with out a doubt, also there is lactose (sugar derivative). You can do that with flour as well which works quite well. We do an experiement in front of the students involving icing sugar and a golden syrup tin with a tea light in. , shoots the lid into the ceiling every time.
 
ArkAngel said:
Custard powder is good for that too :D


Just a thought ( I'm not sure if people use this anymore ) but here goes.

Do people use potassium permanganate ?

It's a wonderful chemical and has many uses, one of which is to start fires when combined with glycerine and cotton wool.
It takes some practice but when you get the mix right, you'll have spontaneous combustion and it's not that hard to do.
The glycerine can also be used to sweeten things.
Again, I'm not sure how common such things are these days, if they are still common please don't think I'm teaching people to suck eggs, if not then I'll expand on the uses. For example water purification etc.

John
 
We used to use powdered milk for fire breathing in fire shows.

Far less carcinogenic than kerosene :yikes: and just as effective.

Still tastes ruddy awful tho!!

j
 
You can do that with virtually any fine powder, such as talcum, chalk, cement dust etc.... If you want to add a bit of smoke, try bleach and brake fluid.... :lmao:
 

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