If your matches are wet, your lighter is out of fuel, it's a cloudy day, making your magnifying glass useless, and you don't have hours to waste trying to get a friction fire going.
Sounds like a pretty rough weekend in the woods. Luckily, if you've ever spent some time in a high school chemistry class, you can whip up a pretty handy little fire with just some regular household sugar and some potassium permanganate.
This is an easy trick that utilizes the chemical nature of the two ingredients to erupt a nice little flame that's more than hot enough to ignite any tinder you manage to get your hands on.
Check out just how easy this method is with the video on the next page.
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I’m 47. Been camping for about 40 years, and I have NEVER even seen potassium permanganate. What bush does it grow on? I’ll just carry a firesteel.
Awesome tip.
It is used in water disinfection. And first aid. Not exactly arsenic.
Wtf is a feral rod? Why not get a domesticated rod. Or a ferro rod? (Ferrocerium)
Here it is folks easy to carry easy to use and No Mixing required! You Are All Welcomed. !
Where the hell would you get that from!!
Amazon has it……….
Leonard Chambers
This site is a scam
How to start a fire with sugar. Step 1 put cup of sugar on sidewalk. Step 2 wait for someone to stop and inspect sugar. Step 3 hit person over the head steal their lighter/matches and go start your fire. Side note don’t forget to take your sugar for future other handy how to survive techniques
Clint
Love it !
Hey…butane lighters are so cheap and plentiful that you are a FOOL if you don’t have dozens for every coat pocket, glove compartment, tackle and tool box, bug out kit and utility drawer in your home. They can last for years. I havent smoked in over 15 years and still have working butane lighters from those days. A complete idiot can learn to operate one in the pitch blackness of a cave. Go get some for your life’s emergencies. Your kids will likely inherit them from you
This is stupid, where are you supposed to Potassium permanganate in the wilderness?
You carry it as a disinfectant and antifungal.It is also used to treat ulcers. As a side use it can be used to start fires
… if the looters don’t know this, … oh wait.. looters will get all the sugar.. do zombies use sugar?
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smokey the bear stole all your propane torches – now what you gonna do?
hey guys I think we have a winner daniel duke said it well..knowledge is king….just saying..
nice hack
“punky” wood is foud in thee woods, good to keep in mind and practice with for “hard times”
Darrell D Foraker
Ryan Rammoser
Mitchell Mawer
This is the stupidest hack I’ve ever seen. There are 435 better ways to start a fire without matches. Potassium permangenate? Whuuuhhhh?
Google it. Easy to buy online.
Good to have on hand!
Lorna Rulien-Small
Who doesn’t have potassium perchlorate lying about?
Survival tip….go to walmart buy cheap bic lighters.
Yea, use a lighter