(VIDEO) Survival Hack: How to Start a Fire With Sugar and Without Matches

starting a fire with sugar

Getting a fire going will very often save your life. Even if it doesn't, it's at least going to make your experience a much more comfortable one. Learn how you can whip up a fire with a good old fashioned chemical reaction, and we don't mean with matches.

This method is extremely reliable, as long as you keep everything dry. But that's the standard advice for all fire starting materials, so it shouldn't be very difficult advice to follow. What's great is you don't need to carry those big jugs of the ingredients with you out in the woods. You can just fill a couple of film canisters (if you can find them) or some other small containers to add to your fire making

You can just fill a couple of film canisters (if you can find them) or some other small containers to add to your fire making kit. Just make sure you keep them separated until you need them!

This is an excellent tip to use for your future fire starting endeavors.


333 Comments

  1. Joe Willson said:

    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.

  2. Joe Willson said:

    It is used in water disinfection. And first aid. Not exactly arsenic.

  3. Joe Willson said:

    Wtf is a feral rod? Why not get a domesticated rod. Or a ferro rod? (Ferrocerium)

  4. Mark Anderberg said:

    Here it is folks easy to carry easy to use and No Mixing required! You Are All Welcomed. !

  5. Todd Martyn said:

    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

  6. Thomas Daniel Gunter said:

    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

  7. Everett Herring said:

    This is stupid, where are you supposed to Potassium permanganate in the wilderness?

    • Kevin Gantnier sr said:

      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

  8. Jay Tilman said:

    … if the looters don’t know this, … oh wait.. looters will get all the sugar.. do zombies use sugar?

  9. Paul Champagne said:

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  10. Eric Strobel said:

    smokey the bear stole all your propane torches – now what you gonna do?

  11. Paul Wadley said:

    hey guys I think we have a winner daniel duke said it well..knowledge is king….just saying..

  12. Randy Gentry said:

    “punky” wood is foud in thee woods, good to keep in mind and practice with for “hard times”

  13. Keith Williams said:

    This is the stupidest hack I’ve ever seen. There are 435 better ways to start a fire without matches. Potassium permangenate? Whuuuhhhh?

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