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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Cody Jones
just checked , it is sold even on ebay
Where do you get potasium premanganate
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we always keep a five gallon bucket of of this stuff, and if you dont have sugar, put a couple of drops of glycerine on it , we always keep a gallon or two around, just in case, the effect is the same
O no me too! Guess we will just make kool-aid with the sugar
Yank a 9 volt out of a smoke alarm and a old chorboy or brillo from any sink you come across lights soaking wet
Yes…all you need is some sugar and “Potassium Promagrante” to start a fire…Really???..
Exactly how many people out there stranded in God knows where, that need a fire to survive , have those ingredients on them
I know I regularly bring potassium permanganate with me into the woods, how about you guys?
15 or 30 minute road flares will start those wet matches right up.
Adam Brashear
Lol!!!!!
So, I can remember to keep potassium permanganate but I can’t remember to have matches?
And scroll threw 20 web pages to get the whole story. As soon as I see a next button I press the back button.
And how is the sugar dry, and the matches wet?
Condescend much?
I often wonder if those that run this page have ever taken some of the survival methods they post and actually apply them in a real situation where their survival depended upon the instructions they post. Seeing this, I’d say no. No they have not.
I always carry this On my keychain. it has a ferrocerium rod and char cloth inside it
Potassium permanganate? Yeah I have have with me all the time….
Reading some of the remarks of people making fun of this method of starting a fire . Maybe your tight and this method does have it’s flaws , but so do just about all other fire starting methods it is just information and as with all information it’s as useful as the situation allows.
So, I don’t have a match but I do have some potassium whatchcallit. All is well.
Yeah… you know, because everyone carries some potassium permanganate in their pocket.
Sugar from your rations. (Example MRE Accessory Packet)
Potassium Permanganate from your kit, because it has numerous survival uses.
Examples: Fire Starting with Sugar. Fire Starting with antifreeze (careful! Reacts energetically!)
Antiseptic
Anti fungal
Purification of water. Kills cholera, bonds with and removes iron, manganese and hydrogen sulfide (rotten egg smell) from water.
Because everyone takes these items camping!
Potassium what? If i could get that in the woods i could get a new bic
Nonsense!
Who on earth keeps that crap but not a lighter, matches, 9v and steel wool, mag glass, and the list goes on.
A pair of glasses , which are always on my face . Water bottle with sunlight. Keep learning.
And you need a 15″ stick to mix it , ? Can I bring a road flare ? It’s I little short but I think it’ll work faster . After all time is money
Oh yeah I got potassium everywhere.
Terri Mccraw
How does one come by potassium permanganate typically?
You mean you don’t Jerry Treece? For shame…lmfao
Oxygen and gasoline
Ken LaVenture
Evan Phillips
Tara Dodrill
Good luck trying to purchase potassium permanganate without a license is easier to purchase a regular AA battery and steel wool pad the ones you use for washing your dishes…. and is cheaper…
I think if I could remember to pack some potassium permanganate I could remember to stow some matches in a waterproof container.
Aidan McCurry
Ya I always keep a bottle of potassium whatever that is in my pocket
A magnifiing glass is also handy…
I hunt down the Wiley potassium permanganate in its natural habitat under the cover of darkness, mostly because I don’t have matches!
matches? buy a dozen disposable lighters and you can make enough fires to do you for a lifetime
Just one problem with this how many of you carry this stuff when out hiking
Darn, my matches got wet, let me pull my chemistry set out of my back pocket and start a fire.
Yep, cause everyone carries a little extra potassium permanganate with them. More stupid clickbait.
Forgot my matches, but have sugar. ..lol
Because everybody carries around a handy pack of potassium permanganate in their pocket!
Just carry a Bic lighter. Smh