Boiling water in a plastic bottle

We see if it is possible to boil water in a plastic bottle over a fire.

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• plastic
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[richard5432112345]

cool video. does the fire smell at all like burning/melting plastic?

[2brothersadventures]

@richard5432112345 I did not detect any smell.

[hobbexp]

damn good video, the only bad thing, is the water taste warm plastic, 5/5

[2brothersadventures]

That would be true, but better than getting sick. At least it was fun to do. Any day you can make a fire and do something with it is a good day.

[HMharrisonmurray]

this is great for the last resort, but when you heat the plastic the carcinogens are released into the water. dont get me wrong i would do it myself if i needed to.

[2brothersadventures]

We know about all the nasty stuff released from the bottle, but if its that or get super sick from bad water, I will take the chemicals from the bottle. I think you would have a better chance to survive the chemicals once or twice than the parasites in dirty water.

[HollyTheFireNinja]

You won't die drinking water boiled in bottles just once.

You might from hundreds bottles of the same water.

[PatriotGoUSA]

When I was in college, my teacher boiled water in a paper cup over a gas flame. I thought it was pretty cool. I wouldn't recommend drinking from a melted bottle too often, prolly lots of carcinogens in there. But if it was life or death, yeah.

[remituan]

Great video! Beer bottles or any glass bottle would work too. For survival purposes, I guess it is okay to temporary use this method just until help arrived. I'm sure the chemicals in the plastic will eventually get to you. Either die from thirst today or die from cancer 30 years down the road.

[majorwoodies]

couldn't you just pasteurize the water and prolong the life of the bottle

[raysteer]

@TheAlphaFaction You can burn out a cavity in a log and heat water in it with hot rocks, or do the same with water in a pit in the ground lined with a plastic bag. Then there are containers which can be made of birch bark or paper and heated "conventionaly" over the fire.

[passwordguy1]

first off dont get me wrong, that would be great in the wilderness if it were a last resort, but i wouldnt reccamend it...because when heated plastic will release chemicals into the substance in the bottle beleived to cause cancer...which is also why i wont drink hot coffie etc. out of styrofoam cups from gas stations and what not.

but anyways great video 5/5 :)

[themarxmarvelous]

@TheAlphaFaction Pray?



[TheAlphaFaction]

HEY what if i am stuck in the wild and find water, but dont have a bottle, can, or bamboo to boil it in, what do i do????

[extramailman12]

oh and my other comment was about if you do it with the lid on

[extramailman12]

i figured this out on my own :) i tried it an from personal expleriance it is CRUCIAL that theere is absolutely no air at all in the bottle or it will pop and it wont work

[tommmasg]

Is it safe? and are you sure that it wont get the toxins out of plastic?