Campfire Grease Bomb

A demonstration on how to do a grease bomb in your camp fire.

This is an old river runner tricked used to add a mystical touch to the evening campfire. (It also gets rid of the bacon grease.)

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• camp
• fire
• fun
• grease
• bomb
• camping
• entertainment

[TELBOYO10]

Another equally dangerous trick to do while sitting around a camp fire is to throw boiled candy into the fire, they get hot and explode sending boiling sugar in to the faces of the people around the fire, (russian roulette for people who do not owna gun). Placing an unopened can of spaghetti hoops in the fire sends you home round burns on your face- like ringworm. I did both of these when i was a boy around a camp fire, I wish I had thought of the grease bomb trick!!!

[videocamper]

We do it for entertainment and educational reasons not the thrill of dangerous behavior. This is only dangerous in the same sense as driving a car or shooting firearms are dangerous activities. All danger lies in how you do it. As you point out there are many dangerous and stupid things that can be done around a campfire. Knowing what not to do is more important than not knowing what can happen. Therefore, I leave your comment but I certainly do not endorse the activities you mention!

[cometkatt]

obviously you dont live/camp in california- that little stunt would likely land you in jail. I am appalled that you would teach something that dangerous and idiotic to young children.

for shame

[videocamper]

I try to teach it to everybody I camp with especially if they might be cooking. You would be amazed at how many people do not know you get a huge fire ball when you throw cold water on burning grease! (This "little stunt" really drives that point home.) This grease-water combination can happen in your kitchen at home too and when it hits the paint on the walls, yikes!

The real forest fire threat is an UNATTENDED or improperly extinguished camp fire.

[bilabong267]

that wasn't very good ours go like 12-20 feet into the air =)

[videocamper]

You're right, they can be much better. That was actually our second attempt as we lost some of the bacon grease on a bad first effort (didn't do a good job hitting the can with the water). Also it was real windy which doesn't help. But I do think my son did a good job of explaining how to do it, which was the whole idea behind the video. Thanks for the comment! Ken

[Wyowanderer777]

Excellent!

The trick to doing this is to have everyone not involved with the watercan well back, exactly as shown/advised in the video.

I've heard of a similar trick using a whiskey bottle filled with water and gasoline; it really makes a mushroom cloud.

[bloodandwinearered]

I think you should mention to check over head to be sure there are no branches above. This is best done in an open space. Not as big as flying a kite, but a look up, before the fire shoots into the air is important.

[cometkatt]

@forrestry \

go ahead and be delusional.... your family has my sympathies.

[forrestry]

@cometkatt Not much fun being criticized yourself is it? You ought to keep your negative comments about other people to yourself. Usually I do, but I found you hard to resist. Alas sweetheart, I am afraid it will never work out. It is over between us........... :) Oh dear.

[cometkatt]

@forrestry i don't do any RUDE name highly biggotted name calling

you cannot claim the same - this 'conversation' is done - i dont have the patience for such nastyness.

[forrestry]

@cometkatt Judgment calls? Pot calling the kettle black I believe the saying goes......................

[cometkatt]

@forrestry by what right do you THink you can make such idiot judgement calls about something you obviously dont know anything about? - i pity your children if this is the kind of NASTY kind of comments you make on a regular basis. how dare you think you know anyone here well enough to speak to ANYONE in such a fashion. Your mother would be ASHAMED of such bad manners. i know I AM ONE!!

[forrestry]

@cometkatt Liberal homo from California no doubt? Ha ha ha ha you are hilarious. Stay inside the padded room along with your children, if you have any, God forbid.

[ethicomm]

When I was a kid back in the 1960's my Mom would take cans of bacon grease to a place in our town where it would be recycled for something related to bombs. It was right in the midst of the cold war era when we still had weekly air-raid siren tests.

[borderraven]

I was up fishing at a lake one day, when I heard a BOOOM! It seems some very dumb campers had pulled out and left a can of beans in their still burning fire pit. The shrapnel extended over 150 feet or so, and had this not been at a developed campground, burning beans could have reached the trees.