Making Primitive Torches with Bacon Grease
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We've all been there: you wake up in a damp, dark cave wearing nothing but a shirt with a lighter in the pocket. After traversing the clammy terrain for a bit, you stumble across a giant who's about to go out for a smoke. You're reluctant to partake because you have no idea what he's huffing, but you don't want to seem like a square so you offer a light. You need something big enough for this zonked out giant and his colossal roll, so you have to craft a makeshift torch with what you've got on you. It's a really useful skill to have and that's what we're here to teach you today.
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please tell me you don't do fire eating with benzene
its toxic and carcinogenic
Cattails also work
Melted candle wax is what I use.
"Do you have a lighter?" he asked, whilst staring directly at the professional fire eater
Hunter Wall Sometimes people have moments, where they forget things, obvious things, like, My best friend eats fire.
Daniel Irvine oh did he leave his fire at home
>Burn a village with bacon torch
>use fire to cook more bacon
>render fat for more bacon torches
>repeat until you are Bacon Warlord
As a DM .... this is a great new plot although... mabey make it orcs melting the the fat of the villagers in the fire's...
Well that's my next campaign
Sick plan
Cut out the middle man, render the peasants.
@@wolfsden6479 Damn now I wanna play in a campaign like this.
U broke my Runescape
"Nobody wants to spend fifteen minutes watching a guy craft something."
Allow me to introduce you to a channel called Primitive Technology...
Watch it on 1.5x speed though. Much easier to watch.
Also How To Make Everything
"GREASE FIRES! NO JOKE!"
Lights grease torches inside
“Hey Jason, what is that turtleneck made out of?”
JM: “Bond Villain material”
Also, when I was a kid, my friend Clayton and I used to make torches pretty regularly, using pine sap, cotton socks, and wire. We would coat the sticks in a layer of the fuel first, then apply the sock, and wrap it in wire.
wire seems like a good Idea for tying off a torch, actually
We did something like that once. Then I lit my brother on fire by mistake, and that was the last time we made our own torches.
Can’t remember if we succeeded in the torch making, or if we surrendered at “getting lit on fire”.
I feel like dipping the cloth before wrapping might be more effective
@@AshLifts97 wipe your hands and keep them at the non-burny end of the stick lol
@@FreeER lol at "non-burny end" that sounds like something Brian would say
I would probably wrap a small layer, soak it, remove, add a new layer, soak, and so on. It can be incredibly difficult to get bacon grease (or any grease) off of your hands in the wild, and one stray burning drip could either light up your coated hands (if you played in the grease) or else just burn you (if you elected to not touch the grease).
Cotton is absorbent, so that would be unnecessary.
If you're making them ahead of time & have plenty of clean up time before using them, you would.
I recognize that coffee can! It's from Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans, some of their coffee with chicory in it. Good stuff!
On that note, you've done MR shows on appreciating whisk(e)y and fine Cigars, how about some shows on coffee, everything from 'cowboy' style (over a campfire or camp-stove), to coffee-shop brews, even up to (if you can afford it) Kopi Luwak, that coffee made from beans that have been eaten and pooped out by a civet cat. You know, for science.
I agree, an overview of things like fine coffee, chocolate, bacon seems right up their alley.
People drink cat-crap-beans? That's the most disgusting thing I've ever read.
@@danelisslow3269 It's a real thing, look it up. This breed of civet cat eats the coffee fruits (Called cherries. Coffee 'beans' are actually the seeds of these coffee cherries) then their bodies digest the fruit itself, and they poop out the seeds. Supposedly, the animal's digestive system cures the coffee beans, making them mellower and less tannic/acidic, or something. I wouldn't know, I've never tried it. But I'll bet you THESE guys would! FOR SCIENCE!
Protip - tie them off with wire and you avoid unravelling.
copper wire if you want a greenish hue in the flame.
that's actually really smart
Also makes it a more efective weapon
Yes, this is the comment I was looking for.
@@wereboarder2009 Hold the fuckin' phone that sounds dope and I'm going to go try this.
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As if the professional fire eater could not handle fire
@@tkay9083 more of a joke on the injury counter. Somehow these guys manage to get hurt or mess up frequently
@@benjaminvanlier7990 Yeah was supposed to be more of a joke as well, because we all know it doesn't matter what they do injury is inevitable :D
The Modern Rogue Plays DnD 👀
Yes, Jason is dm and the whole crew plays
Yeah irl dnd with real weapons and equipment, the Ch-ild and dresspant robot man are the BBEG
Modern rogue plays the forest
“I had Guy Fieri urinate into a coffee can, and it was just bacon grease...” Instant 👍!
If you were doing this in a survival situation you should partially split the branch like a fork, fill the split with wick, wrap the split so it stays tight. At which point soak and light the torch. This technique is something I figured out by replicating a Swedish fire log on a small branch. Another benefit being that when the fat and wick burn out the branch depending how many times you split the branch you maybe able to keep a flame with the residual heat and surface area left on the branch it self.
"Combat CEO"
I believe we call that a "general," Jason
Combat CEO sounds way cooler though
@@Kntrytnt True
no thats tony stark
Cattails (the plant) for emergency torches in the wild. Dip the top into the grease or melted pine pitch and then light'r up. Watch out for drips!
For an improvement, try soaking the rags in the fuel for a few minutes before wrapping them around the stick.
onafixedincome fair point. Mostly I was thinking about torch efficiency and burn time, but in a true survival situation with no access to gloves or running water, probably best to just let it soak in the fuel for a time.
Animal fat isn't going to ignite on your hands, you'll just have greasy hands.
When I was in scouts, we'd soak the torch ends in diesel. Like litterly leave the torches in a bucket of diesel for hours
"That flaming stuff is gonna burn you"
In other words you should have done this outside
" this is the part where i end the episode" he says flinging a flaming cloth around the room.
one thing that has been done throughout history is for a primitive torch. a stick is split into 4ths on one end and in that space a bunch of dead leaves, smaller sticks and tree sap are placed in. tree sap would work like the bacon grease, smaller sticks and dead leaves would work to keep the sap in place and not just fall straight out
I was really hoping you guys would swing the torches around to see if it would actually go out.
we also shot a follow-up on that subject. Stay tuned.
this really feels like a ep that should of been done outside aha
Gas works good, need a bigger wick though.. and use bailing wire to tie it off...
Here are some advancements:
Oil every layer before knitting to the stick
Use more layers
Use a stick, which is still green (moisture should stop the stick from burning)
These are not for the outdoor one (but still improvised)
Use a more flammable layer as top layer (like a cigar)
Use wire after every layer to secure the cloth
Maybe use some fireproof material between stick and cloth
"The epipen is full of nanobots"
... Kojima?
Some scout torchmaking tricks if you want them. Jeans is the best fabric for making torches.also, wrap a layer of cloth, then bind it with metal wire, then another layer and so on. When the cloth starts to get thin on fuel, it will char, release from the wire and expose the next layer. Also we dipped them in parafin wax. It makes them easy to transport. We had torches that would last something like an hour.
Jason looks like an even better supervillain in a turtleneck.
His supervillain fashion game is always on point.
Editing note: 7:57 I love the D&D stats.
Thats not DnD
fairly close, modeled after Diablo weapon info!
@@BrandtHughes I only played Diablo II LOD and it felt very familiar.
In the commercial segments, Jason looked like he was starring in a 70s tv show, something with drama, mystery, and action. The show could have been called Combat CEO... or maybe that's just Jason's character class in the new modern RPG IRL.
The torches were cool too. I made one once, using a branch, some paper towels, and gas from our mower (I was about 14 at the time). It worked really well... until I wanted to put it out. The force of the water shredded the flimsy paper towels and spread semi-flaming debris all over the place. No long-term repercussions, the conflagration was quickly put out.
I'm sure Brian is aware of this given his fire performing career, but kevlar fabric is an ideal wick due to how absorbent and fire retardant it is. It's the same material used with the wicks for fire staves, poi, rope dart, swords, whips, and fans. some types even have high gauge copper wire stitched in to make it more durable and give off a colored flame when freshly wicked.
Bacon grease has tons of uses. I have made candles from bacon grease before. If you have lye you can make soap. Rendered fats are very versatile.
Me and a buddy once found our way home in the woods at night with birch bark torches. The stressful part was finding another birch tree on our way before the current torch burned out.
This is really awesome...and I can't tell you how many times Ive woken up in a dark, dank cave wearing just a shirt lol what a better way to make a torch than with bacon grease, love it
This looks like a fun activity for a camping trip. Always good to learn useful life skills like making your own torches.
Dayman! Fighter of the night man...champion of the sun...youre a master of karate and friendship, for everyone!
The medieval "reed" candle that peasants used instead of wax candles is something to check out. In the woods any dried organic with a sponge like consistency can be used. Render the fat so it is liquid so it will wick into the material, let cool and you are all set.
Birch bark. It has lots of oils that burn well, can be wrapped around stuff if done right.
I would also suggest you soak the strips in the grease -before- you wrap them around the sticks.
I was going to suggest this also. Pretty sure I remember Rambo (First Blood) soaking his canvas strips before he wrapped them. Also, seems like he did a poor job of tying them off as i remember pieces falling off as he went but he lived, right? LOL
You could try to soak the cloth in the grease before applying it on the stick, this way you would ensure that the whole cloth was covered and soaked in grease, creating multiple layers of flamable material.
Don't ask how I know this, but the best survival torches are made with Hanes cotton underwear., 2 Hanes cotton undershirts, three pairs of underwear (has to be tighty whities) diesel fuel, gasoline, and used motor oil; with baling wire to hold the wick on the torch. You can get anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and a half, all depends on how thoroughly you soak the material and tightly wrap it around the torch.
Remember, when using a torch you hold it out of your line of sight so you don't go just super night blind. Use it like a really dim lantern
This is the content I subscribed for. I'm amazed how well these worked
Bacon Grease in a Cafe Du Monde Chicory Coffee can. I am stunned, but I just connected with Jason on a personal level... Good coffee and good breakfast, this man knows.
Maybe unwrapping fresh, new clothes next to a giant, smoking bonfire is an unwise idea.
Nooo, you gotta get the yummy smoke smell in them. Its like a fabric softener sheet, but better.
Jason in a black turtleneck is a like a bond villain! ;D
With that bow, Jason’s twerking abilities become god tier.
But those torches would probably attract all sorts of predators.
I would suggest you try this once more, but use crisco, it burns like a dream.
Vaseline is a good one to use also . You can use bailing wire or copper wire to tightly fix your cloth in place & you want to soak it layer by layer so put a layer on then Vaseline it up then cloth then Vaseline ect & every time you put more cloth on use more wire . I made 3 of these to put around my campsite I lit them up around midnight & they were still going around 6 in the morning .
8:25 "Here's where it's going to get dangerous."
Right, THAT'S where it got dangerous.
using grease as fuel was cool until you realize you just made whatever monster you try to scare even hungrier
You know whats better than making bacon grease torches? Making eggs with bacon grease!
@@RICDirector Ha, my dogs like the whites too! 1/2lb works or me.
making jute in the wilderness from tree fibers and vines would be your main wicking source for torches
I like how the chalk board says T.S Elliot vs Shel Silverstein and RZA vs E.E Cummings but, they must only engage in combat if its nun-chuck's only
"Hop into my tesla and go be important somewhere else 🤣
I used to and still make torches like this every now and then and the way I kept the cloth on the stick was with wire at I made the torches the way Brian did, for the same reasons- more fuel storgae = more burn time. So I wouldn't use much wire but enought to hold the wick on the stick and then I would make it tight around the stick so it's stuck to it and I can be sure that the wick won't fall off.
Then it was that I picked a stick that was bigger so it wouldn't burn off and snap.
That's about it.
Scary that TH-cam listens to me via my devices since I literally showed my family a torch I made with bacon grease last night and this shows in my feed today
"His name was Robert Paulson. End of line." - The Mayhem Control Program, probably
Birch bark works well and peels off pretty easy
HUGE protip: you get way more visibilty holding the torch toward your side or just outside of your perepherals, the light of the flames will actually make it harder to see whats in front of you.
excellent point.
Its like half the videos I click on from you guys start with me wondering who got sent to the hospital.
I always have wire when camping because if you want something to wrap that torch with, just wrap the shirt with the wire.
"I'm betting we can just wrap it around and tie it off, right?"
Brian, you say that like a man who did not literally at one point make torches for a living.
Day Man. Fighter of the Night Man.
These guys for sure blaze down
We just use Toilet Paper Roles soaked in wax for our stationary torches. They work wonderfully, and if you had a stick that is prepared right, you could also use it as a hand held torch.
id try to get some wire to keep the cloth from unraveling, from a cable or something.
Jason rocking the Steve Jobs turtleneck during the first ad 👍
I've used steel wire to hold the wick to the stick when I used to mess around with fire in my teens
if you use candle wax you can get a torch that will last for 45 to 60 min.
Cattail tops would make good torches.
"Nobody wants to watch 15 min of them making a torch"
Proceeds to make a youtube video of making torches
Me and my dad used to make torches with bacon fat from when we had a griddle and we'd light them at night for fun , we have POUNDS of congealed bacon fat left . And yes the stuff smells awful, especially when you have had it stewing in a garage for years . Yeah we're weird but we have our fun.
Ps. Old socks work the best for a wick :)
They should have a ridiculous big red lever that shuts off all of the lights. Assuming that a there isn’t a single light switch for the whole big room.
"Nobody wants to actually sit there and watch 15 minutes as they construct it"... as I'm sitting here and watching 15 minutes as they construct it.
Their ancestors watching them struggle making a torch
'Y to shame'
So, alternatives could be any waxy substance. Petroleum jelly is the most available modern alternative.
For wick, any natural fibre cordage could be used. As a teenager I made these with everything from cooking oil and old bandages to candle wax and parcel cords. (Brown paper packages were indeed, "tied up with string" when I was a child.)
We used various things when I was little to make torches, I think one of the more longer lasting ones was a stick dipped in tar/pitch or a similar substance and then we'd find cobwebs to put around the tar (used to live in an incredibly old village, also forest spiders make huge webs)
As an English major, I approve of everything on that chalkboard.
Next time guys look into how torches were made in the medieval period, they had some pretty damn good torches that burned long and relatively safely. Also look into rushlights medieval era candle substitute
really enjoyed this episode, nice work guys
Thanks!
Soak the cloth in the liquid fat before wrapping it and put some of the solid fat under each wrap layer. Tie off the cloth every 2-3 wraps so if an outer tie burns off, it will not all unravel. Dip it in the fat one more time before letting it dry to allow the layers to solidify together. Once it is dry, wrap it in a layer or two of clean cloth to keep it ready to use when you need it. Make several ahead of time to take with you on your adventures. Remove the outer wrap and drape it loosely over the torch then light it from the bottom. The clean cloth should catch faster than the fat cloth and will burn up to the fat.
when I started to watch this video and I was very confused when their guest would show up.... I honestly thought that bacon grease was a person
this is my favourite channel
Balled up socks work nicely as a wick
I'd always wondered that as a kid when I saw rope torches and then at a later date we used black plastic bags but they burnt and dropped blue plastic droplets and made a 'ZZZZZTTT' sound.
Soon after that tho, one of the local lunatics told us that it was animal fat which could be from beef, pig or sheep and he showed us it and we had eyes like saucers as we saw this lunatics fire magick tricks where we needed a stick, some rope or grass and we used lard (pig fat).
What a damn mess it made!
4:38 that actually might be a cool idea for a video. Take a bunch of Hollywood "10 second crafts" and try to assemble them as haphazardly and quickly as the movies to see how good a torch made in less than 10 seconds, with practice, can be. (no more arrowheads though)
when youre high that background music hits different
happy holidays from greece mates!
If you boil the grease in water, then let it set in the fridge, pull off the fat and then reheat it on low for awhile to drive off any extra water you will get a WAY better result. Also stores way better and longer for cooking uses. Great in pie crust
What if you were to pre-soak the strips of the cloth before hand? Like, just let them soak while you're warming up the fat before tying it, it would be fully soaked, and even help warm up a bit, then tie it, then light it. I feel like that might help with lighting it/making it last longer.
I like that It's Always Sunny shoutout!
Another thing that works if you are in the wild and don't have bacon (personally I don't see why you would want to survive without bacon, but whatever) is pine pitch. It's easy to get and works well.
man...these dudes love a good indoor fire.
Jason looks like he wrote an award-winning book in the beginning
jason is really rocking that turtleneck
Jason, I like your cosplay of the GM from the Dragonstrike video.
Love the cafe de mond coffee can
So would it have been easier if you had dipped the cotton into some melted bacon grease instead of coagulated?
I heard that they were gonna nerf Groknar's Revenge when they found out about the twerk cooldown cancel bug...
LOL. I kept thinking Brian was going to stick the flaming wood in his mouth.