How do you do that party trick, where you breathe fire? I know it involves a liquid… which one? And how do you stop from burning you mouth?
Am I going nuts or was there a reply here before?!?
Well, my friends (aquaintinces, anyway) were filling their mouths with vapour butane (from a lighter and) breathing it on a lit lighter…
Prolly alcohol, but i’ve done it with an ordinary lighter, just hold the button down for about 30 seconds in your mouth, don’t breathe, then quickly flick the lighter and GENTLY breathe out the lighter gas. I can’t do it every time, but when I can get it, there is a smell of burning flesh (my upper lip)
My friend is a member of a group that does displays of this kind. (he also juggles, does firestaff and a few other things)
Anyway, he told me how to do it, though I have never tried it and I would NOT reccomend that you try it without instruction.
The stuff you use is parrafin. (You can use gasoline, but my friend knows many people who have singed their eyebrows using it.) However, parrafin won’t burn on its own, so you need to vapourise it, you can’t just spit it out.
The way you do it is you take just enough parrafin into your mouth so that it reaches your bottom lip when you open your mouth. You then blow hard across your bottom lip so that a fine spray of parrafin droplets comes off your bottom lip, onto whatever you are using to light it.
In this thread, yabob tells us that
which is what I assume that Nukeman means by “parrafin”. So don’t try this with a mouthful of hot wax.
shit, yes, I hadn’t thought of that. I also spelt paraffin wrong.
Yea… I just started doing fire poi and Fire Staffing… but I have been paying attention to the percautions that they talk about.
So here are some good tips.
A safe fuel is actually Cooking Oil,
You Blow a raspberry (make your lips vibrate together) when blowing fire, make a mist spray ahead of you… learn to do it before you even start using fire.
You light the mist not even close to your mouth… and not with a lighter… use a stick or something that your hands wont get in the way. Go for about a foot away from your mouth… if you can go farther… do it. No point on putting yourself in more danger than you need to.
Have only enough oil/fuel in your mouth for one blow.
Dont use gasoline…
If you want to do it… actually study about it…
there are a bunch of discussions about it there… or ask questions there. (note that not all their know what they are talking about, not even me. So look for a few people to agree before you try anything.)
I know of people who have experienced chemical pneumonia among other things from firebreathing. I, myself, have seen a guy catch his face on fire trying do what you call a “party favor” Of all things you can do with fire, this is THE most dangerous. There are soo many things that could go wrong from blowbacks, to accidentally spitting fuel on your hands, inhaling vaporized fuels(all toxic, some more than others…just about all carcinogenic[cancer causing]), dribbling fuel on your face. I would HIGHLY recommend anyone that is insistent on learning this art do a LOT of research regarding it. So make sure before you go off and try this, to educate yourself and remember that you can seriously hurt yourself AND others.
This is not anything to be toyed with by the uneducated…
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I only asked for educational reasons. I’ve already done all the damage I can to my mouth in my fire-eating phase 