Several weeks ago, I found the fire snake video, a neat looking experiment that resembled summoning a demon. I thought it would be cool to try it out at the campsite.
So the first thing I did was steal some sand from the playground.
We measured the sugar and baking soda, converting grams to teaspoons.
And squirted lighter fluid on to the sand.
Lit it, and waited.
A while.
Nothing ever grew. Then we doused the entire surface of the sand, like in the video. Mixed it all in and then tried re-measuring the ingredients and trying again. But all I accomplished was destroying my grill bucket. Well, maybe. I’m going to see if I can clean it up and repaint it.
All that formed were balls of ash, nothing ever resembling the depths of hell, to our disappointment.
When I watched the YouTube video (not the same one I saw on Facebook) one of the comments mentioned it takes five minutes. Perhaps we didn’t wait long enough.
Has anyone done this successfully?