How To Create A Fire In Your Hand 12 Steps With Pictures

If you use gloves, use an old leather glove or lined garden glove that’s tight-fitting with a hard palm surface. While wearing bulky flame-retardant gloves is an excellent safety precaution to protect yourself from being burned, cloth gloves in general mostly keep the trick from working at all, and can actually make the trick more dangerous. Bulky flame-resistant gloves will often extinguish the flame before it lights, while a regular glove can absorb the lighter fluid, increasing the possibility that you may light the glove on fire and burn yourself.

Try to imagine you were holding water in your palm and keeping as much of it as possible from escaping. The trick basically involves filling your fist with butane, then lighting it as you open your hand.

Different performers of this trick will hold down the button for longer, or shorter, depending on the gas flow of the lighter, and the size of fireball you want to make. To be on the safe side, it’s better to hold it down for around five seconds–long enough to get enough light-able gas, but short enough for the resulting fireball to be relatively brief. If you get more comfortable handling the lighter, you could then Try to create a bigger one if you want, holding it down for 10 seconds, or slightly longer. But when you’re first starting out, go small. This is a dangerous trick, and you don’t want to get in over your head.

Under no circumstances should you strike the flint while the lighter is still inserted into your fist, having released butane into it. This is extremely dangerous.

The timing takes some practice. You want to “fan” your fingers away from the lighter, raising your pinkie first, then your ring finger, and so on to open your fist. If you open all your fingers at once, the butane may not ignite, while if you don’t open your fist at all, you risk burning yourself. Under no circumstances should you leave your fist closed.

There will likely be lots of ingredients in some sanitizers, and only one or two in others, but the presence of one or the other of these varieties of alcohol will make the sanitizer flammable, whatever else is included. Increasingly, hand sanitizers are alcohol-free, though, meaning that they won’t work for this trick. Make sure you read the label on the hand sanitizer, or the trick might not work. [4] X Research source

Find a suitable flameproof surface on which to work. You need to go outside to do this trick, preferably on a patch of concrete far away from anything flammable. The flatter, the better. Clear the space of anything flammable–small twigs, sod, bits of paper. You need to be very careful that nothing will catch on fire but the sanitizer.

It’s best to do this trick at night, so that you can see the glow better. Make sure you can still see well enough that you what you’re doing though. Maybe try it in the evening, when there’s soft light and the glow of the flame will be visible. Under no circumstances should you cover your hands with sanitizer and then light it. The trick only works because of the speed at which you do it, not because the hand sanitizer is safe. This will burn you severely and would be extremely dangerous. Don’t do this.

You should feel some heat, or a strange sensation, like hot and cold. Hand sanitizer usually has a cooling feeling, which may trick you into thinking it’s hot. Either way, you won’t have enough time to really feel anything, because you will only swipe your finger through, look at it for a second, and put the flame out.

Keep water close by and dunk your hand in it, if necessary. Do not let the fire burn up all the alcohol, or you risk serious injury.