On Sun, 08 May 2011 18:39:18 -0700, Winston
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Ed Huntress wrote:
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Normally, I stop warming when the casting is detectably warm to the
touch, probably ~ 100 - 150 F.

It makes the 'nearly impossible' easy.

--Winston-- Keeps an extinguisher handy, too.

Holy cow. You get this week's "What, Me Worry?" award.g

You're in a class with my cousin (now deceased, but for other reasons).
He was in the First Marine Division in Laos and Vietnam, and he used
to tell how he heated his coffee by burning a wad of C4.

As I learned from my former boss's boss:
"I got away with it, therefore it was proper, moral, legal and safe."



I guess it burns nicely, but I'm not likely ever to find out, first-hand.

"*Do not* light the C4 with your remaining hand."

--Winston

It does burn rather nicely, abeit very quickly. Heat the water up first,
THEN add the coffee powder. Heating beans and mother****ers over C4
could be interesting...and often left a thick layer of burned beans
inside the pot/cup

Gunner

--
"If I say two plus two is four and a Democrat says two plus two is eight,
it's not a partial victory for me when we agree that two plus two is
six. " Jonah Goldberg (modified)