Watch this test of a campfire in a can

My big concern, from “research” into similar technologies, would be boil-over. We had a citronella candle in a tin bucket that didn’t have enough wicks. So we added some (like this product), and got a nice little campfire. But eventually all the wax melted, and then there were some mysterious popping sounds, and then it suddenly boiled over, spilling burning hot wax all over our deck. And just a few months earlier we had been laughing at our neighbors when the fire department came to put out their deck. It went out easily with a well-placed 32-oz glass of water - not sure if the water cooled the wax enough that it wouldn’t relight easily, or if we just got incredibly lucky.

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