How to Make a Lighter Out of a Potato

Necessary Equipment:

• A potato
• A tablespoon
• Toothpaste
• Salt
• 2 Wires
• A Cotton Ball
• A time keeping device
• 2 toothpicks

Instructions:

1. Gather all your materials.
2. Strip the ends of the wires.
3. Cut your potato into two parts. Roughly 1/3 of the way in.
4. Take the smaller half and poke two holes in the center of the potato with enough distance between them so the wires won’t touch when you put them in.
5. Take the spoon and scoop out part of the larger half of the potato. Continue until the spoon fits in depth-wise.
6. Fill the bottom of the hole you just scraped out with salt. (About 2/3 Tablespoons full).
7. Fill the hole with quite a bit of toothpaste. (Enough that it will cover the hole’s bottom completely)
8. Mix the toothpaste and salt together well in the potato “bowl”. Smear it across the hole and partly around the edge of the hole.
9. Put the wires in the two holes in the smaller potato. Make sure the exposed ends are in contact with the toothpaste/salt mixture.
10. Close the potato up with the two toothpicks by putting them through the two halves.
11. Tear off a piece of the cotton ball, stick it on one of the wires.
12. Wait five (5) minutes.
13. Take the other wire (the one not connected to the cotton ball) and touch it to the cotton ball. After a few attempts, it should light!
14. You have made fire!

Notices:

• DISCLAIMER: I, the author, take no responsibility for what you use this experiment for. Please, safety first!
• This does produce fire, which is dangerous. Do not take this experiment lightly.