Favourite form of combustion?

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I'm a fire performer. Slow motion, high framerate shots of anything involving fire in the dark are absolutely gorgeous. Every flame has its beauty. The most beautiful are made with lycopodium.
Personal favorite is fire eating. I used to fire eat on the cast at Coney Island. There's a lot of vapor tech you can do, it's straight up witchcraft. Things like hiding a flame inside your mouth.
I've done a lot with all forms of fire, ama
- nice! so how do you hold a flame in your mouth?
Deflagration-to-detonation transitions are pretty cool but my all-time favorite would be acoustic strobes.
I think my favorite form of combustion is the slow and gradual oxidization of all life on this planet that leads us all towards inescapable death.
It happens so slow that it can take 120 years to finally burn you to a crisp, but it will always, always destroy you, and there's nothing you can do to escape it.
- Joke's on you! Nothing's going to happen to me in my sealed hyperbaric chamber!
  Man, I am so sleepy...
- What if I munch on ice cubes every day
  
  You can try, but all of you is on fire, and if the fire goes out you die
The kind that requires this implement:
- is that some sort of teapot?
  
  Nope, it's a vase
  
  Yes, but it is typically used for milk, like so:
This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_detonation_engine
A propane grill, I tell you Hwat.
The spontaneous kind.
- All the time you read in papers about spontaneous combustion. You turn around and think silently: "Fate will surely spare me."
Butane lighters where it's under pressure and comes out like a little jet engine. It just makes my inner 12yo boy smile.
- Sorry / Your Welcome
  
  LOL, I did not know about that, and it's stupid and cool.
  I just use THIS with the flame set higher than it strictly needs to be.

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