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Step 4But What if I Don't Have a Hair Dryer?
A hair dryer only recently became available in my house, so up until about three months ago I was using another method to get troubled coals burning brightly.
The fire is fueled by oxygen, so if it's having trouble burning, you probably want to try and get it as much air as possible. Blowing on the fire is fine, but you'll find that you will be out of breath pretty quickly and you won't have helped revive your fire too much. You can get a much more powerful jet of air by directing it through your fingers.
Take your pointer fingers and your thumbs and squeeze them all together so that you create a small diamond shaped gap in between your fingers. Take a deep breath at this point. Then, take your fingers in this position and raise them to your mouth making a tight seal around your lips. Finally, blow all of the air out of your lungs forcing it through that little hole.
You'll notice that when you could only blow for a few seconds before, you will now be able to blow air on the fire for much longer and with greater control and force. The coals should flare red and respond quickly to your oxygen infusion. Keep blowing until the coals are revived remembering to take breaks so that you don't pass out. (This works best if you can get a friend to help blow on the fire as well).
The fire is fueled by oxygen, so if it's having trouble burning, you probably want to try and get it as much air as possible. Blowing on the fire is fine, but you'll find that you will be out of breath pretty quickly and you won't have helped revive your fire too much. You can get a much more powerful jet of air by directing it through your fingers.
Take your pointer fingers and your thumbs and squeeze them all together so that you create a small diamond shaped gap in between your fingers. Take a deep breath at this point. Then, take your fingers in this position and raise them to your mouth making a tight seal around your lips. Finally, blow all of the air out of your lungs forcing it through that little hole.
You'll notice that when you could only blow for a few seconds before, you will now be able to blow air on the fire for much longer and with greater control and force. The coals should flare red and respond quickly to your oxygen infusion. Keep blowing until the coals are revived remembering to take breaks so that you don't pass out. (This works best if you can get a friend to help blow on the fire as well).
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Mar 31, 2011. 8:50 PMdmlong
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When it's hot outside, some people would ues a hand held paper fan to cool off. I have used one to give the fire some oxygen.
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Aug 2, 2008. 8:45 PMMekasia
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What is leaving your lungs is only like 16% oxygen, compared to, if I remember right, about 23% O2 in air. So, more oxygen from the external source than from your body.
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Sep 5, 2008. 8:24 PMJamesRPatrick
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If it works, it works. And it works.
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Sep 5, 2008. 7:43 PMjongscx
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yeah, but if you're saying that atmospheric "air" is 23%, and exhaled air is 16%, then we're only taking what, 7% of the available? I think that the 16% in the exhaled air is still more than whatever is in the air that's immediately around the coals as they're combusting and the rapid introduction by blowing more than makes up for that difference.
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Oct 26, 2007. 10:29 AM
noahw (author)
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noahw (author)
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It's true, the same amount of oxygen is leaving my lungs with this method as with normal puffing. However, much more of it is actually reaching the fire since it's being directed their by my fingers.
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Oct 26, 2007. 10:08 AMroosta
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your not puffing out any more oxygen, just for a prolonged period of time
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