{"id":83643,"date":"2024-07-28T10:34:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T15:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=83643"},"modified":"2024-07-28T15:36:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T20:36:12","slug":"how-to-start-a-fire-with-a-water-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/skills\/survival\/how-to-start-a-fire-with-a-water-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Skill of the Week: Start a Fire With a Water Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An important part of manhood has always been about having the competence to be effective in the world \u2014 having the breadth of skills, the savoir-faire<\/a>, to handle any situation you find yourself in. With that in mind, each Sunday we\u2019ll be republishing one of the illustrated guides from our archives, so you can hone your manly know-how week by week<\/em><\/p>\n

There are countless ways to use everyday items to make a fire<\/a> in survival situations. From short-circuiting cell phone batteries<\/a> to refracting light off the bottom of a soda can, makeshift techniques using what you can scrounge up from your environment can save your life. Creating fire with a water bottle is similar to making a fire with a magnifying glass: the water bottle acts as a lens that focuses sunlight into a super-bright point which quickly heats up paper or other tinder to the point of combustion.<\/p>\n

The first thing to know about making fire with a water bottle is that it\u2019s not easy. It takes time and practice to get the bottle\u2019s position just right, and if the sun isn\u2019t at its full strength because it\u2019s late in the day or behind clouds, your efforts might go unrewarded. To maximize your chances of success, use clear bottles with smooth, curved tops that are filled with clear liquid. Colors absorb light and textures hinder your ability to focus the light. For tinder, paper with dark ink works best \u2014 the dark ink absorbs heat and ignites faster. <\/p>\n

Like this illustrated guide? Then you\u2019re going to love our book The Illustrated Art of Manliness<\/em><\/a>! Pick up a copy on Amazon<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An important part of manhood has always been about having the competence to be effective in the world \u2014 having the breadth of skills, the savoir-faire, to handle any situation you find yourself in. With that in mind, each Sunday we\u2019ll be republishing one of the illustrated guides from our archives, so you can hone your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":183158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,229,42259,277],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-83643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-illustrated-guides","category-skills","category-survival"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SOTW-Start-Fire-with-Water-Bottle-2-1-486x280.jpg","aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SOTW-Start-Fire-with-Water-Bottle-2-1-372x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SOTW-Start-Fire-with-Water-Bottle-2-1-320x196.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83643"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183157,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83643\/revisions\/183157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83643"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=83643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}