A useful halachic note.

[xiphias]

So, fellow Jews: have you ever sat there and thought, "Well, but HOW could I burn my chametz? It's not like bread and Chereos are actually all that inflammable."

I had a brainstorm.

190 proof grain alcohol is chametz.

Okay, there's a possibility that it's only kitnyot, if it's made from corn. But still.

Soak a piece of bread in grain alcohol.

Burns like a charm. If there was a problem, it was that I had to use about a quart of water after the thing was charcoal just to make CERTAIN it was out. . .

Comments

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

Not sure if this violates Jewish law somehow, but shortening is also super duper flammable and cheaper than alcohol. Unless there's a law that you have to burn all the alcohol in your home during Passover?

(Somehow I missed that particular bit of tradition)

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

hee.

[tendyl.livejournal.com]

Do I want to ask WHY you decided to burn your chametz?

(Btw, you can't seem me laughing at this thought/action - espeically the quart of water. But my coworkers seem to think I've lost my mind).

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Firebug.

*regards you fondly*

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

That is a great idea. You could make rocket fuel the night before and have a rocket fuel party in a field and then the next morning burn all the chametz with the leftovers.

That might be taking it a little far though.

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Flaming Cheerios, OMG.

[goljerp]

Actually, cheerioes burn pretty well. Of course, I burned mine in a communal fire, and made sure to have lots of candle wax and matchsticks in the paper bag I brought the cheerios in, so I probably could've burned bread pretty easily, too. :-)

Still, I think you win points for creativity.