I'm new to this forum but not to the planet.

This thread brings back so many memories.

When my brother and I bought a Sterno stove, my father told us: "It's great for melting ice... if you've got the time."

We also had carbide lamps. My brother and I would also stick carbide into snowballs when we'd have a snowball fight with other kids. They'd holler: "No fair! You can't put rocks in the snowballs!" We'd then light them and toss back flaming snowballs.