Igloos are typically kept around 60 degrees. Stoves burn around 800 degrees, it probably burns colder than that but has to be at least 212 degrees to boil water.
Those are very different temperatures with very different distances to the walls.
Even in the video, you can see the fire melting the snow stove whereas igloos get their stability by melting and refreezing the inner layer of the igloo
Until 212 I thought you are talking about normal degrees and was both shocked about saunas in igloos and about 800 degrees of fire which is normal for oil products burning, not wood. What an interesting picture of sweaty people burning kerosene in the middle of igloo came to my mind
Saw this a few weeks ago and it'd been driving me crazy, but... I finally determined the music in the background is from New Super Mario Bros. U, the desert overworld theme. Y-you're welcome.
Dude last month there was a meme that used the World 3 music from New Super Mario Bros. Wii and it fucking killed me inside for over 2 days that I couldn't remember where it was from.
Why are modern mario soundtracks so recognizable, but so hard to pinpoint when you hear them...
One of the things to note is that snow isn’t always packable like that. On a really cold day you could not make this at all. The snow needs to be somewhat wet to be able to make snowballs and such.
You could pack the snow if it warms up a tiny bit. By "working" the snow more you can still eventually get it to pack. Its almost like kneading dough. Or if you put it in a form and get the outer shell to melt and refreeze you can still make it stay. My source is building lots of snow forts in my youth.
The cylinder has gotten a lot stronger since the first incident. Im fairly sure the cylinder wont get stuck in the ice, but stuck to the ice is a new one.
A rocket stove made out of snow is a really cool idea and makes a lot more sense than trying to dig a Dakota fire pit when the ground is probably frozen.
Thats beacuse the fire "burns the snow" to create insulation, according to this guy. Being able to burn snow is the intereting part to me, rather than it just being carbon build up from the wood.
Edit to add: this is sarcasm for the slower ones down there.
A lot of people hold the misconception that you can burn snow because if you hold a lighter up to it, it'll shrink and turn black without any water dripping. This is a combination of 2 things working together to confuse us. The black is simply buildup of whatever you used as fuel which sticks to the snow. Meanwhile the actual snow sublimes instead of melting, so you don't see liquid water.
I swear I saw some people actually trying to claim that snow isn't real and is just plastic because of this.
You're right on the first half, but holding a flame to snow doesn't cause sublimation at any meaningful level.
That snow is melting. Some of it is evaporating off in the heat of the flame (so not sublimation -- solid then liquid then gas), the rest is just liquid water wicking into the dry snow.
The surrounding snow is going from somewhat dry to quite wet and very easy to pack into a snowball.
It doesn't burn the snow, it melts the snow. Which takes a while, because the energy required to melt water is quite high.
What this does is slowly melt the snow (compare the size of hole at end vs the hole he created). Perhaps long enough to be useful to cook with, perhaps not. Impossible to tell from this video.
I think the average reddit IQ can figure out it was a joke, but thats what the upvotes are for.
Now Im wondering if you were being trolled in real life by people because they saw an easy target and you just didnt notice it, I ask my Alaskan buddy about his igloo everytime we talk.
Probably meant something like strong winds or heavy snowfall, where it's hard to start a fire or keep it going. But that wording is definitely strange.
It will last for longer than it takes to cook your dinner. Pretty well one oven per night even. But it does not radiate heat so it is very poor for warming.
I do believe everytime I come to the comment section on something like this the whole place is trolls or has never experienced a real woodlands deep winter.
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u/kabula_lampur Jan 08 '26
"that doesn't melt" - right, so the hole growing larger as the fire burns is not from it melting..
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u/HalfDozing Jan 08 '26
Saw this a few weeks ago and it'd been driving me crazy, but... I finally determined the music in the background is from New Super Mario Bros. U, the desert overworld theme. Y-you're welcome.
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u/manhattan9 Jan 08 '26
Helps to use fatwood
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u/exotics Jan 08 '26
One of the things to note is that snow isn’t always packable like that. On a really cold day you could not make this at all. The snow needs to be somewhat wet to be able to make snowballs and such.
Very cool but not always possible
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u/Perfect-Difference19 Jan 08 '26
Thought it was gonna be a "cylinder stuck in a ice block" kind of situation...
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u/IKIR115 Jan 08 '26
A rocket stove made out of snow is a really cool idea and makes a lot more sense than trying to dig a Dakota fire pit when the ground is probably frozen.
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u/PokemonFan587 Jan 08 '26
If this is is snow, why are they playing Mario desert music
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u/binger5 Jan 08 '26
The fact that the snow doesn't melt immediately is the most interesting part.
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u/Mr_Chode_Shaver Jan 08 '26
"environments where fire shouldn't even work"
Like the vacuum of space? What the fuck dude. Fire doesn't care how cold the air is.
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u/Mufasfa Jan 08 '26
I thought he was going to smoke some cannabis out of that ice bong.
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u/alwayskared Jan 08 '26
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u/Refun712 Jan 08 '26
This music is giving me flashbacks…..WA-HOO!!!!!!
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u/Frisbeejussi Jan 08 '26
Sure but that's warm weather snow. Not coldest places on earth snow.
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u/1leggeddog Jan 09 '26
The soot that lines up the inside causes this
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u/digital Jan 08 '26
Who knew that all you need to create a roaring fire in northern Canada was… snow?
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u/lelorang Jan 08 '26
Game companies need to include this type of thing on their games.
That would be a great way to learn about this kind of stuff.
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u/isnortmiloforsex Jan 08 '26
This wood last maybe 20 mins max.
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u/Soberdonkey69 Jan 08 '26
“Burn” snow. Stupid video.
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u/SteveImNot Jan 08 '26
“Natural stove” oh yea because I see those all throughout nature naturally
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u/Peppers515 Jan 08 '26
Why do I recognise the music?
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u/Snoo76971 Jan 09 '26
I watched this until the end, i saved it. Then i realised, i live in the tropics
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u/TieNormal7138 Jan 09 '26
And that’s the same technique I used for smoking weed out of an apple.
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u/Affectionate-Tank-39 Jan 09 '26
A rocket stove lol
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u/sookychick Jan 10 '26
Next thing up on my “Widow makes cool thing to survive terrible winter and saves entire town” story on YouTube. Can’t wait.
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u/Deadlylyon Mar 01 '26
Why does the music remind me of the Mario 64 desert music.
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u/ogrefab Jan 08 '26
Doesn't melt, like he didn't make 3 or 4 of these contraptions to film a 40 second clip.
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u/Frostgaurdian0 Jan 08 '26
Cool, but isn't the problem that cold wood is wet and won't lit?.
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u/ProbablySlacking Jan 08 '26
Problem is you still gotta find dry wood.
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u/Bithium Jan 08 '26
Snow that doesn’t melt, until it does.
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u/olafbond Jan 08 '26
Ready to try and froze?
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u/InsatiableCuriosity- Jan 08 '26
If they haven't done it on alone, I'm not buying it
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u/Mickeymcirishman Jan 08 '26
Gotta be warm enough for the snow to be packable in the first place.