A butane torch is a tool which creates an intensely hot flame using a fuel mixture of LPGs typically including some percentage of butane, a flammable gas.
Consumer air butane torches are often claimed to develop flame temperatures up to approximately . This temperature is high enough to melt many common metals, such as aluminum and copper, and hot enough to vaporize many organic compounds as well.
Applications
Brazing, soldering, plumbing
Often used as daily task tools, butane torches work very well for home improvement and work to solve problems with
plumbing,
soldering and
brazing. Most of the time copper, silver and other metals are used for home repairs of tubes and other house things.
Culinary
Butane torches are frequently employed as
to
caramelize sugar in cooking, such as when making crème brûlée.
They may be marketed as kitchen torches, cooking torches, or culinary torches. Use of the butane torch in the kitchen is not limited to caramelizing sugar; it can be used to melt or brown toppings on casseroles or soups, to melt cheese, to sear meats, and to roast or char vegetables such as peppers.
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Cigars
Pocket butane torches are commonly used as lighters for
cigars, capitalizing on the intensity of the flame to light quickly and evenly the large, relatively damp, burning surface of a cigar.
Bartender
Many
Bartender and
mixologists use butane torches in their recipes. Smoked and flaming
Cocktail are now a
Fad.
Drug use
Butane torches are sometimes used in vaporizing cocaine free base (
Crack cocaine), black tar heroin, methamphetamine
or
hash oil for inhalation.
See also
