Mick West | Recreating Starlite on Tomorrow's World @MickWest | Uploaded December 2018 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
In 1990 a material called "Starlite" was demonstrated on the BBC's Tomorrow's World. It had what seemed like impressive fire-resisting properties, most famously protecting an egg from a butane blowtorch.
But was it really all that amazing? I set out to try to make my own Starlite, and to recreate the BBC demo as closely as possible, in real time.
It turns out Starlite is perhaps not quite as impressive as it seems.
metabunk.org/how-to-make-starlite-the-miracle-insulating-material-of-maurice-ward.t10228
In 1990 a material called "Starlite" was demonstrated on the BBC's Tomorrow's World. It had what seemed like impressive fire-resisting properties, most famously protecting an egg from a butane blowtorch.
But was it really all that amazing? I set out to try to make my own Starlite, and to recreate the BBC demo as closely as possible, in real time.
It turns out Starlite is perhaps not quite as impressive as it seems.
metabunk.org/how-to-make-starlite-the-miracle-insulating-material-of-maurice-ward.t10228
