Safety Tips
Practical safety answers for lighters, gas stoves and emergency lighting. Find out whether you can bring a lighter on a plane, whether a Zippo can explode in a hot car, and how to light a gas stove manually during a power outage. For outage prep, see the best flashlights for power outages.
-
Buying Guides Best Flashlights for Power Outages: Blackout Kit (2026)
The best flashlights, lanterns and headlamps for power outages and winter storms, picked for runtime, plus the battery plan that keeps them going. -
Safety Tips Can a Zippo Explode? Hot Cars, Pockets & the Real Risks
A Zippo holds no pressurized gas, so it's far less likely to explode than a disposable. The real risks, the myths, and how to use and refill one safely. -
Safety Tips Can You Bring a Lighter on a Plane? Zippo, BIC & Torch (TSA 2026)
Yes: one BIC or Zippo in your pocket or carry-on. Torch lighters and lighter fluid are banned. Checked-bag rules, arc lighters, Zippo gifts and batteries. -
How-to Guides How Long Does a BIC Lighter Last? (3,000 Lights, No Expiry)
A full-size BIC is rated for about 3,000 lights: roughly five months for a daily smoker, years for occasional use. Lighters don't expire. Here's what wears out. -
How-to Guides Gas Stove Won't Light? 5 Fixes (Clicking, No Click, Gas Smell)
A gas burner that clicks but won't light is usually wet, clogged or has a crooked cap. Five fixes, what no clicking means, and when a gas smell means stop. -
Safety Tips Why Does a Lighter Shock You? Is It Dangerous? (4 Causes)
A lighter's piezo zap is 10,000+ volts but lasts microseconds, so it stings without harming you. The 4 causes, and the one that needs fixing: your stove. -
How-to Guides How to Make a Lighter at Home: 2 Safe DIY Methods
Make a fuel-free spark lighter for your stove from an old piezo igniter, or start a campfire with a 9V battery and steel wool, and why to skip fuel lighters. -
How-to Guides How to Light a Gas Stove Manually (Power Outage Safe Method)
Gas cooktops still work without electricity — if you light them in the right order. The safe step-by-step, plus why you must never do this to a gas oven.