Does anyone have a recipe to make the "hot sticks"?
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Old school cinnamon toothpicks
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Last: 5 yr ago by CSTXAg92
blast from the past!!!! seemed like you couldnt find an adult back in the early 80s that wasnt chewing on one
I used to make these !!
Need some cinnamon oil
Need some cinnamon oil
FJB
Back in middle school, we'd get cinnamon oil from the drug store across the street and soak regular toothpick in it.
https://www.amazon.com/LorAnn-Natural-Artificial-Cinnamon-Ounce/dp/B000ECUGBC/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=cinnamon%2Boil&qid=1613074586&sr=8-6&th=1
https://www.amazon.com/LorAnn-Natural-Artificial-Cinnamon-Ounce/dp/B000ECUGBC/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=cinnamon%2Boil&qid=1613074586&sr=8-6&th=1
Pretty sure cinnamon oil on toothpicks is all it was. This was all the rage in jr. high 6th and/or 7th grade.
Yep used to make them all the time. Be careful how much oil you use. That ish can get warm.
same, made our own with cinnamon oil from the old timey drugstore on Main street
same time frame we were also making our own sour pickle TWANG mix...but don't recall what all was included.
same time frame we were also making our own sour pickle TWANG mix...but don't recall what all was included.
Exactly, I asked the local small town Pharmacist and they looked at me like I was crazy.
EMY92 said:
Back in middle school, we'd get cinnamon oil from the drug store across the street and soak regular toothpick in it.
https://www.amazon.com/LorAnn-Natural-Artificial-Cinnamon-Ounce/dp/B000ECUGBC/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=cinnamon%2Boil&qid=1613074586&sr=8-6&th=1
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just added it to my cart!! thanks
I have some of this and tried to recreate hot tooth picks, but couldn't get the oil to dry into the wood. I think you have to heat them in an oven or something.EMY92 said:
Back in middle school, we'd get cinnamon oil from the drug store across the street and soak regular toothpick in it.
https://www.amazon.com/LorAnn-Natural-Artificial-Cinnamon-Ounce/dp/B000ECUGBC/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=cinnamon%2Boil&qid=1613074586&sr=8-6&th=1
We have a snow cone machine and make cinnamon flavored snow cones with that oil. Make sure it's food grade and not the stuff used for potpourri.
I tried making them with cinnamon flavored mouthwash when I was a kid. They were not very good...
Pretty sure all toothpicks are coated in wax these days.PearlJammin said:I have some of this and tried to recreate hot tooth picks, but couldn't get the oil to dry into the wood. I think you have to heat them in an oven or something.EMY92 said:
Back in middle school, we'd get cinnamon oil from the drug store across the street and soak regular toothpick in it.
https://www.amazon.com/LorAnn-Natural-Artificial-Cinnamon-Ounce/dp/B000ECUGBC/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=cinnamon%2Boil&qid=1613074586&sr=8-6&th=1
We have a snow cone machine and make cinnamon flavored snow cones with that oil. Make sure it's food grade and not the stuff used for potpourri.
PearlJammin said:I have some of this and tried to recreate hot tooth picks, but couldn't get the oil to dry into the wood. I think you have to heat them in an oven or something.EMY92 said:
Back in middle school, we'd get cinnamon oil from the drug store across the street and soak regular toothpick in it.
https://www.amazon.com/LorAnn-Natural-Artificial-Cinnamon-Ounce/dp/B000ECUGBC/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=cinnamon%2Boil&qid=1613074586&sr=8-6&th=1
We have a snow cone machine and make cinnamon flavored snow cones with that oil. Make sure it's food grade and not the stuff used for potpourri.
You have to use an old pill bottle...it is chemistry and you probably wouldn't understand even if I could explain it.
THAT is a blast from the past!
Reminds me of soaking mouthpiece in gatorade or koolaid for football. Hot toothpicks and rush to sniff...lol
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Always sucked when the bottle would leak in my pocket...
+100 on a blast from the past. My kids would love these things.
Chewing on a cinnamon toothpick (Hot Cinnamon Fire Pix was the brand) at school in the morning, picking up the freshly mimeographed paper handouts and taking a big ol' whiff. About the time when girls curves started polluting our minds.
Fire Pix + mimeograph paper smell + the fine new chick sitting in the desk next to you = sensory overload for kid back then.
Fire Pix + mimeograph paper smell + the fine new chick sitting in the desk next to you = sensory overload for kid back then.
Home from college one time I found a jar of those that I had made and lost. Been cooking in that oil for probably 4-5 years. The toothpicks were basically see thru. Tried them and they were way hot and very limp....
AgTech88
Used to love those things like everyone else. Both bought them from Pharmore and made them back in the day. I wonder why no one does it anymore.
I still have nightmares from my summer as a welder helper in '93.Ubitag said:
..reminds me of the welder handing out toothpicks after sharing his meal and then passed the same tooth pick container around to pick up the used toothpicks...the look on the faces had to b priceless.
My only toothpick story...btw
Try having 7 uncles and a father that are pipeline welders and being their whipping boy once you were old enough to hold the tin bucket used for spent rods. I wouldn't change it for the world, though...barnyard1996 said:I still have nightmares from my summer as a welder helper in '93.Ubitag said:
..reminds me of the welder handing out toothpicks after sharing his meal and then passed the same tooth pick container around to pick up the used toothpicks...the look on the faces had to b priceless.
My only toothpick story...btw
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I have tried a few from Amazon, but they don't seem to get hot enough.
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I still see them at some gas stationsCactusThomas said:
Used to love those things like everyone else. Both bought them from Pharmore and made them back in the day. I wonder why no one does it anymore.
Wow, I haven't seen those since the early '90s at least! Definitely want a working recipe if one pops up here. Anyone been able to pull off the cinnamon oil one yet?
Pure SWAG, but I would suggest:
Heat toothpicks in a low temp oven to dry them out, then mix the cinnamon oil with some grain alcohol to help it penetrate.
Heat toothpicks in a low temp oven to dry them out, then mix the cinnamon oil with some grain alcohol to help it penetrate.
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Found some - had to go all the way to Moab, UT.....
AgTech88
CactusThomas said:
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This thread and the 357 lever gun thread.
He had to be yanking your chain.... ....right?Ubitag said:
..reminds me of the welder handing out toothpicks after sharing his meal and then passed the same tooth pick container around to pick up the used toothpicks...the look on the faces had to b priceless.
My only toothpick story...btw
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