[psyc]

I have a clear memory of a similar recipe being laid out in an early 80’s kids’ cartoon, in which a character needs to MacGuyver some gunpowder in the wild. I became obsessed with mimicking the feat, but never figured out how to source the ingredients. Although in the cartoon, I believe they got the potassium nitrate from seagull shit. Around the same time, The Dukes of Hazzard provided instruction on Molotov Cocktails. I was four or five.

Oh, and then there was Mr. Wizard……

[verve_rat]

That sounds like an episode of Transformers[1] I randomly remember sometimes but never bother to look up, until now.

[1] https://tfwiki.net/wiki/A_Decepticon_Raider_in_King_Arthur%2...

[psyc]

That’s definitely the one!

[fsckboy]

making gunpowder was in an episode of the original Star Trek (which was based on a published sci-fi story) where Kirk made some in his battle with the Gorn.