blowtorch
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The team looked at a lot of images of barbecued meat during the design process, and even took a blowtorch to steak to experiment with color and texture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
Left behind on the street outside the Louvre was the truck, a jerry can, a blowtorch, angle grinders, a walkie-talkie and yellow vests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Police found an angle-grinder and a blowtorch at the scene.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
Say what you will about Arthur Burns, but he had enough common sense not to give a pyromaniac a blowtorch.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
When they finally do make it through that impossible hedge, using a blowtorch from one of the dead Careers’ packs, they find themselves on flat, dry earth that leads to a cliff.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Firefighters were eventually forced to melt it down after fans attempted to thaw the sculpture with blowtorches and chip away at it with sledgehammers.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Employees told firefighters that work was being performed on the roof earlier that day and that roofers had been using blowtorches to melt down material, according to reporting from KTLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
Renaldo said workers were using blowtorches on the building’s exterior before the fire and that heat may have transferred through brick or mortar to the interior and ignited paper or other combustibles.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
A similar technique called flame-weeding, which involves outfitting tractors with blowtorches, is still a little too volatile for widespread adoption in the United States.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
Instead, army engineers arrived unexpectedly on November 24 with sledgehammers and blowtorches and reduced his precious accelerator to scrap.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
