in case anyone what wondeting this shit did not work all that well . I made a real shitty little stand thing out of a monster can which ended up .. probably suffocating the flame . I switched to putting the thing in a bowl of hot water which actually got it up to temperature pretty well but I would need to add more boiling water to it pretty often, and it was just overall very inefficient .
but hey at least parts of my shins are Silky Smooth, progress is progress