Elon Musk Has Already Made $5 Million Selling Really Big Crème Brûlée Torches [Update: Sold Out, $10 Million]

Elon Musk ’s tunnel - practise fellowship made one thousand thousand over the weekend by selling a mathematical product that has nothing to do with burrow or boring .

On Saturday nighttime , Muskannounced pre - ordersfor the Boring Company Flamethrower , a $ 500 gimmick that is really more of a fire - sputterer than a flamethrower . Flamethrowers shoot out an enkindled flow of flammable liquid state so that agricultural workers , soldiers , and pyrotechnicians can ignite things that are several yards away . Musk ’s equipment shoot a much smaller flaming , like a soup - up cigar unclouded .

But that does n’t matter to Musk because he really hump support a toy dog firegun . lay eyes on the expression of a devil-may-care billionaire affect to light someone on ardor — sodding walking on air !

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

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Musk squeeze that the short range means the productdoesn’t violate ATF standards , and suggested it is less dangerous than a steak tongue .

Even though the glorified blowtorch has virtually no practical use , the Boring Company had already sold7 thousandof them by 1 AM on Monday morning , deserving about $ 3.5 million . Just before this story was published , a Boring Company spokesperson provided us with an update : “ We ’ve sell roughly 10k so far , ” they said , deserving about $ 5 million .

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If Musk sellsall of the 20,000fireburpers the party has planned for yield , that ’ll be $ 10 million . It ’s an impressive footprint up from his last Boring pillage sale—50,000 hats at $ 20 each .

Musk seems to be at his well-chosen when he ’s selling weird merch . After his successful crown sales , he modify his twitter bio to “ hat salesman . ” Now he ’s tweet outjokesaboutflamethrowersand azombie Revelation of Saint John the Divine . It ’s an effective sales agreement maneuver , because ascertain a billionaire ’s manboy giddiness wager out in actual time does make us want to get off something on firing .

Update February 1 , 9:30 a.m. :

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