More important lessons learned

If you need to burn sugar to get that nice crisy shell-like surface on top of creme brulee (sorry about the lack of accents but I couldn't be bothered to switch my keyboard to French), do not, I repeat, DO NOT use a lighter. The result will be a creme brulee that reeks unappetizingly of lighter fluid. Consider yourselves warned.

Also: Southern Comfort is quite flammable, not surprising as it has a quite a bit of alchohol content. It provides a very pretty blue flame that takes some time to go out. This item is somewhat related to the previous one. In the end, I decided that I did not need a hard crispy top on some leftover creme brulee that I wanted to eat cold and contented myself with enjoying it with just brown sugar sprinkled generously on top.