Starting your fire

[jengineer]

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For your consideration. It took me a while to find tit since the Purdue web site no longer supports fun and games. Sure glad someone finally reposted the video. Has it been 10 years already?
Improbable Research » Blog Archive » Re-emergence of quick barbeque Grrrrrr! U-tube deleted it.

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RT - The mosaic is very appropriate

[Les]

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Maver,

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't concerned (I have a garden hose 20' away if needed). I'm simply going to tone it down a notch from the flames of hell level that I was at.
My wife on the other hand.....came out, saw the missing eyebrow and singed hair and then looked at the oven (flames rolling out) and actually thought I had accelerated (gas, kerosene) the process and things had gotten out of hand.....something about burning down the neighborhood. I laughed, thinking I was now a battle scared veteran .....she still isn't amused.

Thats Funny!!!

Les...

[Balty Knowles]

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I would imagine any type of chemical soaked starter would have residue that transfers to the food, like bbq starter fluid. If you don't have kindling try paper kindling like this.

Tightly roll news paper & tie a knot like a pretzel so it stays together. A dozen of these on top of some crumpled newspaper is nearly as good as regular kindling.

I plan on using a propane charcoal starter,you can get one cheap at Ace Hardware but when the gas bottle runs out as they always do, then the paper sticks are good.

[RTflorida]

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Balty, I did not actually use an accelerator, my wife thought I did after seeing me and the fire. two pieces crumpled newspaper, a butane 'match' fire starter, and a few twigs are all I need.

Thanks Patrick, I thought so too

[Balty Knowles]

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Sorry RT, Didn't read your post. I was adding to one of the original posts of sharing how to start a fire ith no kindling.

Rgds

Balty

[mwalshkc]

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FB recommends against using charcoal to start your fire. Anyone know why lump charcoal is not a good idea? It starts easly and get to tempature quickly.

[fullback66]

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The lint from your clothes Dryer burns fast. It is a great way to start the oven.
fb66

[Frances]

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This may be a really stupid question, but what is WRONG with starting your fire with newspaper and a match?? Or is it a question of style?

Admittedly I'm only at my third curing fire, but it seems to have worked so far...

[maver]

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nothing wrong - that's exactly what I do. Some (those with weedburners) would call us wimps, that's all.

[asudavew]

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Newspaper, small sticks, bigger sticks, and an air compressor.

Throw some oxygen at that baby! It fires it up quick!

[Frances]

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I'm sitting here, going, ok, I don't mind being a wimp...

But actually in Switzerland lighting a fire and grilling sausages is a national passtime. Any walk that lasts for longer than 1/2 an hour will tend to include a grill stop. And the accepted way of lighting a fire is to use no more than half a sheet of newspaper and one match - if you need anything else it shows your lack of skill and will be severly ridiculed by your companions (even if it happens to be raining cats and dogs at the time and the wood was fished out of the bottom of the river)

Different countries have different customs...

[Bacterium]

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my brother and I have made a charcoal oven and made our own charcoal......after all the hard effort of gathering/cutting wood etc it becomes to precious to use the charcoal to start a fire......

I wouldn't go as far as the local aboriginies which can start a fire with 2 sticks and some paperbark though.....they could relate to Frances customs though


I like the lint idea fb66

[Frances]

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I would have liked a flamethrower today...

Lots of wind, damp air, lots of smoke. If I had one, I would have used it!

[Archena]

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God invented dry leaves and straw for a reason... but paper is good, too.

Haven't tried dryer lint - I will my next fire - I have a ton of the stuff!

[Chris]

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Instead of the weed burner, I tried something different last time.

I had some vegetable oil left over from frying, and put some on a few sheets of newspaper. Crumpled each sheet up, and put them under the pile of kindling. This actually worked better than the blowtorch method has in the past.

-CC