Lighting charcoal chimney

[HawgHeaven]

Actual tests show that virgin belly button lint burns hottest.

Unfortunately, the supply of virgins, of late, is on the slim side.... :>(

I dated a woman who had lost her virginity, but still had the original box it came in...

[HistoricFoodie]

HH, anyone ever tell you you ain't right?

[HawgHeaven]

HH, anyone ever tell you you ain't right?

All the time...

[Richtee]

Another one we used to use when backpacking, save your dryer lint and fill egg cartons with it, then melt wax into it. Break one off and light it. Works great as a fire starter. Doesn't work real good with the styrofoam egg cartons (but it does work), but the old fashion cardboard ones are awesome.

Be OK for a camp fire, but I don't think I'd want that concoction burning anywhere near my cooking area..PHEW! Ran across someone using them once..stunk to high heaven.

[HistoricFoodie]

Was it that, Rich? Or maybe one of those commercial fire-starters, which look similar. Terrible stuff. I'd druther cook on a buffler chip fire!

Or even worse: Self-starting charcoal. My god! How can anyone put a match to that stuff and then want to cook on it?

[Richtee]

Was it that, Rich? Or maybe one of those commercial fire-starters, which look similar. Terrible stuff. I'd druther cook on a buffler chip fire!

Or even worse: Self-starting charcoal. My god! How can anyone put a match to that stuff and then want to cook on it?

Nods on the match light..but I asked the guy. Dryer lint, wax- in an egg container. Smelled like a lounge lizard in a poly suit on fire.

[HawgHeaven]

Nods on the match light..but I asked the guy. Dryer lint, wax- in an egg container. Smelled like a lounge lizard in a poly suit on fire.

Okay. There's gotta be a story behind this, pyro man...

[dcarch]

If you are in a hurry:

Use newspaper to get a few lumps lit, or put your chimney on the gas stove - 30 seconds.

Use a small variable speed leaf blower to blow on it - in 10 seconds you will have a furnace going.

You can actually melt steel that way. I found out when I was making a few knives.

dcarch

[HawgHeaven]

Love my weed burner too... that sumbitch gets a fire going in seconds!

[Squirrel]

OMG you guys make things so much harder than they need to be. Just buy these:

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Green-Egg-.../dp/B000F62ZAC

Or better yet, one of you yahoos figure out how to make them with stuff you have lying around your man cave.

I buy them locally for 14.99 a box and I use a third or fourth of one most times. So I get anywhere from 75-95 fires going for less than 20 bucks.

[Bearcarver]

Be OK for a camp fire, but I don't think I'd want that concoction burning anywhere near my cooking area..PHEW! Ran across someone using them once..stunk to high heaven.

LOL---Now you brought back long time memories!!

The last time I heard the expression "Stank to High Heaven" was when my Mother was describing the time my Dad roasted a Raccoon in her kitchen oven!!!
And they've both been gone since before 1994.


Bear

[HawgHeaven]

OMG you guys make things so much harder than they need to be. Just buy these:

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Green-Egg-.../dp/B000F62ZAC


I buy them locally for 14.99 a box and I use a third or fourth of one most times. So I get anywhere from 75-95 fires going for less than 20 bucks.

Men+fire=fun. You should know that by now...

I do like me Sterno tho... it rocks.

[HistoricFoodie]

So I get anywhere from 75-95 fires going for less than 20 bucks

If you're happy with that, Squirrel, that's what counts. But I make my starters from shavings I pick off the workshop floor. Add in the wax and paper cup liner and we're probably talking in the neighborhood of 3-4 cents each (I'm guessing, cuz I actually recycle wax, so aren't paying for it). Call it a nickel to be on the conservative side.

That means the 95 fires you're staring for 20 bucks I'm doing for five. That's a cost savings I'll happily incur.