Wood Fire slow Accelerant

[skippybangkok]

Looking for some kind of fire starter of wood which does not blow out easy, and can start a wood fire.  Used the 7-11 cleaning alcohol, not a good idea ????  - woof.....  but still have my fringe an eye brows ????

 

Maybe Kerosine, or something ?

 

[Kwasaki]

paper and a 10 baht bag of kiddle.

[jvs]

Use diesel fuel,it will not give you a whoosh like gasoline but once started

it burns more hot then gasoline and lasts longer.

You can even throw diesel onto a fire to help it along,do not try that with gasoline.

Wood soaked in diesel can safely be ignited with a match.

[Kenny202]

Inner tubes cut up into small strips / pieces are excellent, particularly for charcoal as are old thongs. Most of the tyre shops, motor bike shops will give u an old one

[ChrisP24]

I make homemade firestarters using old cardboard egg cartons and parrafin, but you can substitute old candles/candle stubs for the parrafin.  The trick is to cut up the egg carton lid into strips and roll the strips into coils to place into the lower egg receptacles, and then pour in the parrafin or wax.  You can also use laundry lint or sawdust, but with laundry lint it's hard to isolate cotton, and the synthetics like nylon give off fumes.  

 

Wax infused with sawdust also work great, if you buy one of those fake fireplace logs and cut it down into small pieces, one log will yield many firestarters.  Keep them in ziplock freezer bags because they can get kind of sticky in the heat or even if stored at room temperature. 

 

These will both give you around ten minutes of safe, robust flame (without any whoosh), which is plenty to get a wood stove fire started, even if your wood is damp or oddly shaped.

 

There is also a product out there called fatwood sticks as fire starters, a google search will tell you about them.

 

Also (and not joking), keeping a small (16 oz.) inexpensive self-striking propane torch around will give you years of potent firestarting, plus has some other handy uses as a bonus. 

 

And.... also not joking, if your wood is dry and sheltered inside the stove (so zero breeze) and you have some fine tinder and kindling so just need a bit of help getting the tinder ignited, then many processed snack foods work surprisingly well, especially puffy cheetos.  The oil in the snacks produces a rapid intense flame that is actually a pretty good firestarter in the right conditions - - much better than the match used to light the cheeto or other snack.  Try it sometime!

 

 

[Kenny202]

A good no smell one couple of paper towels dipped in veg oil and scrunched up. Works a treat

 

[Gsxrnz]

Buy a hand held-held gas torch.  Best fire-starter ever invented.

[Crossy]

8 hours ago, Kenny202 said:

Inner tubes cut up into small strips / pieces are excellent, particularly for charcoal as are old thongs. Most of the tyre shops, motor bike shops will give u an old one

 

Important note for non-Aussies: - Thongs = flip-flops not underwear

[Crossy]

10 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

Buy a hand held-held gas torch.  Best fire-starter ever invented.

 

Yup, exactly what we use to get the barbie charcoal going.

 

And, of course, it doesn't leave that diesel or rubbery taste (which takes a surprisingly long time to burn off).

 

[Gsxrnz]

10 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

Important note for non-Aussies: - Thongs = flip-flops not underwear

Clarification for Kiwis:  Flip-flops = Jandals.  Thong = G-String.  ????

[EVENKEEL]

53 minutes ago, Kenny202 said:

A good no smell one couple of paper towels dipped in veg oil and scrunched up. Works a treat

 

I spent years as a part timer in Isaan, the inner tube, flip-flop or a plastic bottle was a classic fire starter for BBQ. I use the paper towel dipped in  oil as well.

[skippybangkok]

Wow... a lot of local wisdom ???? thanks 

[Kenny202]

3 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

Yup, exactly what we use to get the barbie charcoal going.

 

And, of course, it doesn't leave that diesel or rubbery taste (which takes a surprisingly long time to burn off).

 

A lot of the charcoal you buy seems to already have a "chemical / fuel" type odor. Seem to remember someone telling me some sellers add deisel to the charcoal

[Kenny202]

2 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

Clarification for Kiwis:  Flip-flops = Jandals.  Thong = G-String.  ????

And don't forget pluggers or double pluggers ????

 

[Jaybott]

Kingsford charcoal lighter, it's sold at Villa.

 

And there is always the poor man's napalm.  Cotton balls infused with Vaseline (petroleum jelly).

[Crossy]

16 minutes ago, Kenny202 said:

A lot of the charcoal you buy seems to already have a "chemical / fuel" type odor. Seem to remember someone telling me some sellers add deisel to the charcoal

 

Never had that problem with the stuff we buy, but it comes from a local burner who uses forestry thinnings and traditional (ok, oil-drum) burners.

[VocalNeal]

drizzle something with lighter fluid. Piece of charcoal/wood etc. 

[degrub]

MAPP gas torch ????

[hotchilli]

Gas torch... 

[rwill]

These work good:

 

charcoal fire starters