Tricks for Lighting the BBQ

[thehelmsman]

To get the kindling burning so far I've seen Plastic bottles, cut off a piece of flip flop and my favorite is using 2 or 3 small candles to light the wood.

Let me know some new ways so I can impress the neighbors.

[Thai at Heart]

Cooking oil on tissue paper under kindling.

[David48]

If you have some clean small kindling and some Kerosene, just soak the dry kindling in the Kero for a couple of minutes and then place that at the bottom of the wood pile and light it.

Mate of mine starts his in sort of the same way as Thai at Heart suggests above. But he uses old (paper) egg cartons dipped in old cooking oil.

David48

[Crossy]

Trouble with kero is unless you let it burn off the burgers can taste oily, family use diesel

+1 on the kitchen towel and old cooking oil, works a treat.

Anyone else find the real charcoal we get here starts much more easily than those ruddy briquettes?

[edwardandtubs]

One of my many local barbecue vendors has the "trick" of using a fan to blow thick barbecue smoke all over the street all day, every day.

[slipperylobster]

Cooking oil on tissue paper under kindling.

Much better than throwing polymers in your cooking fire.

I used to save all my old cooking oil, and fill a thick glass jar with beans and make a cotton wick coiled around the bottom sticking up through the beans (can use sand or pebbles as well). Soak it all with your old cooking oil castoffs. It might be smokey, but its fine for outdoors....and you can make bamboo torch lights for the yard. Saves electric bills on outdoor lighting/candles. The smell is not offensive, but not suitable for indoors. You can use a small empty metal container and just do the same thing, then use it to light your charcoal.

[thehelmsman]

Cooking oil on tissue paper under kindling.

Sounds like a good one. I'll be trying that when I return in 2 mos.

[slapout]

Sawdust soaked with diesel fuel, stored in a gallon can. A large spoon to transfer it where needed. Even the fist timer can start a fire.

[rucus7]

Sterno works really well. You just have to know what to ask for.

[wayned]

We use dry corn cobs soaked in diesel. I only use a couple and make sure that they are fully burned before putting anything on the grill. My wife uses for the fire in her restaurant for the noodle pot so it doesn't matter. I've never tried cooking oil but I guess that it would also work. The dried cobs are readily available where I live from the harvested corn in my back 40.

[noikrit]

Paper , Dry wood , soft fanning or ecectric fan to get going .... you can keep your petro chemicals off my BBQ .... PS AND a cold Beer...

[mogandave]

Depends on what I am using for fuel, but when using hardwood I use a propane torch on kindling.

I used to like to put in the effort to stack a "one match fire" but I don't dick with that anymore.

[Donnie Brasco]

One match ?

I use one of those Weber chimneys with a couple of A4 sheets crumpled under it.

You can by one in Villa.

Anyone know where you find bulk charcoal ? (Not those nifty rice-husk briquettes that smoke too much)

[slipperylobster]

If you are outside the city, you can make your own. I have lots of dead trees, and saw them doing this in the P.I. Would be pretty cheap, and you could control the quality.

[slipperylobster]

For you charcoal enthusiasts...

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Charcoal

One other thing, get one of those thick metal kitchen containers with drilled holes all over....sort of for holding utensils. Put your kindling in the bottom, and charcoal on top. Use a small battery fan after it gets going, to really get the heat action. Then pour that (use a handle) into Your BBQ.

[chrisinth]

Magnesium ribbon to impress, but that's just me.....................

The missus takes one of those cooked chicken presses with charcoal in it and puts it on the cooker hob until it is lit. Uses this as a base for the BBQ. Just have to keep the dogs out of her feet while in transit.

[RabC]

Have seen (and smelt) but not used cut up inner tube, smoked like hell but lit the fire.

[jackr]

Pre-soaked kindling and that fast-lighting charcoal. No mess, no fuss.

[canuckamuck]

Up here there is a type of pine wood loaded with resin that lights very easy and burns strong. Everybody uses it to start their fires.

[LennyW]

Dried coconut skins, tease them apart and light, no kerosene/diesel/oils needed. Little bit of wafting with a brush and away you go!

[Tywais]

Up here there is a type of pine wood loaded with resin that lights very easy and burns strong. Everybody uses it to start their fires.

That's what most use in Chiang Mai also. I have BBQ starter fluid which works quite nicely, same as I normally used in the US. My BIL still uses the starter wood (mai keet) even after I tried to show him how to use the starter fluid. He decided it was easier his way.

[David48]

For you charcoal enthusiasts...

... or making charcoal … Thai style

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[Issangeorge]

In Canada we use to put charcoal in an empty waxed juice container and light it. Here the family uses rubber pellets they get from somewhere, smells awful.

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[Cylon]

My Thai workers use motorbike innertube to light BBQ, And they wonder why I will not eat with them

[MUTHA FUNKA]

Stick your charcoal in those wire grills and stick them on a gas ringed burner for a minute. No chemicals, or fanning required.

[toybits]

Go to the public market in Northern Thailand and look for Mai Kia. This is resinous pine wood. Lights up like pouring gasoline in the fires of hell. Leaves a pleasant smell of burning pine resin.

[Soutpeel]

Old tuna tin, with sand in it soaked in used cooking oil has always worked for me