If your a wood burner and lump charcoal guy (or gal) like me I walk around the back yard and pick up pecan twigs that drop every week rather than mow over them. Place them in the fire box and torch 'em with MAPP gas. takes 2 minutes then dump charcoal on top and sticks. We recycle!
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I use Weber cubes all the time. To utilize the mess, I hold the foil-sealed plastic tray over the chimney as I pop out the cube. All the mess goes over the coals in the chimney, possibly helping them to get their light on. Then I put the cube onto a small double layer square of aluminum foil placed on the grate, light it, and set the chimney into place. Easy peasy.
I've used the same small square of doubled aluminum foil for about 5 years now but am thinking of switching it out for MBMorgan 's tuna can idea. Thanks, Mike!
Kathryn
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I thought long and hard about getting a Weber Performer with the propane start, or one without.
I figured in for a penny in for a pound, and got the propane start, and couldn’t be more satisfied. I have no memory of what the difference in price was, and the starter has been rock solid for three seasons now.Comment
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Anyone try using Doritos? Believe it or not they burn really well...
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I use the Rutland starter squares. One will get a chimney going - so in the 144 pack that's around $.12 a light. Used to be a newspaper guy. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1Last edited by EdF; April 15, 2019, 10:47 AM.Comment
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I'm late to this thread, but I just renewed my membership.
I too have used the Weber cubes, with no complaints, but I wanted something with more and bigger fire. I wanted to make my own. After looking on youtube, I slightly modified another idea that I found there, using paraffin wax, cotton balls, and paper.
I saved my empty paper towel roll 'tubes' and cut them with scissors into lengths of 1.5" to 1.75", doesn't have to be that precise. Then I stuff two jumbo sized cotton balls into the pieces of tube. Then I melt the wax, using a type of double boiler.
I boil a small amount of water in a saucepan and then take an empty and clean regular size soup can, and place a small block of wax in the can. Then place the can of wax into the hot water, to melt. (I use the wax that you all are familiar with, found in the canning supplies at the grocery, in one pound blocks.)
I use needle nose pliers to pinch/hold the cotton ball tubes, for dipping into the melted wax. I hold the tube under for a count of ten seconds to allow the cotton to soak up all it possibly can. Then allow the excess wax to drip back into the wax can. Then place the fresh fire starter on to a paper plate for cooling and hardening. If you like, you can scrape the cooled wax off the paper plate and save it for another time.
Each one of these fire starters will put out easily twice the flame, if not more, of a starter cube, and last a good ten minutes under a chimney. I haven't timed it exactly. When I am rteady to light a chimney of charcoal, I place the fire starter in a small empty tuna fish can.
Another lighting technique I have used is to place two jumbo cotton balls into the tuna fish can and fill the can with 90% rubbing alcohol, and place the chimney over the flame. If you can't tell, I like playing with fire, and NOT getting burned!! Enjoy!!Comment
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Dryer lint infused with paraffin wax. Just put the lint in a foam egg carton, melt the wax, and pour over the lint. The lint cubes pop out of the foam easily.Comment
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charcoal bag works well. When no chimney, I use tumbleweeds.Comment
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Here's my post on the ones I made the other week: https://pitmaster.amazingribs.com/fo...he-wife-s-away
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