What's the best fire starter cubes for SnS?

[Mudkat]

I'm want to use fire starter cubes for a place I rented for a week this summer. I don't want to fill the neighborhood with newspaper smoke everytime I light my chimeny starters. I'll bring my kettle 22 and the SnS for my smoking needs. Any thoughts from the Pit on the best fire starters for this combo?

[ColonialDawg]

I really like tumbleweed firestarters, like these:

https://www.amazon.com/Frontier-Brand-Tumbleweeds-Firestarters-Value/dp/B014ZFK4NI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1529781102&sr=8-2&keywords=Fire+starter+tumbleweeds

My local Home Depot has something similar made by Royal Oak. I personally prefer these starters to the parafin cubes.

[droopie69]

Ditto on these. I think these are the sames one I use and I get them at my neighborhood Kroger. I sometimes get about a 1x1 inch square of foil and set it on so it doesn't fall thru the grate. I have the open SNS.

[texastweeter]

love them!

[Huskee]

I prefer the Weber cubes. Usually they light super easy and go around 10 min.

[Attjack]

These are the only commercial brand I've used.

[jacmac422]

Weber cubes for sure, the only way I ever light charcoal. My .02 after a couple years of slow-n-sear use is to fill with charcoal and leave a small gap on 1 side. I then fully light a few pieces of charcoal in a small chimney and put them back in the slow-n-sear. I havent had great luck trying to light the charcoal inside of the SNS.

[Steve R.]

Weber starter cubes. They burn long and clean and light very easily. Tumbleweeds are good, too, but they can make a mess when they come untwisted, as they always seem to do.

[barelfly]

Another for weber cubes. I’m happy with them and know they will light them KBBs up!

[Obi-Dan]

I’ve always been happy with the Weber cubes

[Mudkat]

Weber cubes it is. Thanks all!

[ColonialDawg]

Don’t believe them. We Tumblweed guys are being suppressed! LOL.

[texastweeter]

no taxation...

[MBMorgan]

YAVFWQ (Yet another vote for Weber cubes). No odors, no ashes, no problems, no brainer ...

[OSB]

I've been using these. They are better than the Weber cubes especially at getting a full chimney going.

http://www.duraflame.com/products/fire-starters/firestart-cubes-wood-charcoal-starter

[fuzzydaddy]

...and again... Weber cubes.

[Bruce54]

I've been using Rutland 50B fire starter squares for lighting the wood stove and with the charcoal chimney. Works great. About $20 for 144 from Amazon.

[EdF]

These are my go-to as well. Clean, fast, persistent. Use them for the BGE, Ooni and KBQ. They just work.

[Troutman]

I concur with these guys. I said in my post below that I use Weber but ran out last week and went to buy more at my local Ace. They were out but had the Rutland so I bought them instead. They work just as well and are WAY cheaper then Weber's.

[customtrim]

I use tumbleweeds cheap at bjs

[Troutman]

+9 on Weber cubes, but I think I’ll try the tumbleweed ones. Also been using my propane side burner with chimney (please hold the comments on melting the burner element, never done that and know how to avoid it).

[fzxdoc]

Not a peep from me, Troutman .

K.

[Mudkat]

The W. cubes just keep piling up. In the cart on Amazon as add on. Now I need a $25 item just to buy them....