Tried my new firestarter...

[Rookie1]

How about pizza box that had pepperoni za in it. That grease saturates the bottom. One match and boom its going.

 

[Austin1]

Normally, I don't have to start a cold fire very often, so I've been waiting to try my new firestarter, and tonight was my chance.

Back a month or so, my wife got some produce from the co-op in cardboard boxes.

Cardboard boxes that were made for holding wet stuff.

Cardboard boxes that were impregnated with wax.


P.S One box cut up takes up No space is clean does not smell like anything and is 100x better than news paper.

I cut them up into rectangles about 5x8". Along with some pine for kindling, those things REALLY get a fire going! Once they get to a certain point, the flames coming out the ends are like miniature flamethrowers...

Now, where to get a few more of those boxes....

:greenchainsaw:

After reading this post I finally tried it a few weeks ago. I was buying celery for the Xmas turkey and thought I would ask the guy at the store if he would not mind me getting a few of the boxes, he said we have better ones from apples in the back but I said I wanted the waxed ones.
Well they are Dole celery boxes brown and waxed and the best thing I have ever used for getting a fire going! I don't even need kindling just put the wood in the stove, in my case they are split into about 4x4 or 5x5 size wood.
I cut the fire starter about 3''x8'' and use only two pieces to get the fire going.
I have even added a few small pieces to my survival kit in case I am ever lost and have to make a fire.
I went back and now I must have ten boxes to cut up should last me a long time.
The stuff you learn on as

 

[mtfallsmikey]

Had some of those boxes leftover from last summer, when we bought/canned tomatoes....fantastic when combined with planer shavings...red cedar smells good!

 

[strongback]

I've been experimenting with a bunch of different stuff this year (dryer lint, top down fire, pine cones, noodles etc. I had two of those boxes sitting in my garage for a month and it never occured to me to try them as fire-starters so I threw them out. Aauugh! I hate it when stuff like that happens. It's like standing in line for 20 minutes and then when it's finally your turn you look back and there's no one behind you. You could have been doing other stuff for 20 minutes and then just walked up to the counter without having had to wait. Different circumstance, same feeling. Thanks for the tip. I'll have to start lurking in the produce section.

 

[Orange Hill]

Thanks for the idea. I live in the heart of produce country and I never thought of that, duh. I have even stood next to a wax box fire in the early morning dark waiting for the harvester to show. I worked in produce for 8 years and drove by countless bon fires of damaged or faded boxes that could not be used for production so they are burnt to get rid of them. Thanks for the idea.

I am currently using branches from the Christmas tree and they work great while they last. I am also soaking kindling in the left over oil from the turkey fryer, this also works good.

 

[MJR]

A little cedar goes a long way...