Kindling Blues

hit up your local package stores (note: in CT, that means a liquor store)

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"Package Store" is the formal term, but where I come from it was always "The Packy", as in "you bettah hit the packy on your way"!

I usually snap some dead twigs/branches of cedar trees , use them with newspaper cruched up, bigger bits of wood-one match every time.

I use one of these guys for about 20 seconds:


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Aimed at a small scoop of wood pellets piled between two splits/rounds with a third piece of wood on top. The pellets gassify quickly, drawing air over themselves creating a fire tunnel.....sounds like a tornado for a few minutes. Starts about any wood you'd care to burn and I can get about 75-100 starts from one bag of pellets and one small bottle of propane. Six bucks for a winter's worth of great starts.


TS

“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.” - George Carlin

Carlin happens to have made a good point.


TS

I use kiln dried wood as kindling, and a propane torch for 2-3 minutes. Gets the flue hot quick too.