Fire Starter Idea

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johnpma

Feeling the Heat
Jan 29, 2014
365
W. Mass
Not the wife's original idea but a very useful idea. We spend a lot of time outdoors camping, hiking ect...

Over the summer the wife read in one of the outdoor publications we get about making fire starters with wine corks soaked in 90% rubbing alcohol. We went on a camping vacation back in August and packed away and pasta sauce glass jar filled with wine corks bathed in alcohol to start our campfires. It worked great!! We have now brought this idea indoors and use it as our method of starting the wood stove with great success.

Best part is keeping the cork supply abundant :)

I hope this is useful info for the forum.
 
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We have used for year:

Egg carton (must be cardboard). In each egg space, you put a ball of dryer lint. Then cover that with parafin wax. We keep those in our camping supplies and take them on camping trips with a magnesium/flint firestarter. We just use newspaper and occasionally fatwood at the house.

Don't drink enough wine to do this, but perhaps I will soak our lint in 90%alcohol before the parafin.
 
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