Top/Down or Down/Top when Lighting Your Wood Burner ... what do you do?

[neiln]

What makes me raise an eyebrow when I see YouTubers demo the top down method they always use so much kindling they couldn't fail to get a roaring blaze in a few seconds.

I use lots of newspaper and lots of kindling and it's away and roaring inside a minute.  I also use Wax from cheese or waxed paper sweet wrappers and such if I have it, but mainly it's just newspaper, kindling and dry wood

[John Skinner]

4 minutes ago, neiln said:

What makes me raise an eyebrow when I see YouTubers demo the top down method they always use so much kindling they couldn't fail to get a roaring blaze in a few seconds.

I use lots of newspaper and lots of kindling and it's away and roaring inside a minute.  I also use Wax from cheese or waxed paper sweet wrappers and such if I have it, but mainly it's just newspaper, kindling and dry wood

 

Agreed. Some of the videos you just have to scream at the screen shouting "Noooo" because some of them are just ludicrous. All you are trying to do is light it, put a bit of heat up the flue to create the draw (if needed) and get it going enough so you can bung on a big log. Its fire, it doesn't really need much help, it knows its job.