Best firelighters

[Tony Mac]

Can anyone recommend a good brand of firelighters to use with a log burner? I've seen some of them are coated in wax which makes me think they will leave a waxy residue behind. Any suggestions of good value, effective, firelighters appreciated!

 

 

[Mrblue5000]

3 litre plastic milk carbon. It saves the recyclers shipping them to Japan where they use it as fuel.

[Tony Mac]

3 minutes ago, Mrblue5000 said:

3 litre plastic milk carbon. It saves the recyclers shipping them to Japan where they use it as fuel.

Do you mean milk carton?

 

In any case.... 😳

[Mrblue5000]

Carton, sorry predictive text and no reading glasses not a good combination. 
Carbon was on my mind though, all that fuel being burned by a ship moving rubbish from one side of the planet to the other so we can feel good about recycling our plastic. Rant over.

[Stubby]

23 minutes ago, Tony Mac said:

Can anyone recommend a good brand of firelighters to use with a log burner? I've seen some of them are coated in wax which makes me think they will leave a waxy residue behind. Any suggestions of good value, effective, firelighters appreciated!

 

 

Its paraffin wax and burns off . No " waxy " residue left . The cheap ones in the CoOp work fine . 

[Tony Mac]

28 minutes ago, Mrblue5000 said:

Carton, sorry predictive text and no reading glasses not a good combination. 
Carbon was on my mind though, all that fuel being burned by a ship moving rubbish from one side of the planet to the other so we can feel good about recycling our plastic. Rant over.

I must say I never knew this is what happened! Shocking (and depressing) info. 

[Tony Mac]

20 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Its paraffin wax and burns off . No " waxy " residue left . The cheap ones in the CoOp work fine . 

Ahh! Thanks for clarifying that for me! 👍

[trigger_andy]

1 hour ago, Tony Mac said:

Can anyone recommend a good brand of firelighters to use with a log burner? I've seen some of them are coated in wax which makes me think they will leave a waxy residue behind. Any suggestions of good value, effective, firelighters appreciated!

 

 

I’d not worry a damn about a waxy residue. Just have a hot burn for 20-40 minutes a day to clear any build up in the flue. I throw almost everything into my kitchen stove including nappies and after 12 months I had 2 litres maximum of soot.
 

As for Firelighters I use Homebargains ones. Cheap and cheerful. 
 

You don’t need to be so precious with your stove. 🤣

[Tony Mac]

5 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

I’d not worry a damn about a waxy residue. Just have a hot burn for 20-40 minutes a day to clear any build up in the flue. I throw almost everything into my kitchen stove including nappies and after 12 months I had 2 litres maximum of soot.
 

As for Firelighters I use Homebargains ones. Cheap and cheerful. 
 

You don’t need to be so precious with your stove. 🤣

I think it's because after a year of just using my instincts on this stove, I've finally found out about some of its features and how it works (thanks to posters on here I should add), so now I'm trying to do things 'properly'. 

 

I've never used firelighters before, I've just been screwing up newspaper and lighting that, but free newspapers are getting harder to find, so thought I should switch to firelighters... and here we are! 

[Steven P]

4 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

As for Firelighters I use Homebargains ones. Cheap and cheerful. 

 

Same here, cheap and cheerful. When Aldi start selling them it is time to light the fire.

 

 

If you want you can splash out on those twisted bits of wood, at about £5 a shot, all green and what ever. Could go old school and make small kindling with an axe and knife, slower than a fire lighter but nothing nasty in there, or just go cheap and cheerful. I often wondered whether a milk carton would go through a domestic paper shredder, shred them over the year and use them, but haven't experimented with that... yet....