Best firelighters

[scbk]

I've seen some people put the cardboard packet from firelighters in the recycling.

 

They've gone out and bought a product containing kerosene, resin binder, emulsifier etc, but they won't put the bit of paper in the fire, so they dutifully carry it out to the recycling 

Edited November 24, 2022 by scbk

[difflock]

23 hours ago, Stubby said:

I keep toilet roll middles . Fold and push 2 inside the first , and if you have it , put the wax from a baby bell cheese in the middle .

The ratio of pooping to fire-lighting perplexes me?

[Stubby]

51 minutes ago, difflock said:

The ratio of pooping to fire-lighting perplexes me?

And what would the ratio be ? 🙂

[Steven P]

1 hour ago, Stubby said:

And what would the ratio be ? 🙂

 

8 hours squatting to 1 baby bell to 1 fire ?

[trigger_andy]

2 hours ago, Stubby said:

And what would the ratio be ? 🙂

I’ve four to five females in the house. My ratio seems to be 1 toilet roll tube to each fire in each room each day.  

[Logdaft]

23 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

Don’t assume my gender.  

I`ll have a guess then ... your a big lassie who`s always wetting your tights! 😇

Edited November 24, 2022 by Logdaft

[Mik the Miller]

Newspaper, twigs, sticks and 2" square logs (affectionatly called number two's) with a couple of logs on top.

Lit with a match.

Open primary and secondary air, shut the door and get a cuppa.

20 mins later close it down to a simmer.

 

I worries me putting combustable hydrocarbon in a closed box ...

[difflock]

My grandmother lit the fire wi a peat( turf to some) which just had had  a strone of pariffin poured on it out of a teapot(which sat in the corner of the hearth) Essentially the same as modern firelighters.

[spudulike]

6 hours ago, difflock said:

My grandmother lit the fire wi a peat( turf to some) which just had had  a strone of pariffin poured on it out of a teapot(which sat in the corner of the hearth) Essentially the same as modern firelighters.

Interesting as I remember having my parents having a block of some sort of oblong porous stone with a hole down the middle of it (probably larva) with a wound wire wrapped through it with a loop handle. It was placed in a jam jar of paraffin overnight and used to light the fire the following day. 

[trigger_andy]

54 minutes ago, spudulike said:

Interesting as I remember having my parents having a block of some sort of oblong porous stone with a hole down the middle of it (probably larva) with a wound wire wrapped through it with a loop handle. It was placed in a jam jar of paraffin overnight and used to light the fire the following day. 

What kind of Larva? Must have been some strong bugger of an insect that. 🤣