Remember GREENHEAT Charcoal Lighter Gel?

RRP

I just found this bottle of GREENHEAT starter gel that was popular years ago. I used to use it all the time and loved it. It was a product of South Africa by a company founded in 1996. It is 100% organic, non flaring, non toxic, non explosive and non petroleum. It was so easy to use. For some reason they quit making it in bottle form many years ago and now produce individual gel packets for camping and fiber fire starter blocks. I just liked the bottles as I could squirt some where I wanted on the lump. Guess Antique Road Show won't be coming here soon so I'm going to use this up rather than keep it hidden anyway any longer!

Jeremiah

Yeah um I don't think so. I'll stick with my torch.

RRP

That's fine. @Richard Fl reminded me the reason it was discontinued was people were getting burnt because it burnt so cleanly it was practically invisible in the sunlight. I just couldn't remember why it was taken off the market. Oh well, I've got 35 or 40 fires ahead of me to finish it off.

Darby_Crenshaw

Isnt it isopropyl alcohol with a gel agent? Not 'bad chemicals'(!) at all. Fine to use

RRP

Darby_Crenshaw said:

Isnt it isopropyl alcohol with a gel agent? Not 'bad chemicals'(!) at all. Fine to use

I'm sure you are correct. After Richard's reply that did bring back a memory or two of people touching or picking up pieces with the already burning gel which then transferred to their fingers and burnt them.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Darby_Crenshaw said:

Isnt it isopropyl alcohol with a gel agent? Not 'bad chemicals'(!) at all. Fine to use

yep. 

SGH

@RRP
This is not the same brand, but it's the same stuff. And it's made by Rutland to boot. You can get it at Tractor Supply for less than 5 bucks a bottle in the spring and summer. It's a tad higher during cold weather. 

For the record, if I had your money, the price would not even figure into it

dougcrann

Darby_Crenshaw said:

Isnt it isopropyl alcohol with a gel agent? Not 'bad chemicals'(!) at all. Fine to use

I have something from Rutland that is alcohol and gel. Would,need to use a ton of it to get the chunk to light. But it works,great lighting our one pellet stove in the house...or when I cold with pellets...

chadpsualum

Isn't that just colored hand sanitizer?

Ladeback69

I use to use something like that, but it was blue.  I can't remember the name and don't know if they sell it anymore.

loveTheEgg

Ladeback69 said:

I use to use something like that, but it was blue.  I can't remember the name and don't know if they sell it anymore.

Ladeback69 said:

I use to use something like that, but it was blue.  I can't remember the name and don't know if they sell it anymore

Were you buying it from Heisenberg?   

Toxarch

There's a bit of alcohol in hand sanitizer, right? I wonder how that burns.

BeerMike

I remember and came across this in my garage.  Do I use it, or throw it.  Hmmmmmm......  I may need another beer while deciding.   

DoubleEgger

BeerMike said:

I remember and came across this in my garage.  Do I use it, or throw it.  Hmmmmmm......  I may need another beer while deciding.   

@RRP might swap you a gasket for it. 

RRP

DoubleEgger said:

BeerMike said:

I remember and came across this in my garage.  Do I use it, or throw it.  Hmmmmmm......  I may need another beer while deciding.   

@RRP might swap you a gasket for it. 

LOL - thanks for the offer, but you probably would have trouble mailing that. Why not just use it and enjoy it? I'm still trying to figure out what to do with that $42 half gallon of EverClear rot gut! That EC crap would melt a flame thrower and I have no Purple Passion Parties scheduled in my near future!

TN_Sister_State

DoubleEgger said:

BeerMike said:

I remember and came across this in my garage.  Do I use it, or throw it.  Hmmmmmm......  I may need another beer while deciding.   

@RRP might swap you a gasket for it. 

From this pic it looks like @DoubleEgger needs to change his handle to tripleegger....

DoubleEgger

TN_Sister_State said:

DoubleEgger said:

BeerMike said:

I remember and came across this in my garage.  Do I use it, or throw it.  Hmmmmmm......  I may need another beer while deciding.   

@RRP might swap you a gasket for it. 

From this pic it looks like @DoubleEgger needs to change his handle to tripleegger....

That's Beer Mike not me

BeerMike

Hmmmm... How does TrippleBeerMike sound....?  

WeberWho

RRP said:

DoubleEgger said:

BeerMike said:

I remember and came across this in my garage.  Do I use it, or throw it.  Hmmmmmm......  I may need another beer while deciding.   

@RRP might swap you a gasket for it. 

I'm still trying to figure out what to do with that $42 half gallon of EverClear rot gut! That EC crap would melt a flame thrower and I have no Purple Passion Parties scheduled in my near future!

@RRP Easy, Apple Pie Shots. You won't even taste the EverClear. Frozen Fest staple 

RRP

WeberWho said:

@RRP Easy, Apple Pie Shots. You won't even taste the EverClear. Frozen Fest staple 

right...and go nearly bat sh*t blind like at the Frozen Fest along with that snow ski shot board thing!

Toxarch

RRP said:

WeberWho said:

@RRP Easy, Apple Pie Shots. You won't even taste the EverClear. Frozen Fest staple 

right...and go nearly bat sh*t blind like at the Frozen Fest along with that snow ski shot board thing!

There's another one called Diesel. Or at least there used to be, don't know if it's still made. It's the same as EverClear, just in a different bottle. Both are 190 proof. No flavor other than alcohol and water in those bottles. They put out some heat when lit.

DoubleEgger

RRP said:

DoubleEgger said:

BeerMike said:

I remember and came across this in my garage.  Do I use it, or throw it.  Hmmmmmm......  I may need another beer while deciding.   

@RRP might swap you a gasket for it. 

LOL - thanks for the offer, but you probably would have trouble mailing that. Why not just use it and enjoy it? I'm still trying to figure out what to do with that $42 half gallon of EverClear rot gut! That EC crap would melt a flame thrower and I have no Purple Passion Parties scheduled in my near future!

Egg starter fluid 

Legume

Put it bloody mary's, no sense in spending lots of $ for expensive vodka, right?

Foghorn

" I have no Purple Passion Parties scheduled in my near future!"

I think we've identified the problem.

RRP

DoubleEgger said:

Egg starter fluid 

Precisely why I bought it, but perfecting a method to splash it on and then light it without the towering inferno effect is still my issue!

DoubleEgger

SaintJohnsEgger

Sometimes you guys make this form sound more like a drinking forum than an Egging forum. 

DoubleEgger

SaintJohnsEgger said:

Sometimes you guys make this form sound more like a drinking forum than an Egging forum. 

Central_Bama_Egger

DoubleEgger said:

SaintJohnsEgger said:

Sometimes you guys make this form sound more like a drinking forum than an Egging forum. 

2nd the motion

fishlessman

RRP said:

DoubleEgger said:

BeerMike said:

I remember and came across this in my garage.  Do I use it, or throw it.  Hmmmmmm......  I may need another beer while deciding.   

@RRP might swap you a gasket for it. 

LOL - thanks for the offer, but you probably would have trouble mailing that. Why not just use it and enjoy it? I'm still trying to figure out what to do with that $42 half gallon of EverClear rot gut! That EC crap would melt a flame thrower and I have no Purple Passion Parties scheduled in my near future!

you can make an upscale italian limoncello with that stuff. no everclear here which pisses me off

SGH

@RRP
Ron, you seem to have a flair for the nostalgic. With that said, do you remember Old Diz charcoal? The Old Diz made by Dizzy Dean, not the Old Diz now made my Royal Oak. I still have a few bags from the 70's that I found in the barn. It was packaged in Stone County, MS. Thinking about grilling some SRF ribeyes with it. Just for sentimental reasons.