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For the doubters......

jbjet45
jbjet45 Posts: 52
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I was a doubter, but about 10 minutes ago I simply sprayed som cooking oil from a can onto a paper towel and lit my egg.  I will never buy starting cubes again.....I would say I was at temp faster than with cubes as well....I am a true believer!!!
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  • Phatchris
    Phatchris Posts: 1,726
    Works great for almost all lump.....Wicked Good being the exception.
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    Save your waste oil. :) That's what I use when I visit Mom. I still prefer my Mapp, but oil and towels is second.

    BTW, for you Mapp users, a Mapp torch head and a tank of cheap propane (not mapp) works great! It's the torch head that makes the difference, not the fuel. At least for our grilling purposes. Mostly it's the fact that the map head works well upside down. This from the guy I talked to at Bernzomatic. I've been using this combo for over 6 months now. 

    14.1 oz propane, $2.97
    14.1 oz map-pro, $9.95

    Note: IT IS NOT OKAY to use Map-Pro gas with a propane torch head. But you can use propane with the map torch. 

    You're welcome. =)

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • Cookbook_Chip
    Cookbook_Chip Posts: 1,299
    +1 on oily paper towels!
    Lovin' my Large Egg since May 2012 (Richmond, VA) ... and makin' cookbooks at https://FamilyCookbookProject.com
    Stoker II wifi, Thermapen, and a Fork for plating photo purposes
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  • MrWilliams
    MrWilliams Posts: 112
    Carolina Q what torch head do you use?
    XL BGE & Mini - CT USA
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  • Fred19Flintstone
    Fred19Flintstone Posts: 8,173
    I use a weed burner from lowes.  This is it:

    Flint, Michigan
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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    I don't think I have tried it with spray before.  I might have to give that a try if I don't have any pre-made (less messy). 

    I have done the @fishlessman 's trick of making them ahead of time.  I just put a stack of paper towels cut into 1/4 pieces into a zip loc, poured in some oil, and set a heavy cutting board on it.  Mine was still messy so I added more paper towels layered in between and repeated until the napkins were not dripping with oil.   

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    i think it was eggor on the old forum that was really pushing this early on, and i have become a proselytizing preacher for it.

    about ten years ago, i forgot my starters on a camping trip, and remembered his suggestion for the napkin and oil, both of which we had on hand. it was much aster than starters, didn't have the noxious stink if they snuffed out, and even gives the weedburner a run for its money. speed-wise

    never went back.  i do have the weedburner, but i have to take it out of the cabinet, make sure i have gas, etc.

    total time spent screwing around turns out to be less (for me) with the napkin and oil).






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  • hondabbq
    hondabbq Posts: 1,980
    So how is everyone with the paper towel and oil thing light the egg?
    through the bottom vent?
    just lay it on top of the lump and light?
    twist and lay it on the lump?
    lay it on the lump and cover with lump?
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,590
    hondabbq said:
    So how is everyone with the paper towel and oil thing light the egg?
    through the bottom vent?
    just lay it on top of the lump and light?
    twist and lay it on the lump?
    lay it on the lump and cover with lump?
    large on top, mini thru lower vent

    http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1143722/napkin-and-oil-trick-was-messy/p1

    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    I like to dig out a little hole, put the napkin in it, and rhe bridge some pieces over it. 

    One other thing I have found is if the fire is kinda puny after starting i will light another piece and throw on top, then cloae the dome.  The flaming piece on top helps get the draft going and speeds things along. 

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    MrWilliams said:
    Carolina Q what torch head do you use?

    Bernzomatic TS8000

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • hondabbq
    hondabbq Posts: 1,980
    Well I made some ribs for dinner tonight. 
    I took a sheet and lit it and it took just as long as a normal weber starter block. I guess it is cheaper in the long run but not better in my opinion. 

    That at being said I have a full roll soaked in oil as per @fishlessman and will keep using them to see if it is just me or if it's a moot point. 
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  • fruitguy
    fruitguy Posts: 303
    Fred19Flintstone said:
    I use a weed burner from lowes.  This is it:

    Use the same one.  Cooking almost as fast as gas if you preheat.

    awesome tool

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  • Fred19Flintstone
    Fred19Flintstone Posts: 8,173
    Yeah it is!  While my egg is heating up, I go pyro on weeds growing in the cracks of my driveway.  They don't stand a chance!
    Flint, Michigan
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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    fast fire, use two paper napkins. sorry man, larger area, faster than a few rutland starters.

    and they don't snuff out on you like the rutlands can.


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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,891
    edited August 2015
    Darby_Crenshaw said:
     and even gives the weedburner a run for its money. speed-wise
    I would have never of thought this. The weed burner will have my egg ginning in the blink of a eye. Considerably faster than anything else that I have tried thus far. Going to give the napkin trick a try now. 

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    Status- Standing by.

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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 32,940
    I much prefer the Looftlighter.  No need to buy gas.  No oily residue.  Just flame on!
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    edited August 2015
    'Blink of an eye' with a weedburner is still standing there for a minute easily. It's only propane. 

    I mean, in the end we probably all get there in the same amount of time, but standing at the egg, looflighter, MAAP, weedburner.... It's all actually more than a minute. It ain't the total time that bothers me (because i need to get the paper, the oil, etc.). It's my short attention span. I just light two and toss them in and bury them and walk away. But yeah, screwing around in the kitchen is part of the time too

    i don't begrudge anyone their preference. Just advocating to file it away. Because you'll run out of starters, or propane, or the electric starter melts, or the looflighter breaks, or you forget it.  But you'll always have cooking oil on hand and some type of paper 
    all these things work best on new lump. On used lump, takes longer to light but you don't have to wait for the VOCs. All comes out in the wash i think

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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,891
    Darby_Crenshaw said:
    It's my short attention span. 

    My wife says that I suffer from this as well, but I don't see it ;)


    i don't begrudge anyone their preference.

    Nor do I.



    All comes out in the wash i think

    Agree.


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  • islanderegger
    islanderegger Posts: 69
    I just use a squeeze bottle filled with cooking oil and make a paper towel, light it and walk away to prep my food. I don't see what the mess is all about but it sure beats standing there with the LooftLighter.
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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    There's also the high-power isopropyl alcohol trick

    lots of ways to skin a cat
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    I use copious amounts of burning hydrocarbons.  ROBOT ROBOT. 001010100101010100.  They are oxidized with the abundance of oxygen in this world's atmosphere and subsequently generate heat and gaseous flow that supports what you humans call combustion.  Said chemical reaction may be achieved through materials readily available in human domicile.  Avoid hydrocarbons with nitrogen as they will poison many life-forms found on this planet.  On my planet this is not a discussion worthy of what you call a thread, although my comprehension of your marvel at what our planet understands in the egg-sack as combustion is a concept learned on this world.  Affirmative, humans are primitive beings.  NARFTLE THE GARTHOK!
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  • stemc33
    stemc33 Posts: 3,567
    nolaegghead said:
    I use copious amounts of burning hydrocarbons.  ROBOT ROBOT. 001010100101010100.  They are oxidized with the abundance of oxygen in this world's atmosphere and subsequently generate heat and gaseous flow that supports what you humans call combustion.  Said chemical reaction may be achieved through materials readily available in human domicile.  Avoid hydrocarbons with nitrogen as they will poison many life-forms found on this planet.  On my planet this is not a discussion worthy of what you call a thread, although my comprehension of your marvel at what our planet understands in the egg-sack as combustion is a concept learned on this world.  Affirmative, humans are primitive beings.  NARFTLE THE GARTHOK!
    You're losing it. Either that or some alien life form is probing you. 
    Steven
    Mini Max with Woo stone combo, LBGE, iGrill 2, Plate Setter, 
    two cotton pot holders to handle PS
    Banner, Wyoming
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,590
    hondabbq said:
    Well I made some ribs for dinner tonight. 
    I took a sheet and lit it and it took just as long as a normal weber starter block. I guess it is cheaper in the long run but not better in my opinion. 

    That at being said I have a full roll soaked in oil as per @fishlessman and will keep using them to see if it is just me or if it's a moot point. 
    once the oil soaks in uniformally over time it lights alot quicker, quick and hot enough i use tongs now when lighting it.  a freshly oiled napkin lights more like a slow wick, it lights but doesnt flame up as quickly
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • DaveRichardson
    DaveRichardson Posts: 2,324
    My Southern Heritage is coming out on this one.  I've got about 30 sheets of the mini-papertowels crammed into a mason jar and add in a little cooking oil.  Let it soak in, top off as needed.  Mason jar lives in the pantry with my lighter, igrills, and rubs.  Grab and go. 

    I use my rigged up wiggle stick to make a trough in the middle of the pile of lump, drop in a paper towel, light, build the bridge with the massive chunks of lump in the Forrest Lumps boxed charcoal (a new favorite for the past 2 months; especially since I can buy it from the US distributor straight outta the warehouse in Peachtree City) and I'm good to go.

    Pour a little beverage in the other mason jar, and I'm even better!!!  Lemonaide moonshine anyone????

    LBGE since 2014

    Griffin, GA 

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  • XC242
    XC242 Posts: 1,208
    I tried this tonight and while it lit the egg just fine there was a huge amount of white oil smoke from this process. Is it always like this or was I doing something wrong? I soaked the paper towel with a lot of oil, did I use too much? I was starting to worry the guys from the Florida Dept. of Health were going to show up. Oops, probably shouldn't have brought that up. Now Someone's gonna start complaining about the "damn Gubmnint". 
    LBGE (still waitin' for my free T-Shirt), DIgiQ DX2 (In Blue, cause it's the fastest), Heavy Duty Kick Ash Basket, Mc Farland, WI. :glasses:  B)
    If it wasn't for my BGE I'd have no use for my backyard...
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  • jbjet45
    jbjet45 Posts: 52
    When I did it I just did a couple of quick shots of canola, nothing special, not dripping by any means...
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