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Best way to get coals going

egghead43
egghead43 Posts: 138
edited December 2015 in EggHead Forum
What's the best way to get your coals going?  Looftligher, charcoal chimney, blow torch? :)

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  • slovelad
    slovelad Posts: 1,742
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  • egghead43
    egghead43 Posts: 138
    slovelad said:
    I like it!
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  • Jupiter Jim
    Jupiter Jim Posts: 3,351

    Many ways to get it done and they all work, the best way is in the eye of the beholder for sure. For me this way ROCKS every time......

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  • Toxarch
    Toxarch Posts: 1,900
    A pear burner is one of the best ways.
    Aledo, Texas
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    Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

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  • Homebrewguy
    Homebrewguy Posts: 158
    I love the Looftlighter, myself. It's fast and easy.
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,455
    Actually there are many methods that work, but I really wonder if your question was deeper than just how to start a fire - but instead how do you get a (bed) of coals going and the answer to that is time - irregardless how you light the lump. A nice well glowing bed of coals without flames makes for stable cooking on your egg. HTH
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  • egghead43
    egghead43 Posts: 138
    I'm just looking for a quick way to get the coals going.  The Looftlighter looks cool, but it's $70 and the propane torches are much less.  I'm just trying to figure out what other accessories I might should request for Christmas.  If it was unaminous Looftlighter then I'd probably ask for one.
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,594
    the 20 dollar weedburner from harbor freight is the quickest way, 500,000 btus of big flame

    but this is the cheapest and most practical. its even faster if you light a second piece on top

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


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  • Conway_Twitty
    Conway_Twitty Posts: 129
    Can y'all find the portmanteau in this thread?  I just love me some word games!

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  • egghead43
    egghead43 Posts: 138
    fishlessman said:
    the 20 dollar weedburner from harbor freight is the quickest way, 500,000 btus of big flame

    but this is the cheapest and most practical. its even faster if you light a second piece on top

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



    I like this.  I've placed some napkins in a zip-lock bag with some vegetable oil. I'll give this a shot!
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,594
    if this is your first egg, make sure to take the daisy wheel off the egg. leaving the daisy just open is not enough
    fukahwee maine

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  • onedbguru
    onedbguru Posts: 1,648
    edited December 2015
    It depends on how much you want to spend over the lifetime of your egg.  I have chosen a chimney ($14.00) and all of the newspaper ads that come in the mail seemingly every day - so there is no shortage. Occasionally a bacon grease soaked paper towels under the "left-overs". 

    1/2 chimney for low-slow dumped in the center of the XL then cover and fill the firebox adding smoking chips throughout.
    full chimney for everything else. 


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  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,527
    I've tried oil and napkin, starter cubes, electric heat element, butane torch, and weed burner.

    Weed burner is my go to 100% percent of the time
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  • Offpiste
    Offpiste Posts: 47
    Weed burner grilling.  Starter cube for low and slow.
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,455
    onedbguru said:

    PET PEEVE: @RRP - irregardless is not a word.  Regardless of how you use it, it is regardless. 
    My most humble apologies - I hope I didn't ruin your day.
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,594
    irregardless passes spell check, is acceptable to say, and is in the oxford dictionary =) hmmmm, is it a word
    fukahwee maine

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  • onedbguru
    onedbguru Posts: 1,648
    RRP said:
    onedbguru said:

    PET PEEVE: @RRP - irregardless is not a word.  Regardless of how you use it, it is regardless. 
    My most humble apologies - I hope I didn't ruin your day.
    no, just don't let it happen again... 



    ;);)  ;)
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  • stlcharcoal
    stlcharcoal Posts: 4,759
    Weed burner, then a BBQ Dragon for me.  500F in 5 minutes, then north of 700F in another minute or two when you get above the charcoal's auto-ignition point.
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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    paper napkin, drizzle lightly with cooking oil, twist it, light both ends, nestle it into the lump with some bridging it, and walk away.

    you'll always have the stuff on hand for it, it takes less time for me to shut the dome and walk away than with anything i have tried
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  • Hotch
    Hotch Posts: 3,564
    egghead43 said:
    What's the best way to get your coals going?  Looftligher, charcoal chimney, blow torch? :)


    I would ask NOLA!! He would instruct you on the most efficient way and the science behind it.


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  • Acn
    Acn Posts: 4,490
    onedbguru said:
    It depends on how much you want to spend over the lifetime of your egg.  I have chosen a chimney ($14.00) and all of the newspaper ads that come in the mail seemingly every day - so there is no shortage. Occasionally a bacon grease soaked paper towels under the "left-overs". 

    1/2 chimney for low-slow dumped in the center of the XL then cover and fill the firebox adding smoking chips throughout.
    full chimney for everything else. 


    PET PEEVE: @RRP - irregardless is not a word.  Regardless of how you use it, it is regardless. 
    I do the chimney too, although i set it on the gas grill's side burner to get it going really quickly.

    LBGE

    Pikesville, MD

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  • onedbguru
    onedbguru Posts: 1,648
    If I need it "quickly", I just fire up the leaf blower to provide some assistance  =)
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  • burnithot
    burnithot Posts: 37
    edited December 2015
    I got the looflighter I really like it just but careful on windy days or the type of lump you use it can really go to pop in ambers every where but I would recommend this bc only thing you ever have to worry bout is electricity just plug it in and fire away 
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  • NewNashEgg
    NewNashEgg Posts: 28
    I've never had trouble with mine and I'm very much a newbie of less than 20 cooks on my LBGE. I use the veggie oil and napkin trick. Leave the lid open as well as the bottom for about 10 minutes and it's usually ready to close down for 10 minutes more to get it all glowing and toasty.
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  • luckyboy
    luckyboy Posts: 284
    I asked the same question once and  l got a picture of a lady wearing next to nothing operating a flame thrower. It was. Pretty funny..
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  • bob.bud
    bob.bud Posts: 297
    Shake the KAB, add new lump, pull a cooking oil soaked paper towel out of jar, place towel in lump in a position to get a good fire going, light towel, go inside to prep water I am going to be cooking, go check on fire... 

    Jar = large pickle jar
    Oil = oil salvaged from deep frying sessions
    PPTowels = towels that were previously used and collected in the jar.

    All of this is an adaptation of a previous post in another thread that described doing the same with an old coffee can. 
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  • SmokeyPitt
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    luckyboy said:
    I asked the same question once and  l got a picture of a lady wearing next to nothing operating a flame thrower. It was. Pretty funny..
    Irregardless of whether or not this did indeed happen, I am going to need you to reproduce these pictures.  Pics or it irhappened.

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  • Toxarch
    Toxarch Posts: 1,900
    onedbguru said:
    If I need it "quickly", I just fire up the leaf blower to provide some assistance  =)
    Was this you?
    Hmmm, can't post the link. Lookup "youtube leaf blower chiminea". 
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    Large BGE
    KJ Jr.

    Exodus 12:9 KJV
    Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

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  • jtcBoynton
    jtcBoynton Posts: 2,814
    onedbguru said:
    RRP said:
    onedbguru said:

    PET PEEVE: @RRP - irregardless is not a word.  Regardless of how you use it, it is regardless. 
    My most humble apologies - I hope I didn't ruin your day.
    no, just don't let it happen again... 



    ;);)  ;)
    "Irregardless is a word commonly used in place of regardless or irrespective, which has caused controversy since the early twentieth century, though the word appeared in print as early as 1795. Most dictionaries list it as nonstandard or incorrect usage, and recommend that "regardless" should be used instead."

    Language is an ever evolving thing.  I anticipate that in another ten years or so, the traditionalist will give up on this and it will become an accepted word.
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    In cooking, often we implement steps for which we have no explanations other than ‘that’s what everybody else does’ or ‘that’s what I have been told.’  Dare to think for yourself.
     
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  • msloan
    msloan Posts: 399
    I've had good luck with the Looftlighter.  I would have no problems recommending it.
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