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Paper towel and oil, never failsYou can’t get to Loganville, Ga from anywhere. You have to start somewhere else
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If you pan fry bacon and drain on a paper towel, those will work. I keep some
next to my BGE in case the dome freezes and then light & stuff in the bottom vent. HTHLrg 2008
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I prefer the simplicity of the rolled up (and twisted) paper towel dipped in vegetable oil. Light the dry end and your good to go. Works like a the starter cubes. If you want hotter sooner get one of the gadgets, which I'm sure I'd enjoy using and no doubt works well, but it's just one more piece of specialized equipment to clutter things up.Stillwater, MN
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FYI - you can still get MAPP if you look. found this canister in the back of my shed this summer. Obviously it’s old as hell, so I’m a bit unsure if I should use it.
Memphis, TN
LBGE, 2 SBGE, Hasty-Bake Gourmet -
Looks fine from way the hell over here.
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RiverBBQ said:Paper towel and oil, never fails
I've wanted to try the alcohol method, but haven't been able to find anything stronger than 70%, which (iirc) doesn't work.
And @marysvilleegger, I throw out bacon-grease-soaked paper towels every damn morning! Will give that a try next Spring.
_____________Tin soldiers and Johnson's coming...
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Rutland firestarters. Buy a big box at Ace and I'm good for several months.
Kevin
Beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, CA
XL BGE, Woo2, AR -
Don't forget the trusty chimney starter, I use it for most cooks unless I'm doing a low n slow, then I use 3 starter cubes in a triangular pattern.
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Benzomatic TS8000 with propane bottle to ignite each spot in about 10-15 sec, then stoke the fire with an old hairdryer.canuckland
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Normally I use a handheld torch. Yesterday the igniter button was frozen and I went old school with the Rutland squares.-----------------------------------------analyze adapt overcome2008 -Large BGE. 2013- Small BGE and 2015 - Mini. Henderson, Ky.
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They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That's against their interests. - George Carlin
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I just push and turn the ignite button
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Buy a Blackstone. Use Blackstone, and save oiled paper towels in coffee can.
If I want a hot fire I'll use a torch or chimney. For some reason I've been using the chimney more lately, even though I've got two torches 8 feet away.
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Rutland firestarters. On weekdays when I'm in a hurry I just light 4 of them. They're cheap and dependable.
@Botch, with regard to the cold weather comments, I did find once when I was camping in 22F that the between the cold temp and my shivering hands, I couldn't light the Rutland. But I also had a paper towel soaked in bacon grease handy and that lit right up. Because I was so cold, I added a couple of Rutland squares to the process to accelerate things.XXL BGE, Karebecue, Klose BYC, Chargiller Akorn Kamado, Weber Smokey Mountain, Grand Turbo gasser, Weber Smoky Joe, and the wheelbarrow that my grandfather used to cook steaks from his cattle
San Antonio, TX
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How do the Rutland fire starters compare to the BGE branded ones? Same shiz but cheaper?South of Nashville - BGE XL - Alfresco 42" ALXE - Alfresco Versa Burner - Sunbeam Microwave
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SonVolt said:How do the Rutland fire starters compare to the BGE branded ones? Same shiz but cheaper?
I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!
MichaelCentral Connecticut -
I just got my egg over the summer so I've been "that guy" that's buying all the over-priced OEM stuff. Time to start shopping at Ace...South of Nashville - BGE XL - Alfresco 42" ALXE - Alfresco Versa Burner - Sunbeam Microwave
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Ozzie_Isaac said?"The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan
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Paper towel bacon was drained on. It's free, works, and is recycling
I cook bacon pretty often, so I keep a ziplock of these in the fridge to keep them from going nasty. -
oil and napkinor soak wood chips in water over night, place in lump, add a golfball sized piece of sodium, step back and wait. this should answer the next question, to soak the chips or notfukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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fishlessman said:oil and napkinor soak wood chips in water over night, place in lump, add a golfball sized piece of sodium, step back and wait. this should answer the next question, to soak the chips or not2Na + 2H2O => 2NaOH + H2The sodium hydroxide is corrosive to the glaze (egg is porous). So not the best way.I have some stories about sodium "experiments" from years ago. Suffice it to say, it can get away from you quick.______________________________________________I love lamp..
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May be heresy, but I use these Strike-a-Fire things. Break into 3 pieces, strike the match tip piece and use it to light the other 2 pieces, then spread them appropriately. If going low and slow I break in half and leave both in the middle. They seem to always be in the grocery store so it's easy for me to grab and keep in stock.XL BGE, CGS AR & spider, 36" SS Blackstone, SMOBOT - Flower Mound, TX
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nolaegghead said:fishlessman said:oil and napkinor soak wood chips in water over night, place in lump, add a golfball sized piece of sodium, step back and wait. this should answer the next question, to soak the chips or not2Na + 2H2O => 2NaOH + H2The sodium hydroxide is corrosive to the glaze (egg is porous). So not the best way.I have some stories about sodium "experiments" from years ago. Suffice it to say, it can get away from you quick.i have some stuff that i dont know what it is but a tbls of metal filings will turn a 5 gallon bucket of water into steam in a flash second. knocked me across the shop and 30 foot up the ceiling was on fire. lit my big vertical saw on fire as well. then the customer says i needed some other type of extinguisher. what a flash back. could be zirconium, it settles to the bottom under water but just a tiny amount floats on the top, hit it with a match if you got the ballstantalum is another good one, i built an accumulator to replace an older unit, delivered it and the building exploded that weekend. walked on pins and needles for a week before finding my accumulator was still in the wharehouse. wasnt good, a highly trained chemical firefighter group was flown in and for some reason thought the fire hose would put it out, some did not make itnothing in the warranty against sodium in an egg
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fishlessman said:nolaegghead said:fishlessman said:oil and napkinor soak wood chips in water over night, place in lump, add a golfball sized piece of sodium, step back and wait. this should answer the next question, to soak the chips or not2Na + 2H2O => 2NaOH + H2The sodium hydroxide is corrosive to the glaze (egg is porous). So not the best way.I have some stories about sodium "experiments" from years ago. Suffice it to say, it can get away from you quick.i have some stuff that i dont know what it is but a tbls of metal filings will turn a 5 gallon bucket of water into steam in a flash second. knocked me across the shop and 30 foot up the ceiling was on fire. lit my big vertical saw on fire as well. then the customer says i needed some other type of extinguisher. what a flash back. could be zirconium, it settles to the bottom under water but just a tiny amount floats on the top, hit it with a match if you got the ballstantalum is another good one, i built an accumulator to replace an older unit, delivered it and the building exploded that weekend. walked on pins and needles for a week before finding my accumulator was still in the wharehouse. wasnt good, a highly trained chemical firefighter group was flown in and for some reason thought the fire hose would put it out, some did not make itnothing in the warranty against sodium in an egg
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nolaegghead said:fishlessman said:nolaegghead said:fishlessman said:oil and napkinor soak wood chips in water over night, place in lump, add a golfball sized piece of sodium, step back and wait. this should answer the next question, to soak the chips or not2Na + 2H2O => 2NaOH + H2The sodium hydroxide is corrosive to the glaze (egg is porous). So not the best way.I have some stories about sodium "experiments" from years ago. Suffice it to say, it can get away from you quick.i have some stuff that i dont know what it is but a tbls of metal filings will turn a 5 gallon bucket of water into steam in a flash second. knocked me across the shop and 30 foot up the ceiling was on fire. lit my big vertical saw on fire as well. then the customer says i needed some other type of extinguisher. what a flash back. could be zirconium, it settles to the bottom under water but just a tiny amount floats on the top, hit it with a match if you got the ballstantalum is another good one, i built an accumulator to replace an older unit, delivered it and the building exploded that weekend. walked on pins and needles for a week before finding my accumulator was still in the wharehouse. wasnt good, a highly trained chemical firefighter group was flown in and for some reason thought the fire hose would put it out, some did not make itnothing in the warranty against sodium in an eggso you're saying, dont take a smoke break in a room full of tantalum powder while drinking a coke pretty sure thats how that fire originally started. i will add to that, dont give a hs kid zirconium pretty safe til its turned into filings. sodium story....substitute teacher asks class what we were doing the day before, tell him we were about to watch sodium catch on fire in just water. he goes and gets the sodium out of the back room, fills sink, tosses in a giant chunk of sodium, it lights up and starts violently dancing in sink, boom, its thru the ceiling banging off everything......DONT SAY A WORD says the subit does get everywhere, that saw caught fire more than once after we were done cutting the plate.fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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I make a hole in my lump towards the rear about the size of a grapefruit. I use a chimney starter with a two pieces of newspaper and let that get red hot before dumping the lump from the chimney starter into the hole that I created. If it is going to be a long cook I then dump lump over the hot stuff and let it come to temp and burn off that nastiness.
Egghead since November 2014, XL-BGE & ET-732SmobotLiving near Indy36" Blackstone -
“People” used to toss magnesium into the firepits on the beach in Newport Beach and walk away when I was in school. Fun to watch the beach patrol try to put that out as it lights up the whole beach.
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fishlessman said:
i have some stuff that i dont know what it is but a tbls of metal filings will turn a 5 gallon bucket of water into steam in a flash second. knocked me across the shop and 30 foot up the ceiling was on fire. lit my big vertical saw on fire as well. then the customer says i needed some other type of extinguisher. what a flash back. could be zirconium, it settles to the bottom under water but just a tiny amount floats on the top, hit it with a match if you got the balls_____________Tin soldiers and Johnson's coming...
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