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Lighting your coals

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  • Gulfcoastguy
    Gulfcoastguy Posts: 7,328
    Just a smoldering look.
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  • td66snrf
    td66snrf Posts: 1,838
    edited October 2019
    I've been using bernzomatic for at least 25 years, not the same one of course, they do eventually wear out. For those of you who are concerned with sparks I've learned that if you bury the nozzle into the middle of pile of lump hit the trigger leave it alone until you hear the lump crackling or see the lump turn red or white. Probably 20 or 30 seconds. The idea of burying the nozzle into the lump is that the sparks are contained under the lump above it.
    XLBGE, LBGE, MBGE, SMALL, MINI, 2 Kubs, Fire Magic Gasser
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    td66snrf said:
    For those of you who are concerned with sparks...
    Also, if it sparks, try moving the flame to a different spot. I can usually find spots that don't spark.

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

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • JethroBodeen
    JethroBodeen Posts: 526
    edited October 2019
    @td66snrf I do close to the same. I find a spot that has a little shelf over the top and light the under side of it. If it pops, it pops down and not up...

    I have spf long sleeve shirts with multiple holes burned through. My better half loves when I have a $50 Columbia shirt with burn marks through it ........
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  • Dawgtired
    Dawgtired Posts: 665
    I’ve used a Mapp torch for years. That said, I’ve been looking for something different since I’ve burned holes in several shirts from the sparking. Chimney does work great, I’ve just always used a torch for ease of use, except wen I run out of gas, then chimney it is.

    If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

    Ronald Reagan

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  • SciAggie
    SciAggie Posts: 6,481
    Who would have thought a thread about how to light a fire would end up with 3,000 views?
    Coleman, Texas
    Large BGE & Mini Max for the wok. A few old camp Dutch ovens and a wood fired oven. LSG 24” cabinet offset smoker. There are a few paella pans and a Patagonia cross in the barn. A curing chamber for bacterial transformation of meats...
    "Bourbon slushies. Sure you can cook on the BGE without them, but why would you?"
                                                                                                                          YukonRon
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  • MNEggerandStuff
    MNEggerandStuff Posts: 239
    But informative . When you think you have something figured out, you find out they changed the stuff years ago and it no longer is what it was.

    Now I need to figure out if my current head can use propane or if I need a new one of those too. 
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  • Shiff
    Shiff Posts: 1,835
    EagleIII said:
    95% of the time, I use a chimney.  Two crumpled sheets of newspaper in the bottom of the chimney, fill with charcoal, light newspaper.  10 minutes later you have flames shooting out the top of the chimney.  Pour lit chimney coals on top of the coals in the egg and you are ready to roll.  This has never failed me, except for the one time my chimney got rained on right after I lit it!  Also, for me, its a bit of an ego thing, in that it's a zero cost method to get the charcoal lit...
    I also use a chimney, but I don't like the burned newspaper remnants flying around, so I just squirt the area under the chimney with a little 91% alcohol from Walmart and toss in a match.  Starts great and 5-10 minutes later I can spread the lit lump charcoal.
    Large BGE
    Barry, Lancaster, PA
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,353
    Shiff said:
    I also use a chimney, but I don't like the burned newspaper remnants flying around, so I just squirt the area under the chimney with a little 91% alcohol from Walmart and toss in a match.  Starts great and 5-10 minutes later I can spread the lit lump charcoal.
    Curious as to what the chimney even buys you, doing that?  Why not just squirt the lump in the egg?  

    “I'll have what she's having."  

        -Rob Reiner's mother!   

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • Shiff
    Shiff Posts: 1,835
    Botch said:

    Curious as to what the chimney even buys you, doing that?  Why not just squirt the lump in the egg?  
    I used to just squirt the coals with alcohol but with a chimney it starts much faster and hotter. When I dump the chimney, I can spread the lit coals over whatever area I want started.  Simple and fast and clean.
    Large BGE
    Barry, Lancaster, PA
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,353
    Shiff said:
    I used to just squirt the coals with alcohol but with a chimney it starts much faster and hotter. When I dump the chimney, I can spread the lit coals over whatever area I want started.  Simple and fast and clean.
    Makes sense; thanks!  

    “I'll have what she's having."  

        -Rob Reiner's mother!   

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • gnatnoop
    gnatnoop Posts: 20
    The BGE electric hairdryer thing works. perfect. every. time.

    That said, for years, used a propane tank with excellent results.
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  • Toxarch
    Toxarch Posts: 1,900
    I need the Rutland squares to go on sale again. I'm running low. 
    Aledo, Texas
    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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