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Starting a Fire

HOW TO GET THE FLAMES GOING
Unless you have a fire pit in your backyard or go camping often, it may have been a while since you last lit anything besides a candle!
 
If you, like me, were involved in a childhood outdoor adventure group (I was a Campfire Girl, but always wished I was a Girl Scout – they have better cookies!) then you were taught how to light fires with matches, newspaper and twig kindling. That’s definitely ONE way, but there are MANY ways to get a fire going, and it’s good to know about ALL your options in the case of an emergency where a heating source or way to cook food and/or boil water is needed!
FLAME SOURCES:
Battery & foil
Butane lighter
Magnesium flint fire starter
Magnifying glass
Matches
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​KINDLING SOURCES
Candle
Cotton balls
Vegetable shortening
Dry moss
Dryer lint
Gasoline
Gum foil
Petroleum Jelly
Pine Needles
Propane
Steel wool
Small Sticks & Twigs
Wax
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A RECIPE FOR HIGHLY-EFFECTIVE WAX FIRE-STARTING CUBES
 
INGREDIENTS:   
  • Soy wax (or wax of your choice, including old candles)
  • Pine shavings (AKA guinea pig bedding, at our house!)
                                   
EQUIPMENT:      
  • Microwave oven
  • Empty/cleaned  yogurt container or similar
  • Silicone ice cube tray or similar
 
PROCEDURE:          
  • Put a small handful of pine shavings into each ice cube holter.
  • Fill yogurt container with wax or old candles, and heat on HIGH for 2 minutes
  • Add another 30-60 seconds depending on how much wax is melted.
  • Pour wax into ice cube molds until they’re almost full
  • Let wax cool, then remove fire starting cubes from molds and store in a useful spot.
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EXAMPLES OF DIFFERENT FIRE STARTING METHODS
Check out this video comparing the burn time of a cotton ball
vs. the burn time of a cotton ball + petroleum jelly
Which burns longer:  steel wool or dryer lint?
Showing off the homemade wax/pine shaving fire starter

    Please share your fire starting ideas and recommendations 

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