Amber the Tattoo Girl asked:
It's a somewhat large outdoor fireplace, you know, the one with the stove top and chimney. We're cooking out tomorrow and I **** at starting fires... no logs, just planks (junk wood) and plenty of tinder and kindling. Help.
I'm a Girl Scout but for some reason, they don't teach us how to make fires anymore... they just give us orders that don't amount to much diconnected.
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It's a somewhat large outdoor fireplace, you know, the one with the stove top and chimney. We're cooking out tomorrow and I **** at starting fires... no logs, just planks (junk wood) and plenty of tinder and kindling. Help.
I'm a Girl Scout but for some reason, they don't teach us how to make fires anymore... they just give us orders that don't amount to much diconnected.
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What's the best way to cook turkey burgers if you can't grill them?
Princess Cut Engagement Rings
February 6th, 2010
Nitro-Pak
buy a lighter at the local dollar store.
E-OMC
February 6th, 2010
Gold Bracelets
lighter?
Mountain Gear
February 7th, 2010
E-OMC
You can get fire starter sticks at home improvement or BBQ stores. They’re small sticks of wood that have been soaked in a wax. Put a few in and around the wood pile, and light the sticks.
Princess Rings
February 7th, 2010
Sterling Silver Boxes
start with a wad of news paper, lay the thinnest slivers on that, a lot them. add small sticks, then light, paper,
let the thin sticks start and add more to build the fire up, wait until you have a good fire base then add thicker things along with thin sticks, don’t over load the fire with heavy wood,
keep adding small stuff.
North Face Sale
February 8th, 2010
18k Gold Bracelets
Be very careful about cooking food over “junk wood.” You don’t, for instance, want to cook over painted wood. Unburned chemical can get into food via smoke.
Also, softer woods, such as pine contains a lot of sap which can also put substances and flavors you don’t want into your food. It also drips black, sticky, cooked sap onto the bottom of the stove and it will be hard to clean off.
The drier the wood, the hotter it burns. Best cooking is done over coals, so don’t cook when the flames are highest. Wait until it burns down a bit, and add only a little bit of wood at a time if you need longer cooking time.
A few wadded up newspaper pages and your kindling should get the wood started. Remember, light from the bottom up. Kindling and smaller pieces on the bottom, bigger chunks on top.
Camping Gear
February 9th, 2010
Princess Rings
Charcoal lighter fluid will work.
Nitro-Pak
February 12th, 2010
Princess Rings
Many years ago when I was a cub scout they taught us to build a fire this way first put some paper or shredded bark (something that will light easy) down then some very thin small twigs then some larger sticks use these to make a Tee *** over the kindling low enough that the flam will go through the Tee *** when this is burning add larger pieces just make sure that there is space for air to get to the fire.
Good Luck
Please be careful have fun and eat a smore for me