PSA: Frito Fire Starter

[Johnny44]

https://littlethings.com/home/frito-firestarters

[Playa]

Potato chips work too. I prefer laundry lint or cotton balls coated in vaseline

[texasair]

the meat of a pecan, not the shell, has enough oil that it will burn readily and for a long time

[Bassdeer]

I carry calcium carbide, add water and light.

[Gutpileaddict]

Potato chips work too. I prefer laundry lint or cotton balls coated in vaseline

Put the lint in a egg carton and melt wax on top and you have a water proof starter.

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[dustoffer]

I get a cedar fence board and my hand plane. A WM plastic bag full of shavings starts a lot of fires.

[okrattler]

I know myself well enough to know in a survival situation I couldn't have anything edible to light on fire. Because I'd eat it. Because it's a survival situation.....

I'd use my matches or lighter and eat Fritos by the fire.

[Dusty Britches]

I have found hands down the best non chemical starter is feed sacks. The brown paper feed sacks that the co-op sells cattle feed in. I've never failed to start a fire with these.

[softpoint]

I keep a few cotton balls with melted vaseline on them for starters. I'd have a mental block against burning food in a survival situation, although that's an interesting bit of info...

[Goldeneagle]

Take a starter log they sale for fireplaces. Saw it up into about 3/4" disks and then cut them into 4 pizza slices. One starter log will make quite a few fire starters.

[Geezy Rider]

These are great.

Small rolls of newspaper dipped in paraffin wax work good too.

[Graysonhogs]

Pear Burner

[Graysonhogs]

Sawdust mixed with a little kerosene works great.

[Playa]

Put the lint in a egg carton and melt wax on top and you have a water proof starter.

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I keep mine in a medicine container

[Hoggslayer]

I teach my kids how to start a fire with one match, then work backward from there until they can start one with steel and flint.

If you don't know how to build a fire that is easy to start, you could use a gallon of diesel and still not get it going.