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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2019
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What fire starter gets your coals burning the fastest? Which ones smoke the worst? Does paper work at all? How long before coals are read? LET"S FIND OUT!
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A couple paper towels dipped in bacon grease. Burns nice, smells nice.
Use the paper from your lump charcoal bag…kinda free and easy!
Bill Selee heck yeah that’s what I do !! I add a little oil to the paper and instant flame.
I do the same thing.
I do that amazing product to use when its coated in all that dust
EXACTLY
Have you roaring in no time
I use my empty charcoal bags to light my chimney. Bag is heavier paper and lights great 👍🏼
Same here!
Spray some cooking oil on it and it will burn longer.
Joe H sure does rate what i do too
@@Grizzleback07 , and smoke more.
I’ve done the same thing
Never had a problem with paper. As I use my kingsford I rip some of the bag off and light it. Works every time
I’ve been using paper for over 12 years consistently, never needed to use anything else cause just like in your video it’s reliable, delivers every time and it’s also the cheapest!
I used paper too, but I'm finding less and less of it around my house (which I'm OK with). Switched to the Weber cubes so I didn't have to hunt for paper.
Tyler Cochran I can understand that completely, fortunate for me I get a steady supply of the idea old newspaper style ads in the mail bi weekly.
@@tylerscochran I just switched back to charcoal after decades of not using it. When I went to light my first chimney after I bought my grill I realized I no longer have newspaper in my house. How times have changed. I had to burn some cardboard to start it that first time.
I LOVE the tumbleweed type starters, man. 'Flamers' is the brand I use. Light up super quick. I fill one Weber basket with briquettes, fire up two Flamers in the other one and set the full basket right inside of it, sort of a makeshift chimney. After about 10 -15 minutes those bottom briquettes are glowing and my 22'" kettle shoots up to 350-400 in no time.
I use grocery store fliers, works as good as any fire starters out there, and they're free!
Love using those Weber cubes!
My favs
@@BBQiT You can dip cotton balls into rubbing alcohol and imo works just as good as most fire starters. For $2 you get an entire bag of cotton balls and a bottle of alcohol. Technically you could use each cotton ball multiple times if you wanted but I believe the absorbency is reduced after your first use. Any material that will soak up the alcohol can be used. Alcohol burns clean without any smoke or sut rising and usually stops burning when the alcohol has dried up so it doesn't even burn the cotton ball or stink like burnt paper. Have you ever tried it?
Just found the channel- love the science projects, have watched a few now. Keep em coming!!
All I’ve ever used is newspaper, works great, and it’s free.
Old phone book paper works to.
Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪. I have mostly been using the Weber cubes but their stuff is pretty expensive over here. Just last week I stumbled on a UK brand of tumbleweed type lighters and they seem to be working very well.
I enjoy your channel and have just subscribed as I am a rookie and am learning most about outdoor cooking from US channels. Thank you. 👍
Been using the Weber cubes for years. Great bang for the buck. $4 for a 24 pack at Lowe's & Home Depot. They also work great for starting campfires. Got all my friends using them now. Thanks for the comparo!
I have tried a few different ways to light my chimney starter, but my favorite by far is a click-start propane torch. Just a few seconds in each of the bottom-most vent holes, and in a few minutes it’s burning hot. No ash, and no smoke besides what comes off the charcoal.
I use paper... mainly because I am too cheap to buy the other stuff. Now I can say I use it because it is just as good or better than those other products. Thanks Craig!!! My frugalness has paid off.
Crazy, paper does work so well, lots of heat surface. Messy at times, and tons of smoke, but yes, paper is a good source!
BBQ iT I do newspaper
I use 2 sheets of our local newspaper. These sheets are roughly half the size of a big city paper. I lay them 90 degrees to each other and take one half of the Weber cube and place it in the center of the paper. I crumble up the paper with the cube in a teepee shape, put it in the bottom of my chimney and light her up. I do this because sometimes there isn't a breeze to add the O2 to the fire (my Weber is in a corner of my patio) and this way it works every time, with or without a breeze. Plus, my box of Weber cubes last a long time.
So when I fry any thing like fries, or fish, I always put the fried food on paper towels.
After we're done eating, I save the oil soaked paper towel in sandwich bags. They make such great fire starters for coal.
TH-cam recommended your video on comparing lump coal. I loved it. This video was awesome as well. I have always only used newspaper but was also curious as to how well these other products worked. Now I know and I think I will stick to old-schooling it with newspaper. Great stuff man. Looking forward to checking out some of you other videos.
Big Weber cube fan...I even use them to start camp fires. They work great!
I hated using paper because of the smoke and the ash at the end. I love Weber’s cubes. Now I have a Weber Performer Deluxe and it uses a gas burner to light the charcoal, and that is the best!
When not using the Weber cubes, a paper donut, loosely rolled up with some cooking spray inside is my go to.
This method lights the fastest because of more surface area. You're lighting the entire bottom of the chimney all at once, instead of a tiny little spot. Gets it ripping really fast, and the smoke from the oil and the paper leads to secondary combustion which accelerates the process.
Weber cubes are super convenient though. I usually use 2 of them spread to each side of the chimney, and give the chimney a 1/4 turn after a couple minutes to effectively light the chimney in 4 places at once with minimal fuss.
I also use a empty tuna tin as a riser to get the starter right up under the coals.
Love it!! Yes, I've used all the methods at some point, even corn chips!!! I love the tuna tin idea!!! Keep Cookin' and thanks for watching and subscribing!!!
Try 5, or 6, well placed cotton balls soaked in rubbing alcohol. Lights fast, gives a good burn, and no smoke. No chimney needed!
I use Royal Oak Tumbleweed starters, they work great also.
For years I've used whatever paper I could come up with. On a whim I purchased the white Weber cubes at Home Depot for $3. I can honestly say once you get used to these it's hard to go back. Very clean and easy. No more scrounging around for paper.
Had considered the other options besides paper but looks like the classic is still King! Good video, thanks for making it!
My favorite coal starter is the wagner heat gun. No added smoke and speeds up the process.
I use the Weber cubes! For a full chimney, which for simple grilling for my family always ends up being too much, I can get going in about 20 minutes with Royal Oak coals. My wife found them on clearance at Target for 1.99 and got the last 3 boxes!
Nice Bob! Thanks for watching #BBQiT
Very interesting the BGE starter burned so dirty. I would have bet it burned really clean. I usually use weber cubes but if I run out I’ll put a little veggie oil on a paper towel and put it in a toilet paper tube with a hole in the center of it. Not sure it really works better than just paper or other quick grab items you can use but it makes me feel creative. Lol. Great video!!!
Great! The two I use are at the bottom.
Awesome, big thumbs up. Thank you for sharing
Might want to see how things stack when using something harder to start like lump charcoal
Make your own for about $1... collect the cotton from medicine bottles, fold it up with a pea-sized dollop of petroleum jelly (Vaseline). You can also use make-up remover pads in place of cotton, and leftover candle wax in place to petroleum jelly. Great for camping too. Other fuels include various fats rendered from previous cooks (bacon, duck, and goose being the best!).
I use the cardboard divider striped that separate beers in a 12 pack. Pure cardboard really heavy and it's free. I do bend a piece into a z shape and it works like a charm.
I use the paper from the store ads I get in the mail. Crumple them up, pack them in there pretty good and then light them with a torch. If you leave the chimney half full and then fill it the rest of the way when the bottom coals are lit, you can get that time down to 7-8min.
Testing which is best in a wind storm...... Nice
Was a propaner until this year. Bought a Weber 22. I use paper grocery bags as my starter. Never had an issue.
Any idea where I can get propane and propane accessories?
Ran out of weber cubes so went back to newspaper. I use a little squirt of canola oil on the paper. Learned I don't need to pay for gimmicks. Paper for me from now on.
Yup, learned the canola oil trick when I used to light the charcoal at the beach where it was always windy. Works great for lighting wood fires too.
I use the left over grease from pork shoulder and I put paper towels to soak them up and then I put them in my freezer and take out small pieces as needed.
I like the Weber cubes and the Tumbleweeds; but for FAST starts in the chimmney I use a blue shop towel soaked with wood grain alcohol. PDQ and cheap.
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Always used, and still use newspaper, grocery sale papers, Kingsford bags to fire up my WEBER CHIMNEY ! 10 years and still kicking/lighting it up !!
The paper probably lighted faster because it has a larger surface area of flame than the cube-type starters. I use the Weber cubes only for lighting a *_ring of fire_* for smoking and newspaper for regular grilling.
I just my propane torch I have for copper soldiering. Hit the charcoal for like 30s and let it burn while I go in an prep the food.
Tip: I use paper all the time. Alton Brown gave me a thought once...squirt some "old" veg/olive oil onto the paper to act as an accelerant.
I been using paper for years. Some times the old newspapers . Some times my old charcoal bags. Never had any problems getting the grill up to temperature in a reasonable amount of time.
I have always used the paper from the bag to ignite my charcoal in the weber chimney
Yeah....Chargriller has a new Chimney starter that releases from the bottom! Doba video on comparing chimney starters
oklahoma joe half time xl
Love those Weber wax cubes.
Newest addition to my starters is a propane torch at 500,000+ BTU. Coals are ready in 2-3 minutes. Weber cubes work great also. I like to use two to get things going.
Yeah, I have a torch. The fastest indeed! Thanks for watching! #BBQiT
As I am a new charcoal griller, I've only used paper so far and seem to be successful whenever I've light
I like using "tumble weed" brand fire starters they work as good as the Weber cubes and are cheaper.
I miss your videos... Hoping that you come back.. Your videos are so well done
I use the Rutland Firestarter squares from Tractor Supply. They are the wax/sawdust blocks that light easily and are much cheaper per square than BGE.
I use a cedar fence post hit it with a hand plane and make some nice cedar curls
Add broken bits of lump charcoal to a paper egg carton, pour on some melted paraffin wax, allow to cool, presto 12 perfect charcoal starters.
GREAT IDEA!! Thanks for the sub!
Your results match my real world experience. I threw away the bge starters I bought due to the smoke and sometimes they’d actually extinguish. Weber cubes are my fav as they are so consistent. When I need to get my egg ripping fast though blowtorch is my go to
NICE!! Yep, I'll be showing folks the torch, and some other techniques next!! Thanks for the watch and subscribe!!
BBQ iT my experience has been straight benzo torch works better than the JJ Outdoor one
I'd be interested to see a comparison of chimney starters...everyone seems to use Weber but are they the best?
AHA! GREAT idea!!! I'll buy a few different ones and do a test this summer! Thanks Gareth!
And a comparison of big vs. small. Do you really need a full big chimney for most cooks? Probably not. Would be good to review that as well.
I've tryed a few different chimneys and ended with weber. I believe the reason it works so well is the bottom is just Round rods and others use whole in sheet metal. I believe the Weber design lets more air flow and causes a venturi effect better then the other designs. Starts faster and has a fuller burn. But that's just my thoughts on them.
The best part of using paper is that you don't get off flavors. I've used both the paraffin cubes and a generic version of the BGE product. Both produced an unpleasant chemical taste on the food. I've found you need to give the coals a lot of extra time to completely burn off whatever it is that causes the off flavors before you cook your food. I have found that fatwood has the same problem. Paper is the real winner here.
You have a nice jewel plant behind you in your garden (the one with orange flowers) its good for poison ivy rashes.
Diggn that Sox cover!!!!!
I dig the Royal Oak tumbleweed firestarters!
Thanks for all your tips! Great for beginners! Keep em coming.
I've always used newspaper. Sure does smoke a lot for a few minutes. I was hoping one of the cubes would win.
Actually a big fan of the Royal Oak tumbleweeds
The problem with newspaper is that it’s messy, ash from the paper gets everywhere! Trick is not to use a lot and to put some cooking oil on it. I’ve used paper towels, butcher paper too and it works really well.
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I believe that the paper is not smoking because it was completely burned. ( no unburnt paper left)
Hey BBQiT, I like all the comparison videos you've been doing keep them up!
Thought for the next one, olive oil drenched paper towel. I use it when I run out of weber cubes. I went a month using this method last summer due to misplacing my Weber cubes. 0_o
Looking forward to the next recipe as well! I'll be making the lamb chops for my next gathering.
Ha! Great idea!!! I'll do another version w all PAPER techniques!!
I'm still a lighter fluid guy. I'm stopping by Home Depot on the way home to pick up a Weber chimney and a pack of cubes. Good to know paper can be used as a back up, I constantly forget to buy lighter fluid. I'm sure buying cubes will be the same.
TheKillrGreen lighter fluid is terrible. I use to use it too until I sprung for the chimney. I’ll never use fluid again. Chimney is definitely the way to go.
@@avega2792 I used them a long time ago. My dad and I used to make them out of coffee cans back when they were metal and chimneys weren't popular. I don't know what happened to me over the years. I only use quality ingredients and products acroos the rest of the scale. But I'm back! Lighter fluid free!
Awesome
Yuck
When I was learning how to grill, I was taught with lighter fluid. I have changed to a chimney starter with paper. I also like the plug in charcoal starters. Less chemicals, better taste (no lighter fluid taste), cheaper, and just better all over in my personal opinion.
I'm not trying to sound like one of those troll commenters but. I literally just use junk mail in my charcoal chimney and it has worked every single time literally. I'm not a competitive griller so I didn't even know that you could pay money to get fancy charcoal chimney starters. I got a charcoal chimney to stop using lighter fluid and paper was how I learned to start it. But seeing as I get junk mail for free I might as well just keep using that🤷🏾♂️. It's definitely interesting to know about these chimney starters though 😎👍🤙.
I use the wood wool lighters and they are amazing £18.99 for 250 of them. Need to only use 2 per chimney so have 124 cooks available before i need to buy any more.
I use 91% Isopropyl Alcohol and a 2"-3" diameter lid either from an empty olive jar or jelly jar. Cost is $1.75 and will last for over a year, and burns the cleanest(IMO). Will not go out even in high winds.
This was great, the only thing I would have liked to see was the tumbleweed starters in the mix. These days you can’t watch a TH-cam barbecue channel without seeing those. I use them, they work far and away the best of any I’ve tried (though I’ve never used the Weber ones)
True!! I’ll try them next! I’ve used them, they work well!
I always see them on videos as well. Was going to buy some but they were significantly more than the Weber cubes.
vinstinct I get them all the time. I find they are cleaner burning and light better than the cubes.
I saw a video on paper and now that's all I use, works great!
Weber cubes are the best overall IMO
been wondering about those weber cubes, my go to is always newspaper and yer right, the startup is always hella smokey but once its lit it takes off.
Paper is free and saves landfill space I use tumble weed or paraffin if I'm using the banking or minion method because it's wind resistant and keeps me from busting out the chimney to light 5 or 10 coals
Try putting about a shot glass full of rubbing alcohol on the charcoal. Use the highest alcohol percentage you can find I use 92% get it at wal-mart. Super cheap and super effective. Works at least as well, and in my opinion, better than any of these, no smoke, no chimney needed. Just put your charcoal in your grill, put the alcohol on the charcoal, light it and you will be ready to cook in no time.
A small bag of Fritos is a great fire starter.
Egg cartons ( card board ) and old paraffin wax ( no perfumes ) candles.
Yep and I add a little dryer lint
I use a propane weed burner and a couple of fatwood sticks, I can light my fire in fifteen seconds, close the lid on my kamodo grill and fifteen minutes later I'm ready to start cooking. No Chimney just stack the lump charcoal in a semi cone, and the weed burner starts not only the fatwood, but also the lump charcoal.
I use a propane weed burning torch!
The noise it makes always attracts a crowd
Take a half paper towel fold it long ways 2-3 times, dip one end into old kitchen oil, fold it in on itself so you have a 3 inch rectangle of towel. 100% start rate....
This reminds me - I need to pick up a new Chimney! After years of starting fires (and accidentally leaving it out in the rain) it's pretty rusted out.
I was just cruising through BBQ channels - super glad I found yours! Good stuff - Keep it up!
put it over your propane grill side burner. leave on a couple minutes and then take it off and let it finish. Fast and easy
I use the shavings from my wood planer works better than paper
Wad up some newspaper {that's all it's good for, anyway} light it & go grab a beer. Save the wax ones for emergencies.
Exactly but, pour some bourbon. I Married a Irish Guy.
I’ve been using the Weber cubes for years. They’ve performed very well, but I hate how the bottom of the cubes ‘flake’ apart when you take them out of the container. I also don’t like the chemical smell when you light them. I’ve been trying some other options this summer, but haven’t been happy with any of them.
Paper... I use the paper from the charcoal bag and the random heavy brown packing paper whenever we get a package.
You were my favorite host of Top Gear
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Newspaper with about an ounce of vegetable oil on it works for me.
Awesome video! I was totally surprised about the paper! Thanks for the comparison video.
Make 10 thin Slices of cardboard 1/2 inch by 6 inch, then two - 2 inch by 6 inch pieces folded in half against each other with a paper towel in the bottom of the chimney. Light it with a butane burner then slide in the thin pieces of cardboard in the bottom to keep it burning hot. Use you Amazon boxes or and other cardboard. It is fun and in less than a minute you will have your lump charcoal sparking and burning hot. It makes a lot of smoke but this is the best way to get it going. I do it often with my Santa Maria pit BBQ. Use a box cutter to cut the cardboard in a few seconds.
It's also fun to do.
I guaranty this will work better than anything you can buy.
.......paper drizzled with some vegetable oil (to keep it burning a bit longer) is the cheapest and easiest way.
GOOD VIDEO!!!!! Iv'e used paper for years to light with and it's always worked well.
Actually, tru que and weber put out the least amount of smoke. All seemed to get the job done! Thumbs up! Nice vid.
Great info.....keep up the awesome videos
Where did you get the apron......the ring for a towel is genius 👌
I use paper since we get lots of ads.
Pro tip: After the paper has burnt out and coals are started, remove the paper for optimal air flow. Your coals will start much much faster if there is nothing underneath after they are started.
I have heard but never tried putting a paper tissue roll in the middle of the chimney with charcoal around it.
Try the royal oak weed tumblers
I use newspaper but I pour a little olive oil on it and it works every time. It is really smokey though....
Been using Frontier Tumbleweeds or Diamond’s ‘Strike-A-Fire’ match sticks interchangeably, and they work fine. But am I the only one out there actually sticking the starter inside of the chimney with the charcoal, rather than underneath?
Paper is abundant, why buy something to start a simple fire ?
It'd used the boxes from the other firestarters in my chimney.
I've always used newspaper, but I was intrigued by this video because it always leaves a mess, with lots of ash blowing around. I typically just start my chimney away from the grill and its worked fine. I also wonder if these starter cubes might work better when the humidity is really high (which is the only time I've had difficulty getting newspaper to stay lit and burn hot enough to start the coals). Lastly, I thought these might be useful for camping.
Nonetheless, paper works great.
I don't get a newspaper and frequently find myself without any paper to start the chimney, hence the Weber cubes.
I don't get the paper anymore, especially not plan black and white
Cotton ball soaked in alcohol. I keep a jar fill them them.