Light charcoal without lighter fluid

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Lighting charcoal briquettes without lighter fluid is easy with this homemade Charcoal Chimney

Contents 1 Materials Needed 2 Lighting the Charcoal 3 Images 4 Warning 5 Usage notes 6 Bibliography 7 Amazon's Related Products 8 See Also 9 External Links

[edit] Materials Needed

• A charcoal chimney (see How to Make a charcoal chimney or #Amazon's Related Products)
• Charcoal
• Newspaper
• a grill
• tongs
• Oven mitts

[edit] Lighting the Charcoal

• Begin by filling your charcoal chimney to the top with charcoal
• Loosely wad a sheet of newspaper and place it under the chimney in the center of your grill
• CAREFULLY light the paper through the air holes (you may have to lift the chimney to get to the paper and light from underneath)
  • You may have to do this more than once, I had to do it twice for this tutorial.
• Once the Charcoal begins to wait a while and it will flame on and ignite the rest of the coal in the chimney
• When the charcoal in the chimney is ashen white (see Fig.5 ) then put on your oven mitts, be EXTREMELY CAREFUL and dump the coals into your grill
• spread them evenly with your tongs
• Barbecue away!

[edit] Images

Fig 1. Placing the newspaper under the chimney	Fig 2.
Fig 3. Lightning the paper	Fig 4. It's working on it's own now
Fig 5. Ashen white coals ready to be dumped	Fig 6. Dumped coals spread out on grill

[edit] Warning

Fire is dangerous, always be careful. Do not touch hot surfaces or flames or smoke or steam. I am not responsible in any way if you burn yourself.

[edit] Usage notes

When I did this the first wad of newspaper burned out without sufficiently lighting the charcoal. I had to carefully put a second wadding of paper underneath the chimney and re-light. After a few minutes everything lit beautifully.

[edit] Bibliography

• ( ISBN 1563058669 ) The Barbecue! Bible: Over 500 Recipes
• ( ISBN 0761120149 ) How to Grill: The Complete Illustrated Book of Barbecue Techniques
• ( ISBN 1558322973 ) The BBQ Queens' Big Book of Barbecue

[edit] Amazon's Related Products

• ( ASIN B00004U9VV ) Weber 87886 Chimney Starter
• ( ASIN B00004RALR ) Weber 751001 22 1/2-Inch One-Touch Gold Charcoal Grill, Black
• (Sorry no results are currently being returned for this query.

[edit] See Also

• How to Make a charcoal chimney

[edit] External Links

• Chimney Starter Wikipedia Article