On day 3 of the trip we found another local product at the park’s camp store: fire starters made of a mixture of dryer lint and candle wax poured into paper egg cartons.
How cool is that?
I’d say that two egg cups provided at least as much fire as one long, thin chemical fire stick. They charged us 25 cents per cup. If I’m recalling correctly, there was no wick, and we lit them by setting the paper cup on fire and then dropping the match onto the wax/lint mixture.
And the results:
(Fun with the new iPhone4 video camera.)
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Dryer lint is old Boy Scout firestarting trick! (Also illustrates importance of cleaning your lint screen.)
Ha. Looked up how to make them online and ran into endless discussions of various techniques and whether one should avoid lint (because today’s synthetic fibers produce bad fumes) and use sawdust instead. . . .