Start a campfire quickly and easily with a simple egg carton.
There are several ways to ignite charcoal briquets for developing a bed of embers for cooking whether in the home barbie or over a campfire. While many types of starters can be used: fluid, self-lighting charcoal or setting briquets atop kindling/paper, there’s a simple way to both pack/carry the briquets and get them starting all by using the same container an egg carton.
While it’s hardly a chore to carry briquets and use newspaper or kindling to get them going, but if you are looking for a cleaner way to handling the dusty little chunks (or getting that self-lighting smell all over your fingers) and lighting them the egg carton method works well.
The paper carton in which eggs are packaged can cradle a dozen briquets as easily as it does…READ MORE.




