The single most useful thing you can buy for charcoal cooking. A full load lit in twelve to fifteen minutes with no chemical taste.
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A chimney starter is the single most useful thing you can buy for charcoal cooking. It lights a full load in twelve to fifteen minutes with no chemical taste, and it doubles as your unit of measurement.
Wax-dipped wood wool burns hot for several minutes, which is long enough to get charcoal genuinely caught rather than merely scorched. Newspaper works but flashes off fast.