Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
General => General Chat => Topic started by: admin on December 03, 2014
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This is a new one on me. Egg boxes filled with some sort of flammable material and wax from old candles. Making them in egg cartons makes them easier to light.
https://imgur.com/a/oAgCo
You can make a number at once
(https://i.imgur.com/PfIoDKB.jpg)
One burning
(https://i.imgur.com/MRyq6Fg.jpg)
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Doesn't look like they have anything in the way of flammable liquid in them from the article, just egg boxes with wood chips and wax. Seems like a slower version of the basic cotton wool and vaseline trick.
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Found this after a google
"Dryer lint and egg cartons
The classic homemade fire starter is a wad of dryer lint placed in each empty storage department of a cardboard egg carton with melted wax, or better yet, melted paraffin wax poured over top. It’s an easy project and brings back days of making crafts in public school. The main trick, however, is to melt the wax without burning the house down or ruining your good cooking pot. Wax or paraffin wax is highly flammable so don’t just throw a cube of it in a pot and heat up up over the stove burner. To slow down the melting rate, and reduce the chance of combustion, make a double burner by having the pot with the wax in it float in another pot of water. The simmering water will melt the wax at a much slower and safer rate. And you might want to use an old coffee can rather than a cooking pot to melt the wax in. Melted wax makes a real mess to clean up. If you don’t want to spend the money on paraffin then simply gather all the half-burned candles in the house (or go to a bargain store). Sawdust, shredded paper or even cut up pieces of the egg carton top work well as filler. Also, try dipping in rolled up newspaper tied with string (don’t use nylon string) or pine cones into the wax to make fire starters."
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After a further look Ikea tea light candles contain paraffin wax. You can get them for not a lot of pennies.