DIY Fire Paste! [ Cheap and Easy! ]

This is a fire paste / fire starter that's simple, cheap, portable and will light a fire under almost any condition.

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[thekynologist]

Filling tip me wife spouted off as I was viewing: dump paste into sandwich bag, clip lower corner so has a smaller than bottle opening, and squeeze paste through hole into bottle. This is one of her cake decorating hacks! She’s awesome, and as great of a wood crafter and carver as she is baker!! God be thanked for great women!

[erniesknots]

Here is a suggestion for filling the bottle. Spoon the mix in to a pastry bag then squeeze into the bottle. Thanks for sharing this. Good idea.

[haroldmiller]

Great idea we used to take sawdust mixed with kerosene and paraffin wax in the old cardboard egg carton, fill each spot coat in wax let dry boom tear one off at a time light and burn .

[danlboone]

Great tip James! For the really cheap and really lazy, a tube of Vaseline may work just as well. That's what I use to ensure quick drafting in my wood stove. You can find it hanging with the lip balm at any store.

[steve_put_this_here]

Just as cheap, equally effective and less stinky: mix equal amounts of fine sawdust and Crisco (shortening). I find a small glop of that smeared into a pine cone (or directly on a bunch of twigs) is a great go-to. Or, just keeping the Crisco straight works great as well using the pine cone trick. The advantage there is you have prime material for fire starting, making a survival candle AND having a great cooking grease.

[lawrencelyman]

I grew up in a house heated by a woodstove. My mother would take the charcoal and ashes, once cooled, and put it in a coffee can, pound it a bit to make the chunks smaller, then, she would add lamp oil till it was a smooth paste, and we used that to quickly start fires in our stove. I used to fill old shoe polish tins, or even short Mason jars, to pack this mix into the backcountry when I was hunting, to make quick fires in even the wettest weather. Great video.

[thsonofisrael]

Great idea 💡 👍

If you add ½ ounce petroleum jelly to the mixture, you find that the fire starter will extrude more like tooth paste.

[nykkoll]

I like that you use ash and not sawdust. In my case, I very often have ash but quite seldom sawdust. I think it's really very simplistic that's why I love the method that you've shown! Thank you :)

[JohnnyHildebrand]

Cool idea. Sometimes the need to get a fire started quickly outweigh the opportunity of striking it in any other bushcrafting method.

[johncantrell]

Neat idea. Used to know a guy that would take old bicycle inner tube, cut into a long thin strip into his woods gear as a fire starter. Whenever he needed one, he would cut a small piece and light it like you did here. He claimed it worked well under most conditions.

[russelldavis]

Can't have to many fire starting tips, you never know when and where you may need it. Good video, I'll add it to my bag of tricks.

[rogerjensen]

My personal preference is either vasoline- or wax-soaked cotton balls or pads! And of course, tea candles because if you only need a little light than one (plus) will do. Adding a cotton ball or pad on top of the tea candle makes it stove fuel (good with Esbit stoves as well as canteen cup stoves) or a much brighter candle ( though shorter lived)!

[choppertcp]

Man this is awesome ! Some of the tubes they have to buy that are pre made are like 10-15$ so this way you can get a few pound for the price of a gallon of kerosene. Always giving ideas for people that don’t have money to throw away at gimmicks although they do work just way over priced. Thanks for sharing James .

[christianjensen]

That reminds me of my grandfather's fire starter. He owned a dry cleaning business and he would bring home a coffee can full of lint that was saturated with the dry cleaning fluid.

[sharonrigs]

I will have to try this out! I have been making my own firestarter cubes out of sawdust, dryer lint and paraffin for years.

[johnnymccann]

I'm a old man, I would have 4-5 different ways to light fires. I just subscribed . people don't realize if things don't change a lot of the old time ways of living and survival is essential. I enjoyed the video. papa from the foothills of the blue ridge mountains in north Carolina and wishing you well

[leonshelton]

Thanks for the tip. Just a fyi once your paste is made you can put it in a zip loc lunch bag and cut a corner off to make it easier to put into the silicone container and its a lot cleaner. Just a thought if one was going to make more then one at a time.

[russelldavis]

Great tip also is a peace of cedar like the size of a soap bar. Fits in any pocket, split it, shave it or both. All but takes a spark instantly. Split down and soaked in wax, instant fire sticks.

[awatt]

We used to mix kerosene with sawdust into a paste. It was very effective at starting a fire with wet wood. Never thought to use ash but I can see that it would work just as well.

[ericktamberg]

I once used a "fire paste" that was only the fishing reel grease tube that I had on my fishing tackle. It saved the day!