Find the best safety gear for your next outdoor adventure using our independent reviews and ratings. The fire is a handful of twigs in my Ti Tri Inferno wood stove after about 1 and 2 minutes with the fire paste as a starter.

My favorite part of the packaging is the first instruction warning – “Contents may catch fire” – well, I sure hope so! Heck, even my life-long hiking buddies have been carrying extra tubes each, because they've seen me use it over the years. It replaced other standard firestarters in my pack like Coghlan’s Fire Sticks, Emergency Tinder, and homemade Vaseline cotton balls, although I continued to carry these as a backup and comfort from long term use. This flame paste fuel can be used on stage to simulate a camp fire without the use of flammable liquids or gas.Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. where temperatures were in the teens with misty weather followed by mostly sleet with some snow and one 3-day fall trip to the Uwharrie Mountains in N. One misconception about using petroleum jelly soaked cotton balls as a fire starter is that you use a whole cotton ball. It contains petroleum distillates and ethyl alcohol, so care needs to be taken to not get it in eyes or ingest, and it may irritate the skin. Overall this is possibly the easiest firestarter to use, but suffers a couple of setbacks because of that.

I recently bought a new Coleman peak one stove and decided rather than using unleaded fuel I would switch to Aspen 4. The paste, once squeezed from its tube, can be placed on virtually any surface, including ice and wet wood. The paste is virtually invisible when applied, and can be used anywhere a small controllable flame is needed.

Manufactured by the Corellian Chemical Corporation, the paste was packaged with an igniter in small cubes, similar to tiny plastic explosive charges. To use the fire paste, you can squeeze the tube and put it on a stove generator or vaporizer for priming, or spread it on pieces of wood for fire starting. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Our freshness guarantee applies to our cheese, which is freshly cut and vacuum-sealed for 7-8 weeks of shelf life.

Since the paste doesn’t burn for long it will start a fire but take a lot of it to dry out wet wood, and is difficult to light with a flint/steel (ferrocerium rod) unless you use a decent amount and spread it out. We offer special effects users the very best in professional SFX products and equipment, many of which are our own exclusive products or which come directly from some of Europe's top manufacturers for purchase and hire at fantastic trade rates. The paste originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first mentioned in The Unknown Regions, a 2010 Star Wars Roleplaying Game supplement published by Wizards of the Coast. I mostly used it as an easy starter for my wood burning stove and a few campfires, and carried it in a plastic container rather than the entire tube.I am testing other firestarters and will probably not use this option in the future unless I am on a short fair weather trip and just want an easy starter for my wood burning stove. After that, we ship the cheese with a cooling pack to ensure we can guarantee you the very best, fresh quality. Just seems to help dispersing the flame (heat needed to start whatever kindling you’re using)… maybe makes it burn a touch slower from lack of direct oxygen vs vaporized (ready to combust) chemicals… Handy to start fires without the whoosh of the other stuff, plus portable if other stuff isn’t around or with you. I squeeze it in to a small Nalgene container (clearly marked as not food) so as not to take the whole tube.