How to EASILY Light a Campfire for Recreation and Cooking (For the AVERAGE Person)
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- This is how I light and build a campfire on the snow peak fire pit (Good for campfires on the ground too)
The title of this video is "How to EASILY Light a Campfire for Recreation and Cooking (For the AVERAGE Person)" - I explain the need for oxygen, and the fuel types to build and sustain a great campfire.
(Thanks for the video idea Putsy and Kirsten - hope it helps)
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Snow Peak Fire Pit / Takibi Fire and Grill
Fire Fuels- Tinder, Kindling, Large Logs
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Bonus Tip : You can use the Grill bridge from the fire pit as a support for bigger logs, so you can build up even higher!
I have a large Drifta charcoal bag in the back of the car I always have a small amount of dry small chunks of red gum that's split to small kindling and larger sized pieces. It means I can always light a fire even if the wood at camp is 'wet' - helps get the fire going.
Great video, Dan.
Save your old candle stubs and use them as fire lighters.
Clothes dryer lint makes a great tinder.
Thanks David! I've heard about clothes dryer lint before...I need to give it a try! Although I'm not sure I should publically announce what colour my underwear is ;)
Brought my snow peak from difta about 8 yrs ago done some amazing cook ups (well to me anyway) and have some nice night watch the flames by the river...makes a camping trip so much better
Another satisfied Snow Peak owner! Sounds great Nick. Not sure what I'd do once the sun goes down if we didn't have fire when camping. Early bed time I guess😆 Cheers
Great video Dan. 🤙 When I’m camping, I usually use an upside down fire technique. Never fails. Simply set & forget.
Thanks heaps Les. Love getting comments like this. Upside down is a classic. Happy camping mate😬
I agree, those fire pits get plenty of air from underneath!!
They really are great! Which one have you got? Thanks for watching mate.
Gday Dan. Nice video mate. If you are good at the basics then your camping experience will always be more enjoyable.
I usually use whatever’s available close by my camp, grass and small twigs then build up to larger sticks in the fire pit before lighting. I use a butane gas torch to light the fire. Quick, easy and cheap. Plus it will light larger sticks if there is no tinder around.
The welding gloves are a great thing at camp. I started using them this year and they go on every trip. Hot pots, pans, coals can be moved easily. You can even move the fire pit while the fire is going.
Have a great day Champ!
Hey Jase! Hope you guys have recovered there! Email sent to you the other day (sorry for taking so long). Simplicity really is the key. Butane canisters are 6 bucks for three at Bunnings, its a bargain. Unless you mean the cylinders you have in the workshop? I've got a torch head for my jet boil fuel canisters, but they are a bit more expensive so its not as economical(but still reasonable). When I compare fire lighters in a later video I'll definitely throw in the direct butane torch flame, because its awesome and means you can skip that tinder step like you say (its basically a fire lighter in itself)
Welding gloves are so handy. PS. the Ozbraai video was my best out of the gate (~900 views in the first 24h) , I think it was because of your hot tip with the braai seasoning XD
Haha. That’s awesome mate. Good products tend to sell themselves! I put the braai seasoning on almost everything. Salad, mashed potatoes, scrambled eggs, sandwiches.
So good!!
I didn’t get your email unfortunately. Might have gone to the old email again. Dunno
Look forward to reading it!
@@JasonHarris-jx2ux How about now ? sent to the 2518 one
A few years ago at home I made a fire pit from broken paving slabs. No cement used, just tightly interlocked triangular pieces. It looked great, like an "olde world" wishing well but it was impractical. So I rebuilt it, elongated into a low rectangle. Not pretty but much, much better. At one end I can boil over flames and cook over coals at the other end. I do the same when out in the cuds (bush). Small fire to get a brew on, then push coals to the side to cook over. We don't need a blazing fire in Scotland to keep the reptiles, cougars and bears etc away. Its too cold for the reptiles here and we've eaten all the others centuries ago! Good video yet again. Many thanks.
Hi Liam! We're going to be be improving our home landscaping too in the future and I've been ruminating about how I would build a simple but fun fire zone. Yours sounds pretty good! The 'olde world' is something I associate with the scots! I like the idea of having two zones - for coals and for warmth/flame... I've been toying with the idea of getting a second similar fire pit, so I can transfer coals across from one to the other. And maybe repel double the amount of snakes? Thanks for watching mate.
@@OTWD Aye, that'll work. I've used two fire pits that way. One to boil water on and sit around of an evening. I take coals from it for the 2nd pit and grill over them. I made a low rectangular pit but a wide circular fire pit looks way better and is nicer to sit around. And if it's wide enough you can easily create two zones. The downside? Folk will be so chilled out around it you'll never get them to go home!
For the past few years or so, my grand daughters and I have been cooking over a Pico grill type thing with great results. Setting it up is like origami with a wire coat hanger but it's worth it. I'm currently experimenting with a small "cheese melting" raclette (about the size of a box of dominoes) for solo bimbles. I can boil on it, do steaks and kebabs etc. Seems to be working out OK.
That sounds like fun, Liam! Would be very enriching for your grand daughters! Simple is they key isn't it.
Nice video Dan. To get a nice supply of hardwood coals for the camp oven, usually takes me at least 2 hours.
Thanks James! Yeah I probably undersold how long it can take for the big stuff. I usually use redgum as pictured in the video - if I did burn all of that down for the camp oven I reckon it would take atleast 3-4 hours (and constant attention). That's why I often take the lazy way out with lump charcoal fuel :D Cheers
We use ‘wood wool’ fire starters. They catch really easily and travel well, even stuffed in a rucksack. Collecting firewood is a first class method of entertaining your children too. The more involved they are, the happier they are.
Hey guys! Thanks for watching. Great tip on keeping the kids entertained, this will be important for me the next few years! Is this similar to the firelighter you use? ruclips.net/video/Xiaabh2edTg/видео.html
That’s the stuff, although we use another manufacturer. A bag of about 30 cost as little as £2.50 and they’re a clean fuel. Most are pine shavings, soaked in a paraffin wax. We use for everything from the camp fire to a small twig stove, the Kelly Kettle to our living room fireplace.
Hey Dan, gr8 videos. my tip is using an screw top plastic jar- I use an old peanut butter jar, then dry out some teabags and put in a small quantity of metho. They make excellent fire lighters.
Hey Stu, Thanks mate! Great idea with the tea bags. I'll have to give it a go.
Good info!
Thanks Heaps Owen. Good Luck out there :D
How do you start a charcol fire? I struggle with that too.
Hi S Troop, thanks for watching mate. Check out this video I made last year (production value not as polished back then:D) ruclips.net/video/nmEtNNuxC9c/видео.html These days I use different fire lighters, and if I don't have newspaper I use kindling twigs to build a bit more flame up underneath the chimney. Charcoal chimneys go very cheap (Are you in Aus? Bunnings have the $10 one I use most of the time). Cheers