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LIGHTING THE GRILL – Charcoal Grill Starters
4. Self-Starting Briquettes
If you don’t want to fool around with lighter fluid, there is one
more alternative—self-lighting charcoal briquettes. With
these, all you do is pile the briquettes on the grill, light them
with a match or butane lighter, and you have an almost instant
fire. Some grillers like to use these as starters, with a mixture
of regular briquettes. One thing to note, however: self-lighting
briquettes are not recommended for use with chimney starters.
3. Charcoal Chimney Lighter
A charcoal chimney starter is essentially a metal tube, usually
steel, with a handle on the side. Inside is a grate to hold the
briquettes and to keep them above the crumpled newspaper,
which goes in under the charcoal and is what starts the
briquettes. Ventilation holes ring the bottom of the tube.
The goal is to start a charcoal fire without using lighter fluid or
other petroleum-based fuels. This is to avoid unpleasant taste to
the food, environmental regulations or for other reasons.
2. Electric Charcoal Lighter
Electric charcoal lighters look like an elongated outline of
a Ping-Pong paddle. That outline is the lighter element
loop that, when plugged in, glows like the heating
elements in a toaster.
1. Lighter Fluid
The most common way to light charcoal briquettes is
with charcoal lighter fluid—an easily ignitable,
petroleum-based product.
Charcoal Starters are not included
CAUTION: Always add the majority of the Charcoal Base to Upper Height Adjustable Burn Tray
after Igniting charcoal from lower burn tray. Too much Charcoal added to Lower Burn Tray of Drawer
may cause warping to drawer track and make it more difficult to open and close tightly dra wer system.
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