This is the best way to start a charcoal barbecue

[David_Guilbeaul]

@PsiPhiGrrrl

Once I discovered you could buy briquets already soaked in lighter fluid, my days of messing with paper, coffee cans, and a squeeze bottle of flammable liquid were over:

i found even the match light stuff is harder to start than using a chimney. The chimneys I’ve used are sensitive to the amount of paper, though; they usually say two sheets of a standard size newspaper and more or less never works well for me. Standard size newspaper is getting hard to find, though.