Fire Starters

Fire Starters

Time again to make fire starters...

This year we even have been saving the wax which is around the baby bell cheese.  This is recycling to the up-most.  

  The wax is melted in a double boiler (safety).  Once the wax is melted I add sawdust and mix it in.  I use enough sawdust to make sure that there is now wax liquid seeping through when I push hard on it with a spoon.  
Then I spoon the mixture into egg containers (not the Styrofoam kind) the kind that burns.  
Once the 'fire starters' are melted... with a sharp saw like knife I cut the fire starters into individual fire starters. 
The bottom right pictures show the fire starters at work... in the process of starting a fire in the wood stove....  Makes life a lot easier to start the wood stove first thing in the morning on a cold winter morning.