The Best Homemade Fire Tinder Demonstration

Cotton balls soaked with petroleum jelly is an excellent fire starter. I show you using a Swedish Firesteel. It's cheap, easy to make, light, and effective. It stays lit for minutes. It will work in rainy conditions, and when damp. Finding dry natural tinder in wet weather can be very difficult. This is your solution. I take some with me every time I venture into the great outdoors.

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[prometheus19799791]

@shortylickens69 the cotton ball actually gives a good enough flame to ignite smaller tinder. i have done this and it works great.

[prometheus19799791]

i would like to add that a little dry patch in the cotton ball is important so that the sparks can ignite the cotton ball and thereby ignite the petroleum. i tried doing this with petroleum jelly soaked cotton balls and found that the petroleum jelly hinders the igntion.

[MagicRuins]

cotton balls... what happened to pine needles?

[BUCKrub91]

@shortylickens69 cotton balls only burn fast if you break them up to make alot of surface area if you leave them as they are in the package or squeeze them tighter to limit the surface area they burn for a decent amount of time without the Vaseline..

[drumswithfist]

Awesome, thank you. Do the soaked cotton balls have an expiration date? Building my bug-out bag...

[grettagrids]

shit and i'm using PJ on my skin???

[2kargarage1]

Nice

[discoverygirl247]

before you read this, I KNOW im an idiot, ok????

i was practicing a magic trick with cups & cotton balls with a candle on the counter and the cotton ball IN MY HAND caught fire! the second i saw it i tossed the cotton ball away and it stopped burning when it hit the counter. I didn't get burned, but my hands still smell like apples & cinnamon!

[shortylickens69]

@openupfresh Cotton burns very easily, (as the South learned during Shermans march) in fact it burns so quickly you wont get much useful heat or flame from it. Very unlikely you will start up a real fire. Vaseline by itself doesnt burn easily at all. You need it be liquid and quickly convert to fumes, which is impossible on a cold winter morning. Its the combination of quick n easy flame from cotton and the slow hot burn of petroleum that makes for a good tinder light.

[NOFEAR34922]

what have we learned today vassaline and fire don't mix