How to Start a Fire Without Kindling

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Fire is essential for survival. Start a roaring fire with one of these simple fire starters.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Potato chips
A lighter or match
Toilet paper
Dryer lint
Pine needles
Pine cones
Newspaper
Bark
Twigs
Leaves
Moss

Step 1: Use chips

Use your favorite potato chips as a fire starter. Light the chip with a lighter or a match and it will burn for approximately 3 minutes.

Step 2: Use lint

Pack a toilet paper roll with dryer lint. When you are ready for a fire, pile wood around it and light the center of the cardboard roll.

Step 3: Use pine needles

Use pine needles or pinecones to start a fire. Pine cones are quick to catch fire and give off a great aroma.

Step 4: Use newspaper

Roll five newspapers into a tight tube, tie the tube into a knot, and light the knot on fire. The tight paper will burn slowly, allowing more time for your wood to catch fire.

Tip: Tying the paper into a knot will prevent the layers from moving around when lit.

Step 5: Save dry bark

Save and dry small pieces of tree bark. Bark catches fire quickly and will maintain embers for a long time.

Step 6: Use dry debris

Use dry debris from your yard, such as twigs, leaves, and moss to start a fire.

Step 7: Enjoy

Enjoy a night under the stars next to the warmth of a fire.

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[DColeman138]

how to start a fire without kindling... these are all fucking kindling!

[Heebs1313]

Re-title video: List of some things that are flammable.

[jasonx0017]

How to Start a Fire Without Kindling

Step 1: Get a match.

Step 2: Strike a match.

Step 3: Wala, fire.

Did you know you can see yourself in the mirror

[my4trackmachine]

how cast has never posted anything helpful. this video should be called "things you can set on fire with a lighter."

[TheRomanBond007]

Now this video says how to start a fire without kindling, but at the end, it says fires killed more people in 2008 than anything else. Kinda discourages you to start fire, right?

[iamnanosec]

WHERE THE F%CK AM I SUPPOSED TO FIND ALL THIS ON A DESERTED ISLAND?

*minutes later*

so... cold...

[rogantu]

I just pry bark (never) of the outside of the wood and then I place that in a nice bump and build my fire around it.

this makes me start fires with 1 match only hundreds of times in a row.

[AznChinksters11]

why dont u just use the lighter to use the light the stuff..... instead of going thru all that trouble....

[IPlayMinecraft123764]

@photonXspark eggxactly what i said

[IPlayMinecraft123764]

This is false all that stuff can classify as kindiling KINDILING: anything that can cach fire. :L

[colin5070]

newspaper,bark,twigs,leavs and moss are all kindling!

[SydnniKelly]

Yes. Im just going to go get my handy topilet paper, and dryer lint!