The Best Tinder
It can take some time making tinder for a fire. My brother found an easy solution to that. All you need is toilet paper. I recommend the cheapest out there. No, I am not going to tell you to burn toilet paper because that will last as long as your match does. By leaving toilet paper outside allowing it to get rained on and dried, somehow it makes the toilet paper burn forever! Leave it out there for just 2-5 days. When me and my brother do it, about 3-5 sheets last us for about 10-20 minutes.
Last edited by Mason; 08-14-2014 at 10:54 AM.
What happens when it gets wet?
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The word "best" is vastly overused.Originally Posted by Mason
In this case it may have been the "best" at the time.
I have used TP shredded up with Carmex lip balm rubbed on it to catch a spark and get a pile if tinder going....much like a cotton ball w/PJ......
It's good to know as many different things that can be used for tinder as possible....and any one may be the "Best" at the time and place.
Nowe if all you have is TP and you need to take a dump....or start a fire......What's it gonna be?
Lot of kinds of TP also kinda melts when it get wet......and goes back into a kind of pulp....which may be why it lasted longer for you.
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Dryer sheets work well also and take up very little room, multipurpose wear on your hat or around your neck and helps reduce/eliminate mosquitos.
Semper Paratus
That does actually work pretty well........dryer sheets are how your wife marks her territory.....You know that right?
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There are a lot of things that work for tinder. I would not and do not consider toilet paper to be one of them. It has a much more important function.
No wife to mark her territory.
Semper Paratus
maybe used tp would work even better
Soon the whole world will be silky smooth
I use banana leaves for buttwipe
Its tinder. Used to start a fire, not keep a fire going. As long as it is in a safe location, it shouldn't get wet. You only need the tinder to burn for about 30-120 seconds. This burns much longer. I really love it.
No banana leaves in Wisconsin......just a smooth stone.
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Steel wool. Lights from batteries, matches, flint and steel, and fire rods. I have made fire starters with dried mulch and paraffin in a snuff can with a pad of steel wool and sealed with tape. Perfect inert starters that will last longer than me.
It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life.
3 sheets of TP burning for 30 min, Id honestly like to see that on youtube... Unedited.
Ill stick to cotton balls, char cloth and fatwood (and for real emergency must have fire, road flare) for my fire starting until something else proves better.
EB
Cotton balls soaked (don't know the right word) in petroluem jelly...starts even if its wet..
I'm a Gramp who is not computer savvy, give me a slab and the rock ages tablet..I will do fine!
Mullein leaves makem gud TP !
I see the OP is from Florida. There are many good TINDERS found naturally out in the scrub here. Saw Palmetto grows abundantly and the brown fibrous material found at the base of the fronds is a very good TINDER. Some people call it monkey fur/hair. Fatwood can found just about everywhere here and it is an excellent accelerant. Why would you use toilet paper as a "go to TINDER" and refer to it as the "best". It's an alternative TINDER but to say it's the best is being subjective. Subjectivity is relating to the way a person experiences things in his or her own mind and based on feelings or opinions rather than facts.
30-60 minute burn time with 3 sheets of tp is ridiculousness...
DomC
Last edited by DomC; 08-14-2014 at 09:59 AM.
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The best tinder I have found isn't tinder. I carry a bag of arounf 8 tea candles in my backpack for those rainy wet times. A tea candle will burn for a solid hour if you can keep the wind off of it, and will actually dry out leaves and foraged tinder where it will start burning.
During dry times nature always supplys lots of natural tinder almost anywhere you go if you know where to look!
I actually have used these....but found that if dried....as in "save some for later"...the get kinda crumbly......if you know what I mean.
Have a lot growing in the driveway and around the shed at the place.
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I would say 5 sheets lasts you 10 minutes. @domc @elevenbravo
5 sheets is about 10 minutes burn time.
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