"Steve Wertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Fri, 18 May 2007 07:36:02 -0400, Van wrote:
>
>> However, I don't worry about that 'cause I use lump & start it in a
>> charcoal
>> 'chimney' with a few crumpled sheets of newspaper. Don't have
>> newspaper??
>> Whaddya think the supermarkets put that stack of weekly circulars right
>> by
>> the door for??
>
> You won't use lighter fluid but you'll use those glossy,
> chemical-laden circulars?
>
> -sw

Got a LOT less chemical than fluid, Steve. Our stores use the regular flat
newsprint. Plus, it's gone in a minute or two.

I've used my share of lighter fluid over the years ($$$). It's just that
now the chimney method seems cleaner, PLUS ya get the whole batch of red
coals at once to cook over with fewer hotspots.

I still use fluid when I'm lighting 40 pounds + in my chicken pit, though (I
can cook 75 halves per batch). That would take more chimneys than I could
manage . . . .

Whatever works for you.

Van