I've used an electric starter for years. I've just recently started
using a chimney and really like it. I'll stick with the chimney now.

I used my starter with the chimney as you mentioned. The chimney sure
creates a lot of heat...the thing to be careful of is to be sure the
rising chimney heat doesn't melt the handle of the starter and the
little "foot" that normally catches the side of the bbq and prevents
the starter from sliding into the fire. As I found that one time, that
little foot can quickly melt into a puddle of metal - the foot is
pretty useless after that.


On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:05:41 GMT, "Jimbo" > wrote:

>Well now I use the chimney with the electric starter
>in it to fire up the lump in about 8 minutes and then dump
>the load on top of a basket full of unlit lump in the wsm.
>
>let the wind blow ... who cares....
>
>maybe I should switch to acetone ???
>
>would it be better ???
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>"ceed"
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>wrote in message newsp.stn5uytt21xk10@dellbob...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Everyone here seems to be doing the chimneys. I've got one of those. I
>> also have an electric starter which gets the coals going very fast. Any
>> reasons I shouldn't be using the electric one? I know, it's not "pure",
>> but it *is* convenient Only time I seem to be using the chimney is when
>> I'm without an outlet close to the smoker/grill.
>>
>> --
>> //ceed ©¿©¬
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