a nifty campfire idea .

dipbait

dipbait

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So I had some old cooking oil that needed disposing of . I put it in a five gallon bucket and then put in a cheap roll of paper towels . After a few minutes I rotated the towels so the oil would soak through real good . I then crumpled up some newspaper in my fire pit and placed the oil soaked towels on top and lit it . After a few minuted there was a nice fire going . Heres what it looked like after one hour . Theres a few sticks in there that I picked up out of the yard .

After ninety minutes it was still burning but getting small . So I took my fire stoking stick and spread it out . There was still a whole bunch of oil soaked towel uncovered . Heres what it looked like after an hour and a half .



I went ahead and spread it all out and it burned pretty quickly . I think it would have burned for two hours if I just left it alone . Hey , it beats throwing old cooking oil away .
 
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Do it right and it'll smell like cooking fast food I bet :D

I wonder if the stuff you can get from McDonalds to make biodiesel would work...
 
Oh, it smelled like old cooking oil all right . I have more soaking , I think i'll light one up tonight .
 
The first one I burned , I stuck upright in one of those charcoal chimneys and put it on top of my barbque grill . that was one heck of a fire . It warped the grate .
 
dipbait said:
The first one I burned , I stuck upright in one of those charcoal chimneys and put it on top of my barbque grill . that was one heck of a fire . It warped the grate .
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I use butchers paper sprayed with a little cooking oil as a starter for my charcoal grill, not near as messy as newsprint and takes about half as much paper.
 
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