Cotton Balls.........

I use both, but for my waxed cotton balls, I dip them, then compress them into very small cubes, squeezing out any excess wax, as I make them much more compact.
Then just smack with a stick of firewood, boot heel, or smash it with the handle/pommel of your blade to get it ready to go if using a ferro rod, or with a flame, just light a corner of the cube.
Fully compacted I get about 7 minutes, fluffed about 4-5 minutes.
I actually boiled 12 oz of water with a single cube in a soda can on soda can stack stove.
 
heres a post by odaon, in a thread on thes same topic and odaon's tests showed the cotton ball that was saturated burnt for over 10 minutes.
http://199.231.142.3/forums/showpost.php?p=7273804&postcount=22

I've yet to try saturated cotton balls, but when I smeared a decent amount of vaseline onto a cotton ball and mashed it a bit, I got a burn time for around 6 minutes, which is enough for me.

Another idea - by muzzleup - this sounds quite interesting - http://199.231.142.3/forums/showpost.php?p=926633&postcount=26
 
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