The BEST Firestarters are FREE!

How's it going, my friends? Today I want to show you not only how to make these awesome fire starters, which, by the way, I have tried a lot of fire starters that you can buy and pay good money for. These are still my favorite. They're the very best, and I can make them essentially for free. So I'm going to show you how to do that with only what I have here on this table. It's just going to be free with just literally trash hanging around your house. But I'm also going to show you how you can use them to start a fire

In a really short video, which I'll link to right here, I showed how to make these ones before

but it was like lightning fast. So today I'm going to take my time a little bit more to show you these and honestly show you how they perform

because why would you bother making these if you didn't know how well they did? So first we have an egg carton

Hopefully it should be a little bit obvious, but the egg carton should be of the paper variety

not styrofoam. Don't use a foam egg carton to try to do this with

that will melt, this will burn. So we're going to start with that. The next thing you need is dryer lint

Now, ideally you would use dryer lint from like when you wash your cotton towels or sheets or whatever

and you wouldn't have so much like synthetic fabric in there. But honestly, I just grab whatever lint is in the laundry room trash can

I pull it out or sometimes I remember to tell my wife and she'll just set some aside

I don't have to take it all because we have a lot of laundry. I have a bunch of kids

but I just take out what, whenever I want to make some of these

or whenever I need some more dryer lint, and I just grab some out of the trash can

Oh, man. So what we're going to do is we're going to take this dryer lint, and we're going to literally just fill reasonably well

Kind of the more, the better. I mean, I don't want to pack it in like super duper tight

but reasonably tight is good. So kind of whatever lint you have, fill it in

and kind of pack in each of these holes in the egg carton

I want to minimize the hair, so whatever hair I get I am going to try to set aside

I have plenty of lint here, probably more than I often use, so I am going to go ahead

and kind of try to distribute it reasonably evenly across all of these It alright to compress it in pretty good Get some of this hair out here It doesn smell good However because of what we using we going to be sort of negating the smell of anything that could be in your lint

Because these fire starters are also the best smelling fire starters there are

All right, that's pretty good. It doesn't have to be perfect. All right, the next thing that we need to do is we need some wax

Wax is going to make this burn for a really long time. It's also going to help make these essential

waterproof. So anyway, that's part of why these are so awesome is because they're

basically waterproof. I literally take these scented candle warmer, these scented melts really that you just stick into a little warmer and they make your

house smell nice. My wife buys these all the time and after a while they stopped

to put out very much scent but rather than just dumping that wax in the trash we

dump it back in the container it came in. If you look close you can see that it's like

not the smooth top that it comes with. And then I can use it for this

This one is vanilla and caramel spice. This one from Yankee Candle

sugared cinnamon apple. Yeah. I'm going to go with that one first

All right. I don't want to mix these because I don't want to end up with any really weird smells. I'm going to take this

This is just a little backpacking camp stove that I have. A little igniter on it

I'm going to start it up. Then I'll take it. take this little pot that I have

and I'm gonna fill it with these melts. You could do this on a normal stove top too

but in this room I don't have a stove and I thought the camping stove would be a little bit cooler

I guess I do have a stove. I'm gonna set it on here. Now while that's going, that's gonna melt super fast

You can see that, it's already going, okay? Because this is really hot

I might cool that down just a little bit. But while that's going, I will say

another way you could do this is if you are buying wax, my brother's done this, he's bought wax in like little pellet form and just a whole

ton. And that way if you wanted like unscented wax for your fire starters, that would

be just fine. And so he's bought the pellets and then he just sprinkles the pellets on

sticks this in the oven at about 220 degrees and just lets it melt Both of these processes are going to end up working about the same and you going to end up with the same product That almost done

So while that's going, I'm going to go ahead and cut off the top. We don't need that. I don't really need this piece either

Set those aside. Those can be recycled or whatever. All right, we're good

I'll turn that off. So now I'm just going to gently pour some of this in and kind of thin

fill each one. That's why I kind of want this stuff down. I want the, I want this lint to be

covered when I'm done. Now in the process, some of this is going to kind of saturate the egg

carton. That's okay. That's going to help make the bottom part of the egg carton fairly

waterproof too. Notice I'm kind of doing these one at a time

Again, I don't really want to mix the flavors too much if I can avoid it

All right, so with that one, I was able to get seven of these done. We're going to go ahead and kick this thing off again

I will dump in this vanilla caramel spice. It's crazy. The majority of the wax on these things, even after you've used them all up

the majority of the wax is still here, right? So why throw it away when we can use it for such a

use. Like I said before it kind of saturates through that's fine. That's gonna make this pretty water repellent

a little bit extra. Let's see if any of these could probably use just a little more

Okay with a little bit of flavor mixing here. Okay now essentially we just kind of let that cool Now the other thing that we going to do then these first six I going to consider reasonably cooled The next thing we going to do though is cut these into individual pieces

Okay. Now most of this is pretty much waterproof. Now if they were to get wet, you'd see the parts

that are still paper that don't have wax on them. Those parts would soak. And they wouldn't

They wouldn't be ruined, but those parts wouldn't start super easily. But this dry part right here, I leave it dry specifically because my intention is not to get these wet

I usually store them inside of like a Ziploc bag, like a gallon freezer bag that are fairly durable

But if they're dry, this is the part that's easy to light. So if I can start either with a match or a lighter, I can start this, or if I just have a flint and steel and I can start some really, really nice small tinder

Then I'm in pretty good shape because I can use whatever flame I have there to ignite the corner

And once it gets into the wax and into here into the lint itself, this stuff's just going to burn and burn and burn for several minutes

It lights pretty easily, but it burns for a long time. So now that we've made these and we have 18 of them, why don't we go ahead and light some fires