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As Seen On Shark Tank Instafire Fire Starter Review!
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Feb 4, 2024
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Hey guys, Prepared Water Out in the Woods today
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I want to show you a new product that I just found and that I'm going to do a little testing on today
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This is Instafire Fire Starter as seen on Shark Tank. This is a military grade fire starter
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This is the features for it. It lights wet wood, burns at nearly 1000 degrees, burns in winds up to 30 miles per hour, burns
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on snow, and even floats and burns on water. Non-valve, non-expected flare-ups, long burn time, 1-8th of a couple burn 5-7 minutes
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Five year shelf life. This little package of Instafire is supposed to have I think four different burns in it
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four fires in it that you can get out of it. We're going to put it to the test today and see how this stuff does
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I really don't know what makes this military grade. That's definitely a marketing thing that they put in the packaging because I think people
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see that and they think it's going to be something more than it really is
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To me, what's important are the claims that it makes of being able to light wet wood and
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burning nearly 1000 degrees. That is important and that's what's going to hopefully make it a really nice fire starter
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This package, I found this at Walmart for a dollar in the camping section
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This was actually seen on Shark Tank and I saw that episode, and I think that was maybe
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a year ago that that aired. It was an interesting product, but I really didn't hear anything else about it or really
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look into it any more than that. The claims is that this thing is supposed to be able to have a very long burn time
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It can burn wet wood. You can burn it on snow. It floats
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All these different claims. If that's the case, then this is probably a decent thing to throw into your kit
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Right off the bat, I noticed that it comes in this package and there's four fires
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You can get up to four fires with what's included in the package, but once you open this package
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what happens to the shelf life of this and how do you store it
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How are you going to be able to use this four times if this package is not resealable and
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it's not? What I want to do today is just pick up some wet wood off the ground and see if I can get
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something going real quick. It's been raining for the past couple of days very heavily, so the woods are soaking wet
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It's very damp, very humid. It's a good condition at least to try this out
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So let's see how it goes. Alright, so I collected some stuff off the ground
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This is wet. You can see that it's wet. Some of this stuff is in different conditions, varying conditions of dryness
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There's a piece of wet bark. We'll just do a test on that
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So the packaging is set up so you can tear it open, so you can open it without a knife
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which is nice. Here's what it looks like inside. It kind of looks like sand or kitty litter
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Very interesting stuff. So the instructions say 1 1⁄8 cup of instafire into a pile
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So right away I think that's an issue because I'm a guy, I have no idea what 1 1⁄8 cup is
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I don't know how I'm supposed to figure that out. I guess I'd have to pre-measure this at home and then know what 1 1⁄8 cup looks like
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but I have no clue. So I'm going to totally guess. And this is, I think, probably one of the problems with the product
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So we're just going to do that much. Put that on the wet bark
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I don't know if I can get this wet or not. That's an interesting question
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It says it can burn on water, but it doesn't say, can I soak it with water
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Let's just drop some water. Immediately, it's really not...it doesn't seem like it's soaking up the water
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It's kind of repelling it. So that's interesting. I think what we'll do is we'll start it with the old handy dandy Boy Scout ferro rod, the
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hot spark. Not doing much there
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It's not really taking a spark. Okay. So that means you have to have a butane lighter to light this
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Nothing. Okay
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Got a bigger pile. And that's a dry. That's dry out of the package
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So getting it wet, it seems like it slowed it down or hampered it
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Okay, wet wood. Make a little brace, put some of these wet sticks on here
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This one's really wet. Alright, so it's still burning
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I don't know. I don't know about this stuff. I don't know if I like it or not
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I mean, I can see an advantage to it where you would just dump this out, like the whole
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pouch, if you're trying to get a fire going and you were cold and wet and you just wanted
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to get something going right away. So you dump it on the ground, quickly add sticks to it and get the fire going that way
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But, you know, that little small amount didn't work very well. It doesn't take a spark
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It only took an open flame, which is kind of a problem because it means you have to
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carry a fire source anyway with you, like a lighter. You can't use a fire steel
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So that's kind of a problem. And then I think the other issue with this thing is, it's like, what am I supposed to
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do if I don't use the whole package? You know what I mean
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I've got this whole, I've got this empty, I've got this open package now that I have
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to deal with. I mean, I could certainly close it shut and put it in a baggie or something, but it's
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just kind of strange. So the ferro rod really didn't work
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Lighter worked starting it, but it took some time. It's going now
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It's got the wood going, which is good. It's a nice wet piece of wood right there
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It's a nice wet piece of wood right there. It's a nice wet piece of wood right there
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It's a nice wet piece of wood right there. It's a nice wet piece of wood right there
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Alright, so my final thoughts on this product, to me it's a thumbs down
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I just don't see the need for it. There's lots of other fire starting stuff out there that you can have in your kit that's
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probably a lot more smaller and not so finicky and doesn't require special packaging once
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you're done with it. So, I don't know. I would go out, you know, for a dollar go and try it and see what you think, but for
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me it's like, eh, it was a gimmick. I tried it. I'm done
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I mean, petroleum cotton balls, you know cotton balls soaked in petroleum jelly actually work
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way better, burn a long time, and just, you know, burn very hot and do a nice job getting
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a fire started. So, I would prefer those over this product. So, thumbs down on the Instafire
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Rain's coming down now. I just got out of the woods and beat it, so I'm going to head home
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As always, thanks for watching and please like, subscribe, and share, and we will see
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you next time on the Prepared Wanderer
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