How can you light charcoal without lighter fluid?

Answer 1

One good way is to tightly crumple up a few pages of newspaper and place it in the bottom of your grill. If you have lighter fluid, soak it. Pile your coals over the newspaper and then light it. My personal favorite though is to jsut douse the heck out of the coals with lighter fluid, stand back and let 'er rip. I make a point to let all the lighter fluid burn off before cooking. Get an empty 3lb alluminum coffee can. Drill several half inch holes in bottom and sides. Fill with charcoal bricks and place on lit high heat outdoor fish fryer. Once the charcoal bricks in the can become mostly gray remove from fryer and pour bricks into your pit. I use a pair of offset pliers or channel locks to handle hot can. Two 3lb cans of bricks is plenty for most cooks but if your cooking a large cut of meat you may need three. This only takes a few minutes and completely eliminates the need and taste of lighter fluid. This really is much faster than simply pouring lighter on the bricks in your grill and waiting for them to burn off the lighter fluid and turn gray.JN

Answer 2

Wad up some newspaper and poor a little vegetable oil on it and light it, then put some pieces of charcoal on top of the newspaper, but be sure to not cut off the flame's access to oxygen otherwise it will go out.

Answer 3

Set up the charcoal cooker outside. It consumes a lot of oxygen, so should never be used in an enclosed space. You put charcoal under the grill, light the charcoal, place the food to be cooked on top of the grill, turning occasionally. wait until it's cooked, then remove and eat.

*A note of caution: generally, there is more heat available from the burning charcoal, than from a cook stove, so care should be taken not to burn the food on the outside while leaving the inside undercooked.

Answer 4

That is the challenge!

• You can use a chimney starter, a tall metal cylinder. You wad up newspaper in the bottom and pile the charcoal on top. Light the newspaper and when the newspaper is burned, the charcoal should have been lit. You can then remove the chimney and spread out the charcoal.
• Use lighter fluid. Soak the charcoal in the lighter fluid and light it with a match. Lighter fluid is dangerous and many don't like the smell and believe it adds bad flavors to the meat.
• Use an electric starter. This plugs in and is put under the coals, glowing red hot and lighting the charcoal.

Answer 5

open grill, put charcoal in, put wood in, put paper in use ligher or match to start fire ,grill.

Answer 6

put charcoal in, light it on fire. put meat on grill grate. cook. eat. pretty simple