>>>(and I do not support charcoal BBQ in urban areas)
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>>Is there any other kind? That would count as barbecue, I mean. And I am fully aware of the consequences - a rapid rise of appetite in the whole neighborhood.
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>>There's one thing I would make illegal, and that's starter fluid. I'm amazed that people are able to eat anything after that stink spreads. Anyone who doesn't know how to start a fire by other means should be sent back to pass Civlization 101.
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>Yes I get the stink of lighter fluid ever weekend. Plus the regular news reports of people trying to start one with petrol.
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>Have these people never heard of kindling.

They probably think that if they chopped their Kindle into pieces it wouldn't burn.

For a while I used peanut shells as kindling, which worked great but made such a pillar of smoke that I'm lucky nobody called the firem.. firepers... firefighters. Then I switched to the little gas burner that's used for soldering... a minute with it and we're in business. But that was then... now I'm back to twigs, of which I have a lot, because one birch just died and we had to cut it down before it falls on the house.