Alternative to a chimney??

[Rich Langer]

Check this out

 

[Doug D]

Lighting fire with weed burner.

 

[tmfast]

I dont know about you guys,
But I have never been in that much of a hurry to get started.
Ribs: I usually prep em out of the fridge. Pull the membrane, mustard & rub em up and let em sit out untill the cooker is ready. I load up and light the chimney and Crack the 1st beer, game on. I love the slow prep & start process.
Of course that might change on the next cook after reading about a better smoke ring.

 

[Jerry N.]

It certainly looks cool to light the charcoal with a burner, but for me, it's more trouble than it's worth. I just light the chimney when I am about a half hour away from putting the meat on. I will admit though that I'd probably use it in a pinch if I had one but to go out and buy one for lighting charcoal is a little over the top for me. YMMV.

 

[tmfast]

Is that a binford charcoal starter Mr. Tool Time Tim Taylor?

 

[Matt Jones]

They work great for starting larger cookers, a bit of overkill for the WSM though I believe some people here use them. You can pick one up at somewhere like Harbor Freight pretty cheap.

 

[Brian Moriarty]

I use the Harbor Freight Push button Weed burner for starting my drum smokers, try dumping a flaming chimney of briqs down a 55 gallon drum once and you figure thats the last time I try that! It's also awkward to dump flaming lump into my BGE, so it gets the torch treatment. Always use the Weber chimney with the WSM's though, just habit I suppose?

 

[John Mason]

I use the weed burner to light the coals in the chimney - Redundancy Ministry of Redundancy

 

[Jeff T Miller]

It's been about 2 years since I have used anything but my side burner on the gasser. If I am in a hurry I can get a chimney of rancher going in about 20 minutes. If I am in a big hurry I use the turkey fryer. You can get a chimney going pretty fast over a turkey fryer.

 

[Joel Kiess]

Which reminds us of this:

LOX Fire starter