I need to give credit for the cooking oil to Alton Brown on Food Network. Although I have gone a step or 2 past him if it's really windy. On very windy days, I won't oil the paper. Instead I'll put a small layer of charcoal in the chimney starter, then drizzle oil on it--a bit more than I would use on newspaper, then fill the starter with the rest of the charcoal. Light the paper and it will get the oil in the charcoal going.
While I use charcoal briquettes for myself, when I have company, I use Royal Oak hardwood charcoal. It gives a better flavor, IMO.
LisaSTL Wrote:
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> Tanks are heavy but they load them for me at the
> store and I have a collapsible dolly to transport
> them from the garage to the patio.
>
> Kudos to 007.5 for the cooking oil trick. It is
> cool here but very humid. Normally it would take a
> couple of tries to get the fire going. With a
> little bit of oil it was one and done
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