Twisted fire starters
All the Gluttonous Gardener plants are carefully cocooned in wood wool and packed into wooden crates. Wood wool has many uses, from wrapping around the base of your strawberry plants to keep the bugs and slugs away to making bedding for the family rabbit, but this latest discovery is the best yet, and perfect timing for BBQ season!
It turns out that our wood-wool makes the perfect eco firelighter for BBQ’s in the summer and cosy fires in the winter months. The trouble with conventional firelighters is that they can leave your hands and even worse, if used in a pizza oven or a barbecue, your food, with a chemical taint
Head Glutton Ned details below how you can turn your wood-wool into fantastic eco-firelighters.
Ingredients
- Some old candle ends
- A saucepan
- Sturdy gardening or heatproof gloves
- Wood-wool
- Paper (Why not use the one that lined your Gluttonous Gardener Box)
Recipe
- Prepare a work area with the sheet of waxed paper included within your crate
- Twist and roll handfuls of wood-wool into rough sausages
- Put your candle ends in the saucepan and melt them over medium heat until they are a puddle of liquid with a few wicks lurking in the bottom
- Putting on your gloved, dip your wood-wool ‘sausages’ into the wax, making sure they are well dunked on all sides, and lay them on the wax paper to set
- When cool, chop them in half with a strong pair of scissors/secateurs and voila……. the perfect firelighter
- Now they are ready for the BBQ, place two amongst the coals and one nestled within the kindling and light. Your smashed up Gluttonous Gardener crate would make the perfect kindling at this point.
