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🥩 Why You Should Stop Grilling with Lighter Fluid

For my 30th birthday, my wife got me a Big Green Egg , thus starting me on a wholistic reevaluation of my grilling process and techniques. After we moved to our current house from the sweet little condo, I had purchased a  Weber Master Touch  charcoal grill. I loved using that grill and will be very sad to part with it. Charcoal grills add so much to the flavor experience to the extent that I would simply cook in the cast iron skillet on the stove instead of using a gas grill. Starting and cooking over a live fire is also an excuse for me to slow down and live a bit more in the moment. That being said, lighting that flame takes extra effort! In college I had gotten used to using shredded cardboard and lighter fluid to start coals in a chimney starter.  Chimney Starter:  While the chimney starter does a great job of taking a small amount of input paper/cardboard and turning it into a roaring column of hot coals, I was still dependent on the liquid kiss of lighter flui...