How to Start a Camping Fire

Now that you have the perfect campsite and everything is ready to go, it is time to start the campfire. If you are a beginner this can be a very frustrating experience. There are things that you can do to make it easier. Follow these steps and with a little practice you can be a campfire master. There are three essential things that you need to make a fire: heat, fuel and oxygen. Take any one of these things out of the equation and you will have no fire. Read more about usb lighter.

The first things you will need are tinder, kindling and firewood. These three things are the fuel element of fire building. Tinder is your starting point and you can use many things such as newspaper, dried grass, cottonwood or lighter fluid if you have it. Kindling is small pieces of wood used to get the fire going.

 

They should be branches ranging from the size of pencils to the same diameter as a dime. These smaller pieces make the fire easier to ignite. Larger pieces of dried wood are the last step. Hardwoods are the best because they burn longer and hotter; they are also the best for cooking. If you use pine for sitting around the fire that is fine, but the sap can make food taste funny when you use it to cook.

 

Always think safety first when you are building a fire. You should start with a fire pit or ring of stones to contain the fire. The stone ring needs to be 8 to 12 inches high and twice the diameter of the fire. Make sure that you use caution around the fire at all times.