Sentence examples for chimney starter from inspiring English sources

Light your charcoal, preferably with a chimney starter rather than chemical fire starters.

Ms. Weskamp and Mr. Raichlen recommended a chimney starter ($22, from Charcoal Companion) for a charcoal grill.

When grilling for one or two people, a single chimney starter full of chunks will be enough.

When grilling a couple of steaks or chicken breasts, a large chimney starter full of wood chunks will be sufficient.

Hardware stores sell bags of oak or hickory chunks, which can be lighted in a chimney starter and used as you would charcoal.

New products like instant-light bags of wood chunks are intended to make it easy, but a regular chimney starter does the trick, too.

As for lighting hardwood charcoal, with a couple of chimney starters it takes only 15 minutes.

When grilling for three or more people, I light several chimney starters or add fresh wood chunks to the hot zone every five minutes, to get plenty of fresh embers.

These can slow smoke or grill, do both very well, and easily, with real wood and real fire but without hassle or time constraints, lighting quickly with no mess or chimney starters, and then cooking accurately with minimal supervision.

But not all chimney starters are the same, and I've discovered that the square tubed version made by PBS host and grilling expert Steven Raichlen is far superior to the basic round version most people use.

Both are cleverly designed so that you can fill any or all of the zones with the solid fuel of your choice in heavy-duty steel trays above the burners and beneath the grates, and then ignite them using the gas, with no chimney starters, lighter fluids, matches or newspaper.