The Waxling eco-firelighters are starting to acquire an enthusiastic following…and some of our members are admitting that they enjoy looking at them almost as much as they enjoy burning them!
This is why we’re just about to start supplying them in attractive baskets of 43 Waxlings, which make very attractive and original gifts, and in postable boxes of 64. (We still have a few small gift boxes left from Christmas at £3 each, too.)
With their gentle ‘wood and wax’ aroma they’re a huge advance on those white chemical-laden slabs that leave your fingers smelling of all the wrong things. They’re highly effective fire starters: easy to start – just fray out a few wisps of wood wool and touch them with a match – and they work well with all of the wood briquettes in getting your fire off to a fast start.
If the weather is dour and the stove or fire is refusing to draw well, we’ve found that using 2 Waxlings with 3 or 4 Ezilite briquettes, is a good base. Placing half a Verdo or bark briquette on top soon gets a good long-lasting heat going.
One of our Toasty Toes Team who has an open fire has recently started placing the smaller ‘cob’ type briquettes on their sides, like straw bales, rather than sitting on end, and when she demonstrated her fire-lighting skills the other night it was evident that she’d found a very good ignition pattern. Perhaps we should hold a fire design contest…any combination of our briquettes is allowed, as long as there’s a Waxling or two at the heart of it!
