Cooking & Baking
Related: About this forumOK, weird question, I suppose...
...earlier today I bought a 32 ounce bottle of First Street Charcoal Lighter Fluid from a local Smart & Final store.
When I applied it to the charcoal, it was extremely strongly bad smelling, and yellow.
In all my 4+ decades of grilling or barbecuing, I've never seen/smelled any charcoal lighter fluid, including the First Street brand, that was like this.
The smell was really nasty and weird, but the bright yellow color was almost more startling to me.
Have any DUers seen/smelled charcoal lighter fluid like this?
Kali
(54,990 posts)but may I suggest getting a charcoal chimney and using a few pieces of newsprint - lighting charcoal is pretty easy and no need for strange volitiles/chemical residues from petroleum products.
Warpy
(110,900 posts)Just try to avoid pages with red ink on them, it's a cadmium pigment and cadmium in the air no bueno.
GReedDiamond
(5,299 posts)marble falls
(56,358 posts)Kali
(54,990 posts)fortunately I have several dozen pads of flip charts from back in the days of public meetings before all the newfalutin' eeeelectronics
GReedDiamond
(5,299 posts)...and the smell was very strange/bad.
And you are correct, of course - I should get the chimney, which I have had and used in the past, they work fine.
Thanks for your reply, Kali.
Kali
(54,990 posts)I have heard of using a cooking oil soaked paper towel to light fires, maybe it is a "new improved environmentally friendly" lighter fluid???
GReedDiamond
(5,299 posts)..."this product complies with South Coast Air Quality Management District Rule 1174, Ref. A-69."
(..."new improved environmentally friendly" - If this is better than before, I am not convinced.)
Plus it says "WARNING: CANCER AND REPRODUCTIVE HARM WWW.P65WARNINGS.CA.GOV"
I've never noticed those label statements before, but that could have been because I never bothered to look at the label?
I'm just gonna go with the charcoal chimney as suggested above.
In light of the Trumpandemic and all the chaos generated by the asshole's criminal negligence, I wish this trivial charcoal lighter fluid issue was my main problem in life right now!
ON EDIT: I forgot to say that if it was some kind of food oil, it smelled so offensively bad, I would hope not.