Magic biscuits

[Johnnyboy1971]

Whats your recipie?

Keep mine simple, candle wax, petrolium jelly and meths.

How do you make yours?

 

[MartinK9]

I steal Twodogs' when he's not looking.

 

[Twodogs]

Mine are just cosmetic wipes soaked in candle wax , never fail .

http://www.kuenzi.com/tips_e.htm

Twodogs

 

[ex-member BareThrills]

Just beeswax for me but i am about to experiment with birch polypore soaked in meths then sealed with wax. I will then push in a thin sliver of fatwood as a fuse

probably labour intensive but hey its playing with fire

 

[crosslandkelly]

Cotton balls smeared in Petroleum jelly, and kept in 35mm film containers, work for me.

 

[Chiseller]

No messy storage....beeswax coated pure cotton balls...long burn :thumbup:

 

[Elen Sentier]

Cotton balls smeared in Petroleum jelly, and kept in 35mm film containers, work for me.

Me too, but in tobaco tin

 

[rik_uk3]

Cliff have you tried my sawdust eggs? Sawdust mixed with candle wax and shaped in an old egg tray; burn for ages.

 

[Twodogs]

No but I will give it a go

Twodogs

 

[tiger stacker]

rick thanks for the tip will try that one out.
Mine is ventian slats stripped into small strips.
They work fast

 

[Hog On Ice]

toilet paper and olive oil - made as needed on site

 

[mentalnurse]

Flat cottonwool pads rolled very tight and dipped in hot wax leaving just the end dry. Sealed in ducktape to keep dry, open up the tape fluff up the end to light and leave standing on its end to slow the burn down.

 

[ex-member BareThrills]

Well i had a little play today, id got some polypore that had been soaked in saltpeter so i put a few bits in a bowl and sprinkled liberally with meths, next i gave them two dips in hot wax to seal. They work really well. dont burn as long as a face pad but plently long enough to light my lavvu stove. they really fizz once lit

 

[luke_s]

I thought this thread was about something completely different then

Nothing dodgy, just something like trail biscuits.

 

[mountainm]

Waste of good beeswax gents, it's not cheap stuff.

Cotton wool dipped in Vaseline.

 

[Big Stu 12]

I've used mainly cotton wool and Vaseline, every now and then cotton wool dipped in melted candle wax, also the wax of cheese works well be it baby bell, Edam, or Wensleydale.

Have on occasions used the old lip-salve that kicks about in my rucksack...

 

[kiltedpict]

Cotton balls smeared in Petroleum jelly, and kept in 35mm film containers, work for me.

And me, never fails. Might play about with some of these other methods though!

 

[presterjohn]

I've used mainly cotton wool and Vaseline, every now and then cotton wool dipped in melted candle wax, also the wax of cheese works well be it baby bell, Edam, or Wensleydale.

Have on occasions used the old lip-salve that kicks about in my rucksack...

Now that one I am going to try! My kids have those all the time.

 

[Tony]

Guys, do any of you fancy doing pictorials of making some of these for us to put up as articles? It would be great if you would

 

[Johnnyboy1971]

I need to do a few more so yes will do a few pics of it this morning.