Wooden coffee stirrer kindling

[Disco1]

When ever I get a coffee I always pick up 2 or 3 extra wooden stirrers, cut in half makes great kindling.

 

[TarHeelBrit]

When ever I get a coffee I always pick up 2 or 3 extra wooden stirrers, cut in half makes great kindling.

Funny you should mention this. We've been in hotels for the past three weeks both here and the US and one morning at the hotel in St Louis I saw the wooden stirrers and have been grabbing a few every chance i can. My wife thinks I'm loopy but that's normal anyway

 

[British Red]

When ever I get a coffee I always pick up 2 or 3 extra wooden stirrers, cut in half makes great kindling.

I will sell you thousands of them in kit form for a fiver

 

[Alreetmiowdmuka]

I will sell you thousands of them in kit form for a fiver

Same as this red

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[British Red]

Thats the monkey

 

[Insel Affen]

Thought it was just me. Those and the packs of sugar, salt, pepper, wipes and jiggers of milk. Not to mention soaps and shampoos from hotels. Mind you, when we last lived in Germany, we used to give them to a lady who lived nearby, she used to collect them and donate them to the local homeless shelter.

 

[TarHeelBrit]

Our hotel here in Exeter has those single cup packets of Nescafe in regular and decaf. Housekeeping missed us today so I went to the reception and asked for some I was given a h-u-g-e handful of them 30+ packets. Well that's my camp coffee needs sorted for a while.

 

[Stew]

I don't see the point in collecting stirrers for kindling - it's doubtful that I can't make or find my own when needed.

I find them more useful as glue stirrers / spreaders.

 

[Baelfore]

I find them more useful as glue stirrers / spreaders.

I'm the same, handy little things, althoughI prefer used icepop sticks for this, as they're a bit wider, but can be narrowed down at the tip with a blade to get epoxy into tighter spots.

Ste

 

[njc110381]

Well I suppose it is the bushcraft way - grabbing things that can be useful along the way in case you can't find them later when needed. But in a hotel? I'm not sure collecting coffee stirrers for kindling counts?! Surely that's cheating a little bit?

 

[DurhamBushcrafter]

When ever I get a coffee I always pick up 2 or 3 extra wooden stirrers, cut in half makes great kindling.

starbucks?

 

[Harvestman]

Lets be honest though. Dry grass sterms can be had just as easily, without having to steal anything.

I do keep my stirrers though after use, as the OP.

 

[tombear]

I wouldn't bother with them for kindling but if you want to make sulphur matches for flint and steel firelighting and aint doing the AR making them like back in the 18th C and splitting your own splints they are just the job, thinner than lolly sticks and you don't need to shape the ends like pipe lighting splints.

ATB

Tom