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One Strike was built on a simple idea: lighting a fire should take one match and no lighter fluid. Place a starter under your wood or charcoal, light the edge, and let it burn for 30+ minutes while your fire builds. These guides show you exactly how to do that for every kind of fire.
The quick version
- Place one One Strike fire starter under your wood, charcoal, or kindling.
- Light the edge with a match or lighter.
- Walk away. It burns 30+ minutes, long enough to light even damp wood.
Guides
Start here
- How to Start a Fire: The Basics Anyone Can Learn: tinder, kindling, fuel, air, and the three layouts that work.
- Fire Starter vs. Lighter Fluid: Which Is Better for Your Grill?
Grilling and barbecue
- How to Start a Charcoal Grill Without Lighter Fluid
- How to Light a Smoker: Offset, Kamado, and Drum Smokers
- How to Light a Wood-Fired Pizza Oven
- The Carne Asada Fire: Lighting Charcoal for a Backyard Cookout
Home heating
- How to Light a Fireplace Without Smoke Filling the Room
- How to Start a Wood Stove and Keep It Burning All Night
- Best Firewood to Burn and How to Store It
- Heating Your Home Safely in a Power Outage
Backyard and camping
- How to Start a Fire Pit (Wood or Smokeless) the Easy Way
- How to Start a Campfire Fast (Even in Wind and Rain)
- Best Fire Starter for Wet Wood: How to Light Damp Wood Fast
- Campfire Cooking: Dutch Oven Basics Over Real Coals
Preparedness
Fire safety, every time
- Never use lighter fluid, gasoline, or any accelerant with a fire starter.
- Keep water or an extinguisher within reach and never leave a fire unattended.
- Keep fire starters and matches out of reach of children.
- Burn only in well-ventilated spaces. Indoor fires need an open damper and a clean chimney, and every home with a fireplace or wood stove needs a working carbon monoxide detector.
- Check local burn bans before lighting outdoors.
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