Honestly, if you’re not lighting fires on the floor of your kitchen, what are you doing with your Saturdays?
I love that all the other men in my life give me implements to start fires. (Lloyd, step up your game.) Brad gave me a magnesium fire starter a while ago, but I can’t quite get the hang of it. Samith gave me one this week, and I couldn’t quite get the hang of it, either.
Then I remembered that the Internet exists.YouTube videos to the rescue!
Turns out that you don’t use a fire stick like a match. I was holding it up above my tinder and letting the sparks fall down, but that lets them lose hundreds of degrees of heat as they fall! You’re actually supposed to hold the stick down in the tinder and strike straight down with a slower, heavy motion. Wake up. I can hear you snoring.
Here’s the video of my success:
Nobody really calls me One Strike.