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Mike P
Mike P asked in Food & DrinkCooking & Recipes · 1 decade ago

Can you buy "firelighters" in the USA for starting your outdoor "Grill"?

Back home in Australia when I wanted to start up our barbeque (what Americans call an "outdoor grill") you used to start them up by placing a few "firelighters" under the piled up briquettes and setting them alight. They would burn for several minutes igniting the charcoal.

Here's a link to the sort of thing -

http://www.pental.com.au/our-brands/fire-needs/jif...

So far I have been unable to find these things in the USA. I really would love to know if I can get them because I'm very unhappy with the "squirt lighter fluid all over the charcoal" method people use here - not only because I find it a bit messy, but because I'm a terrible judge of how much to use and I always end up either incinerating the briquettes or having to repeat the process because all the fluid burns off before the bricks ignite.

Update:

Thanks Robert.

"Barbequeing" in Australia means exactly what "Grilling" means in the USA. It doesn't mean what barbequeing means in the USA at all, so if you've "grilled" you've barbequed under the Australian definition.

I'll look into ACE Hardware if we have them here in Nevada.

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    You'll find them at ACE hardware, they may not be like the kind you would find down under, but we like them. And they work.

    Source(s): I've barbeqed a few times.
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