Fatwood is a resin-soaked chunk of pine that’ll spark up underwater. It’s made for those earthy types who like to get back to nature by forgoing a Bic in favor of some complicated fire steel, but Fatwood also works with conventional camp-stove fire starting methods used by unsafe campers like me. The stuff is only $2 for a half-pound bag,. so you could afford to burn this stuff like normal firewood, just don’t inhale too much of the ressy.
ByRocky Thompson
Fatwood makes the most unskilled camper look like the Grand Wizard of Boyscout campfire lighting. If the kindling works so well for buring, just think of what a cord of this wood would be like for your next bonfire. Of course you’d want some oak in there somewhere or you’d have about a 5 minute Satan-powered blaze and then darkness.