Cooking without a stove can be done with firewood, using a fire starter and additional ingredients.

  4 Februari 2025 21:30

Brilio.net - At certain moments, someone must utilize the goods and tools available for cooking, especially when there is no stove or LPG gas runs out. Firewood is often the mainstay material for lighting a long-lasting fire until the cooking process is complete. Before use, firewood is usually heated with a fire starter or lighter.

There are various types of fire starters, from torches to regular matches. However, lighting firewood directly with a lighter can take a long time to produce a large fire. Therefore, firewood is often combined with other materials such as tissue, paper, or kerosene. If these materials are not available, other materials can also be used, as practiced by netizens on the Instagram account @naroneto.

He has a very anti-mainstream trick to be used as a firewood lighter either in a critical situation or when you want to cook in the middle of a camping moment. The material used is only one piece of round crackers or often called rose crackers.

The method is, first split the crackers into two parts, then one of them can be burned using a lighter. No need to wait long, the fire that burns the crackers will grow bigger by itself. Then, place the crackers in the stove box followed by the firewood.

"These crackers can clearly be used as a fire starter when the wood fuel is wet," added the owner of the Instagram account @naroneto, quoted by brilio.net on Tuesday (4/2).

Anti-mainstream tricks for lighting firewood  Instagram

photo: Instagram/@naroneto

If the fire has grown and spread to the firewood, it means it is ready to be used for cooking. The method is, just put a frying pan or pot on top. If the firewood is almost gone but the cooking process is not finished, you can add more as needed.

Anti-mainstream tricks for lighting firewood  Instagram

photo: Instagram/@naroneto

So, why can crackers easily catch fire and be used as a firewood lighter? After further investigation, it turns out that the crackers used were already cooked because they went through a frying process. As a result, there was still some oil left in the cracker fibers. Reported from charlestonfire.org, foods containing oil are indeed very flammable when in contact with fire.

On the other hand, crackers also contain carbohydrates because they are made from tapioca flour. Reported from iopscience.iop.org, research shows that tapioca flour can produce embers, more precisely yellow embers if this food ingredient is burned.

How, is this trick about lighting firewood using crackers really interesting? Peeking at the comment column on @naroneto's Instagram post, quite a few netizens are inspired by this trick. This video has also been viewed more than 53 thousand times.

"Basically, those that contain carbohydrates, or are made from flour, can be burned, crackers, biscuits, etc., as long as they are dry," explained Instagram @cak_salas.

"I used to burn these crackers and they did catch fire. Then I thought the cracker seller had mixed plastic into the cooking oil, " said Instagram user @m_i_u_t_.

"Yesterday during camp I tried it and it worked, thank you, admin," said Instagram @luvleyycaa_.

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