household - Make Your Own Fire Logs
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household - Make Your Own Fire Logs
this one from Kathy Cohen - Make Your Own Fire Logs
I use newspaper fire logs all the time for my wood stove.
I use to do the wet newspaper route but it was very messy
and took a long time for the logs to dry.
Now I just take the newspapers and lay out the sections,
still folded, alternating the fold from right to left with
each additional section and roll tightly.
I use paper-coated twist-ties to hold the log in form, once
around the middle.
This burns just fine.
You will have less ink mess, no water mess and no drying time.
The wet then dried logswill burn longer as the wetting process
bonds the paper closer together, but this way is less messy.
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this one from essortment.com/all/firelogs - Make Your Own Fire Logs, Grand Ma's style
Making your own colorful fire logs is fun and easy.
If you live in an area where firewood is not plentiful
this recipe can help you enjoy warm fires on those
cold winter nights.
The process is inexpensive.
The logs give off an incredible amount of heat and
help augment the cost of that high winter heating bill.
These cast off beautiful and colorful flames.
you need the following ingredients:
4 pounds Copper Sulfur Phosphate
3 pounds Rock Salt
One Gallon Distilled Water
Old Newspapers
Mix together the copper sulfur phosphate, rock salt,
with the gallon of distilled water.
Open the newspapers and place each daily paper,
one at a time in the mixture.
Allow the papers to soak until they are saturated.
For smaller papers combine more than one paper or
use the Sunday edition.
Roll the papers into logs and place in a cool dry area
to dry.
Once they are dried store them until they are ready
to be used.
These logs are easy to make and the cost compared to
buying firewood is minimal. Plus, using old newspapers
for firewood is an excellent way of recycling paper
that may otherwise have ended up in the local dumpsite.
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