I know, I just like to mess around with it. Last winter I tried to light a fire with firesteel and wood shavings made on the spot in -20. :p

I did discover something useful though, at this temperature lighting alcohol with firesteel requires a whole different technique than warm weather. One need to drop a burning glob of metal directly into alcohol to ignite it, spark shower won't do. This means if alcohol is used for preheat for liquid stove, a light/match is absolutely necessary since due to location of the preheating pads dropping a glob onto it is next to impossible. Haven't tried coleman fuel yet so don't know if firesteel is going to work with that.