I know some people are really excited about this product, but I'm a bit skeptical. I wouldn't care so much if we were talking about fire starting for a weekend barbecue. Lack of fire in a survival situation can end a life.

One poster went so far as to say this product does not dry out. Really? What are the details of that analysis? How long did you have this product? Under what conditions? Was the inner material exposed to air? A reader's life may depend on your answers. You might say, well, the reader should test on their own, but the reader may be a novice and may not know any better.

Here's an example comparison to PJ cotton balls. There was a PJ jar and some cotton balls package sitting in a shed behind my parent's house. The stuff must have been sitting there for over 25 years. My parent's house on Mt. Hamilton freezes in the winter and gets blazing hot in the summer. The shed had been hosed down at least once a year for general cleaning. I'm sure whoever was cleaning was not too careful about keeping dry the tools and other things, including the PJ jar and cotton balls. I know this because I cleaned that shed several times. As you may have guessed by now, the PJ and cotton balls ignited right up from a spark as if I had just bought them from the drug store the same day.

Since this is a survival forum, sometimes we talk about things on which a person will be betting their life. I would bet my life on PJ and cotton balls. Can you say the same about this Sure2Burn product?