Remember those wax covered PJ saturated cotton balls I made? I just made a second generation of these things but I rolled the saturated cotton in magnisium filings before I covered them in wax, They burn for a shorter amount of time (about 3~1/2 minutes) but they burn hotter and wind does not effect them at all. You've gotta makes some of these little balls-o'-fire (BOF) ....Using them is easy, you just use pliers to open one and loosen the cotton so it's about the size of a quarter with the cotton exposed. With a plain-old flint and steel I've never had to strike more than three times to get flame that builds to 4-6" almost immediately.

BTW, you know those gag bithday candles that don't blow out? What's in those things and how come we don't all have some of these in our bags?