I was bumming over the the testing of tinder.

Gretchen gives her assistant a lighter and she has different sparkers. She does explain that the lighter is not going to work in a wind or wet.

She then proceeds to try different tinder. She gives half to her assistant and she takes half. The assistant lights most of the tinder with no effort. It is a very calm day, no wind. She requires several attempts to get her tinder lit. Only a few will light. She does not smash, crumple or shred the tinder so it will light with a spark. She does some fluffing. She does get some things lit. It was funny that when she put the fire paste on the bark it looked like bark fuzz caught the spark and lit the fire paste.

Ron Wood has a similar thing in one of his videos. He makes this super tinder bundle. It has three layers: shredded Juniper bark, fluffed cotton ball and magnesium in the center of the cotton. He was demonstrating how magnesium will start a fire. He used a Boy Scout Sparker. The spark hit the edge of the cotton and bark and the flame started there. The magnesium lit later. Good demo of why you don't need magnesium Ron! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />