[muggs]

I remember a fire can that I made in Girl Scouts. Take a tuna can, coil cardboard inside very tightly, and pour wax in. Allow to harden.

[mylife]

I imagine that would work but would be sooty.

[Domestic Church]

I like your tuna can idea! I remember making fire starters with cardboard, string & wax with the GS back in the early 70s.

[goat granny]

When my son’s and grandsons and various friends go bow and arrow deer hunting up north, they make bean bombs. You put a can of beans in the campfire and when it blows up, if anyone catches it before it hits the ground they get a reward....(plus a trip to the local burn center for their hands if they forget their gloves)

[AuntB]

“I remember a fire can that I made in Girl Scouts. Take a tuna can, coil cardboard inside very tightly, and pour wax in. Allow to harden.”

Exactly, thanks to the cats, I have plenty of cat food cans.
They work great, I always keep a few around.