Using Animal Grease As a Fire Starter

If you ever harvest a game animal in a survival situation, you can take its grease and use it to a start fire! To do this you will need a fire starter, animal grease, foil or some fireproof object, and a cotton ball. Also, the video above shows you how to use animal grease as a fire starter!

You will need to have some animal grease on your fireproof object, I have chosen tin foil. Place your cotton ball in the center of the grease.

Once you have your cotton ball in place, take your fire starter of choose to ignite the grease. I have chosen a ferro rod to do so, it works great. The cotton ball should flame up very easily and should burn for several minutes.

The cotton ball can be compared to a candle wick. The wick of the candle will absorb the wax to burn. In this case, the cotton ball will absorb the animal grease and burn. I used bacon grease and it smelled wonderful!!!