Hey everybody, Blue here from Blue Outside. I'm inside my house right now. So that be Blue Inside or Blue Outside. Anyways, that doesn't matter. Actually, today I've actually got a helper with me. My beautiful wife Mrs. Blue is here. She probably won't say anything, which is a good thing, but she is here helping me with the camera. So it's good to have a teammate in assistance. Today we're going to do part two in our fire. We're going to be talking about Tinder. What is Tinder? Glad you asked. Tinder is a material that will catch a spark quickly and easily and burn at a steady rate in order to get your canyling on fire. Canyling, we're going to do another video. I want to talk about Tinder. And also, what some people consider Tinder or fire starters is not the same thing. And sometimes you have what is also called a fire extender. They can all be bunched under Tinder. One of the most common things you know when it comes to Tinder is what's called a bird's nest. Pretty much you get grass, twig, but really fine twigs, anything that will combust and burn easily. Usually when I teach how to start a fire, I stay, start with hair like material. Then go to your Tinder. Then you have your canyling, which would be what I would say is your pinky size. Not necessarily depending on your pinky, but no bigger than a pencil. I just use references on your hand because you have that with you no matter what you can't carry a pencil on me. You can, but most people don't carry a pencil around all that stuff. So you have your fingers with you hopefully. After you go from there and you want to go something to thicken the figure of thumb, move up to thicken the figure of your forearm, that's where your fuel comes in. So that's how that I teach that. But anyways, it doesn't matter. We're talking about Tinder right now. So birds nest is you get grass, other materials that will catch quickly, fold them into the shape of a bird's nest. Just like this right here. Grab some twine, something wrap it up on the bottom, it holds it. Then you can take a flash tender, which I always refer to as my thistle fluff. Or I've heard it called thistle down. I'd like to say that thistle fluff, that five times faster what happens. You put that in there, strike it with your fair rod. It'll start the ignite, turn it over slowly, flames up the travel up because heat rises in case your tender bumble on fire. Slide it. Yeah, add fat wood to it. And fat wood is pine, up some sort. Pretty much what you do is you can shave pieces of the saw off, fray it a little bit. I'll take a knife to it and just, you know, get a little feathering going so that that won't fire. It's right there, high resin. Burns really quick. This is another natural tender. Another one that you can find out, it's birch bark. Birch barks got birch oil in it. It burns really good. Get it catch, digging a bird's nest. It's digging underneath your canyons. Good to go. Some semi man-made, other called tenders cotton. The cotton rounds rip it up, rip them up. Get all these fine fibers in there. Hit that with a fair rod. It'll burst in flames. Kind of between a flash tender and a normal tender because it burns rather quickly unless you add something to it. Something else you can use cotton balls. Really neat trick I learned with cotton balls the other day. They're not actually cotton. They're not balls of cotton. They're actually rolled up cotton. So if you go through here, you can actually find and enroll it. So now you just extended the length of this tender so it will burn. It burns that way. Something else with the cotton rounds, if you go from semi flash tender, help those in wax. Get melted wax, dip them in there, let them harden. They fray, they'll catch a spark just like that. It just burns lower. A lot slower. It extends your fire time. It makes it a fire standard. Buy them any of furrows. They come in the little tin. They're just the same about a Z-step. They've actually got a kerosene lighter fluid smell tone. You can buy manmade tenders. Something else people don't. You know, juke flying. I made a first nest out of juke flying. Buy a roll of this. You can even pack or take just three or four feet up with you. That works. They sell these dirt-flaying fire starts. We got these for our wood burning stove and our basement. They're actually a tender not a fire starter. Fire starter is an issue. You know, these light these they burn instead of a fire. Also, still wool. Get that with the furrow rod. It lights up just like the cotton balls. You can actually put that there. Get your cotton on top of it. Get it in your burrs nest. Buy them a fire.