Most of my fire starters get made at the kitchen counter in November, when I’m prepping gear for a cabin run with Adam. Coffee’s on, there’s a pot of water on the back burner acting as a double boiler, and there’s wax slowly melting in a can inside it. This is not glamorous. It smells a little like a candle shop and a little like the inside of a dryer. It works. The dryer lint thing. Yeah, we need to talk about that first, because every prepper article in existence tells