The fastest and easiest way I've found to start a charcoal chimney

I saw Mark's post about the Kingsford charcoal chimney, and I 100% co-sign on the awesomeness of charcoal chimneys. I wanted to share a trick for the fastest and easiest way to start a charcoal chimney.

Back in the aughts, a friend gave me a Weber 20-inch kettle grill, and memories of my uncle gleefully teaching me how to light a charcoal chimney in my formative years spent in Alaska, steered me to this exact charcoal chimney mostly because it was what the big box hardware store around me at the time had on the shelf. — Read the rest