Petroleum Jelly Infused Cottonball Tinder

[Highlander]

It is actually a bit of a good reminder of how to do this,.. I remember many years ago when I first heard this, I took a jar of petroleum jelly and with sticky fingers tried to work some into cotton wool balls,.. I then packed them away

A few months on from that I had a chance to try one,..it didn't work, it seemed to have evaporated.

So of course I have learnt since, but others may not have, that to do this so that they do work well, the jelly needs to be heated and liquified, and mixed in well