Zombie Survival Quick Hit: Start a Fire Using Fritos

Hello there my beloved. I trust you all survived the recent holiday? I’m sure your continued existence is due at least in part to the advice you’ve been receiving here. No, no; no need to thank me yet. We still have a lot of ground to cover and there still exist teeming masses bent on consuming your brain. You can thank me later, and in the meantime I’ll think of some acceptable methods…

But tonight we must learn together. Tonight we discuss fire.

Starting a fire is and will be a very important skill to have in the coming days. Power grids tend to fail when all their employees are eviscerated. It’s annoying but it’s true. Even if the dead don’t rise, and I think we can all agree that that’s unlikely, you may be called upon to start a fire when you really need one: when it’s cold and dark, when there’s no other light or heat… Like so many people are doing right now in New England.

So, there are many, many, MANY methods for starting a good fire. I like to practice some of these methods in my fire pit as a way to practice and to make fire to dispose of certain, undesirable projects.

What you have been shown in the video above is none of the traditional methods for starting a fire. But it is a damn site more effective than any traditional fire starter I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen a lot of them. The fire started quickly and burned very hot using only a few Fritos corn chips. I would say it’s a safe bet that having a small bag of Fritos in your pack is a good idea. There are several starters sealed in a very light package, and if worse came to worse, I guess you could eat some of them.