It is calçotadas season and to make calçots there is something essential: a good fire. “The calçot wants to call”, as the cliché goes. However, sometimes it is difficult to light the firewood and have the logs take and burn with joy. We bring you a trick to achieve it.
This weekend was explained by sommelier Marta Clot, popular on social networks for her videos about the world of wine. “Don’t throw away corks,” she warns, because they can be very useful for easily lighting a good bonfire or barbecue.
The trick is to immerse them in a glass jar filled with rubbing alcohol or used cooking oil. Once well soaked (the longer we have them macerating, the better) we just have to put them under the firewood and light them so that they act as fuel when starting the fire.
In other words, it is about turning cork stoppers into a kind of sustainable and homemade “ignition pills”. Furthermore, if you immerse them in used oil, you will use a waste that can be very polluting if not recycled properly.
This article was originally published on RAC1.
