Lighting your charcoal grill

If your new to or are just looking for a simple way to fire up the old charcoal grill here are a few tips that will get your grill go'n fast and help your food taste great.

First get a charcoal chimney starter (weber makes a nice one), they are cheep 10 to 20 bucks and best of all they work. Second grab some fire starter blocks, their are a few brands out their I like Zip Original Firestarters. Third get some real hardwood lump charcoal, it gives whatever your BBQ'n great flavour.

All you have to do is pour the required amount of charcoal into the chimney, place a starter block under the chimney and light the block. Be sure to let the coals burn for a few min's, you want them to glow hot. Last once you get the charcoal burning good (nice white coals) in the chimney, watch yourself dumping the HOT COALS into your grill, the wood tends to pop and spark.
Yes you could pile the charcoals up, dump lighter fluid over it and lighter up, but I find all you can taste is the lighter fluid. I've also tried stuffing paper in the bottom of the chimney and lighting it up.... that does work but their usually is a crap load of burnt paper flying around.