I needed some more fire starters for my wood stove. I also had some suet blocks I made for the birds, that they just hate. So.....
The bird food is made from bird seed and deer tallow. I guess the birds feel the same way I do about deer fat, because one block in the feeder lasted 12 months!

I've made deer tallow candles in the past, so I figured the junk bird food was a logical choice.
I unwrapped one of the suet blocks, and got a bowl of sawdust from the shop.

I melted the old blocks in a double boiler. I use the double boiler for wax, paraffin, or anything else that I know might catch fire if over heated directly on a burner.

When the tallow had melted, I stirred in the sawdust. Just enough to make a paste.

The mix was spooned into a fiber egg carton and pressed in firmly. I put a piece of butcher twin in half of them as a wick, which was totally unnecessary, and useless.

After a chill for an hour in the freezer, I cut the carton to make 12 separate cups filled with the tallow, sawdust and seed mix. I put one in the bottom of the stove with a few pieces of kindling. I just lit the carton part with a match and it took off. Plenty of burn time and heat to catch the kindling.

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