Looft Air Lighter - Electric Charcoal Starter for Grills, Firepits & Smokers

Excellent product which makes lighting a charcoal barbecue so much easier and no need for chemicals. It works really well as a blower to to get your barbecue or fire pit roaring. Wish I’d bought one years ago.

Cable should be two metres long - it’s just too short as is

We use our wood burner occasionally and have a cold chimney which causes a down draught. And a poor smoky start to the fire. A blast of the looft air lighter up the chimney, followed by ignition of the fire itself makes fire starting easy. The lighter does get very hot so take care where it’s put down.

Hard-wearing. Lights a BBQ/fire pit in minutes. Saves on kindling and fire lighters. Super powerful. Great product. Highly recommended for anyone who cooks outdoors on a regular basis... And has the appropriate outdoor electrics and cooking facilities (BBQ/Charcoal pizza oven/firepit/bonfire).

Tried once so far unable to light binchotan coals for bbq will try a mixture next time

I normally use a chimney style starter, with a few pieces of kindling and a tiny bit of fire lighter block. It works but it's time-consuming. I bought this to speed things up, but I'm not sure it does. Not much anyway.Using briquettes, I found that it takes much longer than the claimed 60 seconds to get them going. Probably double that. And then I felt I had to use it on several places to get an even distribution. Also, I had to use an extension lead, of course. Seriously, who has a power socket within 1.3 metres of their BBQ??It's a neat little gadget which does work and it is fairly convenient. It could be better though. I'm being generous with 4 stars. I'd give it 3.5 if I could.

Works really quickly and is a really good product.