With the Meteor charcoal lighter, lighting the embers becomes child’s play: The plastic safety handle offers maximum protection when handling (gloves are recommended)-the charcoal lighter is also equipped with a second folding handle-economical and environmentally friendly, and it also ignites with newspaper chemical barbecue lighterThe charcoal lighter from Meteor is easy to use: Place it on the charcoal grate and fill it with charcoal or briquettes as well as newspaper. Now just light and wait, the charcoal is heated in the spiral-shaped interior with great heat. As soon as a greyish layer of ash can be seen on the upper pieces of coal or briquette and reddish embers underneath, the glowing coals can be poured onto the grill.Briquettes or coal are ready in approx. 20 minutes. Since these should already have developed a uniform ember bed of around 300 ° C, the grilling can start immediately. For easy handling, the plastic-coated, firmly screwed handle can be supported by a second handle. This can be folded up to pour the glowing coal onto the grill in a controlled manner. Heat-insulating gloves are recommended in any case.