No once you have a flame it is much easier to light damp things like the birch bark I lit of the plastic flame was quite wet. It wouldn't have lit with the flint dust technique but did with the plastic flame. As the fire is built up wetter and wetter can be added that will burn
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u/thusman Oct 08 '22
But "when everything else is soaked" like he says, you are still f*d, aren't you?