Hi corn burners,

Haven't purchased a stove yet but you are all helping my decision.

In Australia pellets are $500 AUD ($530 US roughly) a tonne (2250 lbs roughly).
Corn roughly $350 AUD a tonne - Some cheap wheat can be found at $ 170 AUD a tonne.

Using pellets to lite a stove is a not great option at $500 AUD a tonne.

A igniter is good idea but from what I can see every 2 to 3 yrs would need replacing. I am trying to avoid parts shipped to Oz (Australia)if I can.

My Question - Can I use a mapp gas torch to lite the pot???

Regards Wayne

Even at the price you would have to pay for pellets to start the corn burning, they will still be a fairly inexpenensive fire starter. It usually only takes about a 6oz. cup of wood pellets to start a corn fire. It might take even less. Depends a little on the kind of burn pot the stove has and your experience. It's a bit of an "art" that you learn. If you were perfect at every attempt to start a fire a 40 pound supply of pellets would start the stove over 100 times.
Another thing to consider is something is needed to start the pellets. Fire starting gel or pellets soaked in a non-explosive liquid flammable. But liquids are not recommended for safety reasons. I use a Diamond Match product called "Strike-A-Fire". They are a wax impregnated fiber fire starting match. I use 1/2 a match broken into pieces. Light with a kitchen match. Works every time.

As Tall Corn said, wood pellets make starting
the fire easy. We use a propane torch to start
our wood pellets. I have a couple around for
other uses. One tank lasts two years.
olf20 / Bob

I just wad up a couple of newspaper pages put it in the bottom of the burn pot add some corn or pellets lite it with a mapp torch turn on stove and hold the auger purge button lights every time.