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'Building a Fire' - XKCD
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3114/
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Teepee or lean-to to start the fire, log cabin once it's established
I like building a teepee inside a log cabin
Lean-to is ideal in my mind because it naturally makes a little burble of still air for the teensy fire to grow in initially
Start the fire however you want, but with a big enough log on the side to support new logs so they don't smother the fire