I brag to my wife that I can start the fire with a single match - every time. It's been several years now and I haven't been wrong yet. In fact, I'm still using the same match! Well, it's not just any match. It's a piezoelectric propane match (okay, it's a propane torch). One of those things you use to sweat copper pipes together. Screw the "match" part onto the little propane tank, open the valve until you hear it hiss, and press the trigger. Walla, a match to start even moderately wet kindling.