Don't saturate them buddy, you just want the outside well covered and then you can tear them open a little if need be to take a spark !
Yup. Learned this the hard way! I've messed with the cotton balls and petroleum jelly before, but I guess I had high hopes that with more petroleum jelly they'd burn even longer! Well, I'm sure they'll burn longer, but they sure don't take a spark that way!
Thepitbulloflove, the nice thing about the petroleum jelly is that it burns a lot longer than just a plain cotton ball or dryer lint. For someone like me, I need all the help I can get when trying to start a fire without matches or a lighter. I just like to optimize my chances of success!
