bbq: I brought a small kettle bbq (think that's what it's called), but I have problems lighting the charcoal briguettes. I tried using fire lighters, but the coal still won't light up? Is there a easy way to light it up? How do you position the coal and where? I read on on the internet that for a small bbq, you can place the coal at one end and the food at the other, is that correct? Thanks for your answers.|||I remove the top grid of my bbq grill and put the "charcoal starter can" in the bottom of the bbq brill; I have a big "starter can" to dump my charcoal in... first I take a sheet or two of newspaper and crumple it up into a ball, put it in my charcoal starter can and dump the charcoal on top of the newspaper. Take a match and light the newspaper and that will eventually start the charcoal burning. If the fire goes out (burning the newspaper) light it again and maybe fan it gently to keep it going and once it gets to burning good, you can put your fan down. Put the grill back on the bbq and proceed with your bbq-ing. This is very similiar to what I'm referring to... http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Art鈥?/a> And here's a tutorial on the internet... http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h鈥?/a> The way you arrange your charcoal, how you pile it up, etc. depends on what you are cooking... like hamburger patties or hot dogs, you'd keep all the hot coals in the center of the grill. For some meats, pile all the coals on one side and then sometimes you don't. Depends on what you're grilling.|||Fire needs air so make sure the charcoal are on something that allows plenty of air circulation. Soak them down evenly in charcoal fluid and light in three or four spots using matches or a long handled lighter. Leave for about 20-30 min to allow the charcoal to burn a bit so you have some good heat. Depends on what your cooking if the charcoal should be directly over the coals or not. If it's a relatively quick cooking item like steak, fish, boneless chicken, etc you can put it directly over the coals. If you're cooking a meat that needs to cook a fairly long time then you shouldn't have it directly over coals. We sometimes do our turkey in a charcoal grill and we put the coals all around the edges of the grill and then put the turkey directly in the center. This works better than putting the coals on one side and the meat on the other - this creates an uneven heat, the side of the meat close to the coals will get hot and cook but the other side won't so much.