Lighting
Looftlighter
RecommendedBlows superheated air at the charcoal instead of holding a flame to it. You aim it at one spot, that spot starts glowing, and that decides where your fire begins.
Specifications
- Power
- 1800 W
- Supply
- 230 V
- Cord length
- About 3 m
- Lighting time
- 1 to 3 minutes
What to look out for
The real difference from a firelighter is not speed but control. You hold the stream on one point and the fire starts there; take it away and it spreads out calmly from that point. A firelighter burns out where it lies and sets its neighbours going meanwhile, and in a kamado the number of burning spots is exactly what sets your temperature.
Against that, you need mains power where the kamado stands. For anyone whose barbecue lives at the end of the garden that is the whole story, and then firelighters costing a fraction do the same work with more patience.
It does not replace lighter fluid so much as make it pointless, and with ceramic that is no detail: fluid soaks into the wall and comes back out months later. A device that uses nothing but air cannot make that mistake.
Fits these kamados
Fits every kamado in this list.
- Patton Classic Kamado 13"
- Patton Classic Kamado 16" Table Chef
- Grill Guru Original Compact
- Grill Guru Prime Compact
- Kamado Joe Joe Jr.
- The Bastard Compact Urban
- The Bastard Core Compact
- Boretti Ceramica Compact
- Monolith Junior 2.0 Solo
- Patton Premium Large 21"
- Grill Guru Original Medium
- Grill Guru Prime Medium
- Boretti Ceramica Medium
- Kamado Joe Classic I
- Grill Guru Original Large
- Grill Guru Prime Large
- Boretti Ceramica Large 2.0
- Weber Summit Kamado E6
- Grill Guru Original XL
- Grill Guru Prime XL
- Patton Epicure Large 22"
- The Bastard Urban Medium Complete
- The Bastard Core Medium Complete
- The Bastard Urban Large Complete
- Big Green Egg Medium
- Kamado Joe Classic II
- Kamado Joe Big Joe I
- The Bastard VX Large Complete
- The Bastard Core Large Complete
- The Bastard PRO Large Complete
- Monolith Classic Pro Series 2.0
- Monolith TWO.55 Standalone
- Big Green Egg Large
- Kamado Joe Classic III
- Big Green Egg XL
- Big Green Egg 2XL

Where to buy
Updated on 2 October 2026
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