You can soak a little on a rag or paper towel, dip a piece of cardboard, etc., I'm not talking dripping wet with it, small amount will work just fine, even if there are some hot coals left, of course you had best have the tinder, kindling and small dry wood all together and placed at once if you don't have draft or have to establish it. A friend in the HVAC business, his dad always used or got rid of heating oil rags that way, they both worked in the business, so oil clean outs/service, always had oils soaked rags, and you don't want to keep those or oily rags around anyway, they can combust eventually, supposed to be in an approved metal container. Using gasoline, is foolish, too many vapors, its just unsafe, too low of a flash point. I will use gasoline in a cold OUTSIDE burn barrel sometimes, shake well, douse and please, use a torch, toss it from a distance !
Typically with my stove, I have excellent draft, depending on how the wind blows, 95% of the time, take an incense stick to check it at the clean out at the Tee at the 90 deg turn, it will pull that smoke, yet if I use any combustible, petroleum based products, spray, fuel or what have you, I will smell it in the area. I do burn pine and keep a stock of it for this reason, its plentiful, has sap/resin in it, dry/seasoned pine does make excellent kindling and tinder if you shave some off. Additionally, I constantly tear off shards from my split wood and keep in a bucket, whenever I have hot coals left from the night or day before, a handful of those, and some pine or hardwood kindling, small pieces, works fine, pine smells great, I may toss a large piece in on occasion, seeing my set up does not create any significant creosote. I try to keep a 1/2-2/3 cord of pine on hand, seasoned just for this reason.
I've got 2 fireplaces with doors, intake air from outside and used to use them both, years ago. As long as you have draft, and do NOT over do it, its fine, just be sure to soak a SMALL amount of it on something first, you will likely still smell it in the house though, thats why I like pine or small shards of black cherry, its aromatic pleasant odor when first firing up is nice, unlike fuel oil or similar.
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