Make sure you can start a fire wherever you are. All you need to do is to pull the specially designed knife back slowly and heavily along with the fire starter. The sparks easily light your barbecue, paper, birchbark or dry grass. The protective coating on the steel needs to be scraped off before use. Then the sparks of 3000 °C makes it easy to light a fire in any kind of weather, even rain and snow. The strong spark can also be used as an emergency signal or to illuminate stoves and gas grills. The fire starter yields up to 7000 strokes. Always use the back of the knife blade with the fire steel, never the blade edge!