This video tutorial is amongst the best I’ve seen on the topic. It will explain that you can ignite a piece of steel wool (with a lighter or a 9V battery), and using a few contraptions, spin it ...

Steel Wool and Battery Using a battery and steel wool is a more modern approach but highly effective. Gather Materials: Collect tinder, kindling, and a fire-starting tool like steel wool and a 9V ...

You can ignite steel wool with 9V battery, but such battery can provide few hundred milliamps, lemon battery can provide about one milliamp. That’s the huge difference. Report comment.

Steel wool is absolutely magnificent when lit on fire, as Reddit user ChazDodge showed in a recent video that makes the wiry, burning puff look like the death of the planet Krypton.