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Valentine’s Day: Make it a Hot Night with Duraflame!

February 14, 2013 by The Mom Jen Leave a Comment

This Valentine’s Day why don’t you heat up on the couch with your loved one! Let’s face it, all men and women can slip up and miss an important romantic holiday, whether Valentine’s Day, a birthday, an anniversary or the date that marks their first kiss. Even those who have good intentions need a little inspiration.

To help, Duraflame has created a romance kit idea to inspire those who have neglected to make plans tonight…

Grab a Duraflame Gold Log, throw a blanket down in front of the fire or scoot your couch in front of it. Choose one of your favorite love song CD’s (such as a Barry White) to play softly in the background, light some candles, and enjoy some chocolates as you set the mood. Once the kids head to bed, bring out the massage oil, top it off with more candles and a bubble bath. Romance doesn’t have to be expensive!

duraflame® Gold Fire Logs
Duraflame brings you the ultimate fire experience with duraflame Gold Fire Logs. Specially formulated for ultra-premium quality, duraflame Gold fire logs produce bigger, brighter flames than regular fire logs.

7lb Gold is the largest fire log and burns over 4 hours

4.5lb Gold burns better than regular 3 hour fire logs

Burns cleaner than wood

UL approved safety classification for use in UL-listed factory built appliances

Chimney Safety Institute of America Accepted Product™

Best part about it, no wasting time chopping kindling, balling up newspaper, and getting all smoking to get the fire started, more time to spend with your sweetheart! Keep your Valentine happy during this season of love.

How do you spend this season of high expectations, what are your plans tonight?!

Product kit provided to facilitate this post!

Duraflame Campfire Roasting Logs Review

May 21, 2012 by The Mom Jen 6 Comments

It’s that time of year to go to the beach and have a bonfire, head to the woods for some fun camping, or enjoy the outdoor firepit in your backyard with friends and some delicious treats! Duraflame introduces duraflame® Campfire Roasting Logs, the first firelogs specially created for the ideal outdoor campfire cookout. The logs stack and burn like wood for a robust fire that turns into hot, glowing coals – perfect for roasting marshmallows, hot dogs or other campfire treats.

-A stack of two or three individually wrapped pieces creates a fire
-Made from 100 percent renewable resources, including recycled sawdust, renewable bio-wax and real wood charcoal -No petro-chemicals are used
-The 5 pound, four-log bundle is equivalent to burning an entire 24-lb bundle of firewood
-Roasting logs use 75 percent less fuel per fire than firewood and produce more heat per pound.
-Roasting logs burn cleaner than wood, producing 60 percent less particulate emissions than a comparable wood fire in a fire pit.*
-A four-log, 5-pound bundle is ideal for one campfire or a case of six bundles is enough for four to six campfires.

Our Take: After a beautiful spring bbq, we enjoyed our Duraflame campfire roasting logs to make our dessert! They are so simple to use, just loosen the wrappers, stack, and light. The logs burned hot, if you were camping, or it was a cooler night the warmth would be lovely. The hardest part for the girls was waiting the suggested 45-60 minutes for the fire to burn down, only because S’mores were on the menu! Once the hot coals aren’t flaming too high, you can begin roasting your hot dogs, corn on the cob, marshmallows, or whatever you desire! Don’t have a backyard firepit? Use your fireplace, but always open the flue before lighting the logs. Logs still smoke and follow you with the breeze, so you will smell like a campfire, but sometimes that the scent of a great summer day!The four-log bundle is available for a suggested retail price of $5.99. The six bundles are sold for around $29.99. The logs are available nationally at select Walmart, Kmart and Kroger stores, as well as retailers throughout the U.S. More information on all Duraflame products is available at www.duraflame.com.

S’mores recipes and tips can be found at http://www.duraflame.com/products/roasting-logs.

* Emissions Comparison of Roasting Logs and Alder Firewood in a Fire Pit; Dr. James Houck – Dirigo Laboratories, Clackamas, OR – 2011

Product and S’mores kit were provided, all opinions are ours.

Duraflame STAX

December 28, 2009 by The Mom Jen Leave a Comment

Do you have stacks of firewood in your backyard that need to be chopped and then made for kindling? If you are normally like us, my husband spends about 30 minutes outside getting wood ready for one night’s fire. Then coming in, we spend another 10 minutes bunching up newspaper and igniting the kindling to get the logs started. Often, the wood is damp from the winter weather, so then we have to add more time to finding dry wood…by then, “forget it!”The heater and a heavy blanket is the answer.

We were introduced to Duraflame Stax, the easy-lighting convenience of firelogs with the ability to stack like a wood fire, AND that are a clean-burning log made from 100% renewable resources!! One 3-log pack is good for one night’s fire and is equal to 25-30lbs of seasonal firewood.

Our Take: I’m so impressed! The other night when my husband was at basketball practice, I wanted to surprise him with a fire. A regular fire would be near impossible for me to keep going, let alone start! So I grabbed my Duraflame Stax and read the directions. We have a wood-burning stove, which they have separate instructions for and I followed step-by-step. Literally in about 4 minutes I had started the fire and was done. My husband couldn’t have been prouder! Nothing to poke, no paper to crinkle, no kindling to start, no dealing with wet wood. Criss-cross the logs and light them, that’s it! After an hour or two, I added the third log and we had a roaring fire! I worried that there would be a strange scent, not knowing what to expect. There wasn’t, just tons of heat! Now we live in Central CA, so buying Duraflame Stax can tend to get expensive for every day, but we make fires in our stove about 3-4 times a month and the time and efficiency of it is so worth it!

Here’s a quick video to show you how easy it can be!

You can use Stax in fireplaces, woodstoves, and outdoor firepits all year-round. Is it better than natural firewood?
-it produces significantly fewer polluntants
-easy to light
-less logs need for a similar duration fire
-clean to handle and easy to store

A 3-pack of Stax can be found at many grocery store chains and places like Target and WalMart for $9.99.

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I was sent a 3-pack of Stax for an honest review. The experience was our tried-and-true opinion and was not influenced by any source. We were not monetarily compensated to write this post.