What is Reddit's opinion of Lightning Nuggets N100SEB Super Economy Box Fire Starter 100, Count, Tan?
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Eh, most of those wood burning cons only applies if you have an open box, or a crappy insert.

Fully enclosed wood stoves and zero clearance inserts don't have the the open-flue/cold house or closed-flue/smoky issues.

Lightning fires is as easy as putting in a safe fire starter and walking away https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000KC009Y/

There's not a lot of tending with good fireboxes.

But yeah, having to manage wood/critters you can't necessarily get out of.

I have a newer 2015 EPAII zero clearance and it's amazing. Put a couple logs in there, put a fire starter on it, light it, open flue, close doors and walk away. At full flue open I'm putting a log on it once an hour to keep it around 500 degrees. I had it going probably 5 out of 7 days this winter - The heat of the fire keeps the glass clean, so no need to clean it more than twice a year. The ash removal is a weekly thing, but not bad. The re-burning of smoke pretty much turns everything in to heat. The chimney cleaner was just out and said to call back in another 3 to 5 years as they only removed about a half a solo cup of soot.

If OP is looking at net-new install, and has a easy/cheap way to get wood, zero clearance or a stove hands down my choice.

For sure. My go to strategy for this is to quarter a log and then baton off sticks from the cut pieces. I then light one of these wax firestarter nuggets and stack my sticks made from dry wood on top of it. The nuggets burn for 15 minutes and light up everything. Boom. Fire.

All it costs in weight is an axe and a firestarter that weighs less than your cellphone.

Dunno if you care about all that but maybe it saves you some strain on your next trip.

we grew up with them and yeah they’re great, but just too expensive.

been using these fire starter nuggets for the last 2 years now and i’m a lifer for them. re basically semi spheres of the same thing. saw dust with some wax/resin holding them together. as long as you build you initial log pile properly, they work like a charm and are affordable. 1 box basically got me through the whole winter this year. throw 2 large pieces on the bottom of the stove as your base, one of these starters in the middle of the two, then put 2-3 medium and small pieces of wood that almost encase it in a chamber, then 3ish small tinder type pieces on top to close it off and that usually does it for me.

I use Lightning Nuggets to light my charcoal.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000KC009Y/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I order these on amazon and they work great.