Charcoal grills are very temperamental.  You can never be sure if you’re going to have a fire hot enough to even flame up a single marshmallow.  When you think your fire is going out there’s two reflexive barbecue actions - blowing on the flames or giving it another squirt f charcoal lighter fluid.  What if you’re out of breath or out of lighter fluid and your fire is ebbing?  Do you scan through the shed looking for something else?  Eureka!

Bad idea.  No.  Not even bad idea.  Worst idea of all.  Anything but legitimate charcoal lighter fluid is, to put it succinctly, unsafe.  Sure, it’s convenient to grab the kerosene for your hurricane lamps or the gasoline that you powered your lawnmower up with.  Yeah, they’re combustive liquids.  But they’re the wrong combustive liquids.

Gasoline explodes.  Adding gasoline to a fire in a barbecue grill will not just flare up the flames, it will explode the grill.  You’re essentially creating a weapon; a very big, very dangerous, very sharp weapon that will create a shower of shrapnel and flames that will severely injure or even kill anyone standing nearby.

Barbecues are supposed to be fun events.  Not an opportunity to test your first aid skills.  Stay safe.  Barbecue season is here.