my grill is propane and my food always turns out awesome so whatever

if youre using real coal and not briquettes yeah, you'll need one of them chimney starters to get moving. but honestly if you dont want to spend a lot of money or time just get a bag of briquettes with some lighter fluid and you're good to go. just make sure you put the food on the grill after the flames have totally died down. ive seen people not do that and it was a royal mess, not to mention im sure the food tasted like gasoline