1. A portable charcoal igniter comprising a container with an open top, a closed bottom and generally vertical side walls, said walls having an imperforate lower portion, an apertured intermediate segment and a generally perforated upper portion, wherein said container includes in combination: a. a fuel chamber containing a fuel absorbing pad, said chamber being formed by the closed bottom and the imperforate lower portion of the vertical side walls; b. a combustion chamber above the fuel chamber, said combustion chamber having an ignition wick supported immediately adjacent the fuel absorbing pad, and a grate mounted above the ignition wick adjacent the top of the apertured segment of the side walls, and; c. a charcoal receptacle above the grate wherein charcoal may be contained by the generally perforated upper portion of the side walls.

3. A portable charcoal ignited comprising: a. a container with an open top, a closed bottom and a vertically disposed tubular side wall said side wall having an imperforate lower portion, an apertured intermediate segment and a generally perforated upper portion; b. a screen mounted horizontally above and displaced from the closed bottom; said screen in combination with the bottom and the imperforate lower portion of the said wall, defining a liquid fuel chamber; c. a fuel absorbing pad supported on the closed bottom in the fuel chamber; d. an incomsumable ignition wick supported on the screen, said wick extending through an aperture in the vertical wall; e. a grate mounted horizontally above and disposed from the screen; said grate, in combination with the screen and the apertured segment of the vertical wall, defining a combustion chamber; f. a charcoal receptacle defined by the grate and generally perforated upper portion of the vertical wall.

6. A portable charcoal igniter comprising in combination: a. a tubular container having an open top, a bottom base plate and a vertical side wall, said wall having an imperforate lower portion, an apertured intermediate segment and a generally perforated upper portion; b. a fuel absorbing pad supported on the bottom base plate; c. a screen mounted horizontally above the bottom base plate adjacent the top of the imperforate lower portion of the side wall; d. an inconsumable ignition wick supported on the screen, said wick extending through an aperture in the side wall; e. a grate mounted horizontally above the screen adjacent the top of the apertured segment of the side wall; f. a longitudinal perforated flame channel mounted to the side wall above the grate.