A frugal Crisco emergency candle. [View all]

[Kaleva]

My wife goes to sleep several hours before I do and with Biden in office I find that I'm spending much less time here to read what cluster fuckery Trump is up to so I watch YouTube videos.

Last night I was watching several on clay pot heaters that use candles and that brought me to watching homemade emergency candles made out of Crisco.

I got a half pint mason jar form the basement , found a birthday candle and got the Crisco out from the pantry. I filled the mason jar with liquefied Crisco up to about 2 1/2 inches which I figured would be just below the height of the candle and put the jar in the freezer. After about 15-20 minutes, I took the jar out and stuck the candle in the center. The level of the Crisco was a little short so I liquified some more in the coffee cup in the microwave and added that to the jar and returned it to the freezer for another ten minutes or so.

I burned the candle last night for an hour before blowing it out and going to bed and lit it again this morning. Burn time is 2 1/2 hours total so far and it's a clean burning candle and there is no tunneling. I'll keep it lit all day and the next and the next if possible to find out the total burn time.

My next project will be using this type of candle to make a clay pot heater.

I'll post updates to this OP to let know how long the candle lasted.