That's actually how my grandma was able to keep her fireplace burning on wood for so long, she kept little books of matches for who knows how many years in a big glass jar on the mantle, she got them from various restaurants and bars back when smoking was still legal in public places, and only ran out of them a few years ago. But now she's switched from wood to an electric fireplace anyways because of a bad hip, so no more chopping wood for her.
i wonder what the "A&P" stood for in the US. in Germany they went with the claim "aktuell und preiswert" ("up to date and affordable"). it was basically the "bottom of the shelf" products. and their food products were not great, more or less "reducing feeling of hunger".
@@rarbiart That's actually hilarious. I wasn't born early enough but apparently they were so popular in the 60s and 70s they had them here in the Midwest, anyway it was a grocery store chain based in New England, founded originally as a tea company I believe, the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P). But by the time I was born they had sold every store outside of where it was founded (entire company folded completely only in 2018) to another company, Farmer Jack, which then went bankrupt and sold all their stores to Kroger, which is what I remember my local store as, it was the nicer one in the area until they wanted to isolate my town into one jumbo sized store, which sucks and is overpriced, now my favorite little Kroger is a storage unit.
I love how stuck in 2008 UA-cam this channel is. It's absolutely refreshing given how much overly produced slop is out there in the tech community now.
The primary source of fuel for candles is the wax, not the wick. The wick only burns when there isn't enough wax being pulled up the wick through capillary action. Those candles would have lasted longer if they were in a small cup, like a tealight candle.
@@SmoothEmJay I feel exactly the same way. I started watching ages ago because I really love the curious exploration, especially of uncommon and weird old stuff.
Same, and I've seen a lot of random crap in my time but he always seems to find something that was totally off my radar. These feel like they came from an alternate universe.
Interesting. I've never seen candles like that. Another win for the candles is that they can still be expected to work just as well after 50 years as when they were new.
I think you made the candles melt faster by putting that tea pot on them. This melted the candles down to liquid very rapidly by preventing the heat of the candles from escaping into the room greatly heating the air inside the pan.
You are most likely correct, the wax would melt far more quickly, exposing the wicked sooner. But as an Englishman, who loves drinking tea as much as he loves breathing... that isn't a teapot. It's a kettle. 😉 You pour hot water into the teapot from the kettle. A teapot is a sure sign of an advanced civilisation! 😂
I think you're one of the only people who can make a video about two candles shaped like D batteries, and still make it as entertaining and enjoyable as any other video.
They might have actually lasted a bit longer with the paper on to keep the wax from dripping out. But they didn't want the risk of the flame hitting the paper and making it a much bigger candle.
In Mexico (and probably other Catholic Latin countries, I just only know about Mexico) there are prayer candles like the glass jar ones that use a paper cup or tube instead, with the images just photocopied on. You are fully correct, they do burn longer when contained… unless the paper becomes a new, giant wick. It quickly becomes a big fireball, then spills melted wax everywhere once the structure is weakened. If you get some waxes too hot, the whole pool of melted wax can take a flame (cheap scented candles are the ones I know to do this), and I’ve always been afraid of these two devils haunting the same candle.
Those are so cool! What a find Edit: Back in the day the flashlight would not have lasted as long, it was common to use carbon zinc batteries in flashlights, while the expensive alkalines were used for other devices such as portable TV's and radios.
Also, with the zinc batteries, you could leave the light as an emergency-light for many years and still have it working. With alkaline.... one or 2 years and you had leakages so you could trhrow the whole light away after a couple of seconds. I normally had some in my car and did find out the hard way.
@@elvinhaak I have found 30+ year old calculators with the original Alkaline batteries in them and still working. That was when they put Mercury in them to stabilise the chemistry.
Candles (and matches) were quite effective In old movies. When they lit a single candle, the whole room was lit as if a 100W lamp was on (which was actually the case... :)
I found a website for "flashaholics" once, they were talking about unrealistically high-powered flashlights in old movies, made with car headlight high beam bulbs and wires concealed in the actors sleeves, down to an out-of sight battery.
To be fair; if you were in an otherwise unlit area long enough, a single candle would throw a surprising amount of light. Eyes are pretty good at getting all the available light, if you give them long enough to adjust. I have no evidence to support, but I'd guess that before screens were ubiquitous our eyes were even better at low light than modern eyes are.
@@WillWillisIV There is some evidence though that in the same other environment, people's eyes do 'age sooner' wihen doing a lot of reading which is of course part of our 'screen culture' as was / is the reading of books in the ages before. But, that was even worse in low-light-conditions as some evidence suggest. But, on the other hand, 'mankind' just did not get that old in the day and bad vision is something that is coming more with age. So it is a double-edged sword; we get older and read more, but also notice worse seeing more then like 100 years ago. In those days if you got old, you were less likely to be reading that much and most (biblical) books you were reading were already familiear in many cases and many old people had younger people (children) to read for them. And yes, if you allow your eyes to get used to low-light conditions when yuo are young, you will see quite a lot 'in the dark'. Also because you were not blinded by the light all of the time
Oh gosh... Yes. But I mainly remember having to endure the Spanish inquisition to buy "virtually anything". Although I didn't complain when their magical catalog showed up at the house
@@01chippe Like my grandma would yell in church and my stepdad would say down at the mill.. "BINGO! You Nailed it" ChatGPT: RadioShack's "Battery Club" was a clever marketing initiative that began in the 1960s. It offered customers a free battery each month for life. Participants would receive a punch card to track their monthly visits, and they could claim one battery from RadioShack's range (often a popular 9-volt battery) on every visit. The program encouraged repeat foot traffic to RadioShack stores, giving the company opportunities to showcase and sell other products to customers while they were there. It was an early example of a loyalty program designed to keep customers engaged and returning regularly. Eventually, the program was phased out, but it is still remembered fondly as a quirky piece of retail history and a smart promotional tactic for its time.
A fun little tidbit, I live near to where there used to be an Ever Ready factory (before they renamed to "Eveready", which irritates my eyes) here in the north east of England, where they made batteries until 1996, I think the site is now a housing estate, as is the case with most former industrial areas that were full of toxic chemical industrial units... :P
The British Ever Ready Electrical Company was founded as a subsidiary of the American one, but became independent in 1914, coincidentally the same year it became “Eveready” in America. However, the overall parent company of the American one also bought BEREC (an acronym the British firm actually traded under in some markets, to avoid confusion) in 1992, so it's “Eveready” for everyone now, and they don't make batteries in County Durham any more.
Well, the reason he had a pool of wax was because the kettle on top of the baking tin trapped quite a lot of heat. Because the wax flowed away, more wick was exposed and exposed wick will burn away. If the single candle had been left to burn by itself, uncovered, it would have lasted much longer. The sides of the pillar candle would have flowed down towards the wick and kept the wick from being consumed as quickly. This sort of thing happens to amateur scientists all of the time. They become bored and so they change the experiment too much.
Honestly when I heard "a D battery shaped emergency candle" I expected something more like a small plastic cylinder with kerosene, wick and a tiny metal plate at the top. I owned some of those. They were too stinky to use indoors through.
With very little imagination, I could see these candles ending up in my grandparents' junk drawer, my grandpa putting them into his flashlight during a power outage, then cussing up a storm, wondering why it's not working.
The first candle melted the second candle, making it last a lot shorter. You have video evidence of this as you see the second candle melted vertically, feeding the first candle melted wax.
@@WoodStoveEnthusiast I would buy those now just for that label. There were loads of cool toys etc made in Hong Kong back then while on the other side of the border China was just paddy fields. In the early 1970s I bought a flashlight that still proclaimed "Empire Made" which was almost certainly made in Hong Kong.
I suppose you could have put them in an emergency kit flashlight alongside a box of D cells, to save 2 D-cells worth of space. Handy if you lived in a modern day micro-condo in 1972, and needed a full 72hr kit in a shoebox
Seems like an interesting product category: clearly a gag gift but one you hang onto because it has legitimate use, if only just barely. The reason I think it's gag is what a poor design for candle, with the wick sitting atop the battery bump - basically guaranteeing that it will be hard to keep lit at the very start, until a decent pool of melted wax forms. But if it was the only source of light you had, you'd be glad you hung on to this "gag" gift.
I think they were trying to steal customers from the battery companies. They were presenting their product as a legitimate alternative to flashlights. It was good marketing.
The candles probably melted faster when you were boiling water. The heat was accumulating between the kettle and the bottom of the tray even though there was some room for it to exit.
I like that Emhart 911 Fire Alarm box in the background as your battery shaped emergency candles burn. 😀 I remember having one of their smoke alarms in my house years ago.
"why is the second candle burning faster?" well. uh because you melted the side pf the candle with the other one helping liquid wax escape :/ very fair test
I suppose the idea was to attract a shopper's attention. They do seem to have been genuinely useful. Jasco Products is still around and has for a long time sold many products under the GE name. Their logo (as seen on some answering machine cassettes from the 1980s) also took a few cues from the Eveready "9" logo.
The second candle burned much faster because it was next to the other one, if you burned them sequentially I'm sure you'd get about the same burn time from both candles
The two candles would've lasted longer in votive candle holders, but I doubt you'd get enough of a flame to make tea from them. That's amazing! My mother to this day keeps emergency candles. Batteries will die if stored away for decades, but matches and candles will not.
I think the second candle would have lasted longer if you hadn't put it near the other burning one. The heat for the first candle accelerated the second one's burning.
Even at that size, it's not a terrible candle. The wicks could ideally be made of a longer burning material than whatever they were. If they were something longer burning, they would have been fine sitting in that pool of wax at the end. To that end, I don't know if this is done or not, but there should be extra wicks added to emergency candle kits still sold today, for specifically sitting in said pool of wax at the end. They would be shorter, but with many of them placed in the wax, you would get a pretty nice heat output from it. I only mention this because of experience in toying around with making my own wicks for candle making. I found flax twine works really well. Or was it jute... I don't remember for sure, but it was one of the two.
I wonder how they ended up in North America though. I even wonder why they had _English_ printing on them. Now I totally believe Tengelmann might have done business in the UK in the past - even though I'm not aware of it -, but in that case, wouldn't you expect them to change the _A&P_ branding to something, you know, _English?_
@@mrchicken388 Interesting. I just read on Wikipedia Tengelmann became a shareholder of _A&P_ in the late 70s and the majority shareholder soon after, and, as a result, started using the brand for their discount products. That's definitely one to file under the _TIL_ category.
Yup, I do remember red Eveready batteries. They were sold up until around the end of the 80s. But I think only AA and 9V remained by then (the rest were the black/gold "Super Heavy Duty").
Ha, any old candle can be used as an "emergency candle"! During power outages when I was a kid, my mom would get out old dinner table candles that were no longer elegant enough for her special fancy dinners to use as emergency lighting. And I had a flashlight JUST like the one in the video back then.... only mine was red. It came with a special holder that I attached to the inside of a closet door via adhesive strips. I miss those old carbon zinc batteries - they were less prone to leaking than the modern alkalines, so would be perfect for use in remote controls.
in the UK, the brand was usually 'EVER READY', 2 separate words, and no cat, but did eventually see the one word version, probably as the UK division was spun off as an independent company not long after it was formed, official name was British Ever Ready Export Company' - BEREC , they also made/had made and sold radios under both 'Ever Ready' and Berec brands, although Berec was mostly used for 'export' models originally
worth noting that the vintage everready logo and branding looked near identical to the "everlight" branded candles, it also had the sloped lettering at the top, a black cat jumping the 9 in the middle and said either their size or "flashlight battery" on the bottom part oh and it did have a completely red wrapper so yes, these candles are very much styled after the everready cells of the time
7:00 - This is why tea candles are better, they can't fall over. Put them inside a polished stainless steel bowl or pan, and they light up an entire room. Put a kitchen cooling rack over a candle (half a sq. ft., inch high legs) and put you kettle on that.
Those metal bits at the bottom are pretty common with candles. most glass candles use them, you'll see them glued to the bottom. It keeps the wick upright when all the wax is melted
This is obviously a novelty candle and not a real emergency candle that are used for blackouts. Also made in British Hong Kong was the precursor to Made in China!
THe idea of candles for emergencies isn't bad. Always have a few candles in house. I mean you don't want to be stuck walking around with flashlights right? Hell old christmas lights can do wonders too to light up way the hall goes.
Or light two candles at once (to try to compete with the flashlight brightness) while using the two batteries in the flashlight haha 🤔 I think I remember seeing those same candles back in the day? I can't say for sure but they look familiar. Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
So did I. Especially since I live near St. Louis which is the hub of the company that owns Eveready and now Ray O Vac, since it’s been brought into Energizer’s business.
@@RJDA.DakotaNo ownership changed hands. Energizer began as a sub-brand of Eveready. The main company name was changed to Energizer when they became a publicly-traded company, but the lineage is continuous.
I'm watching a 40 year old candle being lit by 30 year old matches, and I'm loving it.
That's actually how my grandma was able to keep her fireplace burning on wood for so long, she kept little books of matches for who knows how many years in a big glass jar on the mantle, she got them from various restaurants and bars back when smoking was still legal in public places, and only ran out of them a few years ago. But now she's switched from wood to an electric fireplace anyways because of a bad hip, so no more chopping wood for her.
i wonder what the "A&P" stood for in the US. in Germany they went with the claim "aktuell und preiswert" ("up to date and affordable"). it was basically the "bottom of the shelf" products. and their food products were not great, more or less "reducing feeling of hunger".
@@rarbiart That's actually hilarious. I wasn't born early enough but apparently they were so popular in the 60s and 70s they had them here in the Midwest, anyway it was a grocery store chain based in New England, founded originally as a tea company I believe, the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P). But by the time I was born they had sold every store outside of where it was founded (entire company folded completely only in 2018) to another company, Farmer Jack, which then went bankrupt and sold all their stores to Kroger, which is what I remember my local store as, it was the nicer one in the area until they wanted to isolate my town into one jumbo sized store, which sucks and is overpriced, now my favorite little Kroger is a storage unit.
Those vintage matches are so tiny I almost burnt my thumb with some Harris teeter ones
So know you can get charged with arson and battery
Put some salt on it, then it''s a
salt and battery. 😅
BOOOOOOOO
@@raymondmartin6737 I knew a crab that received a salt and buttering.
It's buttery. 😅
Only if you're arson around
I love how stuck in 2008 UA-cam this channel is. It's absolutely refreshing given how much overly produced slop is out there in the tech community now.
It even has the hiss lmao I love it
This is how UA-cam used to be, and his channel is all the better for it!
@@MrPacman64yeah!
@@MrPacman64 only missing the laptop fan in the background
True most new content is just shouting and vertigo causing editing it seems lol
The primary source of fuel for candles is the wax, not the wick. The wick only burns when there isn't enough wax being pulled up the wick through capillary action. Those candles would have lasted longer if they were in a small cup, like a tealight candle.
This is one of those channels I've followed for years and who can basically review any old thing and I'll watch the entire video.
@@SmoothEmJay I feel exactly the same way. I started watching ages ago because I really love the curious exploration, especially of uncommon and weird old stuff.
Same, and I've seen a lot of random crap in my time but he always seems to find something that was totally off my radar. These feel like they came from an alternate universe.
I dont think many of us expected to watch a review of a candle today but here we are. Kevin can get us to watch literally anything!
Dame from Patagonia Argentina. He ido amazing. It is good that youth like him do this. I am a very old engineer.
It's like he reviews a whole bunch of junk and if it's not junk I'm into, I am by the end of the video.
Interesting. I've never seen candles like that.
Another win for the candles is that they can still be expected to work just as well after 50 years as when they were new.
if cmos ram could be powered by candles, a lot of pcb damage to mainboards would have been prevented....
Ah yes the comfy little corner of youtube where we use our d cell candles to heat up our tea
I think you made the candles melt faster by putting that tea pot on them. This melted the candles down to liquid very rapidly by preventing the heat of the candles from escaping into the room greatly heating the air inside the pan.
Also by placing both candles close to one another, concentrating the radiative absorption of each by the other
You are most likely correct, the wax would melt far more quickly, exposing the wicked sooner. But as an Englishman, who loves drinking tea as much as he loves breathing... that isn't a teapot. It's a kettle. 😉 You pour hot water into the teapot from the kettle. A teapot is a sure sign of an advanced civilisation! 😂
@@another3997 Coffee is the official drink of America. We're peasants.
@@christo930 Nah, we've somehow downgraded to Monster and RedBull while thinking it's better. There's no turning back now 😂
I think you're one of the only people who can make a video about two candles shaped like D batteries, and still make it as entertaining and enjoyable as any other video.
You know how mad I’d be if I was looking for batteries in an emergency and I found those instead?
Thought the same thing, probably some reasons these never took off.
They might have actually lasted a bit longer with the paper on to keep the wax from dripping out. But they didn't want the risk of the flame hitting the paper and making it a much bigger candle.
Potentially way longer. That was a LOT of leftover wax.
In Mexico (and probably other Catholic Latin countries, I just only know about Mexico) there are prayer candles like the glass jar ones that use a paper cup or tube instead, with the images just photocopied on. You are fully correct, they do burn longer when contained… unless the paper becomes a new, giant wick. It quickly becomes a big fireball, then spills melted wax everywhere once the structure is weakened. If you get some waxes too hot, the whole pool of melted wax can take a flame (cheap scented candles are the ones I know to do this), and I’ve always been afraid of these two devils haunting the same candle.
Most vintage candles that size had aluminum disc pieces attached to the bottom of the wick. It would extinguish the flame when it reached the bottom.
Most of the candles I see today have the same wick design.
Huh, I'd noticed the discs but never knew that was the function of them. Just thought they were to hold the wick upright
Real emergency candles are made from a hard wax. They can burn over 12 hours
wow where can i get those? any suggested trustable brands?
Those are so cool! What a find
Edit:
Back in the day the flashlight would not have lasted as long, it was common to use carbon zinc batteries in flashlights, while the expensive alkalines were used for other devices such as portable TV's and radios.
Also, with the zinc batteries, you could leave the light as an emergency-light for many years and still have it working. With alkaline.... one or 2 years and you had leakages so you could trhrow the whole light away after a couple of seconds. I normally had some in my car and did find out the hard way.
@@elvinhaak I have found 30+ year old calculators with the original Alkaline batteries in them and still working. That was when they put Mercury in them to stabilise the chemistry.
Modern batteries make great candles 2 if your not careful
More like fireworks.
More like a blast furnace
@mrnmrn1 Especially lithium ones!!
And they're waterproof candles as well!
No, they're good pyrotechnic displays.
Candles (and matches) were quite effective In old movies. When they lit a single candle, the whole room was lit as if a 100W lamp was on (which was actually the case... :)
I found a website for "flashaholics" once, they were talking about unrealistically high-powered flashlights in old movies, made with car headlight high beam bulbs and wires concealed in the actors sleeves, down to an out-of sight battery.
Yep, in some movies you actually see the small delay between the candle and the bulb on the set.
To be fair; if you were in an otherwise unlit area long enough, a single candle would throw a surprising amount of light. Eyes are pretty good at getting all the available light, if you give them long enough to adjust.
I have no evidence to support, but I'd guess that before screens were ubiquitous our eyes were even better at low light than modern eyes are.
@@WillWillisIV There is some evidence though that in the same other environment, people's eyes do 'age sooner' wihen doing a lot of reading which is of course part of our 'screen culture' as was / is the reading of books in the ages before. But, that was even worse in low-light-conditions as some evidence suggest.
But, on the other hand, 'mankind' just did not get that old in the day and bad vision is something that is coming more with age. So it is a double-edged sword; we get older and read more, but also notice worse seeing more then like 100 years ago. In those days if you got old, you were less likely to be reading that much and most (biblical) books you were reading were already familiear in many cases and many old people had younger people (children) to read for them.
And yes, if you allow your eyes to get used to low-light conditions when yuo are young, you will see quite a lot 'in the dark'. Also because you were not blinded by the light all of the time
Yeah these were just stocking stuffers. And the ever ready batteries at the time looked pretty much the same as those candles.
The metal circle at the bottom is the wick holder. Many candles are made this way, if you take a tealight out its metal casing you'll see the circle.
Your honestly the only person in the world who can make a video about candles entertaining! Love your content dude
Anyone else remember Radio Shack's battery of the month club?
I remember a card that got punched with each purchase. Ten punches, and you got a free battery, and a fresh card.
Oh gosh... Yes. But I mainly remember having to endure the Spanish inquisition to buy "virtually anything". Although I didn't complain when their magical catalog showed up at the house
I was a card carrying member 😅
@@01chippe Like my grandma would yell in church and my stepdad would say down at the mill.. "BINGO! You Nailed it"
ChatGPT:
RadioShack's "Battery Club" was a clever marketing initiative that began in the 1960s. It offered customers a free battery each month for life. Participants would receive a punch card to track their monthly visits, and they could claim one battery from RadioShack's range (often a popular 9-volt battery) on every visit.
The program encouraged repeat foot traffic to RadioShack stores, giving the company opportunities to showcase and sell other products to customers while they were there. It was an early example of a loyalty program designed to keep customers engaged and returning regularly.
Eventually, the program was phased out, but it is still remembered fondly as a quirky piece of retail history and a smart promotional tactic for its time.
@@paulsto6516 Battery of the Month means 1 free battery each month. My father would use his every other month & it would take 2 years to use his card.
genuinely was not expecting the candle to boil the water! impressive!
A fun little tidbit, I live near to where there used to be an Ever Ready factory (before they renamed to "Eveready", which irritates my eyes) here in the north east of England, where they made batteries until 1996, I think the site is now a housing estate, as is the case with most former industrial areas that were full of toxic chemical industrial units... :P
The British Ever Ready Electrical Company was founded as a subsidiary of the American one, but became independent in 1914, coincidentally the same year it became “Eveready” in America. However, the overall parent company of the American one also bought BEREC (an acronym the British firm actually traded under in some markets, to avoid confusion) in 1992, so it's “Eveready” for everyone now, and they don't make batteries in County Durham any more.
I got a pair of those candles at a carnival back in the 80's. They were in a coin pusher game.
Growing up in southern California we had a lot of rolling black outs. My mom had so many candles our neighbors thought we still had power.
Well, the reason he had a pool of wax was because the kettle on top of the baking tin trapped quite a lot of heat. Because the wax flowed away, more wick was exposed and exposed wick will burn away. If the single candle had been left to burn by itself, uncovered, it would have lasted much longer. The sides of the pillar candle would have flowed down towards the wick and kept the wick from being consumed as quickly. This sort of thing happens to amateur scientists all of the time. They become bored and so they change the experiment too much.
The metal Weird metal plate is just standard straw connector for all wax straws, they just hide it better in expensive wax.
Honestly when I heard "a D battery shaped emergency candle" I expected something more like a small plastic cylinder with kerosene, wick and a tiny metal plate at the top. I owned some of those. They were too stinky to use indoors through.
With very little imagination, I could see these candles ending up in my grandparents' junk drawer, my grandpa putting them into his flashlight during a power outage, then cussing up a storm, wondering why it's not working.
I love how this feels like an ol' infomercial, and I'm actually looking into buying candles :)
The first candle melted the second candle, making it last a lot shorter. You have video evidence of this as you see the second candle melted vertically, feeding the first candle melted wax.
What a pleasing video. I love old torches. Many thanks.
Never thought I’d get enjoyment watching vintage candles on UA-cam but somehow you make it work
I love the kitty 🐈 on the candles nice piece of history. Interesting candle too.
"oh yeah, that tea is piping hot"
Comparison tests like this is why I subscribe 🔥🔦
I remember those red evereadedy batteries from when I was little
I remember them being the worst batteries. Those things would last as long as a teenager on prom night.
I never thought I would watch a video about 2 candles vs. 1 flashlight but here we are.
I love the old UA-cam feel that your videos give. Just something about using an older camera gives that old nostalgia feeling.
Most wholesome review.
Haven't seen those distinct red batts in maaaany years.
I love your thoroughness.
I had no idea that a flashlight would last that long.
☮
@VWestlife you are the solid guiding light of retro tech in the ever changing land of UA-cam.
It's a novelty item. Historical item (1978, Hong Kong), but still a novelty.
British Hong Kong!
@WoodStoveEnthusiast Citizens of Hong Kong preferred British rule over ruthless CCP dictatorship.
@@WoodStoveEnthusiast I would buy those now just for that label. There were loads of cool toys etc made in Hong Kong back then while on the other side of the border China was just paddy fields. In the early 1970s I bought a flashlight that still proclaimed "Empire Made" which was almost certainly made in Hong Kong.
I suppose you could have put them in an emergency kit flashlight alongside a box of D cells, to save 2 D-cells worth of space.
Handy if you lived in a modern day micro-condo in 1972, and needed a full 72hr kit in a shoebox
Seems like an interesting product category: clearly a gag gift but one you hang onto because it has legitimate use, if only just barely. The reason I think it's gag is what a poor design for candle, with the wick sitting atop the battery bump - basically guaranteeing that it will be hard to keep lit at the very start, until a decent pool of melted wax forms. But if it was the only source of light you had, you'd be glad you hung on to this "gag" gift.
I think they were trying to steal customers from the battery companies. They were presenting their product as a legitimate alternative to flashlights. It was good marketing.
This is the kind of content I subscribe for. All of your videos are great but stuff like this is as entertaining as it is irreverent.
I never seen anything like that before in my life that is really really cool 😮
the "metal pin" on the bottom is likely holding the wick in place
Perfectly timed, it seems, for the reopening of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. 🖋
The candles probably melted faster when you were boiling water. The heat was accumulating between the kettle and the bottom of the tray even though there was some room for it to exit.
I like that Emhart 911 Fire Alarm box in the background as your battery shaped emergency candles burn. 😀 I remember having one of their smoke alarms in my house years ago.
It's still common buying candles made like these - wick is not presoaked in paraffin and burns itself instead of the candle body.
"why is the second candle burning faster?"
well. uh
because you melted the side pf the candle with the other one helping liquid wax escape :/
very fair test
Me, drunk as hell during a power outage lighting my actual 9V battery on fire by mistake
What a pleasant video to watch! Only you to make me watch a candle burn. ❤
IIRC Readylite used to be a battery brand in the 30's
These may come back, but due to shrinkflation they will be AAA and cost twenty bucks.
The reason the second candle burned faster is because the first candle melted the side, allowing the melted wax to pour out into the tin.
Plus, he concentrated the heat under that cattle.
I suppose the idea was to attract a shopper's attention. They do seem to have been genuinely useful.
Jasco Products is still around and has for a long time sold many products under the GE name. Their logo (as seen on some answering machine cassettes from the 1980s) also took a few cues from the Eveready "9" logo.
The second candle burned much faster because it was next to the other one, if you burned them sequentially I'm sure you'd get about the same burn time from both candles
VWestlife really got me sitting here watching an 11 minute video about a novelty candle from start to finish.
Putting the kettle over the candles will have affected the airflow to them, and that's likely what caused the second candle to burn faster.
The two candles would've lasted longer in votive candle holders, but I doubt you'd get enough of a flame to make tea from them. That's amazing! My mother to this day keeps emergency candles. Batteries will die if stored away for decades, but matches and candles will not.
I think the second candle would have lasted longer if you hadn't put it near the other burning one. The heat for the first candle accelerated the second one's burning.
Even at that size, it's not a terrible candle. The wicks could ideally be made of a longer burning material than whatever they were. If they were something longer burning, they would have been fine sitting in that pool of wax at the end. To that end, I don't know if this is done or not, but there should be extra wicks added to emergency candle kits still sold today, for specifically sitting in said pool of wax at the end. They would be shorter, but with many of them placed in the wax, you would get a pretty nice heat output from it.
I only mention this because of experience in toying around with making my own wicks for candle making. I found flax twine works really well. Or was it jute... I don't remember for sure, but it was one of the two.
I love the A&P matches.
I wonder how they ended up in North America though. I even wonder why they had _English_ printing on them. Now I totally believe Tengelmann might have done business in the UK in the past - even though I'm not aware of it -, but in that case, wouldn't you expect them to change the _A&P_ branding to something, you know, _English?_
@Thiesi A&P is a former US grocery chain.
@@Thiesi A&P stands for Atlantic & Pacific.
@@mrchicken388 Interesting. I just read on Wikipedia Tengelmann became a shareholder of _A&P_ in the late 70s and the majority shareholder soon after, and, as a result, started using the brand for their discount products. That's definitely one to file under the _TIL_ category.
I just watched a guy light a candle
I loved it.
I wonder if the candles melted faster with the kettle on top. That would have trapped heat and sped it along. Still really cool though!
It's, likely and possible ! However you can't heat a kettle over a torch ! The first point I agree on .
@@vidtech2630 If it's a modern LED torch, yes you can 😆
Home Emergency Battery Candles (batteries not included)
Yup, I do remember red Eveready batteries. They were sold up until around the end of the 80s. But I think only AA and 9V remained by then (the rest were the black/gold "Super Heavy Duty").
Handcrafted in British Hong Kong is a great line
Ha, any old candle can be used as an "emergency candle"! During power outages when I was a kid, my mom would get out old dinner table candles that were no longer elegant enough for her special fancy dinners to use as emergency lighting. And I had a flashlight JUST like the one in the video back then.... only mine was red. It came with a special holder that I attached to the inside of a closet door via adhesive strips.
I miss those old carbon zinc batteries - they were less prone to leaking than the modern alkalines, so would be perfect for use in remote controls.
Can't you get them in the USA. Zinc Carbon batteries made by well known battery makers like Kodak are quite common in the U.K. 🙂
in the UK, the brand was usually 'EVER READY', 2 separate words, and no cat, but did eventually see the one word version, probably as the UK division was spun off as an independent company not long after it was formed, official name was British Ever Ready Export Company' - BEREC , they also made/had made and sold radios under both 'Ever Ready' and Berec brands, although Berec was mostly used for 'export' models originally
worth noting that the vintage everready logo and branding looked near identical to the "everlight" branded candles, it also had the sloped lettering at the top, a black cat jumping the 9 in the middle and said either their size or "flashlight battery" on the bottom part oh and it did have a completely red wrapper
so yes, these candles are very much styled after the everready cells of the time
The Duracell bunny just shat himself!
*Energizer bunny, here in North America.
7:00 - This is why tea candles are better, they can't fall over. Put them inside a polished stainless steel bowl or pan, and they light up an entire room. Put a kitchen cooling rack over a candle (half a sq. ft., inch high legs) and put you kettle on that.
First time I have ever seen a Battery candle and first time I have heard of British Hong Kong. A nice novelty candle all the same.
Now it is just a province of China 😞 So much for one country two systems.
Light *and* tea? Absolutely got to give this one to the candles!
Those metal bits at the bottom are pretty common with candles. most glass candles use them, you'll see them glued to the bottom. It keeps the wick upright when all the wax is melted
I used to obsess over the Eveready cat logo when I was a kid. My parents used to buy that brand in the 70s.
This is your silliest video yet. 👍👍
This is obviously a novelty candle and not a real emergency candle that are used for blackouts. Also made in British Hong Kong was the precursor to Made in China!
Or, if they wanted to be especially verbose, "Made in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong" 😂
@ that’s like making rubbish products in a monarchy!
I want to know what "ET Hong Kong" meant on the fake Rolex watches. @@ericdunn8718
@@ericdunn8718 Or to be succinct "Empire Made". In the early 1970s I bought a new flashlight that still had that stamped in the base.
I still have a use those old style flashlights !
Any reason why you haven't switched to an LED one with li-ion batteries? It'll cost a lot less in the long run.
You crack me up -- you find the weirdest and rarest items to review. Too funny.
THe idea of candles for emergencies isn't bad. Always have a few candles in house. I mean you don't want to be stuck walking around with flashlights right?
Hell old christmas lights can do wonders too to light up way the hall goes.
Hah, you had me in the first half 🤣
Only you could make a video where I end up invested and rooting for a candle to light…. 😂
This little demonstration reminds me of Look Around You
We've got a couple in our house.
They're enough to keep a room above freezing.
Or light two candles at once (to try to compete with the flashlight brightness) while using the two batteries in the flashlight haha 🤔
I think I remember seeing those same candles back in the day? I can't say for sure but they look familiar.
Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
I can't believe I watched the whole video! 😃
I saw that logo and thought of black cat fireworks! Maybe more apt for a product you light on fire, but maybe not inside the house 😂
That looked like a banging mug o' tea in fairness.
Scary thing is, I remember when Everready used that branding on their batteries.
So did I. Especially since I live near St. Louis which is the hub of the company that owns Eveready and now Ray O Vac, since it’s been brought into Energizer’s business.
@@RJDA.DakotaNo ownership changed hands. Energizer began as a sub-brand of Eveready. The main company name was changed to Energizer when they became a publicly-traded company, but the lineage is continuous.
Having 2 candles together is actualy what caused the 2nd candle to melt faster because the 1st candle was right next to it
I love this smug cat.
Great Video Jasco was a department store at one time !
Growig up in Toronto I remember A&P grocery stores and watching WNED and WUTV from Buffalo.
Years ago, we had a friend, who's Mother In Law , was
named Mrs Wick
I could not hold a candle to her. 😅
I bet you could wax poetic how she lit up your life.🕯️
I had no shine for her.
Never burn unattended is something that some people do not do. If you saw that video of the girl's car going up in smoke that's an example.