I have several of the chime candles for an emergency but I think this is a great idea. I am going to try it out. Thanks for all of the time and effort you put into your videos. They are a great service to the community.
I have made quite a few of the shortening oil candles and can attest to their longevity, I also made one in a short jar that I put five birthday cake candles in and was able to use it to cook and boil water over.
I used a jar that had the “better than bouillon” brand paste in it and used a five candle pattern that resembles the five on a standard six sided die, I’m going to make some more like it for future use as well and explore using some larger jars and candles, though my first one fit nicely in my backpack for camping and provides enough for a three day camping trip with no problem and fuel leftover.
Almost identical to the way I make mine, right down to the essential oils, although I will try your tip on using salt. The only things I do differently are: I put the jar in a pan of water, and bring the water gently close to simmer, whilst chunking up the crisco and dropping it in the jar. I also close the jar the second its cool enough to insert the candle. Then its sealed up with less bacteria and crap in the jar. Out of religious safety principles I always use a pan of water to heat solid fuels and waxes to limit the heat to 100celsius. This only really applies to petrochemical wax, but the vapours can rise over the pan and drop down to the cooking flame, causing a flash over. Probably overkill on Crisco but good habits and all that. Thank you for the video. These candles are wonderful. If the power went out, and it was sub zero, you could stay warm by just putting a small tent up in the living room, and have one of these burning inside (with a little ventilation)
Made the laundry detergent today.( if you cut to soap into cubes and pulse it in a food processor along with baking soda it works perfectly 1 bar of soap to 1 pound of baking soda at a time) Thank you so much for all that you share. I will definitely make this candle.
I use a potato peeler. Get peeler with larger handle or wrap handle with piece of old foam or etc to make it easier. Oh and make sure soap is very cold.the cold makes it easier to peel.
Not sure if the price is the same now but if you're short on time or can't find all the supplies atm, Sam's has a powder detergent that's 35 lb for 18 dollars.
The Crisco candle is a great idea! I've made several small ones using baby food jars and birthday candles and they last 5-6 hours depending on conditions. My power tends to go out in the summer so the hotter temperatures mean the shortening doesn't stay as hard and it burns faster.
I reused Oui Yogurt jars with the bday candles. Put aluminum on to secured with rubber band. Then boxed. There are numerous videos on how to disperse heat within stacked bricks and fan. I have a USB fan that is used with my solar transmission cooler ac and solar power bank.
I've heard you should use the trick candles that re-light themselves. Not sure as I haven't tried it yet, but I know it's a better way to get a campfire lit.
Wow I am impressed! 300+ hours is hard to beat, can't wait to add that to my preps =) Also consider the old fashion oil lamps, they give off a lot of light especially if placed up high in the corner of a room, it lights the whole room enough to even read by. And remember to never leave an open flame unattended.
Don't forget extra wicks, they are still available and cheap, also kerosene works just as well as "lamp oil", I found 3 gallon jugs of kerosene for $12.00 each at Home Depot last year and bought a bunch for my preps. They may still have them in stock.
In the Netherlands Crisco is rather expensive. I have bought Led's of 1meter (3,5 ft) running on 3 AA batteries. Batteries last a year and have enough light.
A tip for putting hot stuff in glass without using hot water.... just in case the water is more of a precious resource: put a metal spoon, knife, or fork into the container and slowly pour in the glass. It won't shatter. I guess the heat transfer into metal before the glass and allows enough time for the glass to acclimate. Something I thought about. If you're worried about the candle falling over just melt the bottom of it before putting it in and let it harden to the bottom.
I made these candles and I think it's the coolest idea for an affordable price. I put them in small paint cans. I burned them for several hours, they work great! The lid goes right on top to keep it sealed. When storing several, which I did, I felt it worked better than glass, because I didn't want them to break. It was easier to store them on top of each other, without worrying about them breaking, as I would worry with glass. Plus the plastic containers left over after the Crisco has been removed, work great for plants, just remember to solder or drill holes in the bottom.
Good quote at the start . I built one of these in a small Mason jar, burnt it and it lasted nearly 5 days straight. It works. Good information. I built a hurri-can stove using a metal coffee can,paraffin wax and three large braided wicks set equidistant. Holes are cut or punched with a piercing can opener around the top for airflow. The holes also provide a way to put a couple of pieces of wire as a pot supports in place.
I also make emergency candles 🕯 by putting 3 tea lights in a clean washed out tuna can. Just a little shaving down required. Then I heat my jar of scrap wax by heating in a pot of water on the stove and fill in the voids around the 3 tea lights. With the 3 flames I got 2 cups of water to 203 degrees in my foldup camp stove but it wouldn't boil. Also..... while you're scrap wax is melted, have a couple rolls of Jute Twine handy that are small enough to fit in the jar and dip them into the hot liquid wax. The twine will wick up the wax and you will have a good multi-purpose cordage you can use for fire starting, and it's disposable in the fire..... and very cheap.
I have tried this. It does work, but a thing to try before SHTF. I spent one winter heating and lighting a room as an experiment. So several weeks with candles of all types. It's important to melt the oil/Crisco properly and have a sterile jar, especially if you're making it ahead of time as they can go rancid and moldy. Have several to burn in rotation, as once it has burned an hour or so both the jar and oils are quite hot. Should the wick go out it collapses into the now runny Crisco oil and is hard to relight, so that needs to cool down before you relight. Have a decent long lighter. Make sure the area you use the candle in is stable and you don't mind getting oil on it during operations. Have oven gloves or similar to handle the hot bottle. Never leave a naked flame alone, ever. Flashover from hot oils can and has happened. Hot oily glass is slippery. Be prepared to clean walls and ceilings of carbon residue afterward. Make sure there is some ventilation. It took 6 flames to raise 9sqm about a degree or two from 8 to 10degrees C This is due to the BTU output of the flame and the start temp and humidity and volume of the room.
I would put a cork or other material coaster under the jar full of hot oil, to keep it from possibly cracking the glass shelf in the fridge. It's cold, the jar is not, might crack from the temp. difference.
Made three of these sometime last year. Found quart mason jars with handles and generic Crisco both on sale. Thought the handle was a good add-on due to ease of carrying it if I needed to. Just sitting on a shelf with used jar lids to cover them.
Great idea! The best and longest candle I've used to date were those white religious candles. I had one burn for 6 days trying to keep the frost off my lemon tree. Yep.
Excellent tip. Especially like the short term "in a pinch" multiple purposes: light, heat, cooking oil, lubricant, rust inhibitor, metal conditioner, leather conditioner, water proofer, etc.
great idea! I will be trying this. I've been reusing my burner wax and pouring the melted wax into a jar with a wick. In a year I've made 6 large jar candles for the cost of wicks. I doubt they will last 300 hours but it's better than nothing.
I will try the salt. I have experimented with these candles 🕯 and I suggest if you have a choice, select a glass container with a wide mouth. As the candle burns down the heat 'cone' from the flame will heat the top rim of the glass jar and that heat will travel down and melt the Crisco and the candle will fall over in the liquid. It's a summer thing and probably won't happen in the winter or with cool air.
This is the most thorough, well-explained, and best video I have seen on making this type of candle. Well done! Some of the videos I've seen on this topic have been done incorrectly and are flat-out dangerous. This is an excellent video for beginners or even advanced preppers.
I think I could use orange oil for the smell and bug repellant and it would not taste bad if I had to use it to cook. Good video, the camping candles look useful.
If you put a Terra cotta planter over the top and keep the hole at the bottom free to get air to the flame. The planter can act as a radiant heater as well.
@@janetlynne8712 Yes the bottom of the planter is on top. The material of the planter gathers in the heat of the flame and makes it radiant heater rather than most of the heat going straight up. Nice little emergency heater for cold nights.
You always make such clear and informative videos. There's no fear mongering, no selling a special survival backpack, just high quality information backed with evidence and experience. This is why I like these videos so much. You actually put in so much thought and effort and that's why I trust and respect your channel.
Chris, I really appreciate your channel. This is what I need. Information and knowledge that will help me prepare for any emergency. Not clickbait, panic peddling or "be scared, buy stuff from me"tactics. With that said, WTF happened over at Canadian prepper?
Yes. Longevity. AND I have had leftover solid Crisco. I use it when I make pie crusts so have always had some.on hand. So I had tapered candles just like you have done here. But...City Prepper not all of that math!! 😊
You can use used cooking oil and salt. Fill a jar with salt then pour in the oil, then put a cotton ball on the head of the match and push it into the salt and oil mixture and light the cotton ball after it soaks up a little oil. This is something my wife's family used to do in the Philippines when she lived there. When the oil goes down just add more to the salt.
Lo, these many years ago, our cub scout project had us make emergency items out of a tuna can (cleaned), cardboard cut to fit the height of the can, and rolled up into a tight fit in the can. We then melted wax over the carboard, stuck a wick into it and lit it. Wasn't so much how effective it was, as trying to teach us to think outside the box, I believe.Would make an okay firestarter, I suppose. They worked, but this candle is much more practical.
I love your DIY videos. I made the laundry detergent and it works great. I did add a 3 lb. Tub of OxiClean. The one for stain and order control. Even takes care of barnyard orders and really clean. Than you
I never eat Crisco. I know it's history and how bad it is for health, but I love how easy this candle is. This is my kind of DIY candle project! I will have my kids do them too. Looks like fun.
Hey Kris I've been enjoying your content and learning a metric ton of great stuff for a long time ! I have been a practical prepper for years & raised my 3 kids, navy brats, in the preparedness lifestyle and its helping them more now than ever, to take care of their own kids/ spouses/ properties. That said, l have friends who know l prep but not to what extent. I'm always willing to share knowledge readily however. The last couple of mo have brought our lifestyles to the forefront more than ever - l just wanted to tell you, while I've been sharing your content for a long time, I'm sending ppl to download your guide. It's full of useful things and helps other to ask more pertinent/ useful to them questions ! So a huge thanks from VA !! Be well 🇺🇸
An empty 1 quart new metal paint can and lid works as an alternative to glass and is less prone to breakage. If you plan it right you can use the can both as a protective cover and extinguishing cover. This is important for those with long hair leaning over a candle when you try to blow it out.
And pets. Cat and dog tails can be a problem. Not so much in the way of a tail catching fire like they can with tapered candles, which can and has happened (don't ask, all my dogs now have tails that curl over the back of their bodies or no tails), but because a dog, but because a happy enough dog can knock the jar over and spill the fat all over. This isn't much of a fire hazard, as the most likely scenario is that the flame would go out if the jar was knocked over, but I don't like cleaning greasy oily messes up and prefer to avoid that all together. I do make my emergency candles out of hamburger fat and have been busy canning ground beef and making these today. Looking forward to trying to salt trick.
Yep, my sister caught her 80's bangs on fire while attempting to extinguish a candle. Once I knew she wasn't injured, I could not stop laughing. Karma got me back when I burned my eyelashes off after using cheap mascara and getting my face too close to the oven when I opened the door.
You are amazing. I cannot thank you enough for being so willing to teach us how to prep. I've been watching your channel since the beginning of c19 and have learned so much and have prepped quite a bit. Would not have learned half the stuff had I not found your channel. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Stay safe
Good video. Regarding candles, I know this is pretty basic but I haven't seen much mention in the prepping videos I've watched that candles make good firestarters like lighters and are useful for saving matches or lighter fluid if there's not any highly combustible starter material and the ignition flame has to stay under a pile of twigs or something for a while to get a fire going.
Great idea. I made one this weekend. Using HEB brand shortening, cut the price nearly in half. I plan to make another with citronella oil and test it out against the sceeters which will be back very soon. Thank you, CP.
Thing is, one of the least prepped items is a good fat source. Hydrogenated vegetable oils have incredible shelf lives. Better I think to save your Crisco and go to Dollar Tree to buy those glass pillar candles you mentioned in the video. A twelve pack is usually available and it’ll run you $15 now that all items have increased in price to $1.25. Still a cool idea and very well done video as usual.
I was thinking the same thing. Great Granny always said there were better uses for fat sources than 99.9% of the projects I came up with as a kid. Only ones that ever passed the scrutiny that wasn't food related was smearing a thin layer of bacon grease over extremely dry feet in winter.
@@GraceConyersDirtologist She sounds like a wise woman! People who lived through the depression were and are an absolute treasure. My Grandfather taught me to save my bacon grease.
@@CaliforniaCarpenter7 I poured cooled bacon fat into my mini-muffin pan (the Teflon kind you can bend easily). I froze the bacon pellets & store them in a Ziploc. A small amount of bacon fat is a game changer for pancakes & eggs. Costco also sells real bacon bits so I sprinkle a handful into my eggs or quiches. Seriously though, the smell of caramelized bacon knots (many recipes online) is what drew me away from being a vegetarian for almost 2 years. Perhaps the ENEMY can be drawn in with bacon, then put into a carb coma with homemade bread. Bacon will become more scarce as time passes but even the fat will be like a miracle.
@@fireofevender5515 Awesome idea! I made homemade gyoza a couple of days ago and prepared enough to freeze several extra portions. First night I cooked them up with butter as the fat and they were good, but last night I used bacon fat instead and I swear to God it was a game changer! I like the lard so much that I buy cheap bacon on purpose because it has more fat to render. These grocery price hikes have me considering buying a couple of the green tubs of lard from the supermarket just in case bacon keeps getting more expensive.
Use rendered animal fats. Vegetable oils are terribly unhealthy. I have developed IBS in the past few years so my GI tract is now so sensitive I can't have any veg oils or it's like my colon pulled the fire alarm. But animal fats like butter, lard, and bone marrow, no problem.
Great video. Thanks for doing the science on the burn time. My only improvement would be to have a metal can to store the candle in when not burning. I would hate to drop such a lovely candle.
Keep a fire blanket nearby when melting wax or oil directly on the heat source! Or better yet: put the jar in a pan of water and bring the water to a near boil. That way you don't run the chance of overheating the fuel and starting a fire.
I am so happy you presented this tutorial. I was just going to stick a candle in the Crisco container! I will be saving my glass jars for use. You’re so thorough with all your tips. Thank you so much!!! I spent 6 hours today in my prep pantry and have a nice large bin with all my candle supplies.
We were lucky to find an entire case of those touch lights at the thrift shop. I put one in every room and every closet, and I bought some rechargeable batteries, along with a solar charger.
These candles work great for an indoor space heater. Just grab some terracotta pots and use a crisco candle with 3 wicks and it'll heat up a small space decently. Make sure to have ventilation. It doesn't produce massive heat, but it'll keep you alive.
I definately intend to try it for sure!!!! This is the best one yet I have seen so far. I love how you get techi about it and explain it further. You have the best voice for these teaching videos! Thanks again Kris!!!
You can soften and partially melt shortning and not allow it to heat up too much. Stir well until you can easily put in jar. You can then use a funnel to add shortning to jar. Do not use citrus essential oil for fragrance as it can pool and combust. Thanks, Chris. Great idea!
I used a couple of these with terracotta pots and stainless steel elbows to heat my camper van last night. It was a couple degrees below freezing outside, but inside it was 9 degrees F warmer. Not exactly toasty, but at least there was no danger of anything freezing overnight.
I understand Crisco is brought by the Dutch? Well I'm Dutch and here you must look to find Crisco.and a little jar cost 10euro's. But I bought one to tray.must say it burns good without smelling. So good that there are video's like yours.thanks
Ask a fireman how dangerous a crisco candle is. A much safer option is to purchase solar garden lights. They will last for years. You can charge them inside on a sunny windowsill. We put them in a large vase at the window during the day and then put each one in a single flower vase and spread them around the house where needed. The ones we have outdoors that come on nightly and are subjected to the elements are three years old and still going. We've had three power outages in the past year and the ones in the emergency kit are two years old and worked great each time. So if we have prolonged power outages in the future these should be a safe longterm solution for light.
I've had a problem with one neighbor, (old guy you would never suspect!) "exchanging my working DT solar spotlights for his non-working ones! A trail cam in my front yard clued me in. For a whole I just thought my DT got on a bad batch! With the trail cam- bought for another purpose- was just trying it out- I knew who to pass a casual "Would you believe, somebody actually stole my new solar lights & left me dead ones!" with. Casually mentioned he might want to put in a security camera system like the one I "was about to put in". LOL- no more mystery lights!
Some essential oils can be quite foul-smelling, or even nausea- or headaxhe-inducing, when heated like this, so definitely test this out before you might need it. Geranium for example, repels bugs and is soothing to my autistic son, but gives my father migraines within a few minutes of exposure.
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OIL LAMPS work great with a strand from a mop as a wick.
I have several of the chime candles for an emergency but I think this is a great idea. I am going to try it out. Thanks for all of the time and effort you put into your videos. They are a great service to the community.
Love this fundamental content that focuses on DIY and self sufficiency. Those old school skills that have been lost with time need to be brushed off.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Finally a use for crisco that doesn't involve killing your heart.
Putting salt around a candle! You learn something new every day!
I have made quite a few of the shortening oil candles and can attest to their longevity, I also made one in a short jar that I put five birthday cake candles in and was able to use it to cook and boil water over.
Great idea!
I used a jar that had the “better than bouillon” brand paste in it and used a five candle pattern that resembles the five on a standard six sided die, I’m going to make some more like it for future use as well and explore using some larger jars and candles, though my first one fit nicely in my backpack for camping and provides enough for a three day camping trip with no problem and fuel leftover.
Almost identical to the way I make mine, right down to the essential oils, although I will try your tip on using salt. The only things I do differently are:
I put the jar in a pan of water, and bring the water gently close to simmer, whilst chunking up the crisco and dropping it in the jar.
I also close the jar the second its cool enough to insert the candle. Then its sealed up with less bacteria and crap in the jar.
Out of religious safety principles I always use a pan of water to heat solid fuels and waxes to limit the heat to 100celsius. This only really applies to petrochemical wax, but the vapours can rise over the pan and drop down to the cooking flame, causing a flash over. Probably overkill on Crisco but good habits and all that.
Thank you for the video. These candles are wonderful. If the power went out, and it was sub zero, you could stay warm by just putting a small tent up in the living room, and have one of these burning inside (with a little ventilation)
Well thought out comment! 🙂
@@patriciatinkey2677 Very kind of you to say Patricia. Good luck to you and yours in these strange times.
Warming the wax or oil in a double container (jar in boiling water) is very much safer!
Cleanest version of this candle and how to make it that I've seen. Thanks, Kris.
Wow, thank you!
Made the laundry detergent today.( if you cut to soap into cubes and pulse it in a food processor along with baking soda it works perfectly 1 bar of soap to 1 pound of baking soda at a time) Thank you so much for all that you share. I will definitely make this candle.
I use a potato peeler. Get peeler with larger handle or wrap handle with piece of old foam or etc to make it easier. Oh and make sure soap is very cold.the cold makes it easier to peel.
Not sure if the price is the same now but if you're short on time or can't find all the supplies atm, Sam's has a powder detergent that's 35 lb for 18 dollars.
@@katwilliams2950 thank you that's a great price, I will look at the ingredients in it and see if I can use it.
The Crisco candle is a great idea! I've made several small ones using baby food jars and birthday candles and they last 5-6 hours depending on conditions. My power tends to go out in the summer so the hotter temperatures mean the shortening doesn't stay as hard and it burns faster.
I reused Oui Yogurt jars with the bday candles. Put aluminum on to secured with rubber band. Then boxed. There are numerous videos on how to disperse heat within stacked bricks and fan. I have a USB fan that is used with my solar transmission cooler ac and solar power bank.
@@Bluepeacocks88 Sounds like you have planned out a great set-up.
In a pinch you can put a birthday candle into a stick of butter or margarine. More expensive but handy if traveling light.
I've heard you should use the trick candles that re-light themselves. Not sure as I haven't tried it yet, but I know it's a better way to get a campfire lit.
Wow I am impressed! 300+ hours is hard to beat, can't wait to add that to my preps =)
Also consider the old fashion oil lamps, they give off a lot of light especially if placed up high in the corner of a room, it lights the whole room enough to even read by.
And remember to never leave an open flame unattended.
Also putting your oil lamp or candles in front of mirrors adds that much more light
Put that oil lamp in front of a clean mirror to nearly double the effective light output.
@@tennesseeterri LOL...I commented before reading yours! Guess "Great minds think alike!" 🙂
We have two oil lamps. And lots of lamp oil
Don't forget extra wicks, they are still available and cheap, also kerosene works just as well as "lamp oil", I found 3 gallon jugs of kerosene for $12.00 each at Home Depot last year and bought a bunch for my preps. They may still have them in stock.
In the Netherlands Crisco is rather expensive. I have bought Led's of 1meter (3,5 ft) running on 3 AA batteries. Batteries last a year and have enough light.
Goeie , gaan we hier ook proberen , tnx
In the UK apparently Trex, Flora white and Cookeen are equivalent to Crisco. Perhaps you have something similar?
Good idea!
A tip for putting hot stuff in glass without using hot water.... just in case the water is more of a precious resource: put a metal spoon, knife, or fork into the container and slowly pour in the glass. It won't shatter. I guess the heat transfer into metal before the glass and allows enough time for the glass to acclimate.
Something I thought about. If you're worried about the candle falling over just melt the bottom of it before putting it in and let it harden to the bottom.
Thanks Chris, always leave a light on.
12 1/2 days for about $8 of Crisco. That’s really good. That’s for the information 👍👍
I made these candles and I think it's the coolest idea for an affordable price. I put them in small paint cans. I burned them for several hours, they work great!
The lid goes right on top to keep it sealed. When storing several, which I did, I felt it worked better than glass, because I didn't want them to break.
It was easier to store them on top of each other, without worrying about them breaking, as I would worry with glass.
Plus the plastic containers left over after the Crisco has been removed, work great for plants, just remember to solder or drill holes in the bottom.
Yep, glass & earthquakes don't go together. We had a 5.7 here and every dish in my friend's cupboard broke. Keep your shoes by your bed!
@@fireofevender5515 I have a problem, I admit, I have way too many shoes under my bed lol 😅
Good quote at the start . I built one of these in a small Mason jar, burnt it and it lasted nearly 5 days straight. It works. Good information. I built a hurri-can stove using a metal coffee can,paraffin wax and three large braided wicks set equidistant. Holes are cut or punched with a piercing can opener around the top for airflow. The holes also provide a way to put a couple of pieces of wire as a pot supports in place.
I also make emergency candles 🕯 by putting 3 tea lights in a clean washed out tuna can. Just a little shaving down required. Then I heat my jar of scrap wax by heating in a pot of water on the stove and fill in the voids around the 3 tea lights. With the 3 flames I got 2 cups of water to 203 degrees in my foldup camp stove but it wouldn't boil.
Also..... while you're scrap wax is melted, have a couple rolls of Jute Twine handy that are small enough to fit in the jar and dip them into the hot liquid wax. The twine will wick up the wax and you will have a good multi-purpose cordage you can use for fire starting, and it's disposable in the fire..... and very cheap.
I have tried this. It does work, but a thing to try before SHTF. I spent one winter heating and lighting a room as an experiment. So several weeks with candles of all types. It's important to melt the oil/Crisco properly and have a sterile jar, especially if you're making it ahead of time as they can go rancid and moldy. Have several to burn in rotation, as once it has burned an hour or so both the jar and oils are quite hot. Should the wick go out it collapses into the now runny Crisco oil and is hard to relight, so that needs to cool down before you relight. Have a decent long lighter. Make sure the area you use the candle in is stable and you don't mind getting oil on it during operations. Have oven gloves or similar to handle the hot bottle. Never leave a naked flame alone, ever. Flashover from hot oils can and has happened. Hot oily glass is slippery. Be prepared to clean walls and ceilings of carbon residue afterward. Make sure there is some ventilation. It took 6 flames to raise 9sqm about a degree or two from 8 to 10degrees C This is due to the BTU output of the flame and the start temp and humidity and volume of the room.
Great Chris. Simple. Works well. Cheap. Common items to make. What more can be said.
One of the most practical videos I've seen in a long time
I've seen these in other vids. They just open the crisco and shove a candle in it. And this is covered at 02:00 ish
That’s what I had planned on doing. I may test it out and see if this will work well.
I would put a cork or other material coaster under the jar full of hot oil, to keep it from possibly cracking the glass shelf in the fridge. It's cold, the jar is not, might crack from the temp. difference.
I got a small mirror to use under and magnify the light
Smart move!
We have a box preassembled to make these not realizing they are 300 hr candles. Excellent info. Thank you.
Made three of these sometime last year. Found quart mason jars with handles and generic Crisco both on sale. Thought the handle was a good add-on due to ease of carrying it if I needed to. Just sitting on a shelf with used jar lids to cover them.
Great idea! The best and longest candle I've used to date were those white religious candles. I had one burn for 6 days trying to keep the frost off my lemon tree.
Yep.
Excellent tip. Especially like the short term "in a pinch" multiple purposes: light, heat, cooking oil, lubricant, rust inhibitor, metal conditioner, leather conditioner, water proofer, etc.
great idea! I will be trying this.
I've been reusing my burner wax and pouring the melted wax into a jar with a wick. In a year I've made 6 large jar candles for the cost of wicks. I doubt they will last 300 hours but it's better than nothing.
I do the same because it seems such a waste to not do something with it. It's also good to make fire starters
@@secoura Ah yes...fire starters- something I forgot to do yet! Thanks for the reminder! 🙂
Burner wax?
@@unclejj509 the smelly good wax that is used in a special burner, but no wick. They're like 2 bucks at Walmart. Smell lasts about a day.
@@wyomom7260 OK Thanks
I will try the salt. I have experimented with these candles 🕯 and I suggest if you have a choice, select a glass container with a wide mouth.
As the candle burns down the heat 'cone' from the flame will heat the top rim of the glass jar and that heat will travel down and melt the Crisco and the candle will fall over in the liquid.
It's a summer thing and probably won't happen in the winter or with cool air.
This is the most thorough, well-explained, and best video I have seen on making this type of candle. Well done! Some of the videos I've seen on this topic have been done incorrectly and are flat-out dangerous. This is an excellent video for beginners or even advanced preppers.
I think I could use orange oil for the smell and bug repellant and it would not taste bad if I had to use it to cook. Good video, the camping candles look useful.
I made powdered orange peel. I am assuming that would work.
If you put a Terra cotta planter over the top and keep the hole at the bottom free to get air to the flame. The planter can act as a radiant heater as well.
Pot goes upside down?
@@janetlynne8712 Yes the bottom of the planter is on top. The material of the planter gathers in the heat of the flame and makes it radiant heater rather than most of the heat going straight up. Nice little emergency heater for cold nights.
@@christopherp.1391 works for small, tiny rooms. I was hoping that it would work for my family room, but it didn't.
@@lucymarion2945 you could at least put them in the bathrooms during the winter to help keep the plumbing from freezing and causing a mess later on.
@@christopherp.1391 oh yeah, that's a great idea...thank you!!👍
You always make such clear and informative videos. There's no fear mongering, no selling a special survival backpack, just high quality information backed with evidence and experience. This is why I like these videos so much. You actually put in so much thought and effort and that's why I trust and respect your channel.
Chris, I really appreciate your channel. This is what I need. Information and knowledge that will help me prepare for any emergency. Not clickbait, panic peddling or "be scared, buy stuff from me"tactics.
With that said, WTF happened over at Canadian prepper?
Yes. Longevity. AND I have had leftover solid Crisco. I use it when I make pie crusts so have always had some.on hand. So I had tapered candles just like you have done here.
But...City Prepper not all of that math!! 😊
Awesome thx. Please keep feeding us more like this.
You can use used cooking oil and salt. Fill a jar with salt then pour in the oil, then put a cotton ball on the head of the match and push it into the salt and oil mixture and light the cotton ball after it soaks up a little oil. This is something my wife's family used to do in the Philippines when she lived there. When the oil goes down just add more to the salt.
Lo, these many years ago, our cub scout project had us make emergency items out of a tuna can (cleaned), cardboard cut to fit the height of the can, and rolled up into a tight fit in the can. We then melted wax over the carboard, stuck a wick into it and lit it. Wasn't so much how effective it was, as trying to teach us to think outside the box, I believe.Would make an okay firestarter, I suppose. They worked, but this candle is much more practical.
Buddy burners!
I made them too!
Thanks for the great content, I'm going to get a couple cans of Crisco for just such a project.
Great tip on using the burning of a candle to estimate time. Never thought of that. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Kris!!! I love the videos where I have something actionable that I can try out too.
I made these (used old Oui yogurt jars) but also have tealight wicks to reuse my regular tealights this way. Have crisco stored for the refills
I love your DIY videos. I made the laundry detergent and it works great. I did add a 3 lb. Tub of OxiClean. The one for stain and order control. Even takes care of barnyard orders and really clean. Than you
I never eat Crisco. I know it's history and how bad it is for health, but I love how easy this candle is. This is my kind of DIY candle project! I will have my kids do them too. Looks like fun.
Excellent information as always Sir ! Tu for your service. May God Help Us All . Amen 🙏🏼
What a great idea with the candle!!
Hey Kris
I've been enjoying your content and learning a metric ton of great stuff for a long time ! I have been a practical prepper for years & raised my 3 kids, navy brats, in the preparedness lifestyle and its helping them more now than ever, to take care of their own kids/ spouses/ properties.
That said, l have friends who know l prep but not to what extent. I'm always willing to share knowledge readily however. The last couple of mo have brought our lifestyles to the forefront more than ever - l just wanted to tell you, while I've been sharing your content for a long time, I'm sending ppl to download your guide. It's full of useful things and helps other to ask more pertinent/ useful to them questions ! So a huge thanks from VA !!
Be well 🇺🇸
This is FANTASTIC. I can buy and use dollar store candles and get 300 hours instead of 1 or 2 hours.
Kris, great practical video 👍 Thanks for another helpful prepping instructional.
Glad it was helpful!
An empty 1 quart new metal paint can and lid works as an alternative to glass and is less prone to breakage. If you plan it right you can use the can both as a protective cover and extinguishing cover. This is important for those with long hair leaning over a candle when you try to blow it out.
Unfortunately putting the candle in a can cuts down on the amount of light you get. The light can go through the glass but not the metal can.
And pets. Cat and dog tails can be a problem. Not so much in the way of a tail catching fire like they can with tapered candles, which can and has happened (don't ask, all my dogs now have tails that curl over the back of their bodies or no tails), but because a dog, but because a happy enough dog can knock the jar over and spill the fat all over. This isn't much of a fire hazard, as the most likely scenario is that the flame would go out if the jar was knocked over, but I don't like cleaning greasy oily messes up and prefer to avoid that all together. I do make my emergency candles out of hamburger fat and have been busy canning ground beef and making these today. Looking forward to trying to salt trick.
Yep, my sister caught her 80's bangs on fire while attempting to extinguish a candle. Once I knew she wasn't injured, I could not stop laughing.
Karma got me back when I burned my eyelashes off after using cheap mascara and getting my face too close to the oven when I opened the door.
You are amazing. I cannot thank you enough for being so willing to teach us how to prep. I've been watching your channel since the beginning of c19 and have learned so much and have prepped quite a bit. Would not have learned half the stuff had I not found your channel. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Stay safe
Good video.
Regarding candles, I know this is pretty basic but I haven't seen much mention in the prepping videos I've watched that candles make good firestarters like lighters and are useful for saving matches or lighter fluid if there's not any highly combustible starter material and the ignition flame has to stay under a pile of twigs or something for a while to get a fire going.
This especially good if you're anything like me and bought an extra container of shortening 2 years ago and still haven't used it all. LoL
Useful information, as always.
Glad you think so!
Great idea. I made one this weekend. Using HEB brand shortening, cut the price nearly in half. I plan to make another with citronella oil and test it out against the sceeters which will be back very soon. Thank you, CP.
Ahh a fellow Texan. I miss HEB....Meijers just can't compete.
Thing is, one of the least prepped items is a good fat source. Hydrogenated vegetable oils have incredible shelf lives. Better I think to save your Crisco and go to Dollar Tree to buy those glass pillar candles you mentioned in the video. A twelve pack is usually available and it’ll run you $15 now that all items have increased in price to $1.25. Still a cool idea and very well done video as usual.
I was thinking the same thing. Great Granny always said there were better uses for fat sources than 99.9% of the projects I came up with as a kid. Only ones that ever passed the scrutiny that wasn't food related was smearing a thin layer of bacon grease over extremely dry feet in winter.
@@GraceConyersDirtologist She sounds like a wise woman! People who lived through the depression were and are an absolute treasure. My Grandfather taught me to save my bacon grease.
@@CaliforniaCarpenter7 I poured cooled bacon fat into my mini-muffin pan (the Teflon kind you can bend easily). I froze the bacon pellets & store them in a Ziploc. A small amount of bacon fat is a game changer for pancakes & eggs. Costco also sells real bacon bits so I sprinkle a handful into my eggs or quiches.
Seriously though, the smell of caramelized bacon knots (many recipes online) is what drew me away from being a vegetarian for almost 2 years.
Perhaps the ENEMY can be drawn in with bacon, then put into a carb coma with homemade bread.
Bacon will become more scarce as time passes but even the fat will be like a miracle.
@@fireofevender5515 Awesome idea! I made homemade gyoza a couple of days ago and prepared enough to freeze several extra portions. First night I cooked them up with butter as the fat and they were good, but last night I used bacon fat instead and I swear to God it was a game changer! I like the lard so much that I buy cheap bacon on purpose because it has more fat to render.
These grocery price hikes have me considering buying a couple of the green tubs of lard from the supermarket just in case bacon keeps getting more expensive.
Use rendered animal fats. Vegetable oils are terribly unhealthy. I have developed IBS in the past few years so my GI tract is now so sensitive I can't have any veg oils or it's like my colon pulled the fire alarm. But animal fats like butter, lard, and bone marrow, no problem.
Great video. Thanks for doing the science on the burn time. My only improvement would be to have a metal can to store the candle in when not burning. I would hate to drop such a lovely candle.
I Learned this trick back when I was a Boy Scout. 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏🤗
THANK YOU this is an awesome option. I bought a can of crisco and was going to push a lantern wick into the can but I like this option better.
I love your videos .. cause you are not adding more “panic” to the situation. Thank you!
Kris, thank u so much, I never thought of this. LUCRETIA
This is a great idea. I love the idea of having two uses for the Crisco. The more ideas where things have two or more uses are the better. Thanks!
Keep a fire blanket nearby when melting wax or oil directly on the heat source! Or better yet: put the jar in a pan of water and bring the water to a near boil. That way you don't run the chance of overheating the fuel and starting a fire.
I have never made this. But I am going to try it. Thank you for sharing this.
Great idea, I will find vegetable shortening to try this out. The salt spoon is so cute ☺️
Great info. 300+ hour candle is awesome
I am so happy you presented this tutorial. I was just going to stick a candle in the Crisco container! I will be saving my glass jars for use. You’re so thorough with all your tips. Thank you so much!!! I spent 6 hours today in my prep pantry and have a nice large bin with all my candle supplies.
Personally, I’m omitting the essential oils for possible bug out detection.
Great idea, thanks so much!
We were lucky to find an entire case of those touch lights at the thrift shop. I put one in every room and every closet, and I bought some rechargeable batteries, along with a solar charger.
These candles work great for an indoor space heater. Just grab some terracotta pots and use a crisco candle with 3 wicks and it'll heat up a small space decently. Make sure to have ventilation. It doesn't produce massive heat, but it'll keep you alive.
so cool, thanks
Great video! Thank you for sharing this easy tip for extending the life of a stick candle!
Hi from Syracuse NY brother thank you for sharing your thoughts and facts and truth
Thanks for listening
Thank you for sharing brother and a different way to make a candle
I love your practical application videos. Thank you so much!!
I definately intend to try it for sure!!!! This is the best one yet I have seen so far. I love how you get techi about it and explain it further. You have the best voice for these teaching videos! Thanks again Kris!!!
You can soften and partially melt shortning and not allow it to heat up too much. Stir well until you can easily put in jar. You can then use a funnel to add shortning to jar.
Do not use citrus essential oil for fragrance as it can pool and combust.
Thanks, Chris. Great idea!
Great video! The lavender trick for bugs is awesome, gotta try it.
Thanks for sharing. You have given me another project to work on.
We make these in smaller jars. Good idea to make about 5 or 10 every month. Store them in different places.
I used a couple of these with terracotta pots and stainless steel elbows to heat my camper van last night. It was a couple degrees below freezing outside, but inside it was 9 degrees F warmer. Not exactly toasty, but at least there was no danger of anything freezing overnight.
Thanks! This is a great tutorial! 😁👍🏻
Thank you for the video.
I understand Crisco is brought by the Dutch? Well I'm Dutch and here you must look to find Crisco.and a little jar cost 10euro's. But I bought one to tray.must say it burns good without smelling. So good that there are video's like yours.thanks
There may be a different soy/palm oil base under a different brand name there.
I will make this candle, thank you so much for taking the time and sharing with us.
Thats a great idea for those who are unprepared or find theirselves in a bad situation without proper equipment/planning. Great video
Ask a fireman how dangerous a crisco candle is. A much safer option is to purchase solar garden lights. They will last for years. You can charge them inside on a sunny windowsill. We put them in a large vase at the window during the day and then put each one in a single flower vase and spread them around the house where needed. The ones we have outdoors that come on nightly and are subjected to the elements are three years old and still going. We've had three power outages in the past year and the ones in the emergency kit are two years old and worked great each time. So if we have prolonged power outages in the future these should be a safe longterm solution for light.
I've had a problem with one neighbor, (old guy you would never suspect!) "exchanging my working DT solar spotlights for his non-working ones! A trail cam in my front yard clued me in. For a whole I just thought my DT got on a bad batch!
With the trail cam- bought for another purpose- was just trying it out- I knew who to pass a casual "Would you believe, somebody actually stole my new solar lights & left me dead ones!" with. Casually mentioned he might want to put in a security camera system like the one I "was about to put in". LOL- no more mystery lights!
@@patriciatinkey2677 wow!
Great idea! I will make one for sure...I have all the items already. Thank you
Spot on, thanks for all your efforts!
Great idea for a candle! Also great way to use to expired Crisco!! Thank you !
Knowledge IS power. Thanks!!!!
Always!
Nice video. Keep them DIY videos coming. I plan to make a few thank you
hello. is there any substitute for crisco? dont have that in my country. thanks
Loving the wise words at the beginning from Saint Francis of Assisi🙏
Some essential oils can be quite foul-smelling, or even nausea- or headaxhe-inducing, when heated like this, so definitely test this out before you might need it. Geranium for example, repels bugs and is soothing to my autistic son, but gives my father migraines within a few minutes of exposure.
Thanks Kris
pay this, simple, effective , easy to make, nicely done
This is super awesome! Thank you very much!
Thank you so much for this GREETER idea!
Thank you