Cheap Emergency Crisco Candle Burns 7 Straight Days

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[–]magnora7[S] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

Apparently 1 pound of crisco will burn for approximately 100 hours! You can literally stick a piece of cotton in some crisco and boom you have a long-lasting candle. This guy does an extra step of heating it to a liquid and then solidifying it again.

This guy just put a wick in a jar of crisco and lights it, lol. It works! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsY-d44SpeQ

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    [–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    Oh nice, glad to see them posting useful stuff. The clay pots are good for dispersing the heat, its a good setup in an emergency

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      [–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      Thanks, glad you like my downvote design. I agree the downvote is a tool for censorship these days, unlike when reddit put it in to place in 2007 and people were generally more honest on the internet.

      [–]chadwickofwv 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

      You can do essentially the same thing with any type of rendered fat too. So you could do the same thing with lard, but cheaper.

      [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

      Iirc the generic crisco and lard are about the same price.

      [–]xanaxagoras 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      lard is free, it comes with my breakfast

      [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Shit, if you want to do it yourself, do you happen to have acorns? You can press them for oil as well as ground them into flour.

      I just made taco soup last night, and it occurred to me that while it was a fantastic budget meal, something like six hours went into making that since I cooked and shucked the ears of corn that were on sale and froze them, and the beans I cooked ranch style from dry. The taco seasoning I blended myself. The meat we make special trips to CostCo for.

      It's a bargain costwise but a whole fuckton of effort went into it.

      You should save your bacon anwyays fat though, shits tasty in cooking. I think this candle idea isn't great unless you're desperate, and then maybe still not a good idea if one happens to be on a boat.

      [–]IkeConn 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      Open a big can of crisco. Cut a candle to 1/2 inch taller than the can. Stick it in the middle of the Crisco. Light the candle.

      You can use terra cotta pots to turn it into a small heater.

      If I ever had to build another army style hooch stealth shelter in winter I would love to have one of these heaters for it.