Cheap Emergency Crisco Candle Burns 7 Straight Days

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[–]magnora7[S] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 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

[–]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.

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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.