Hand dipped tallow candles
Posted in Home products on January 27th, 2011 by Nathan – Be the first to comment
Filling the dipping vat with pieces of tallow
Once a week we have a “candle lit” dinner, so we go through a lot of candles at our house. I’ve been thinking of this project for a long time, so when I ended up with about 10 lbs of rendered tallow last week, I had to give candle making a try.
I learned a lot through the process, and I’ve been very pleased with the result. I started with filling my 4″ dipping vat. It’s 15″ tall, and it takes a lot of raw material to fill it. Because I was putting cold pieces into the vat to melt, it took about 30 minutes before it was full and liquid. read more »