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The one simple trick Candle Makers don't want you to know
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(title added for lemmy by community mod)
Image description: Four images showing a candle burning down with the melting wax being collected inside a transparent candlestick resulting in another candle being formed.
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I think there might be some savings here, less wax is heated by the candle, so less will evaporate. But I don’t know enough about candles to know whether that’s significant.
At best this gives a marginal increase in duration for the price of twice as much wick.
Those are special candles. Old timey candles dripped wax everywhere.