How To Melt Candle Wax for Fire Starters

We're looking at how to melt down and condense your candle wax in order to use it to get your hardwood started to keep you warm in the winter. Learning how to melt candle wax for firestarters is just the beginning of self-sustained living!

[@SelinaBoland]

thank you..this is the best video i've found so far on how to melt wax. How easy!

[@pheonixdown3944]

Great idea

[@alexandraonai8187]

My grandmother always put a rag in the bottom of the pot. She said the bottom will fall off the jars if you don't. I've never tested it though

[@0000AD]

How does the glass not break from the heat?

[@TheAmericanAngling]

If your warm it slowly you’ll be okay - it’s the rapid changes in temperature that cause glass to shatter.

[@0000AD]

American Angling thank you for the advice

[@jlermzgt9393]

I heard you can’t use gas stoves or shouldn’t I should say

[@TheAmericanAngling]

For double boiling? I mean. Gas stoves have been used for what seems like forever.