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How to Make a Bacon Fat Candle

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How to Make a Bacon Fat Candle

If you love to make bacon but are dumping all the grease down the drain or into the trash, you should start saving it instead. Not only is bacon grease great for cooking, it makes a great clean-burning candle.

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This video by Finding Self-Reliance shows you exactly how to make a bacon fat candle. All you need is bacon grease, a container, and a wick (you could also use twine or yarn).

Here’s how to make it:

Step 1: Cook some bacon.
Step 2: Pour the grease into a container (use a strainer to filter out chunks of meat).
Step 3: Tie your wick around a pencil and hang it down the center of another container.
Step 4: Pour your bacon fat into the container around the wick.
Step 5: Put it in the refrigerator to make the fat solidify faster.

Watch the video below to see it done:

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  1. Ryda says

    October 25, 2019 at 11:25 pm

    You can clean the fat so that it is clear white without any bacon Siri bacon residues. Take fat, pour into water, bring it up to a gentle simmer. A brown frost rises to that you skim it off. (That is residue bacon). When the grease no longer has any color to it it is clean. It also means that it does not give off the residue of cooking meat. If you’re in a SHIF situation having meat scent around you is not a good sign. Pour the grease gently off, the two was separate (i.e. water from fat) Thereby giving you a clean flame Without having to worry about smelling bacon for any great length of time.

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  2. Jane says

    December 22, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    How are these candles stored? Do they have to be stored in the refrigerator? Will they go rancid?

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