How to Make a Bacon Fat Candle 

You're a king if you're here because of this: "my roommate saved bacon grease for 6 months in a mason jar i kept asking him what he was gonna use it for and he wouldnt tell me one day i come home from work and the whole apartment smelled like bacon i investigated and found three, very well made candles lit in the living room. he comes out of the bathroom and announces that i cant smell his shit because he made BACON CANDLES so we just smelled like bacon for months EDIT: 1. i dont know how he made them, but they were for sure handmade by an amateur not store-bought so i know he did it. 2. they smelled exactly like bacon. not burnt grease, not old food, just exactly like bacon. like fucking EXACTLY. it was nuts. 3. it did cover up bad smells in the apartment ENTIRELY. it also covered good smells. and neutral smells. there was no other scent in that apartment than bacon. i cant stress this enough, i could stick my face in my gym shoes BACON or i could take a big dump BACON or spray febreeze BACON open a window BACON it got to the point that outside air smelled funny. i later realized that it didnt smell weird outside, I was simply smelling the ABSENCE OF BACON"

That is a great way to recycle your bacon grease. Candles are always good to have around.

We tried this and it works great. It's environmentally friendly to recycle your grease. Great video!!!

"It even got to the point where the outside air smelled funny, but i was simply smelling the ABSENCE OF BACON"

I find it funny that people are disappointed because there is no bacon smell... Meanwhile my wife doesn't want me making bacon candles because she is worried about the smell. So clearly I need to make one and prove there is no smell. Happy Wife, Happy Life.

Bacon grease can be used for so many things. Soap, Candle, dips, seasoning, storing other food within the cold grease. I have even seen the process of “cleaned” bacon grease used on hair. Crazy.

Awesome video but outside of your power getting cut out. I am however extremely dissatisfied with learning that fact that it won't have my place smelling of delicious bacon

Triple use item! ! ! You can light your room, heat a small one or eat it; superb! ! ! ! !

Already have one started. Just wanted to see if it would work. Thank you for this video and the ideas for a wick. 👍🏽👍🏽

3:00 well THEN I'M NOT MAKING IT

No bacon smell? Damn.

I drink all my bacon grease..... going for triple bypass surgery tomorrow. Wish me luck.

Great idea. I keep saving bacon fat for re-use but keep throwing it out because no one wants it. It seemed such a waste. Now I know I will be able to, for sure, make a candle & my partner loves candles.

I use canning jars; they take the heat.

I will say, after experimenting myself, it seems that a large diameter wick (too much twisted paper towel in my case) results in a larger, but unclean(?) flame with lots of smoke. After using a lesser amount of paper towel for the wick (resulting in a smaller diameter), a smaller, but cleaner flame was produced. So I'd imagine using string, twine, or a dedicated wick would be much cleaner, but a paper towel wick still works fine.

Would this be a good way to use my rancid grease?

Awesome. I will be trying this. I’ll start making mosquito repellent hurricane candles for when we sit outside by candlelight.

Can you add essential oils to make it smell like lavender or something?

I’m going to try this. Thank you!

I tried this. But the grease melted too deeply and the wick went out very soon. The wick neede support like a metal rod or bent paperclip anchored to the bottom i think.

Once the fat is in solid state does it stay solid permanently until you burn it?

Will it ever spoil?

My family will think I've gone crazy since I'm on the keto diet.

💡Great idea❗️Thank you.

But how do you make it smell like bacon when you burn it? That would be awesome.

To extinguish without smoke just dunk the wick down in the fat for a second.

very nifty idea

I just got the ich to try this but my bacon was frozen solid. I stabbed a shish kebab skewer through it and then stuffed a string down to the bottom of the hole and had two salsa jar candles in about 2 minutes. Kind of cool and maybe more of an emergency thing. I wonder how safe they are as far as the possibility of starting a larger grease fire

what about the glass jar, will not the heat from the flame crack it?? if the flame was over half way down the jar and the jar broke, it would be mess.

whats the point in doing this when it doesnt smell like bacon

Where can i get a wick?

Cool, I going to try this.

Light this at my funeral.

Couldn’t you do this with hamburger grease ??

You had me at cook bacon.

Nice idea for extra bacon fat!

I have a jar of bacon fat I keep for cooking. Now I know in an emergency I can drop in a wick and light it.

2021, in my recommendation

I save my bacon grease to cook with. Good to know I could also use it for fuel.

PLEASE make many, many, many more video's that help when one can't afford to buy the store sold item. Such as, how to make a drinkable home water filter, how to use mirrors to bring in ultimate light in the house. Homemade eco friendly soap, and anything else you can think of. These videos are EXTREMELY helpful. Thank You!!!!

Looks like I’ll have to eat a few pounds of bacon for preparedness of course.

I need to figure out how to make my car run on bacon grease.

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I shall make this for a vegan

Im going to put cloves and cinnamon in. Wish me luck

That was a cool video, but that bacon definitely wasn't cooked enough for me, i like all the fat cooked out of it completely, & crispy, crispy

jake the dog made this

now, i dont need to throw in soil.

This is very lame...One would think, bacon grease, yum it's going to smell like bacon. Not the case here.

Too bad. I was hoping my place will smell like bacon.

Any one else from Reddit?

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