Bacon Candle

Oh, it would work. Using the drill was a bit of overkill, though.

What you have a picture of here you could take just about anytime at both my mothers kitchen and my own. This is not a man making a candle it is someone pouring the grease out of the bacon pan and saving it in a jar. The jar is left by the stove for next morning's breakfast where you scoop a bit of the grease that has harden to that white color you see on the bottom layer of the jar and put it in the fry pan to cook up eggs or pancakes instead of using butter. It saves money and is delicious.If the jar gets full you toss it out not stick a wick in it. The smoke would be a bit much for a candle..

Sorry to ruin it for everyone, but it looks like someone's just demonstrating how to save the fat from frying bacon. Like blorno mentioned, it's tasty for reuse, but we also do this to keep boiling hot oil out of our drain and garbage can. Saturated fats are the fast track to clogged pipes (the kind under your sink).

No, this is a candle. http://www.6die.com/2011/01/making-bacon-candle.html

It works, we've put rolled up paper towels as wicks into cans of bacon grease to make "candles". Wouldn't really consider them candles as they never really fully harden and I wouldn't want to store them. We just used them outside while hanging out drinking beers since we didn't want to dump the grease down the drain.

Totally done it. Made one last summer while at our family's cabin. Imagine being able to light a match and have instant bacon aroma....mmmmm.....

Eric51, I use bacon grease and paper towels a bit differently. I make bacon in the microwave between paper towels and save them for starting fires.

you can use almost any type of fat or grease as a "candle" or lamp. i've been doing it for years (vegetable oil works too). get a ceramic container and fill it with your fat of choice, cut a slit in cork and insert a woven cotton wick into it (and long enough to dip down into oil/fat). light wick and enjoy.

"fat lamps" have existed for thousands of years, and i'm not sure why anyone is questioning it.

My only question is why anyone would waste all that delicious bacon fat on a candle? Fried eggs, home fries, corn bread, biscuit, mmm, lots of good stuff to make with that. There isn't a food that exists that isn't better without bacon fat. Even brownies.

I bet a bacon candle would smell nice.

I just made one. It works.

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