Time to Make the Firestarters

Ingredient #2 left over egg cartons.

 

Get all those made up and you should be good for November.

 

Got home today and Ms. buZZsaw (a former girl scout leader for many years) had made a batch for camping.

 

What did she use for a container? Nice job ms. BuZZsaw

 

I bought a new double boiler last year that turned out to be way too big, and dribbled wax over the edge when pouring the wax.
Fast forward to today and a package showed up from China that I handed to my wife. She told me, "oh, that's for you".
Inside was a small stainless steel "pot" to hang on the lower part of my too big double boiler.
It even has pouring spouts. My wife is awesome.
Now all I need is a bunch more egg cartons.

 

I did some today and just burned a candle and drizzled the wax in the egg cartons over the saw dust... I think I'll be melting it for the next batch... LOL Although there wasn't really any clean up needed...

 

MAF143 I see you are using styrofoam egg cartons. You don't burn the egg carton do you or do you use the egg carton for a mold?

 

she used paperboard egg cartons. They are broken apart in the pic.

 

Busted... yes, I'm a polluter... I burn them, styrofoam burns pretty good actually... I need to do better next time, dripping the wax off the candle didn't work all that well and the ones in the picture only burn about 2 minutes. I was using them to light the Swedish candles last night and they didn't work out all that well for that. I had used about 6" of a 1" diameter candle in dripping into these 18 noodle cups... maybe regular sawdust will work better as suggested previously by others. I had just grabbed the noodles cuz they were handy. I wasn't impressed with my efforts.... LOL