Yankee candle on top of the wood stove???!!!

Glass breaks all the time. Sometimes we know why, other times, it's a mystery, perhaps caused by an unseen defect, or stresses that we don't know occurred. A glass purposefully full of liquid wax on top of the stove fully qualifies one for a future Darwin award. All for a little scent!

It's not about the likelihood of a negative outcome, it's about the catastrophic magnitude of said negative outcome. I certainly wouldn't put my family at such unnecessary risk

 

Most "high temp glass" is actually ceramic...actual glass does not handle temp swings and high temps well. There are exceptions though...quartz glass...high borosilicate glass (glass jars)
The high temperature resistance of glass products

 

Thanks. Well on my way to becoming a glass scientist now LOL

 

See my edit above...with links.

 

IMO i dont think it gets hot enough to cause it to explode or crack. The glass must be made to have some type of heat/breaking resistance.

Good thing you caught it though. I personally wouldnt put a candle on a stove. She does burn them on occasion and ill let her know if i dont like the smell. I like the pine or spruce scented ones.

 

yup, pine or fir scented candles here too!

 

My clay pot was a plant pot, about the size of a cereal bowl.
I call them puckies.
They have saltpeter mixed in, so they light and stay lit. They don't need much air to stay lit.
Never burned copal, just fir resin, EWP resin, norway spruce resin, frankensense resin.
What's copal like?

 

talent should always go rewarded. maybe apply for a job at NASA.

 

Not entirely sure. A southern/Mexican type thing. smells nice is all I know.

 

We have real PYREX(all caps)(borosilicate), the stuff you can put on a burner and boil water, etc... Anyway, here is a quick story about glass breaking.

We have a large double patio door on one wall of the kitchen. We were making supper and had stepped into the living room for a minute when someone shot our patio door window with a shotgun. We heard the blast and glass flying everywhere. It was LOUD. I grabbed my shotgun and went to check it out. When I got to the kitchen, there was glass everywhere, and some of it was melting into the floor. The patio windows were still intact, but our (notice the spelling/capital)Pyrex (regular glass) baking dish that I used for cooking rabbits was not on the stove. That's what was melting into the floor. The wrong burner was turned on and the baking pan exploded like a bomb. If we had been standing there, it would have been very bad, and I don't even want to think about that.

There is a huge difference between types of "glass" and what they can take in terms of impact and heat stress. I will not set any glass on the wood stove, but I will cook with the borosilicate (real and original PYREX).

We had a stoneware plate dynamite on us once as well. Wrong burner once again. Luckily we had just stepped away into the other room when it decided to let go. It sounded like a shotgun blast in the house and I immediately knew what it was from past experience.

My wife used to buy a lot of candles, and we had one or two glass candle jars break. Luckily they were on the bathroom counter and it wasn't catastrophic. They just cracked open and that was about it, maybe sending a chunk a foot away. Nothing like the stove incidents. We can't stand candles anymore because of sensitivities to fragrances.

 

That would surely be a nasty mess to clean up! A bit of a fire hazard also. Probably won't be a problem but can you imagine the conversation with your insurance company if it became one.

 

Its a constant battle around here NOT to set ANYTHING on the range top that is not a pan. I see pot holders, cooking impliments, plates....
Even just setting them there for a second....starts a bad habit.
Same goes for the wood stove. Even in the summer I'm keenly aware of storing items on it.....just sets up the path for a bad habit.

 

My wife just informed me that the stovetop glassware says "flameware" on it, so just saying PYREX might not be enough?

 

Pyrex is a trademark just like "band aid" so other similar to identical products could have called different things.

 

Before we had our pellet stove, I managed to shatter a panel of glass on the fireplace door.

 

was looking at the girls yankee candle and it states to stop using the candle when there is only a 1/2" left of wax due to the glass possibly shattering.
We've always let them burn until they can't and haven't had an issue. it probably is possible but I think it is more a cya statement from the lawyers.
I don't let anything sit on the stove top though except for the cast iron water pot an the trivet it sits on.
I will melt wax down on the stove top (metal double boiler) to make fire starters or just pour some candles.

 

Me , not a fan of the stinky candles.
Some of the more perfume type smells literally turn my stomach.

My wife likes to put them on the stove. More than once I have turned on the oven and not moved them.
Then I hear it , blah blah blah ; why didn't you move it?

Well beautiful gorgeous ; why did you put it there in the first place??(as I wander out to the garage)

 

A safer way to melt wax on a stove top would be to put the glass candle jar in a metal container that has water in it.

However, I still wouldn't do it.

 

My father in law was cooking breakfast for us in our house, and put two Pyrex baking dishes on burners on our electric stove. Both exploded, throwing some kind of egg casserole thing all over the kitchen. I know no one was in the kitchen for the first explosion…I can’t remember why we weren’t all in the kitchen for the second one. They didn’t explode at the exact same moment.

I also remember that it was one of the few times he said he was impressed with me—after peeking in and seeing what happened, I calmly refilled my coffee and sat back down on the porch. I didn’t say a single word the whole time. He knew that he would have handled it much differently in my shoes.. Being quiet and handling things calmly wasn’t a strength for either of us.