MsMinuette wrote:
As for the Bacon Candle: Couldn't one take the same idea as the Crisco candle & pour the fat around a taper other simular candle then let it harden instead of gumming up your power tools w/ fat?
I am not sure but I think it is a joke... the drill being the "manly" way of doing it. Similar to the picture I have somewhere of a man on a "rider vacuum" that says john deer on it in a big mansion with a caption underneath that says "... if men did house work."
Actually bacon fat... aka lard, is pretty soft at room temp. one could probably push a candle down the center without heating it too. We found our home rendered lard was soft like "butter at room temp" even straight out of the fridge... very easy to use. The tallow we just did is much harder, almost like wax. At room temp it is still as hard as "butter from the fridge". We use it for cooking so it is ok (I use it to grease bread pans too).
Tallow was used to make candles before paraffin. It may also have a use as a phase change heat storage substance too (think hot water bottle that stays warm longer).