How to make a mini vegetable oil candle

The idea is a good one. BUT...you deserve the prize for pouring oil FROM a 1 inch hole INTO a 1/8 inch hole without spilling a drop. Way to go, man. Stay safe, and keep breathin'.

I use oil lamps a lot, and love that you are teaching this to those who may need it some day. I have found that a larger container can be filled mostly with water, then about 3/4" oil, and soak the string, then insert it. This absolutely prevents any fire starting if the container is breached or knocked over. With 5 cats in my house, or camping outside in wind and rain, this is the perfect set up!

An advantage of using vegetable oils rather than lamp oils is that if the lamp is knocked over, the vegetable oils are not as highly flammable as the lamp oil.

My grandma prepared it and using it daily after the sunset. Nice remember because of you. Nowadays so many people don't know.. Thanks for teaching for this generation.

Love this. Mom is an old school Greek woman. She has her little Jesus mantle in the corner of the wall in the room. Same idea... has a little glass bowl filled with salt about 3/4 full. She has this little tin covered cork float with a hole in the middle like you made with the finishing nail and you pull the wick up through. Simply place it in the bowl with about 1/2" of olive oil in it and it floats on the surface like a bobber. Light it up and it burns for a good couple of days. The salt keeps it from burning all of the way down and self extinguishes when empty. Pretty cool. Thank you once again.

Thank you - recycled, pretty and effective, a modern take on a lamp that's been used for thousands of years :)

I don't know how I found this video but I'm so glad I did. I now know what to do with all my empty nail polish bottles. 🤣 Thank you

Love this video. Especially the small candle...have been shocked because I have never heard or seen anyone doing candles like this before. I use to make the candle wax kind years ago....and that's all I knew until about an hour ago....whda knew?? Thanks again!

Great idea. This is from Florida where hurricanes and storms guarantee power outages routinely. I'd use wider bottles and make a few ahead of time.

AWESOME!!! I just watched a lady use a crisco jar to make a 72 DAY candle!!

Never thought of portable, refilible containers for a candle, Thank you! This inspires an idea for my jank lighter!

Nice to see someone actually putting vegetables to good use, for the first in their existence.

Great! I have made lots of lamps like this over the years. Bacon grease works too sometimes with just a wick in the open grease

I have never seen a man work with such tiny objeçts with his hands then you mentioned you don't need a big long wick & childishly I was on the floor rolling with laughter.

A brilliant idea and never seen this before. I better start making some before we have predicted power cuts. Love from the 🇬🇧 👍

I made one but used a mason jar, and used acetone- lasted much longer, the wind was 14 mph and it didn't blow out, and wow I love it. Make sure with acetone you use in the open and not in a closed room!

Great video. I remember back in the 80's when MRE Tabasco bottles were first included and I started making small candles using those bottles. I made them the with candle wick with a thin wire inner support, probably lead back then. haha I like the MRE bottle because I can put the cap back on with the wick inside and when I open the cap, the wick pops out. Like you, I use foil to limit the flame to 1/2" and that will give me about 70 minutes of fire. I figure 60 minutes of burn time for every 1/8th ounce of liquid fuel. I keep these in Altoids tin, BUT I have learned that you should dip the caps in wax like the old iodine water tablet bottles the military had, because I have had ONE come loose and leak oil into the tin. My brother even keeps one on his key chain that he has inside a rubber latex type tube of some kind. I really enjoy these type of videos and how to's. Keep up the great work.

That's pretty cool! My youngest daughter loves anything miniature. This would be right up her alley!

Awesome video. Thank you so much. I’m going to try this candle. In the North, we get blizzards, and when the power goes out, it’s really dark.

Very well presented and now i can recycle all those glass bottles i use to throw away by making oil candles🤗