You can tell this dude's been making these for years, glad someone with his experience shared his knowelge with us.

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I really appreciate that

Watching these to prepare for when I run off into the mountains and live off the radar

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

5 ай бұрын

What we all dream of doing! I am working on a video using an old school oil lamp with used cooking oil…. I think u will like that one when I get it done

Tallow has about 15,000 to 18,000 btu's per pound and weighs about 7.9 pounds per gallon. So a 1 quart candle would have 30,000 to 35,000 btu's of energy. For reference, a 70,000 btu furnace would heat an average 3 bedroom home. The bit of heat you're feeling is real, not in your mind.

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

6 ай бұрын

I love you for the Math! So I added an old school oil lamp to my setup, it burns anything from vegetable oil to Bacon fat, I would imagine the btu rating would be very similiar. I’m thinking about doing a video on that here soon, I’ll probably use your info in it! Thanks

@rgbcolor6450

6 ай бұрын

@@reliablyrandomoutdoors Be careful.. On top of the concern list is that candles tend to burn homes down when they detect someone making a mistake, or a dog, or a child doing something... 2nd after that, while tallow candles do technically burn clean, it is still combustion and it is still emitting fine particulate matter. Those particulates aren't toxic like paraffin candles, but you're still breathing them. Lots of candles + little ventilation = bad news. In modern day homes that are well insulated and sealed up tight, candles are kind of a bad idea unless its an emergency.

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

6 ай бұрын

@@rgbcolor6450 agreed most modern homes are unlivable on a hot day without power... and yes candles just like grapes can cause a lot of accidents if not handled properly. most anything being burned vent free without supplemental oxygen or is putting a fair amount of Newtons leftovers in the air LOL. I recommend keeping your candles in thick glass jars. that leaves flashover and spill as the only concern wich are pretty easily managed with some basic candle management skills LOL. Thanks for watching, have a great day

@rgbcolor6450

6 ай бұрын

@@reliablyrandomoutdoors Grapes can cause a lot of accidents?

@416loren

3 ай бұрын

Grapes cause a lot of accidents after they've turned into wine

This is great. Thanks for the demo! Someone mentioned about odours and I found another YT vid about purifying the fat to remove those odours. They say start with the fat from around the animal's kidneys, chop it up, then food-process it down to lumps and low and slow cook it with 3 tablespoons of salt and 750ml of water (guessing about 4 hrs till most of the fat lumps become liquid)- some lumps will not change. Let the stuff cool in a bowl that flexes then pop out the fat upside down. You get the 'impurities' at the bottom. scrap em off. Chop up your somewhat clean fat and return to heat along with same 3tblspoons salt and 750ml water and slow cook for about an hour. Chuck it in the bowl again, cool off, look underneath, impurities much smaller and you are left with pure white fat for now a wide range of uses! Mostly suited for lovely white candles and as an ingredient in home made moisturizer.

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, for me there is a delicate balance between practical and perfection. If I make something like these candles such an overcomplicated process in persuit of perfection it is longer is practical. So there is a balance there. I don't find the smell to be noticeable but some say they do ( my wife) masking with a bit of lavender usually solves the problem for her. Rendering can be super simple or incredibly complicated. since I genuinely have objectives of living Grid Free, the simple methods are what i tend to lean toward because it keeps an entire self sufficient household manageable. thanks for the input, just curious have you made or are you planning to make some candles?

@evangelistangelbowman3122

Жыл бұрын

@@reliablyrandomoutdoors I totally agree :)Yes I am going to ask the butchers for nice kidney fat and if they don't have that then I'll take what they have. I have a good relationship with my butchers so should be able to get it all free and make a bunch with my slow cooker! I am totally inspired by your video. All the best.

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

Жыл бұрын

@@evangelistangelbowman3122 Yeah, if you have a hook up on fat like that it sounds like a great way to go. thanks for the kind words. It is greatly appreciated. let me know how it turns out

@liaminator8245

6 ай бұрын

Hello, could you tell me the name of that video?

@evangelistangelbowman3122

6 ай бұрын

@@liaminator8245 Having checked, I can't find it, sorry :(

Very interesting! Very cool 😎 You turned what would have clogged up your drains or your arteries into light and warmth! Maybe a drop or two of essential oils if it has somewhat of a funky beef scent to it? Per our conversation the other day I will be looking forward to your new meat candies video. 😉

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

Yes exactly! Rachel actually put some lavender oil in one and it smells great…. I should have mentioned it in the vid. I had tried using ground lavender from the garden but the scent to weak to notice

@Pea-bj2qv

6 ай бұрын

Beef fat doesn't clog your arteries.

Hey thanks for posting this pretty cool man

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. And thanks for watching

A wood wick works great as a stove. Two sicks is enough to boil water.

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

5 ай бұрын

nice

hi there lick video .. does the candles produce a lot of smoke while burning ?

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

4 ай бұрын

Not if the wick is trimmed properly, so each time it is burned you should trim off the burned charcoal part of the wick, also make sure the wick is sized properly, a wick that is too large will also smoke, and could be a little dangerous, so error on the side of a smaller wick till ya get comfortable with it

Can you add a scent to it? Like essential oils?

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

Жыл бұрын

Yea absoulutely! As long as it is oil based it should work great. I experimented with lavender from our garden but without distilling it the scent was not strong.

great tutorial man! i'm sure you get this daily but you _really_ look like Lin Manuel Miranda. had to do a double take. plus u sing too. anyway, nice tutorial, keep it up!

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

Ай бұрын

Well thank you very much, And i was gonna say I had never heard of Lin Manuel Miranda before, but then I googled him and first of all, I totally agree, 2nd of all people have told me I look like the Hamilton guy before... LOL I just live in cave when it comes to pop culture so i did'nt know that his name was LOL.... thanks for watch, hope ya make some awesome candles

RRO, I wanted to try to teach this process in a Boy Scouting event. I watched your video thru and headed to Menards. I saw the Mastercraft signage 52 seconds into the video to purchase the cord for wicks. At time stamp 2:35 you go over the braided polyester cotton combo and the twisted cotton option. I'm confused, I recall you saying to get 3/16th inch cotton twisted (2:19 min), but in 52 seconds mark you have 1/8th inch cotton twisted cord in hand before you play catch with the cutest kids ever. I went to Menards this evening to pick up the wicking and bought the wrong cotton/poly blend because it was the only 3/16th option. Can you confirm that the twisted cotton is in fact 1/8th inch vs 3/16ths inch? I also watched another video on rendering lard from animal fat and commenter mentioned asking your local butcher for fat scraps to render into lard/grease. I've discovered that bacon grease burns much cleaner then hamburger grease with far less popping and crackling as I'm assuming its a water content issue in the fat. Have you tried using bacon grease vs the hamburger grease? Let me know if there is mistake in the cotton wick diameter please and 1/8 inch is the way to go. Thanks Chris 🙂

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

Жыл бұрын

So yes the scene where we select the chord at Menards we were grabbing the wrong one. Now im not sure why but I can’t find the twisted cotton rope in that size anywhere now. Any size will work as long as it is pure cotton and does not have a synthetic blended in. If it’s too small the wick may burn up however. So Size does make a difference for the quality of the burn however. So here is what I did (more recently than the video). I bought 3ft of thick cotton twisted rope probably 1” rope from tractor supply. And now I just pull it apart a bit and cut a chunk off of it that meets the needs of the candle. The other think I started doing was twisting it around a toothpick to hold the wick up a little better. Btw what area are you in? One of my kids is in scouts just checking if we are in the same group? Bacon grease does burn great but it is liquid at a much lower temperature so it does not hold a wick on its own. It needs to be burned in something that can hold the wick like an old genie lamp. Beef fat is probably the best for your project because the fat content of cattle is so incredibly high due to selective breeding. Thanks for doing what ya do w the scouts. Glad to arrange a call to discuss in further detail if you like

@mylocast

Жыл бұрын

@@reliablyrandomoutdoors The scouting group is related to my brother's kids in the WI area. I live just over the state line in IL. I'm an Eagle scout from 35 years ago, so its more of spend time with my nephew and niece (now days) experience for me. I gathered you were in IN somewhere but I can't recall how I recall that now. LOL. As for bacon vs beef, I agree that beef is a thinker fat and holds together better at room temps. I found that if you poor tall narrow jars with the bacon grease, the deep solid fat holds up the wick for most part. That said, once you've burned down to maybe a 1/4 of the jar left, you will have stand up wick issues if its burns for hours on end. Its simple enough to just melt left overs back into another jar and build a taller one again. On a side note, I have been playing around with adding beef grease with liquid/melted candle wax to see how the two perform together. Its too early to review results, but I can say the one downside is the wicks get coated with carbon and get inflexible and burn poorly when burning fat vs wax alone. Also, depending on how the 1st candle making event goes over, I might try a bacon/beef combo. (Now I'm craving a burger). Maybe a 50/50 ratio of mixed room temp grease might burn cleaner (less cracking and spitting) and still have the rigidity to hold a wick up. I like the idea of unwinding a 1" cotton rope and using the strands as wicking. That might be a good angle on finding a ~1/4" cotton wick solution. Thanks Chris PS: A chord is a candle wick you pull tightly and pluck for beautiful music and ... soft lighting. LOL 😜

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

Жыл бұрын

@@mylocast Hah, yes very nice! I actually noticed my miss spelling but was in a bit of a rush LOL. and yeah Most of the time i burn the candles about half way then dump into a new one... best of luck with the project... o BTW I really don't have any issues with the cracking and popping. ya might try straining with a paper towel. that usually works pretty good for me.

have you tried it with chicken? i've noticed when i bake chicken, there seems to be a lot of fat at the bottom of the pan

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

The Fat to Stock ratio would be completely reversed so it would take a lot of chicken to produce the same amount of fat but if rendered correctly it should burn. I have not tired it though.... maybe I will, it could be fun

When we use candles for heat it's the heat technically coming at the expense of oxygen inside the house? To replenish the oxygen you have to crack a window which re-coolls the house and exposes it to the outside. So I never understood why flames are used to heat a home.

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

4 күн бұрын

Well if it wasn’t a net gain fireplaces would not work to heat homes. They literally suck air out of the chimney non stop but still have enough residual thermal energy left in the house to heat the whole thing. I think your math is mossing a couple of variables. Btw your body is creating heat in a very similiar process while you use oxygen and fuel to create energy and much of it comes off the human body as heat.

@shayhan6227

4 күн бұрын

@@reliablyrandomoutdoors Fair point

How does this smell unscented?

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

9 ай бұрын

Just doesn’t have much of a smell assuming u filtered you grease well

Seemed easy enough. But why only fill them that far?

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

That’s just how much I had. U could fill them almost to the top

The water-based food coloring added water to the bottom of the candle. Any risk of that going all pyrotechnic on you?

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

Жыл бұрын

Nah, just made the candle burn kind of poorly toward the bottom. Definitely should have used oil based food color

@tom_something

Жыл бұрын

@@reliablyrandomoutdoors On the bright side, you tried it so 160 other people don't have to.

Ya know, I know what the music credits say. ... but I found myself singing, go tell it on the mountain.... Google only gave me a small clip, so I came here to watch the whole thing.

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, it’s the same toon for sure. I use a music license service. Pretty sure some of the songs are old enough to be unprotected so people just rename it and put there spin on it and call it a day…. Hope ya enjoyed the video

duh!? 😁😁😁

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

8 ай бұрын

🤷‍♂? 😄

But can you make a candle that smells like bacon?

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

3 ай бұрын

Only God himself could do something that magnificent!

For heaven sakes spend more time playing catch Byeeeeeeeeeee

@reliablyrandomoutdoors

5 ай бұрын

haha, been a minute since i made this one..... ill have to rewatch