Making a Cooking Oil Candle

Total Time: 5 minutes

Yield: 1

Supplies:

• 1/3 cup cooking oil/used oil
• 3 Tbsp salt
• 1 cotton ball
• 2 in stick
• match/lighter
• 1 glass or jar

Steps:

1. Put 3 tablespoons of salt inside the glass. Press it to level the salt into place.

 

 
2. Pour the cooking oil into the glass of salt.

 

 
3. Loop the cotton around a piece of stick.

 

 
4. Insert the stick in the middle of the glass, this will serve as the candle wick. The salt will stabilize the stick into position.

 
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5. Light it up with a match stick or a lighter.

 
6. Now you have a candle made from items found in the kitchen. It will last longer than a candle and is much safer to use.

 

Great Idea....thanks very much...sue

I am confused about the cotton ball. Do you put the cotton ball into the oil once it is wrapped around the stick and light the stick? Or the reverse? And do you use the whole cotton ball?

laniquekeyerra

February 19, 20190 found this helpful

You forgot to tell people it last for a minute max

11-0375

January 29, 20200 found this helpful

How many minutes will it last?
I am using this topic for my Science Paper.