Currently being in the candle sector considering that 1997 I like to skim the web for concerns or concepts individuals have related to candles. One matter that arrives up repeatedly is no matter whether storing candles in the freezer before lighting them will result in them to burn off slower. Why does a slower burning candle make a difference anyway? The notion is to make it final lengthier in order to preserve income on candle buys. We made a decision to put together our very own experiment and see if freezing candles really will make them burn up lengthier.

Imagined Guiding Freezing a Candle

Ahead of receiving into how we did our experiment, probably I ought to run via the fundamental considered approach as to why freezing a candle may possibly make it burn off slower. The wax of the candle is the gas for the candle flame. The fuel demands to be in a liquid type in purchase for the flame to use it. If the wax is frozen than it will turn from reliable to liquid slower, for that reason, not be utilised up as speedily as place temperature wax. So freezing the candle ought to be a great concept, right?

Location Up the Experiment

We set up the experiment using a handful of various candle kinds. We utilised 2 dimensions of pillar candles, a single was a 2″x3″ and the other a 4″x6″. We also utilised votive and taper candles. 1 of each and every candle dimension and style was put into the freezer and a matching dimension and style was remaining at space temperature. We drilled a tiny hole in the side of the taper in freeze so we could evaluate the core temperature through out examination. Each tapers have been weighed and every was sixty eight.6 grams. We also had 2 digital “instantaneous go through” thermometers on hand and a end view.

Just before likely additional I need to preface the subsequent element of the experiment with a tiny rationalization. I experienced pointed out at the commencing of the article that I have been doing work with candles given that 1997. My occupation is actually in a candle factory generating candles. Several times when a pillar candle would not launch from a mildew we would place it in a freezer, which assisted. Nonetheless, there was also possible for a negative outcome. So before performing the test I previously realized what the outcome for the pillar and votive in the freezer would be.

Ok, again to the experiment. Dependent on my understanding of how the pillar and votive would react to becoming in the freezer, I planned on examining the candles each and every fifteen minutes.

The Experiment

At the very first 15 moment mark I went to check one the candle in the freezer. What I discovered was not a shock. Both the two”x3″ and 4″x6″ pillar we cracked, or rather, shattered. I squeezed the 2″x3″ and it totally fell apart. Had both of these pillar candles been lit, the liquid wax would have drained out through the cracks and all more than the area. This would in fact have created them burn off much faster than the ones at room temperature.

The taper candles was not cracked and finished up getting still left in the freezer overnight. The pursuing working day we took and taper our of the freezer and discovered it had not cracked. This gave us an chance to do the burning time test. Just before lighting the taper candles we took a fast reading through of their main temperatures. The a single from the freezer was at 33 degrees Fahrenheit, the other at place temperature which was 69 degrees Fahrenheit. We lit each taper candle and remaining them burning for one hour.

Right after the one hour we came again to check out on the tapers and get a reading. The preliminary observations had been that the flames on each candle had been identical in height and the amount each candle had burned down looked even. We took another core temperature studying and famous that the candle from the freeze experienced arrived at 65 degrees. The room temperature candle nonetheless was 69 degrees. We also took a temperature reading through of the liquid wax underneath the flame. The two candles had a liquid wax temperature of 162 degrees. We still left the candles burning for an additional hour.

After the 2nd hour we recurring the measurements just take following the first hour. Again the two candle flames looked identical in height and every candle had burned down equally. The main temperature of the frozen candle was now at sixty nine levels which matched the place temperature candle. The liquid wax under the candle flame on equally candles was nonetheless at 162 levels. Since latina candles were the two looking through sixty nine levels at their main, there was no far more advantage to proceed the burn off test. Each candles would burn up at the same rate from this level on. We extinguished the flames, permit the liquid wax harden, and re-weighed the two tapers once more. Every of the tapers weighed 26.two grams.

The Conclusion

Placing the pillar and the votive candle in the freezer did not make them melt away for a longer time, in reality it had the opposite impact, harming them so they could not be employed. The taper candle from in the freeze showed no signs that it burned longer than the space temperature candle either visually or by weight. Why did freezing the taper not perform? I’m glad you questioned.

The heat at the foundation of the flame from a candle is about a thousand degrees Fahrenheit and in close proximity to 2000 degrees at the best. When you light-weight a candle, the wax all around the wick is immediately effected by that substantial warmth. The 40 degree gap among a place temperature candle and a frozen candle is erased nearly instantly when presented to the one thousand degree candle flame. The warmth from the flame influences the wax closest to it making the liquid gasoline it requirements on the two candles. In the mean time, the rest of the frozen candle warms up to place temperature gradually until it is required by the flame.

In short, freezing a candle does practically nothing to enhance the melt away time, could really hurt your candles, and takes up worthwhile space in your freezer essential for critical items like ice cream.