Originally Posted by
Blinkie
What Alupang said. And look in the canning supplies, for wax jar seal as well; that's pure paraffin, whereas often candles have a bit of other things to help them burn longer (stearic acid, a derivative of tallow -- animal fat) unless marked as 'pure' paraffin (which is a petroleum product). Unscented white candles, unless labeled as soy or beeswax, are going to be mostly paraffin.
Boy do I wish I'd read your post before I went to Walmart! I went through several employees and traipsed back and forth across the store until I finally ended up in the canning area, which by the way didn't have wax but had an employee who knew where to get the stuff.
And all this time I thought you guys were talking about a pair of fins, so I was scouring the pet supplies.
So anyway, with all the rest of my groceries and the wax, I also got a pan to bake the stuff into submission (I hope). Don't have a crockpot, don't want one. So my plan is to put the stuff in the oven. Does anyone know what temp to set it to? If not, I'll start low and work my way up. Right now the oven is set to pizza (400F). It will be interesting to see if it knows how to operate at any other temperature after all this time solely on pizza duty. I trust I should remove the wax from the container before I start.
So that's my plan. Do I have a chance?