My fiancé ruined our new candle without realizing – it will never burn right again, don’t make the same mistake he did
A CANDLE connoisseur revealed her fiance’s critical mistake that ruined their new candle on the first burn.
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KK (@kktweetshaha) was shocked when her fiancé prematurely blew out the fire on a fresh candle.
In a tweet, she explained that she expected better from him as someone who she’d thought was a seasoned candle enjoyer.
“Just learned that my fiancé, who buys candles all the time and we literally always have candles burning, did not actually know how they work,” she wrote.
“[He] blew out a medium first burn candle 30 minutes after I lit it when I wasn’t paying attention and ruined it.”
While many in her comments were confused at what her fiancé had done wrong, a quick explanation revealed that he had ruined the candle for the rest of its lifespan.
“If a candle is not burned for long enough on [the] first burn to melt edge to edge, it will create a ‘memory ring,'” she explained.
As soon as the mistake has been made, the impression left on the candle will cause the wax on the outer ring to be wasted.
“Once a candle has a memory ring, it will continue to tunnel and never burn all the way across,” she added.
“All the times your candles looked like this and you thought it was a bad candle, please know that it was a skill issue and your fault.”
To avoid making the same mistake, KK recommended giving a lit candle ample time, allowing it to burn for at least one hour per inch of candle width.
Sara-Jayne McKinty, a candle expert at St. Eval explained that the first burn of a candle was the most important.
“Candle wax has a memory. This means that your candle remembers where it is burnt up to on that first burn and will only ever burn up to the point it was last extinguished,” she wrote.
She recommended candle users blow out the flame only after they’ve made sure the resulting liquid pool of wax covered the complete diameter of the candle.
For most candles, Sara-Jayne advised burning for at least 3-4 hours and just 2-3 hours for tealights.
All the times your candles looked like this and you thought it was a bad candle, please know that it was a skill issue and your fault.
Kktweetshaha
KK, acknowledged that the error seemed to run rampant within the candle community as she responded to “an epidemic of candle-clueless fools” and even offered a solution.
While not all wax on botched candles was completely salvageable, she explained that increasing the heat of the flame would allow for more burn time.
“The popular fix is wrapping the candle in tin foil to increase the temperature across the surface,” she explained.
Candle enthusiast Nic Martinez agreed that it was some foil was the best easy fix.
‘Wrap some foil around it and poke a lil hole where the flame is, it’ll circulate the heat inside like a little oven and even out the surface and ‘fix’ it,” he wrote.
“Doesn’t work every time depending on how bad the ring is, but it’s a helpful trick!”