How to Remove a Melted Candle From Hurricane Candle Holder
My wife loves a couple of glass hurricanes for protecting her candles. Unfortunately, they have a large recess at their bottom. If the candle burns down far enough that it melts into this recess, it forms a wax plug that isn’t easy to remove. You can carefully chip at it and it will break apart to the point that you can remove it. But, today I have a better solution.
Just place the hurricane in a small saucepan of water and gently bring the water to a simmer. In a few minutes the wax will melt to the point that you can remove the melted candle from the candle holder.
A few tips
- Place a washcloth or small towel in the bottom of the saucepan. This will prevent the glass from rocking and possibly breaking.
- Start with cold water. You don’t want to place a delicate glass hurricane in boiling water as the temperature shock may once again break your hurricane.
- Resist the temptation of turning turning the hurricane upside down once the wax is partially melted to remove the wax plug. This will just result in melted wax all over the inside of the hurricane walls. Just reach into the hurricane and grab the wick or possibly spear the wax with something like a fork to remove it.
Lastly, if you have gone through all of this trouble, prevent it from happening in the future. Fill the bottom of the hurricane with sand and your problems are gone.
I had exactly the same hpepan to me and my ex gf about 7 years ago, We were sat in bed quite late watching TV, throughout my room were placed 4 glass candle holders (the ice cubed shaped thick glass ones, used to put tea lighter candles in) earlier on I had placed a fresh candle in each of the holders.Two of them were placed on either side of my turntables, one by my patio door and the other on my bamboo shelves at the end of my bed. The only candles that were alight were the ones either end of my turntables, the other two were unlit and were sat with the fresh un-used candles in.We were lying there when we both heard what sounded like someone walking on a very frosty lawn, we both noticed it and my cat bill who was asleep also jumped up. Weirded out by this we bot started looking around the room for what caused the strange noise she looked out the window while I looked round the room, I came to the unlit glass candle holder at the end of my bed on the bamboo, and I couldn’t believe it, it was actually split in half pretty much perfectly diagonally from corner to corner, and the two pieces were moved about 2 inches apart leaving the candle sat in between them on the bamboo.I picked up the two bits and showed my gf who was at this point freaking out just as much as I was, I placed the two bits back together on the shelf and we both proceeded to get under the duvet and and lie there in a sort of eerie silence both wondering what the hell had just hpepaned.The really weird part is after a few minutes had past, we heard exactly the same noise again, and this is when we were at the point of literally hiding under the duvet! It took me about 10 mins to pluck up the courage to lean over to the end of the bed, I got my Sky remote and poked it through the side of the bamboo shelf nudging the candle holder . The two pieces literally became 5!! Fell apart soon as it was nudged. Totally totally weird.It was a thick glass candle holder with a brand new unlit tea lighter candle in it! I just don’t understand how this could of hpepaned.If anyone could shed any light on this matter for me it would be much appreciated ..
This is pure genius. Thank you for sharing.