Wax in a can
We finished up the mushroom logs this
afternoon.
One of the neighbors told me how he melted his wax with the bottom half
of a beer can and I'm happy to report it makes cleaning up the mess
just a matter of letting it cool and tossing it in a box for next year.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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I couldn't help but notice that the can in which you melted the wax was directly on a stove burner. I have narrowly avoided disaster when a drop of wax hit a hot burner and the whole container caught fire. Melted wax is highly flammable. Since my unhappy personal experience I have started using a double boiler method by heating a pot of water and immersing the utensil holding the wax into the water.
Dennis