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Plan your first small candle batch on paper before the pot gets warm: wax weight, fragrance percent, wick size, two temperatures, cure time and the test burn. Two jars that differ in one thing only give you the wick choice nobody can make for you.
The episode sizes the wax by the jar - fluid ounces times point eight six gives the soy weight in ounces - and starts the fragrance at six percent, about one ounce per pound of wax. It explains the wick series and the side-by-side test that reads tunnelling against soot, the one-hundred-eighty-five-degree fragrance zone and the one-hundred-thirty-five-degree pour, and the five-degree steps that fix a frosting top. The batch sheet records every number, the candles cure two weeks for their best scent throw, and the test burn reads flame height, melt pool and jar heat hour by hour.
