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Paraffin Bowls How to make your own

#1 User is offline   Martin Lindsay Icon

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Post icon  Posted 30 November 2008 - 12:22 PM

Ever wonder how to get or make those special wax bowls use in "Hot Potato"? Check out this simple solution I found.

http://www.candletec...oon-luminaries/
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Posted 02 December 2008 - 05:27 AM

I tried it out and it's pretty easy.

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QUOTE (Martin Lindsay @ Nov 30 2008, 10:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ever wonder how to get or make those special wax bowls use in "Hot Potato"? Check out this simple solution I found.

http://www.candletec...oon-luminaries/


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Posted 02 December 2008 - 08:55 AM

damn! that is what we like to see....

the ones at the restaurant are made in molds.... 3 to a mold and we have about 8 or so working molds. But this is a great, great way to do them at home.


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Posted 03 December 2008 - 07:47 AM

Glad to see how well these worked! I have some paraffin that I picked up in the canning supply section of the grocery store. I may have to give this a try.

Edit: Now the only question is what to do for the pins!
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Posted 03 December 2008 - 01:22 PM

Hi Matthew,

I bought several sets of metal cocktail picks (set of 6, US$6.95) at Crate and Barrel which will work. But I just saw that you can buy the 2.25" stainless steel Alinea picks from J.B. Prince (pack of 10 for US$14.40).

I ordered some today!

Martin

QUOTE (mtkayahara @ Dec 3 2008, 05:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Glad to see how well these worked! I have some paraffin that I picked up in the canning supply section of the grocery store. I may have to give this a try.

Edit: Now the only question is what to do for the pins!


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Posted 04 December 2008 - 03:51 PM

This is great! I'm sure Martin Kastner would be proud of your resourcefulness.

This reminds me of how I used to make pinadas when I was a little kid in summer art class.
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Posted 26 February 2009 - 06:40 PM

I just made 200 of these for a catering event we have. I took and using silicone 9X13 pans made sheets of 1/4 inch wax. Then using a circle cutter stamped circles while the wax was still very pliable the formed them around the bottom of 4oz ladles. To help keep the bowl form i let them finish cooling in a sphere silicon mold i have. It took about 6lbs of wax to do it.
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