Thanks for the recommendation. I'm always on the hunt for non-drippy, clean-burning candles.

6 hours now and still beauty. Just lit the other four candlesticks for Thanksgiving meal....no drips, clean burn.

Seems a bit obsessive but I've had such a mess with dripping wax on my heavy metal candlesticks ...so hard to remove hard wax.

My first thought, those sure are some unforgiving candlesticks! Pretty though. Went to their site and see they agree:

*These are only designed to be used with drip-less candles*

Thanks for the rec. Might pick up a box to have around.

I know a candle junkie who would love these. Thanks for posting.

Does anyone know where I can buy pure or near pure bayberry candles?

I have all seven going now. No flowers this year...usually tulips. So nice to not have wax everywhere. (the small things). 😀...amazon ordering or even store shopping can be tragic like Ikea candles...

My candlesticks are really special to me...no drippy wax.

Thanks for posting this. I have tall silver candlesticks that belonged to my mother, and I always have them on the mantel at Christmas. Good to know there's a better candle choice.

I'd also like to know what party music asked about – where to find real bayberry candles. With just their own natural scent. It was traditional to burn one all the way on Christmas Eve

Sleevendog, did you trim the wicks?

I think Yankee Candles usually has real bayberry candles.

Also a candle junkie....and they are harder and harder to fine. I usually use my silver candelabra with or without the extensions in the dining room, but I have a collection of antique brass candlesticks and I use them on the side tables in the living room and dining room. I don't mind drips too much. I have a "bad pot" i use just for de waxing candlesticks. I pry off what comes off easily and then dunk in very hot water and the silver and brass conduct the heat so well, that the rest just slides off.
I have a bunch set aside that burned on the deck when it was still warm enough to have friends over and sit sipping wine until all hours.....and the breeze made for very drippy candles....so I do have that mess.
However always glad to learn of certified non drippy candles. I used to love Old Colonial....but haven't seen them in ages.

"....did you trim the wicks?"

No trimming. I intentionally left them long, wonky and sideways. Sat down with them lit, with my 'to do' list, waiting for the drip drama.

Seems such an incidental issue but these are hard to clean when wax drips on the bases. Did try warm water but it did dull the finish. Also they have connected felt pads on the bottom that I don't want to get wet. I should try a hot cotton cloth. May a thin wax build-up is on them.

They do burn a true 7 hours, almost 8. No flickering at all.

This is just my own personal opinion, not a scientific analysis,

Sometime I ago, I had a client who I visit once in a while. He was a chain smoker. I was always amazed that the ceiling tiles above his desk were all soiled from soot and tobacco stain. He died of lung cancer.

All burning, unless the flame is blue, generates soot. For frequent candles burning in a room, may be walls will need repainting sooner and light color draperies get "patina" quicker.

I burn candles indoors only on special occasions.

dcarch

I agree with that. Why in mentioned 'clean' above. Though a slow even burn without flickering and a cotton wick is better. They banned metal fabric covered wicks 20 years ago. A dripping candle burns too fast. Soy and beeswax are said to be better but burn way too fast. Lots of myth busting out there.

I think it is UCLA that has a 1950's-60's built traditional small home on campus where they do indoor air quality testing. Using a toaster every morning produces more soot if not near a good stove hood. Heating oil in a pan to smoking point...searing broiling proteins that have marinated in bottled dressings full of preservatives....

An odd phenomenon where burning sooty candles create a strange layer of soot on plastics like trash cans. An almost magnetic attraction.

I've had candles in the past that had the odd flickering where the soot is even visible over an uneven tall flame. Why I don't burn candles often. This seems different. Birthdays, anniversary, holidays...and sometimes a Sunday with one or three. This box of thirty might last me a couple years or more. Last nights burn still has about four hours. Usually just light for an hour at most. Not a fan of leaving candles unattended.

Just in time for Hannukah . . . don't get me started on the elusive search for the perfect menorah candle. I like beesewax ones for the scent, but are medium in their length of time burning. The old style colored ones go way too fast, IMHO.

For many years, my husband and I had a custom of having a cocktail in the living room before dinner with the candles on the mantle lit and a fire in the fireplace in season. and the wall and ceiling was often sooty and in need of paint. Candles are messy but lend an ambiance that electric battery operated things miss.
Sleevendog, what are your candlesticks made from? heat from a hair dryer will soften wax.....and there is a "stuff" sold called "wax away" or something similar that will remove candle wax, from glass and fabric as well as candle sticks.

I'll look into that Linda. One holiday they were covered in wax but I was not caring at the time. (busy with family). Family being more important by miles than objects.

They are heavy metal with a glossy glaze. Eve passed at 105 yrs(?) in 2014(?). When she was still with us. My purchase at that time.

Hairdryer might be the ticket, thanks for that. Now after the holiday all have moved to the sideboard but one. The cutie low-boy.

Odd that what I purchased is the same as the Sabbath.

Amazon is such a frustration in honesty. Who is who and who is what....

Thanks for your review. I'll look into getting these for the shop.

I have three homes. An 1800's salt box on the waterfront in Newfoundland. A farm upstate NY. And city home north of the city NYC. (forest original '62) I'm a designer/artist that likes all decades of design. EvaZeisel among others...

My gravy boat we used last night. Small things make me happy. Just like anyone with family heirlooms. My grands passed down are at the farm. Or at the beach home.

Northern Lights candles also burn drip free. They say the burn rate is about an inch per hour and we find they last longer than that. They cost more than the ones you got, but we usually stock up when they have a sale.

@sleevendog, Amazon also has a white version of the candles you got and that's $20 for 30. Apparently ivory costs more.

@Lindac, when we burn candles outside, we put them in a candle lantern. They burn nicely that way without dripping and they last longer.

Let's talk about that Eva Zeisel orange chair. It's quite a timeless master piece.

Timeless in many aspects. Timeless beyond aesthetics, timeless beyond functionality, well into human's limitation into conceptualization of the concept of the infinity of timelessness.

The frame is in reality a construction of an advanced Möbius strip. A typical Möbius strip while shows infinity in one direction, it does have a front side and a back side at any given moment. The orange chair on the other hand, has a cyclindrical frame structure which eliminates this "limitation". It is infinity in all dimensions.

BTW, as you can imagine it happens to be a very comfortable and sculpturally pleasing chair.

dcarch

Wrong place for art/design/architecture...I have a chair collection of many, I'm on a forum of like minded designers. Odd to speak/discuss classic industrial design on a cooking forum...

Not sure if anyone mentioned this but if you have wax on the candlesticks, try putting them in the freezer for a while and then you take them out of the freezer and as they begin to condensate, the wax falls off. This is used to get old candles out of votive holders too. They usually just fall right out.

Arkansas girl, I have read this entire page to see if anyone suggested freezing them! That's the only way I can get wax out of votive cups!

Yes, thanks for mentioning the freezing. Did not work completely for my candlesticks. Or the wooden ones my mother gifted years ago. (stopped using those). But did at one point make small round disks to fit the candles at the base where they insert. Wax catchers.

Nice to finally find candles that behave...😜

I ordered two more boxes delivered just an hour ago. A good product I have to stock up. We are not necessarily lit candle people being dangerous #1 and bad dripping, etc. Just passing on a clean simple flame. Nice to have a holiday flame. Nice to have a 4-5 year supply. Slow burn, no drip, once a week, or holiday time, one candle every day. For an hour.

We sat down to dinner last night and DH lit a couple candles. It is the beginning of our holiday. No work until Jan 6th. He commented once again how nice it is to have candles lit without drips on the candlesticks or the table or linens.

It was a simple 'bring to the top' post in case anyone missed it and has been looking for a nice simple flame that burns even.

Plating service, table settings, etc, are often mentioned/discussed here. I do think most would consider a lit candle part of the dining experience.

Dcarch knows that a simple request for another site like DesignBoom would satisfy his interest in chair design. He is a talented thinker beyond most minds so I wasn't surprised he noticed her lounge chair design.

@Angela, consistently posting attempts at negative jabs, misreading intent, is considered trolling. Not you personally, but the action is. I prefer to call it tail-gating. I don't recognize your name as a consistent poster on the cooking forum. Just a few negatives. Like the stuffing/dressing you misread. Word play, pronunciations, language differences, drives 'me' nuts because being obsessive/compulsive I'm a can't-get-the-differences-out-of-my-head, but in a comical way. Not an all caps/explanation points angry way. Bragu is charming, funny, 'pun'ny. Sets things up, then splits, 😂.

Someone left the forums a couple months ago in a bit of a huff. A lot of head scratching over soup. Most don't realize she was changing her name. She was tigereye for a while. Taking over posts and demanding explanations on subjects. Annie, FOAS, Dcarch, etc. patient, and trying their best to explain calmly....then someone said 'go away'. She consistently used all caps and multiple ( !!! ) and then delete. She does not really cook much. Even posted on 'what's for dinner'.

Clearly I irritate you. I'm not offended. Not healthy on your part to keep trying. Best to not make assumptions no mater how an internet voice sounds to you.

I stick my candlesticks in the freezer when they get dripped wax on them. The wax pops right off when all is frozen.

That chair looks like it’d be super comfortable for about five minutes and then I‘d need a hoyer lift to get up. Oops, to get up so I could blow out the candles on the dining table. 😝😝😝