Candle keep tunneling even if I feel like all my parameters are right ?
Hi everyone !
I am new to candle making and love it, I would like to start a small candle business.
My standard size are tin jars of 9cm diameter.
I use wooden sick (simple ones), and olive wax without additives. I also use perfume, charge 7%
Last night I made a new try after a first one that was missed (too small wick in width).
So I switched to 3cm wide wicks, which, according to the website I buy them from, is more than enough for my vessel diameter. At first, the flame seemed really large and a bit flickering (no open windows in my room), even though I had trimmed my wick to half a centimeter, but I think it was still sticking out too far. The candle burned for 1 hour and 15 minutes, and then there was still half a centimeter of wax left at the edge. I stopped the test, figuring it wouldn't reach the edge given how long I'd waited, plus I could already see the melted wax level dropping a little. Today I tried relighting it, trimming my wick even shorter, but of course, with the wax remaining from yesterday, it just continued to tunnel, without a doubt. I have several questions: Was I not patient enough? If I had waited longer, would it have gone all the way to the edge? An hour and fifteen minutes already seemed like a very long time. Could a wick that's too long, and therefore a flame that's too large, cause this phenomenon? How high do you cut your wooden wicks?
I am a beignet so, thank you very much for your help !