6 Amazing Electric Candle Warmer Uses

Electric candle warmer uses? I bet you didn’t know how versatile and useful they are besides warming a candle? Now that Christmas is over, be on the lookout for electric candle warmers. You can find them on clearance or at any local thrift store for next to nothing.

If you are only planning to use one at a time and would like to leave it out on the counter, you may consider buying one nice one. I use mine all year round, all 4 of them!

There are many uses for electric candle warmers beside the obvious of warming a candle. I use the large candle warmer so quart canning jars will fit in them. If you use the smaller candle warmer, the pitcher and canning jars may not fit. Check the sizes before ordering or buying.

Favorite Uses for Electric Candle Warmers

• Infusing herbs and flowers into coconut oil to make soap
• Coconut oil and ghee infused herbs for cooking and baking
• Making vanilla extract (heating is not required but I like to get it a little boost)
• Natural home cleaner (Create your own Non-Toxic Cleaners for a more safe environment in your home)

I only use Kirkland organic, unrefined coconut oil. Starting with the best coconut oil ensures a better product. Moonshine is my preference versus vodka or other alcohols for vanilla extract and natural home cleaners. Always make a label and or tag with the product and the date, it’s very easy to forget.

Warnings of Using an Electric Candle Warmer

I need to point out that whether it’s for making soap or using in the kitchen, I never pour or put my oils directly in the warmer. For one, I am not sure if the glaze used is food-safe and secondly, it would be much harder to clean the candle warmer vessel versus having a removable vessel to clean.

For making soap, I put my coconut oil, herbs and flowers into a stainless-steel pitcher that sits inside of the candle warmer, no water is added. I leave my candle warmer on several hours up to several days, it all depends on what I am infusing.

Please read the manufacturer’s warnings and suggestions about leaving the candle warmer unattended or for the suggested lengths of time.

Infusing Flowers in Oils

If I am infusing flowers and such into the coconut oil to be used in my soaps, I will use the stainless-steel pitcher. I find the electric candle warmer especially useful in the summer when I make my jewelweed soap.

Would you like to use jewelweed? No worries, check out my previous post Jewelweed DIY salves for more cool ways to use jewelweed! For jewelweed, I add it freshly picked, within an hour of picking. As for lavender, I use it fresh-picked or dried, even years dried will work in an oil infusion.

I always add the dry product, pack it down and add the melted coconut oil to it. During the summer, the oil is always melted since it resides on my porch (I buy in bulk for everyday soap making).

In the winter, I bring the coconut oil container inside the home and set it on the floor to slowly melt it from the radiant floor heat. If not, slowly melt on the stove, wood stove or a few minutes in the microwave will do the trick.

Infusing Herbs in Oils

How to smoke meat naturally is a previous post with helpful steps on using infused rosemary coconut oil. For making coconut oil and ghee mixture, I place the coconut oil and ghee in a canning jar that sits inside of the candle warmer, again, no water added in the warmer.

When I infuse fresh rosemary into the coconut and ghee; I use this oil mixture to rub on my chicken and to add to onions and garlic when pan-frying not to mention rosemary oven-potatoes!

NOTE: if using the milk frothing pitcher in the “SHOP” section, it comes with a screened plunger. Just place the plunger in before adding the herbs and flowers. This makes it so easy to strain out the herbs and flowers!

How to Use Herb Infused Oils

• everyday cooking
• baking bread (replacing some of the fat in the recipe with the infused oils)
• rub it on steaks
• glaze a meatloaf
• add to fish
• butter French bread
• buttermilk rolls
• sourdough tortillas
• pasta water while it is boiling
• the list is endless
• roasted peppers
• oven potatoes

You can store this mixture on the counter for a few days or in the refrigerator for a month or more. Even try freezing it, it will last longer! I love infusing fresh oregano, rosemary, and basil in coconut oil and ghee when I am making pasta meals. Adding this oil mixture to the water when you are boiling pasta gives it an awesome flavor too!

NOTE: if using the milk frothing pitcher in the “SHOP” section, it comes with a screened plunger. Just place the plunger in before adding the herbs and flowers. This makes it so easy to strain out the herbs and flowers! For cooking and baking oils, I prefer to use a tall Ball canning jar. No clean-up and the final product are ready to store as is.

Making a Potpourri for Aromatherapy

Making your home smell naturally pleasing is so easy to do. Using the candle warmer is just the ticket to do so. Experiment with some of your favorite things to add to the candle warmer. (Your preference, if you want to add the water directly to the candle warmer or place the contents in another vessel that gets placed inside the candle warmer).

Especially, during the wintertime, I seem to use my candle warmer for aromatherapy. It will also work by adding vinegar with a little lemon to reduce or eliminate offending odors, like when cooking fish (well, in my kitchen, anyway).

Ingredients for Making a Simmering Potpourri

• bay leaf
• orange rinds
• lemon rinds (Want to try my lemon curd and coffee cake? Check out my recipe! Be sure to save the rinds for potpourri!)
• cinnamon sticks
• whole cloves
• star anise
• apple skins
• grapefruit rinds
• dried or fresh lavender
• fresh or dried rosemary
• high-grade essential oils (fragrance oils are not recommended)
• homemade vanilla extract
• tea tree essential oil (Tea Tree Oil Uses and Benefits can be found in a previous blog)
• peppermint essential oil
• filtered water (hard water leaves a sediment ring that is difficult to remove)

How to Use Simmering Potpourri

I love to naturally infuse my home with a pleasant scent that I make. I will also use the candle warmer beside the bed with water placed in the warmer and a few drops of peppermint and lavender essential oil to clear my sinuses while I am sleeping and to offer a pleasing scent to drift off to sleep with.

By placing the warmer on a timer is beneficial too. I use an Alexa plug that will turn off the outlet at a set time during the night. No need to get up and turn it off! The plug can also be programmed to turn on a half-hour before waking to start your day with a pleasant scent.

Since water is easily cleaned out of the warmer, no other vessel is needed (since it will not be going on or in our bodies). Interested in growing lavender this summer? Growing lavender, health benefits, and uses provides tips and need to know facts in order to successfully grow lavender!

NOTE: if using the milk frothing pitcher in the “SHOP” section, it comes with a screened plunger. Just place the plunger in before adding the herbs and flowers. This makes it so easy to strain out the herbs and flowers!

Making Vanilla Extract in a Candle Warmer

The low and even heat of an electric candle warmer can be very helpful for something that needs to be simmered on very low heat over a period of time and doesn’t require stirring.

Making infused vanilla beans with high-proof moonshine or alcohol can result in a great tasting vanilla all-natural extract! Follow the easy directions below to make your own vanilla extract, or check out Moonshine extracts made easy!

• pint or quart Ball canning jar
• quality vanilla beans
• moonshine or high proof alcohol
• fill the jar with the beans and alcohol
• let simmer for a few hours
• while it’s still warm, cap with a canning jar lid and ring
• this should “seal” the mixture (it’s ok if it does not)
• shake the vanilla extract once a week
• 2 months or so (longer is better) you’ll have homemade vanilla extract in a glass jar (not the plastic bottle)
• you may choose to remove the beans and start over once the extract has seasoned
• save the beans to reuse again or add to sugar for vanilla sugar

How to Make Elderberry Syrup Using a Candle Warmer

Surprise! Yes, it’s that easy! Check out the Amazing benefits of Elderberries! Be mindful and ensure that you know the difference between Elderberries versus pokeberries. When making elderberry syrup use a canning jar, filtered water, and dried elderberries.

Heat the elderberry syrup on the stove to boiling/slow boil then it can be added to the canning jar to simmer. Make sure to have hot water in the jar then empty the hot water when adding the elderberry syrup. This will prevent the jar from cracking when adding a boiling product to it.

I have made small batches like this before if I am completely out and don’t want to mess with the woodstove or Instant Pot or stand at the stove for half an hour or more. The post will provide an in-depth benefit of elderberry syrup.

Candle Warmer as a Food Warmer

By using a food-grade glass container (Ball is highly recommended), heating and keeping food warm is easy. Instead of buying all kinds of warming gadgets, tea-light warmers, hot plates, etc. use the candle warmer.

Just heat the food, for example, gravy, sweet and sour sauce, etc., and put it in the canning jar and put in the candle warmer 30 minutes before eating. It will keep the food warm.

Use a nice ladle to scoop directly out of the jar. Just be mindful of the cord. Interested in a sweet and sour sauce? I have an easy sweet and sour sauce recipe that only takes MINUTES!

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