[Stoves] safety hint for tea-candle-use

[Boll, Martin Dr.]

To all,

Using tea-candles,

 

I want to give a safety-hint. I (only) once saw by a tea-candle at the end
of the burning-time a dangerous effect. 

The aluminium-cup with the rest of paraffin got by the wick-flame so hot,
that at once there was a really big flame of whole the rest of the paraffin.

Therefore I suggest for safety, to put the aluminium-cups containing the
tea-candles e.g. onto a dish filled with a small amount of water. This would
provide (by good warmth transfer of aluminium) that immediate gasification
of the rest of the paraffin can occur. I think the temperature of the
aluminium-cup is held under 100°C by the water.

 

Martin