I have this hunk of red cheese wax from the wedge of hot Cheddar cheese Randy has been eating and wondered if it might be compostable instead of throwing it away. In searching I found that it is compostable and I found instructions for making tea light candles with it too. http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheese- ... /?ALLSTEPS Okay, just what I need is something else to start saving to make something else out of someday. Oh, well, why not!
Very cool.. Who'd a thunk..... I have too much other things to do and don't eat enough cheese that's covered with wax. but surely, if I do use wax covered cheese, I am going to think twice about this...and you toni Barb in Pa.
Why not indeed. I hate to throw anything away that might come in useful. However, isn't it strange that the stuff Ian collects is rubbish but mine is always worth holding on to.
We have a much more discerning taste when it comes to the stuff we collect (this coming from the woman who spent 2 hours wandering through a real JUNK field last month) The wax is now in a zip lock bag hanging on the side of the fridge
That was asked on another site I found about using cheese wax and the suggestion of putting a drop or two of a Essential Oil like Lavender, would hide that.
Now I don't feel so bad about saving beeswax from our hives. We don't get a lot of it because we don't destroy comb, but when we extract honey there is a bit of wax. I now have a beeswax ball a bit bigger than a golf ball. In about four years I'll be able to make a 12" candle!
From now on the cheese wax will go into the compost. I'm not going to save it to make candles, but I do want to hear how it goes, toni.
