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. But every time I tried to put candles in the holders, they just wouldn’t stay. They were either too small, and therefore not secure in the candlestick, or too big, which also made them wobbly and prone to falling out if someone were to bump the table or overzealously pass the mashed potatoes.
While it’s true that taper candles and taper candle holders are all roughly the same size, there’s no strict universal diameter for either. And because my fear of accidentally setting my dining roomoutweighed my desire to be a Taper Candle Person, my candlesticks were indefinitely relegated to a drawer.
Then one day, while using hot tap water to clean a melted votive out of a French yogurt jar, it hit me: I could just warm the bottom of the taper candle to make it malleable enough to mold to the shape of whatever holder I put it in. But I wasn’t patient enough to wait for hot water to do the trick, so I grabbed a, held the bottom of a taper candle directly over the flame , then started to rotate the candle.
I’ve been using this method for years, and it has yet to fail me. Every once in a while, if I feel like a candle still needs a little reinforcement, I’ll hold the