Questionable Candles

Most likely I will be adding to this topic, as I've been seeing some things that really make me scratch my head lately!  

In the following video, which is supposed to be about "realistic" dessert candles, I found it very perplexing.  

Also, I would like to mention that the word "embed" is pronounced just as it sounds.  Most gel candle makers know that one of the fun things about gel candles is that you can embed decorations, such as marbles, glass figurines, or hard wax shapes (approx. 165 dF wax) that are created in candy molds.  The reason they are a hard wax has to do with the embedding process (not what this post is about), for instance, in a glass where the partially-cooled gel is poured (the hard wax has less of a chance of melting.)  

These wax pieces can also be used to adorn fruit bowl candles, for instance, and in some cases they need not be created with such a hard wax.  In any case, the term we've come to know them as is "embeds."  

When using embeds in a gel candle, whether in a glass or bowl, there are a couple of things to make sure of ... one of them to make sure that they do not bump up against the wick, which throws it off-center.  In the case of the video below, the wicks are at a slant, which is not a safety consideration so much in a bowl candle of this sort as it is in a glass container, but it still doesn't look as nice. 

Another thing to make sure of when making dessert candles is to keep in mind what is going to happen when the candle is burning ... the wax needs a place to pool.  If there is a "cave" of some sort around the wick, a wick can burn straight down until it meets up with pool of some sort and this is not the way a candle should burn!  On the subject of wicks in gel candles, 1/4" has always been the standard, acceptable length for the wick ... both in presentation as well as in safety instructions.  

As much as I do not like to criticize crafters in their art, when it comes to candles, imo, both safety and presentation go a very long way!  I see a lot of things wrong about the candle in the following video and it bothers me when I see instructions given that do not follow safety concerns or explain things correctly.

Now for one of the videos I found at youtube ...