CORK AND KINDLE
HOW WE GOT OUR START
TAKING OUT THE GARBAGE
Working hard to close down a restaurant each night and blow out 40 tealights each night. Careful not to spill any wax or else you would have to spend the next day cleaning all the candle holders. Pop them into the trash and reset with 40 fresh candles. It could be done in 5-10 minutes without a care in the world. Every month we would go to the supermarket and buy 10 packs of 100. Each night tossing them in the garbage over and over again.
A MORE POLISHED LOOK
Certainly, the copper wire and mason jar worked but it needed more. It needed to look better, last longer and be better! The candle would only stop burning once the oil got too low. So well after leaving the restaurant world we worked on making it float down with the surface of the oil. Using what all restaurants have an abundance on hand; wine corks! It was serendipity.
AN OLD IDEA MADE NEW
Realizing that absolute waste of money, and the garbage bag of spent candles we were tossing out each night. We looked up alternatives; liquid paraffin candles were 20x pricier, petroleum-based and still disposable. While Electric candles looked hideous and full pillar candles were a bit much on many levels. It seemed hopeless. Until we came across an old camping DIY of a mason jar, copper wire, wick and some canola oil. Vegetable oil has been used as a candle fuel for thousands of years. It just fell out of favour due to the rise of petroleum. What we built for our restaurant took hard work to make it semi decent, but it always worked.
HERE WE ARE
A few years later we had a working product. We launched in the middle of the COVID-19 Pandemic and spent our free time putting together our first run. However, it no longer seemed right to sell to restaurants who were already struggling so much. So we decided to offer what little help we could and gave our first run of candles away for free to businesses in need. We believe things should last, from the littlest most forgettable things to the most important. If you're one of those that got our Candle, we hope it's still burning bright.
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