On Friday night I cleaned the beeswax I bought a couple weeks ago. I used the pot that we use to cook corn on the cob. I put the wax into a pair of panty hose and weighted it down then covered it with water. I heated the pan on the stove till the wax started to melt in the panty hose and rise to the surface. I turned off the heat and let nature take over and pretty soon I had 8 pounds of wax on top of the water. So far so good. I scooped the wax out and into 10 ounce throw away drinking cups and pretty soon had easy to handle hunks of beeswax. So far so good. On Saturday I rounded up the rest of the ingredients for Felix Lube. Needing a small pan I spied my son's boy scout mess kit. Perfect. got the mineral oil and stuff in the pan and stirring as the directions said. So far so good. Bout this time my wife found the pot from yesterday and starts to get a little cranky. Told her don't worry I'll take care of it in a little bit. Then she starts to cough a little saying something about sure is a lot of smoke. I said don't worry ... the directions said its gotta smoke a little or it won't be any good. So far so good. Then I got a good idea. I remembered to tell her happy anniversary. It always worked before ... right? Wrong !!!! She had just found her panty hose in the garbage. Hey ... I didn't know they were good ones. Got the lube finished and poured into some more cups and the kid comes home and finds his mess kit ..... WOW ... You would have thought I did something really bad.
Anyone here know how to clean beeswax out of a pot? I scrubbed till my arm about fell off and its still there. Maybe I'll just sneek in a new one and say I took care of it.