I Melted Every Yankee Candle Together Into A Giant Candle

(upbeat funky music) - Hello friends and welcome to another video. This week, we're melting down one of each Yankee Candle to form a single

giant

Franken

candle

. If you can't stand the heat, then get out. In 1969, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Michael Kittredge created his first scented

candle

, aptly named Christmas 1969, from

melted

crayons as a gift for his mother, and the company that would become known as Yankee Candle was born. Over the next half century, Yankee Candle would become one of the most famous candle companies in the world. With more than 260 mall stores in 43 U.S. states and one location in Canada, Yankee Candle is now America's largest candle maker, driving shoppers to its doors with a scent trail nearly as visible as like SpongeBob's bad breath.

And as a prolific mall adult and candle lover, I'm no stranger to Yankee Candle. As you know, I like any opportunity to pick things up and smell them, and I'm also always impressed by the inexplicable omniscience of Yankee Candle because I always find that wherever I go, from the dentist's office to the bank, to your mom's house. There is always, always, always a Yankee Candle there. And as some of you may know, I'm also a prolific melter of things, having

melted

every

thing from

every

lipstick from Sephora, to every soap from Lush, to every candle from Yankee Candle's nemesis, Bath & Body Works, in bad experiments. scientists. to see what the average or most marketable tone, flavor or aroma of those things would be.

And given how many different iconic candle scents Yankee has to offer, I thought it was time to get my dirty little hands on some. So in this video, I'm going to try to melt one of all the Yankee Candle scents I can find into a Frankencandle to create the most fragrant, mega Yankee candle ever. But this time, instead of just a spoonful of wax, I wanted to think of something a little bigger, in fact, a lot bigger, and use all the wax from each candle to make a

giant

Frankencandle, maybe not the biggest candle. of the world. world, but it's going to be pretty big.

And even though we have the biggest container we could find, we'll still have some extra wax, so we'll be doing a subscriber giveaway with some not-so-giant Frankencandles, so if you're interested in getting one of these guys, make sure you're subscribed, let a comment below and I'll leave more instructions at the end of the video. But quickly, before we dive in, I want to mention that this video is sponsored by Youtooz because we actually partnered with them to create a Safiya mini collectible figure that is available now. I always wanted a little mini me, maybe one who could eat tiny foods and live in a tiny house, and here she is.

This mini Safiya Youtooz is themed around our Franken/Bad Makeup Science series. As you can see, little Safiya has a blowtorch and lipstick in hand, ready for some destruction, although there's also a little nod to our Questionable Fashion Series with some pink platform Crocs. The box is also customized to look like a mad scientist's Franken laboratory with a boiling cauldron and some concoctions on the shelf, like our Frankencandle, bath bomb, etc. So if you guys are interested in purchasing a Safiya Youtooz, be sure to purchase it from the Youtooz website as soon as possible because they only make one drop of each figure, and once it's gone, it's gone forever.

So be sure to check it out. He's much less threatening in person, I promise. I mean, she's small. How much damage could she do? Alright, with that, let's get to Frankening. What do you think, little Safiya? Come on. Alright, I'm outside the Yankee Candle store in the Crabtree Mall and I'm about to go in and buy one of every candle fragrance they sell. She is about to fall. I'm about to put my fuse on the table. So obviously our first step here was to get our Yankee Candles and from the beginning you were not to mess around with these candles.

Oh, that's already heavy. One less sail, that's heavy. Since most of these candles contained at least 20 ounces of wax, considering there were easily over 100 candles in the store... OMG, to the register. Sailed well for the size of our final jumbo sail. To the window, to the wall of candles. -Everyone knows Lil Jon's affinity for Yankee Candle. - Includes everything from Yankee Candle's iconic holiday scents. Lil Jon, for a second I thought you meant like John, like the apostle. -He loves Yankee Candle too. - To the classic dessert aromas. Chocolate Chip Cannoli, Hello, Buddy Valastro. For the super niche, two Williamsburg scented candles, which, as a fan of Colonial Williamsburg, I was initially skeptical of.

Do you think it smells like pineapple in Colonial Williamsburg? But they kind of did it, actually maybe. She has a dusty vibe. And once you've used up the candles with regular scented objects, Yankee Candle brings out their theoretical scents, since some of their candles are less of a real scent and more like feelings. Because like Balsam and Cedar, an aroma. Singing Christmas Carols, a vibe. An idea, a concept. And they can actually calculate their numbers this way. Twilight Tunes, that's a vibe. It's like the Utah Jazz, you know what I mean? It's like it's a vibe, right?

Yankee Candle offers their scents in several different types of bottles. And although these are the classic iconic shape and some scents only come in this shape, it would be much harder to get the wax off these guys. So we took Tumblr's size straight up and down whenever we could. This is really giving my thighs a lot of pain. I have to be honest. - You are like a perpetual Gollum posture. - My insides are burning. I have a back on fire right now, two actually. Yankee Candle also carries a couple small collections from sister brands in their stores, like WoodWick Candles and Chesapeake Bay Candles, which we decided to leave out because they weren't technically Yankee and we already had a lot of candles to work with.

I feel like I'm getting stronger. Is that how it works, immediate profits? But anyway, after a lot of lifting and moving, it was time to see what miraculously Tori and the team at Crabtree Yankee had a really efficient method for, thank you. Oh Lord. Yes, we let them know we were coming, but I was still pretty impressed. Yankee Candle lets me use their carts to carry our candles to the car. This is trip one of three, maybe four. And after taking inventory of our haul, we ended up with 173 unique Yankee Candle scents from our shopping trip, which we then supplemented with 49 additional candles we found on the Yankee Candle website and on Amazon, and a scent from the year 2023 very expensive. candle from eBay, bringing our total candle count to 223, which may not be all the Yankee Candles out there, but it should be pretty close.

So, with our giant loot acquired, the next question we had to answer was: how the hell were we going to do this? And to answer that question, we enlisted the help of our YouTuber friends, Evan and Katelyn, who run a craft and DIY channel and, in particular, have a lot of experience using and building custom gadgets and machinery, as well as some of experience with candles. - It's 40 pounds of wax. - They also just posted a video on their channel about creating a giant candle jar for this project, so be sure to check out that video after this one.

Oh Lord! - It's a little intimidating. -The highlights baffled me for a second. I was like, ah. Now, for the first part of the equation, which was removing all the candle wax from each and every jar, we considered a few methods. One was freezing the candles. One was to boil the candles twice in a huge pot of water. But the simplest, quickest, and best method we found was to simply put the candles in the oven and wait until the wax melted enough to pour, slide, or remove from the jar. So that's what we decided to do.

On top of that we obviously also needed a huge pot that could hold and eventually melt all of the wax we were going to harvest and we found a giant 50 gallon pot that is usually used for brewing that already had a drain and we could add a spigot to pour the wax and a false bottom that is used to strain different ingredients in brewing, but for our purposes it could catch any wick that managed to get into the pot. And we put this whole contraption on a scissor lift so we could raise it high enough so we could pour our melted wax from our huge beer mug and into our giant Evan and Katelyn personalized candle jar.

With all that, I think it's time to melt. Evan and Katelyn come in, our giant pot comes in, and six ovens come in. Okay, so Evan and Katelyn are here. Well, they've been here for a while building things, but now they're here in the frame with me, and it's time to... - Melt the candles. - It's time to melt. I actually picked this up and thought, this is a gong. - Is the time. - That's pretty official. - Yes, that was good. - Now, as usual, we separate our 223 candles into 11 different scent categories based on the names, vibes, and scent notes listed for each candle on the Yankee Candle website.

And our first category in the ovens would be our 27 scented food candles. Come on, let's all have a candle. Now, in addition to making sure the wax has melted enough to come out of the jars, it's interesting to see how the oven trays tilt in the middle. He's trying very hard. You have a long day ahead of you. My only concern with this method was that I didn't want to burn off the scent of the candles too much. And it turns out that the temperature at which candles really start to give off their scent is when the wax is around 200 degrees Fahrenheit. -Evan is filming with a thermal camera, as if he were the predator. - This is a totally predatory vision. - So we thought that if we kept our kilns and our Yankees safely between the melting temperature of the wax and the scent temperature of candles in general, we could blend without losing too much fragrance.

I mean, they look pretty melted. - They're getting quite nervous in there. - Which meant that, to be safe, we would try to range between 140 and 180 degrees. What I'm glad about is that it doesn't stink too much. That means some odor is retained. And after waiting about 30 minutes, I'd say we were ready to start extracting some wax. I think we're ready. - Oh yeah. - Can I play again? - Yes. - Okay, the bells are ringing. - Don't ask who doubles the pot. And we begin by pouring out our Macintosh candle. It is very liquid. - Coming back, coming. - We chose a violent one to start with, wait.

That's a murder scene. - With Katelyn in charge of the tweezers, ready to pluck our unmelted wax core. - There you go. - That's candle number one. Now, the 27 food candles had a variety of scents, but many of them were fruity of some kind, like this uncooperative melon here. The boat is too big and the bottle is too small. - Oh, that noise. - With a good amount of citrus, berries, some tropical fruits like our Williamsburg pineapple and a surprising hint of apple fragrance notes. It was like a water slide, a wax slide, which when you think about it may not be that surprising because it's like a Yankee vibe, as American as apple pie.

Oh yeah, take it all. - There you go. Grabbing life by the wax right there. - I'll also take my hat off to Yankee Candle for trying some savory aromas like salsa, cilantro and chutney and also for dabbling in dairy like with this very firm buttercream. - Oh, it's crushing, it's crushing. - It's a little soft. - Too loud, too angry. - There was also a very strong pancake candle, Freshly Tapped Maple. - Oh, I hate this one. - Which reminded me of the Blueberry Maple Pancake that came in early in our Franken Bath and Body Works candle and ended up overshadowing all the other scents.

I don't know if it's like their buttery atmosphere. - Yes, it smells a little like popcorn. - Fake butter is kind of gross. - Like a popcorn Jelly Belly. - So let's hope Freshly Tapped Maple gets buried as we go. - I want to prepare. - Do you need someone to hold your hair? - Can you hold my hair? The thing is, there were so many fruit flavors here, but I feel like it's really dominated by the pancake and buttercream. - Damn, at this point, it wasn't looking good. I smell a hopeful twinge of pineapple. - There is a pang, there is like a pineapple hopeful pang. - But we still had enough candles left.

So next we had the 11 beverage candles and the 16 candy candles. And these two categories actually had many olfactory notes in common. There were plenty of sweet notes across the board, including vanillas, chocolates and sugars, and spicy notes with cinnamon, cider and sangrias, although a little more citrusy in the lemonade and lemonade beverage category. And also, to spice it up, we added a GoPro to our tub. - Oh, you hit him! - Which very quickly fell intofight before the black tea and lemon candle. - One and done. - That was unintentionally. - GoPro is now available Now, overall I found both categories to have a very offensive smell, but Yankee really showed some restraint here, oh yeah. - That one really splashed high.

Since there were a good number of alcoholic candles in the beverage category, I was worried that they might be too drunk. -Well, he launched himself. Oh, he did it. - But the frequencies were actually somewhat attenuated. As if plum sake isn't really a sake bomb. I love that plucking sound. The marshmallow eggnog smelled just like Play-Doh candy and there wasn't much gin in the gin fizz. - Yeah, that's a good stab, that's a good stab, that's a good stab. - Nice shot, Katelyn. - Thank you. - Which I wonder if that might also be some kind of Yankee vibe, like hearing America's Puritan roots.

Oh, new Stabbing Technique unlocked. - Evan is in the area. - Let it cook. - I mean, you have some of that. -And with names like Bunny Vanilla Cupcake, Iced Banana Pop, and Warm Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, he was also pretty terrified of the candy category, since I usually find candles like that smell super overpowering. -Are you tempted to stand on that and crush it with your feet like it's wine? - They look like wine-flavored grapes, but they were actually mostly quite nice and subtle. - Try to recreate the grape lady. Is your dream right now to recreate the lady with the grapes? -He died as he lived, in melted wax.

The only downside to these scents being milder was that they allowed the pancake smell to reign in the tub. - I don't want to say it. - I don't want to say it. The pancake is still disturbing. The only thing I smell is maple syrup. - Until we met the Chocolate Layer Cake. - This is horrible. - Yes, I can smell it from here. - It's tootsy, it's even more melted tootsy, which was the only candy scandal that I would say was truly offensive. - Well, tootsies are like chocolate wax and this is chocolate wax. -And although he finally helped us cover the freshly cut maple, it could have been out of the pan and in a fire type situation. - I wouldn't buy it yet. - But you will subscribe. - But wouldn't you subscribe to get one? - I would like to. - I guess now we'll have to cover that up.

So next we had our 27 aromatherapy candles, most of which were dominated by floral notes like lavender, rose and jasmine, as well as some woody and citrus notes, bye bye. In fact, we're going to need ponchos. - We really are. - And also, most of which were part of this specific therapeutic collection that were all square types. Watch those YouTube shorts. - Yes, these are Yankee Candle shorts. -And he really went crazy with adjectives like purposeful cedarwood and orange blossom, revitalizing ginger and lemon, optimistic lotus flower, and aloe. Maybe I need some Katelyn action. - Katelyn, BBQ Master. - Put me on, grill master!

Kudos to the naming department at Yankee Candle for really exploring thesaurus.com. - Oh my god, that's a big jerk. - A block of meat. And although this category smelled pretty good, let me try not to say it to your face. - Don't let it splash on your face. - You saw what happened with the GoPro. - I'll raise a few centimeters. - It was unclear if any of these sails would actually be strong enough to go the distance. We live in a post CC world, a post chocolate cake world, right? Now, our 18 In the Garden candles were obviously very floral, hitting almost every flower you can imagine with a leafy, mossy and grassy touch, plus a hot gnome.

I wasn't expecting erotic gnomes from Yankee Candle. Just when you think you know what you're dealing with, you get hit with an erotic gnome. And I expected these scents to be more subtle and delicate as well. But these smelled much more intensely than I expected. Like Fresh Cut Roses had a big impact. - Oh, it's subtle. Wait, no, it's not subtle anymore. It was subtle for a second. - It was subtle and then I smelled it. - And not only were the floral aromas heavy... Maybe a little gentle action from the grill master, caress me gently.

But the candles themselves caused quite a stir. - Oh, did I understand you? - I think I'm fine, I survived. Katelyn tried to kill me. As a sort of Madame Tussauds transformation began in the background. That was wax. - In the hair too. - The final point of this video is that I became a candle. That's what I would like to do. Although floral aromas rarely appeared in Franken's experiments. Here we have Edelweiss entering the building. Captain von Trapp's hot vibes intensify. Maybe these bad boys had a chance. POV, you are the grill master. Speaking of bad boys, next up were the 17 beach sails.

Should we go to the beach, beach, let's go? Which I was hoping would lean more like ocean spray, watery, Hollister type scents. If we have a drink, it tinkles. - Yes. - But many smelled like pineapple and coconut. - No, I am not strong, you are strong. - Although I'm counting, that's the point. Or, interestingly enough, they were like musky, uncle, Old Spice type smells. Like whiskey, that's what it smells like. Although I guess there was an Old Spice commercial on the beach once. But anyway, we were accumulating significant volume in our boat. - Yeah, I feel like we're maybe a foot deep. - We have a wax foot, guys, which was a little more in line with the deep blue sea theme.

Yes, it is giving a loophole. It looks like the ocean. It smells like uncle. - With a hot gnome twist. - I'm going to get a handsome gnome. Now, after a short break, during which our beach category cooled down to a strange skin, it looks like a waterbed. - Give him a slap. - Oh my God, no, not Yankee Daddy. - Yankee dad? - We moved on to our two more theoretical categories, starting with our 19 Destination Scenes and Candles, which were about ideas of traveling or experiencing a place or event like Art in the Park, Over the River, or Cliffside Sunrise.

You know what I mean, you know what I'm talking about. Road trip to the forest. - I'm collecting what you're giving me. - And then our 13 abstract candles were grouped

together

because they were even darker, like intangible feelings or philosophical ideas like Summer Wish, Life's a Breeze and Love is Love. And all our laundry products are here too. - So ideas and laundry. - Now, because these candles are more tied

together

by the fact that they are conceptual, the fragrance notes and aromas are not necessarily that similar. Oh, oh, weird, weird. I think it pierced. The settings and destinations were overwhelmingly floral, woody and leafy. - Be careful with the hamburger, be careful with the hamburger. - Which makes sense.

Thank you, grill master. There are many parks and walks, some showers. OMG, she did the ker-plonk. And then the fragrance notes of the abstract category were technically floral, woody and citrus. But I noticed that many of them smelled a little powdery, like the scent of the year 2023, Wonder. Wonder, the Scent of the Year, is fine. Grill. Grill master. - Female grill. - And there were also some windy and watery notes. Like with Clean Cotton and Twilight Tunes. - This is the scent of a Killer Bella. Oh. Hermesday! - Renesmee! -I like that you don't even know her name. - What did you say?

Hermesday! Which makes sense since they are like cleaning products and clouds. Did you get splashed? Are you a little waxy right now? - I'm waxy. I mean, overall, it's a pretty nifty way to sell more candles. When you have exhausted the physical, you can enter the metaphysical. So we were nearing the finish line here, people, with our biggest category yet to go, our 32 fall sails. This category was like a marketing masterclass. Surprise, it's pumpkin. Because I have to imagine something like how Mariah Carey's Google trending search spikes the day after Halloween, at midnight on August 31st, Yankee Candle emerges from its slumber. - A little twist.

Are you OK? We're fine, we're fine. And not only was this a huge category, plus some Halloween-specific candles, but almost every candle had some variation of apple or pumpkin. Like Campfire Apple Crisp, Honey Apple Cider Crisp, Spiced Apple and Maple, Apple Pumpkin, Blood Orange Pumpkin, Maple Pumpkin Caramel Cream, and Pumpkin Moonbeams. - Can you smell your tweezers? - Yes, pumpkin, a lot. They all smell like that. I don't think Katelyn likes cinnamon. Oh, it's all over, yeah. And similar to how a pumpkin spice latte doesn't contain any actual pumpkin flavor, although there were some pumpkin and apple fragrance notes, the vast majority of notes in this category were spicy cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove. , sweet vanillas and caramels, woody cedars. and musky patchouli.

So the apples and pumpkins are really just there as a facade. A golden shower of golden autumn. Tyler, it's time for your line. It's time for your line. - I love the golden shower...in. - But I'm not sure it really matters because they know they can probably sell anything to a Yankee Candle customer on September 1st, including me. Oh my God, oh my God, let them go. - It's tragic. - Let it cook. - Walk through nature to say goodbye to autumn. - Good night, sweet prince. - Well, with that, I think it's time for winter.

So to finish off our candle categories, we had our 17 Winter Candles and our 26 Christmas Candles. Thanks, boop, bye. And our winter category was pretty much just a tree scent, as the vast majority of olfactory notes in this category were woody, with sandalwood, cedar, pine, balsam and evergreen present in 13 of 17 candles, grilly, thank you. - Here we go. - There was also a hint of sweet vanilla and a good amount of cold, refreshing mint in this category. - Let me get you Jack. - Thank you, I will never let you go, Jack. Which makes sense. I mean, if you're thinking about candles that are wintery but not Christmassy, ​​they're basically sparkly snowy forests.

I love it. - This is one of the best so far. - What a pine tree. - Touch of mint. - And it's not aggressive. It does not hurt. - I bet you he's very strong. We think it's subtle. Now, the holiday season is also clearly the best time for Yankee Candle, as evidenced by the number of Christmas candles out there. I mean, everyone loves a good Christmas candle, and so do I. I liked Magical Bright Lights yesterday, but I can't smell it anymore. But at one point I liked it. - I don't get anything. Maybe the reason you liked it is because it was subtle. - But now it's gone.

Although it seemed that at this point enjoying them was no longer on the menu. - That's so weird. It's literally nothing. - I forgot the taste of butter, Sam. -But unlike the fall candles, which converged on very similar scents and themes, there was some variety within the Christmas candles. Alright, here's the White Christmas, thank you. Take my little Bublé. Like there are some sweet Christmas cookies, some fruity Christmas drinks, some spicy zests, and some balsamic wreaths. This is people. They are our last three. So, even though I criticized the fall, I will give Yankee his flowers for Christmas. - Final bulb, nice. - That's what I call Franken.

I gave him a high five with my glove. So, with all of our individual Yankee Candle scents now in the tank, that was pretty much the first step. We gave our teapot one last intermittent sniff. I do not hate it. - It's not the worst. - Which didn't really mean much, since we were definitely losing our sense of smell at the time and also because we were practically smelling winter and Christmas at the top. To really get our final Franken Yankee aroma and color, we were going to have to melt and mix the entire contents of the pot.

But we will do it tomorrow because we are tired. So see you later, bye. Evan literally ran. Okay, so it's the next day. We are rested and somewhat recovered. We also wear matching outfits because it's time to turn up the heat, baby. Now, melting a giant chunk of wax is a unique dilemma, especially since our wax was now a solid block in our pot. Wow, that's solid wax in there. And as you had seen during the candle service, at this point, the wax in our pot was almost like a layered wax trifle. So to get a fully blended Franken Yankee mix, we were going to have to liquefy every last bit of wax inside our vat to make sure there was no flavor left behind.

Yes, we had to take out Fieri's attacks for this. Thank goodness we had a third because I didn't know we had a third, but we knew. But we had a plan, which was to use these heating bands that Evan and Katelyn had attached to the outside of the pot, which we turned on and then let cook. - The maximum is 180 now, it is rising rapidly. - Arguably we should have melted the mixture again while the wax was still warm after pouring it the night before. But we passed out, so this was a situation we had gotten ourselves into.

And though after a while, we started to see visible melting. It's juicy here, it's juicy over here. - It's juice. - Now we arecooking. If we just let the heating bands do all the work, it probably would have taken hours to melt this entire block. Especially since we couldn't just turn off the heat for fear of losing all the aroma we had so carefully tried to preserve. So the second part of our plan was to use this giant spatula that Evan and Katelyn had brought me. Here's my giant spatula, the best gift I've ever received, come on.

To help bands, cut and dice the wax inside the tub to break it into smaller, more meltable pieces. This is the sword in the stone. It's the Yankee Candle wax spatula. And because this thing was so big, our plan of attack was to make some strategic stabs in the middle of our block. Look at that red. - Yes, we are reaching new colors. - And then let hot liquid wax be poured inside it to weaken it from within. Don't mind me, I'm just rowing my boat. Joyfully down the river. Which will then allow us to start separating some pieces of the chunk. - This is the hard mode.

We split it. - And after we had cut quite a bit and all of our pieces of wax were below the surface of the melted wax... - Oh, yes. - Can you please submerge? - I said goodbye. - I said good morning, sir. We thought the heat strips could take care of the rest. - You look ready for battle. - I feel like a Spartan right now, really. You either come back with your shield or on it and after a while, we would return to a completely melted pot. Oh, how wrong we were. Now at this point we were what I would call pretty melted.

Oh yeah, it's not completely liquid. It's a little thick in the middle. Based on the temperature of the wax and the heating bands, we should have been pretty much ready to pour. Come to me, sing to me, Pablo. So we were a little confused as to why it was still so thick there. My God, what is this? Giant sticks. - Supplies from before. - Just some sticks, some very big sticks. And after Evan and Katelyn rushed over to try and help crush the wax into submission. - What's happening right now? - What do you mean? - It looks like the end of Lord of the Flies. - I feel like we're going to summon something. - We found out what we thought was the real culprit here.

These damn highlights. What we suspected held large chunks of wax together and prevented them from melting. Oh, actually, I wonder if the things I feel like resistance are wicks. - He's a mecha king. - Yes, exactly, like a rat king, but they are mechas. So, in an attempt to catch as many fuses as we could, we came up with a very deranged plan. We feel waxed, but we can no longer get out of the depths. So something we were thinking was that maybe we could just strap Evan to a heat resistant glove and garbage bag combo and have him bend over and see what happens. - Just normal things. - Do you need adhesive tape? - Yes, we are making a mitten with the garbage bag. - Garbage mitt. -In my defense, he offered.

And almost immediately, he began producing handful after handful of fuse. - Oh yes, oh the mother load. - I think this is the king. So this seemed like a pretty clever solution. -Why does Evan look like the Winter Soldier right now? He commissioned the Winter Soldier from Wish. - This is the Winter Soldier at home. - At least as long as Evan could stand the heat. - How are you in terms of temperature? - Even my glove, okay. - Is it a little hot here? - It's a little hot in there, but it's okay. - Let us know.

It's not worth losing your arm. And I have to be honest, Evan is pretty tough because a little later I tried to get into the tub with the garbage bag arm. Why is this fashion for me? - It really is. - And it was very hot there. Oh, this is kind of hot. - Yes it's hot. But at some point, after a lot of groping at the bottom of our pot, Evan couldn't come up with anything else. - I feel like I'm milking a cow, my God. - Blur that, blur that. - Three squeezes and I'll squeeze you out.

And I couldn't feel anything else deep down either. Then we thought we must have gotten everything up and were ready to serve. Don't quote me on that. -Who else are we supposed to quote? - But when we turned on the tap nothing came out. And after investigating it further, pushing a variety of things through the nozzle... Looks solid though. Like you almost carved it out of what's inside. We continue extracting solid wax. So we hypothesized that there must be a layer of unmelted wax under the false bottom that we just couldn't get to, that it was clogging the faucet, and that the heating bands couldn't melt because of the scissor lift it was placed on. our pot. it actually acted as a heat sink and moved heat away from the bottom layer of wax.

Such an unexpected thermodynamics lesson. - We're losing pressure with this. - So we decided we were going to need to take out the false bottom to get the wax out. And for that, we were going to need more tools. That seems open. So the three Fieris made a late night trip to Walmart. I really think the matching t-shirts have added a lot to the experience. - Linking. - Kept us in a good mood. - Just to pick up some utensils that we thought might be useful. I like that. - What do you have in mind? - The vibrations are good.

Like that giant corkscrew, a lever, a siphon. And what would end up being the key? Some microfiber towels for extra insulation so you can spend more time in the tub with our trash arms. Can we get Diet Coke? You said we could. - Thanks Walmart. - Like after we got back into our tub and the corkscrew immediately fell out. - Oh Lord. - You just dropped it. - We decided it would be best to hand Evan over completely like a garbage bag. - What is the robot dance? - I think you are doing it. I think that's all.

And send it back to wax. - Half man, half garbage bag. - I'm the garbage man. -And miraculously, he was able to remove the double bottom with ease. Here it is. And he confirmed that there were many things under there. - I found it, I found it, look at that. Look inside. - That's the room temperature. That is the ambient temperature inside. - How we were able to extract stroke after stroke from these slabs of very dry, very cold, almost petrified wax. - I have a huge, huge... That's what was blocking our mouthpiece. - It's a giant tongue. - No, not the curl.

And just because there was so much stuff and it was so thick... - This is the other half, this is the other half. - We decided that to make sure they were liquid once and for all, we should probably put them back in the oven. So the furnaces are working again. We only need an oven. And I'm going with that oven. Now, despite it being a very long video, it was a pretty quick summary of what went wrong in our merging process. But in real life, we had been melting for about nine hours. So we were certainly curious to know what it was that had derailed us so completely. - They look like barbecue ribs. - Do you want some? -And upon closer inspection, I believe this strange slab was the original food category. - To me it smells a little fruity. - Honestly, they smell a little fruity.

First it entered the pot, slipped under the false bottom, hardened again and then never melted again. I think that's pineapple. - Oh, it's a pineapple. - This could be the Williamsburg pineapple. So I guess Williamsburg Pineapple really screwed us over. I thought he was a friend, but it turns out he was an enemy. But regardless of who he was or where he came from, everything was liquid now. - That's all liquefied. - That was pretty crazy. That was pretty crazy. And finally we had a fully mixed Franken concoction ready to serve. But where were we going to put it?

That's right, it's time to reveal Evan and Katelyn's giant personalized candle jar. - An extremely large candle container. - Now, obviously, part of the challenge of making a giant candle is that you need a giant candle jar. - You feel good? - I feel very good. I'm running on fumes, adrenaline, Diet Coke and wax. - And wax. - And wax, honey. And we had a hard time finding a candle container that was big enough. I love the tremor of the wick as if they were giant guitar strings. For a while, we were considering purchasing a giant aquarium tank, but none of the options seemed like they would arrive in time. - Okay, I'll stay back here.

Go ahead and open that. - So Evan and Katelyn put their engineering skills to work to create this beautiful monstrosity. - Yes, yes, yes, my God. - Oh, the liquid flows. That looks perfect. -And the specifications of this bad boy are that he is about four feet tall and has a 14-inch diameter base and can hold about 25 gallons of candle wax, which in the end will weigh about 230 pounds. - I'm checking that the wax inside is at 150 degrees Fahrenheit. - Yes, it's great to spot it from the outside. I don't see any vanishing point. Everything is working. - And to burn off all that wax, Evan and Katelyn suspended 16 very long wicks inside, which they think would be about four weeks of continuous burning if they were all lit at once, which is pretty cool if you ask me. .

Just hold on. - I was relaxing next to our giant candle. - In fact, they have an entire video on their channel dedicated to how they did this, including many tests and many more heat cameras with predator vision. So if you're interested, be sure to check out that video too. The link will be in the description below. I can't believe it was those (bleep) weird slabs at the bottom. - We would have finished much sooner. Instead, it's 1:00 AM. m. - Is it really? - It's 1:00 a.m. - But for our part we were very grateful for this giant thing and had filled it practically to the brim. - Wow, guys. - She is big. - And beautiful. - She's huge.

So, after many twists and turns, here we have a giant tube of molten wax, which from now on will be known as the Franken Yankee. Thus she is taller than Rosanna Pansino. This is a human size candle. This is my Barbie size. But while it was magnificent, it obviously needed to cool and solidify before it was completely finished. So to not disturb her, we moved our tub towards the riser a bit so we could pour out the remaining wax and make some extra Frankencandles. - For you. - For you, this is all for you. 50 Frankencandles for our subscriber giveaway and a few more for family, friends and posterity.

We had now planned to collect 35 gallons of wax from our Yankee Candles. But in the end, we somehow ended up with a whopping 42 gallons of wax, which meant we had an extra seven gallons that we ended up keeping. For what, I'm not sure, but I'm sure we'll figure it out. So with that, our tub was empty and after a time lapse of a dimly lit night, it was the next morning and our wax had hardened to a pretty pinkish terracotta color. - It looks beautifull. - Things are looking pretty good, which I was very happy about because I feel like it could have been a lot worse.

So, with the end in sight, all we had left were a few finishing touches. One was that the wax had sunk a little at the top. And then there's a little bit of like, I didn't want to say nipple action, but then it came to mind. - He's giving teats. - But it was nothing our extra wax couldn't handle. - Our old friend. - I can't believe we're still in the oven. Welcome to my new channel, Oven and Katelyn. And once our teats were properly covered, wrap the nipple. Bury the nipple. That's our motto. We had to put this beautiful vinyl sticker on it that Evan and Katelyn had made just for us.

Those hands are actually Evan's hands. Garbage bag food, which then led us to the ceremonial moment of truth, to cut our wicks and light the torch. - Thank you, ready to light our giant candle? Say hello to our fully lit Yankee Frankie people. - This is pretty intense. Oh my god, it works, it's a candle. - Good placement of the fuse, guys. - Very precise. -And now that we're on fire, I think it's time for our official smell test. Now, right off the bat, I would say that this thing didn't smell exactly how I expected going in.

I think it smelled good, but there was a lot going on. - I feel like I'm drunk in Michael's hallway. - I'm sorry, I just fainted. What (bleep) is this? I mean, when you look at the stats for all the scents in our blend, you can see that across our 223 candles, there ended up being a total of 1,761 scent notes listed, which is a lot of different smells. Now, Yankee Candle divides those aromatic notes into top notes or first impressions, middle notes or the body of the fragrance, and base notes or final impressions. This is how we will evaluate them as well.

And of our 591 top notes, the most popular fragrances were citrus scents like bergamot, orange, and lemon. My impressions are somewhat fruity. I think I smelled orange, like maybe a dried or sugary orange, which felt a little random, but it turns out that almost half of our candles had at least a citrus note in there somewhere. So I really knowThey sneak in, even in candles you can't imagine. On top of that, our other popular top notes were spicy scents like cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove, and also a hint of floral and berry scent. -I definitely like spicy sangria, which matches some of the things you mentioned. - Now, kind of a surprise from our 604 middle notes was that floral scents like rose, jasmine, and lavender overwhelmingly took the top spot. - It also smells a little like roses. - I'm understanding. - And surprisingly, the floral aromas come through even if they are very weak.

That would be the first floral scent that appears in a Frankencandle. So that would be very... Actually, I smell a faint vibration of the faint ghost of a rose. I attribute at least part of that to the heavy, freshly cut roses. Rounding out our middle notes were some spicier aromas, as well as woody smells like cedar, sandalwood and pine, which were then supported by more woody and musky aromas in the base notes. Kind of like, almost like those jazz clubs, like manly scents, you know. But what really dominated the base notes were the sweets. There's something vanilla, something sweet in there.

Sweet aromas like vanilla, amber, and sugar were by far the largest category, although thankfully there was none of that chocolate cake or maple pancake smell to be found. - I have too many scales on my nose. - We went too far. - I snorted too hard. - Now we are sniffing the candle. We have come to blow. To summarize, it is a citrusy, spicy, floral, berry, floral, spicy, woody, sweet, woody, musky smell. Which sounds a little crazy, but it's pretty accurate. I think it's okay. - Yes, it's definitely not a bad smell. I don't hate it despite being surrounded by it for hours, days. - But even though we were worried that we might have potentially had some dodgy nostrils going on right now, even Yankee experts Tori and Megan from the Yankee Candle store in the Crabtree Mall. - Will I be surprised, oh? - I thought this smelled pretty good. - Oh, that's lovely.

That's very nice. -And I think we were all a little surprised that the fruity or baked treat notes didn't overpower the aroma. - It's not as fruity as I thought it would be. I don't pick any fruit, which is shocking. - And that, on the other hand, it had some really nice, woody and musky layers. - Definitely a wood, like sandalwood. - I'll stick with the woody, I'll stick with the earthy. And I think a lot of that comes from how heavy patchouli seems as a note. - So maybe our hard work trying not to burn off the smells really paid off. - I would buy this.

If I found it in a store, I would buy it. - Sean would say: we need this at home. - Yes, my mom. I would love this. - And with your seal of approval, I think we can be quite satisfied with our final product. At four feet tall and nearly 2,000 aromatic notes, it has to be the most Yankee damn candle ever. And not to compare it with its nemesis, the senior Frankencandle, but there really is almost no comparison. - The candle you have, the candle that she tells you not to worry about. - Thanks to Tori and Meghan at Yankee Candle for all their help, including helping us recycle our many Yankee Candle jars, and a big thank you to Evan and Katelyn for all their hard work.

I enjoyed it, we went to Walmart and matching t-shirts. That's all I really need. - Yes, it was a great moment. - And although we will keep the giant candle in our house, don't worry, we don't send you home empty-handed. And if you don't want to be left empty-handed either and are interested in winning one of these little Frankencandles, be sure to subscribe, leave a comment below, and fill out the Google Form description. And don't worry, it's not just for the Yankees. Thank you all so much for watching. If you like that video, make sure to hit the like button.

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