Some Of My Cheesewax.

[Mysterian]

Since Christmas Day I'm the proud owner of a medley of wax covered cheeses. By which I mean professionally covered cheeses for the purpose of waxular cheese preservation, not accidentally covered cheeses due to some terrible cheese-board/candle incident. By the end of my fromage voyage I’ll be the owner of a veritable big dollop of wax. It seems a shame to just bin the stuff. What uses can secondary cheese wax have? I'm thinking of mixing with wood shavings for firelighters.
What have you done with the unwanted cheese wax in your lives?

Is the subject too controversial?

I suppose you could use it for wax seals on letters if you want to add an 18th century flourish to your life and style. You'd have to make yourself a quill pen and start wearing a big horsehair wig, panier skirts and lead based make up to really follow through on the look but I would say it's worth it.

I work with a young person. I'm a little over 50. When she was still 17 she did ask me seriously if I ever had to use a feather to write with when I was younger.😒

Wax sealed letters are cool but I'm more of an e-mailer. I don't think I even have any parchment right now.

Could you make your own cheese and re-use the wax for that?

I can remember sitting at wooden bench desks with inkwells in them when I was at school. The benches were about six inches wide and the school uniform was bottle green with a box pleated skirt, a kind of bow tie affair and a hymn book in your blazer pocket.
Apart from on Fridays when I had to wear CCF uniform. I was an RAF cadet and had to wear a pencil skirt and M&S pewter tights.
It was a boys' boarding school that had just let girls in. There were eleven girls in my class when I started in secondary school which dwindled to eight by the time I left.

It was a different time and I'm only forty blurblurblur years old.

Scholarship kid by the way. It was a nuthouse. I don't know what my parents were thinking of. Actually I do. They were wanting to marry me off to Rupert Cholmonderley Psmith Mainwairing by getting in early. It backfired.

I don’t know- but the thread gave me a chuckle. Hmmm make your own candles?

Might be cheesy smelling candles. Or, she could mix the cheese wax with the left over roast potato/meat fat from Christmas and have tallow candles for the full 18th century experience. I'd give it a go. Cost of living crisis and whatnot.

Create a cheese wax monster. I save babybel cheese wax and create stupid things.

Four candles?

Do your creations look like the aftermath of this?

Voodoo dolls, clearly.

I love the thread title, but I think cheese wax is like tumble dryer fluff. Feels like it should be usable for something but just isn't.

I mean not quite because mine were all mangled and deformed effigies of wax that looked like voodoo dolls that someone probably sat on.

https://www.thespruce.com/creative-ways-to-reuse-dryer-lint-2146010#:~:text=Dryer%20lint%20can%20also%20be,that%20will%20later%20be%20washed

Oh dear me! There are very, very many uses for tumble dryer fluff. Many of them workable within a ten or twenty year time frame, which is nothing really.

Oooh, I'm going to store it all up for the next major oil spill I come across.

Have you any os.😁

Y'never know. I suffer terribly from the "Cassandra Complex" I can predict the future but nobody believes me. We'll all be wearing blue tumbly dryer fluff jumpers come 2030. Or using tumbly dryer fluff plant pot filters.

It's the next big thing. You heard it here first. I might go on Dragon's Den. It's got legs. And don't you dare steal it from me. I'll sue.

Someone on the Christmas section made a load of berries out of cheese wax last year and then coated them in nail varnish to use as Christmas decorations. Maybe you could try that?

I wouldn't use it for candles.

I've been reliably informed it smells horrendous when burnt (but I think that may have been a Babybel...)

Ooh I would deffo be saving that! Think of the times you need something squashy to fill little gaps or for modelling. Especially if you can paint over.

No, but I’ve got some peas!

I don't need to wax any cheese. Cheese I come across in my day to day doings tends to have quite a short life expectancy.

Art wise I think I would need larger quantities than I have.

Burning it in candles seems sensible. I think the strong odour in some of my candles will easily overpower any lingering cheddar smell.

Or peas?

Get pinecones. Melt the wax in an old saucepan or whatever. Dip pinecones in melted wax. Leave to dry. Now you have firelighters.

Only useful if you gave an open fire, mind you.