Making a Finnish Candle

Aug 6, 2025 7:40 AM

DOcelot1

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Laura Croft survival game idea!

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Mmmm...MEATY!

7 months ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

7 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

This destroys the wood. Do not attempt at home. This has been performed by an expert.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Auger? I hardly know her

7 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Very cool.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

When she blew that sawdust into the camera...

7 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

Marusya Shiklina?

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Just smoke an apple like the rest of us

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good Lord, Janice!

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That cut of fat still has some ham in it.

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This is an upgrade

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The genre of cute girls doing wood chopping and woodworking really popped off

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Step 1) be attractive. Step 2) scant clothing. Step 3) lean over to maximize view of cleavage. 4) profit.

7 months ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 4

Thank you for the answering the question "What is the internet?"

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Jätkänkynttilä, näitä onkin toreilla valmiiksi tapahtumasta riippuen https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1Z2Eyc2J3MDlqcG9rYmE0cjNzOTJndTc1dmk0Y2FuNDZuNzg1NmVnMiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/9tzXBdylmxKve/200w.webp

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

jätkänkynttilät on kyllä normaalisti hieman erilaisia ja yksinkertaisempia. Viiltoja läpi vain ristiin rastiin ja tuli keskelle.

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

No jos on moottorisaha, sillon noin. Jos on pora, sillon näin. Jos on vaan kirves, sillon taas eri lailla.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

She gives me wood... ideas.

7 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 6

That's an INSANE amount of work for minimal payoff (didn't even show the side hole - why?)

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

that is not a Finnish Candle it is, a bush stove, Finnish candle of loggers firelog is usually a log with a X sawed to half way and light

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

That's if you make it with a chainsaw. This is how you make it with an auger, an older way from before there were chainsaws and just as authentic.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

sure, but that is still a bush stove not a candle

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

In the US, I guess? Over here these are all called candles, 'cos of how they burn, and a "bush stove" would imply some kind of gas burner or twig-burning _contraption,_ 'know? :)

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think the finish would come long before the candle stage.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

She breasted boobily!

7 months ago | Likes 66 Dislikes 12

In every video, be it on self defense, cooking, DIY or quantum physics, there must be gratuitous cleavage shots. People who aren't attractive or don't want to show off their bodies just don't get to share their knowledge. It's the Internet Boobs Law.

7 months ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 6

That said, may we shall hope that the day of looming and lamenting Crop-top-Neill-de-Grasse-Tyson will be still far away in the future.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

We only see start, Miss Finnish?

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That did not look Finnished to me.

7 months ago | Likes 137 Dislikes 0

That pan most definitely was not seasoned properly

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

7 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Reminds of a quote from an old danish ad:
Are you Finnish?
No, I'm Danish

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I love when attractive people make videos pretending they do work.

7 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 6

It actually is hard work to maintain a regular, high output, reasonable quality video channel. If you think it isn't, then why not make a go of it yourself? Money is money after all.

7 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

It's still pretending to do other work. This is especially eye-rolling with chores or hard labor that takes a lot out of you when performed regularly. Not comparable to maintaining some entertainment channel at all.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 5

I also have enough years of retail and warehouse work. Just because it is not hard labour, does not mean it is not hard work.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Man, making log candles is just a traditional craft that most people do for fun, not hard menial labor.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hold on, let her cook

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No she's Finnished

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm not attractive enough for those sorts of tools, I'll have to use a battery drill.

7 months ago | Likes 327 Dislikes 0

The benefit of using the hand drill is the hole at the top is the same width as the drill bit. That's why the 3 pegs fit so well.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Yeah without the cleavage I wouldn't look half as good

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I've got cleavage, just not there

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

a lot of work to manually drill those holes, you'd be good and hungry by the time you were able to use it.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I've seen enough videos to strongly recommend against drilling a battery.

7 months ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 0

Why not? Makes more fancy flames than this

7 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

You're not the boss of me...

7 months ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

But you want them to be, right?

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's why they can only recommend against it

7 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

It's fine if you're using a battery drill, it's literally made for that.

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

In Finland it's called Jätkänkynttilä (Lumberjacks candle). Orginally it was made from dried up pine tree, as the tar makes it burn long time and in any weather.

7 months ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

And I thought the center hole should have been almost to the bottom for longer burn time.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah it burns better if you drill the holes thru the log. Gives a bit more draft for the flames.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think the modern translation should be "Dude's candle".

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Yeah. Nowdays jätkä means dude, but in the old days jätkä meant a male forest worker or a dock worker.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Nope. The name is really old, and comes from lumberjacks. Dude is a newer word.
It would also lose meaning as that was a source of warmth used by lumberjacks, not dudes.

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not really. You can google "dude" and find out it is a word from late 19th century (denoting a dandy): probably shortened from doodle, perhaps with allusion to Yankee Doodle Dandy.. Tukkijätkä on the other hand is earlier, about mid 19th century. Dandys were men who were highly groomed and didn't have a use for jätkänkynttilä, lumberjacks on the other hand had.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

That's not what I thought it looked like - the Finnish candle (or more correctly, the Swedish torch) that I know looks more like this:

7 months ago | Likes 138 Dislikes 6

If the thing is different and the name is different, I'm gonna say they're slightly different things lol

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah maybe that's something else, because it is something else?

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Orginally it was made by using an auger, but after chainsaws became more common, the slit version became more popular. Either way, it's very good for cooking stuff.

7 months ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 1

Neat! I camped a lot as a kid and I'm a cook now. Looks like I have one more project this summer

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

"this is not what it looks like or what it is called"... ever wondered that maybe the thing you are thinking is a different thing? In Finland the thing you posted is jätkänkynttilä aka "dude's candle" or logger's candle.

7 months ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

I just said I did not know that it was called that. Liighten up.

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

You are probably getting sass because of your inclusion of "more correctly" tbh

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, probably.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also, while you didn't necessarily imply: According to the Finnish forest museum Lusto Swedish torch was invented by Finns in northern Finland. It was made by loggers to warm up and make food.

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Not implied, and I did know.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 6

Wtf?

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We used to slits when camping for smaller logs, where you dont the the flame needed or if, the hole is to big for a longer fire. For the bigger ones, we did like she did in the clip. never came to us to add some branches as a pot holder. (Also its a litte bit dependend of the Tools.)

7 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Indeed dependent on the tools - you can also make one with nothing but an axe, simply by splitting the log, carving out the middle and an air hole at the bottom, and putting it back together.

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I've never had access to a bucked up logs while camping, and I'm not bucking one up with an axe. There are dozens of different gadgets to sit pots/pans on at your camp fire, or you can just sit some close together. For actual cooking while camping you don't really need anything more than sticks to burn anyways.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah, it just depends on what tools and materials are at hand. These days most people make log candles with a chainsaw, same as felling the tree to begin with, and that's where the crosscut design is the most convenient. But if you're out in the woods, are settling down for a day or two, and are in a situation where you can fell a tree, doing this with an axe is feasible and sometimes worth it (and easier than doing the thick crosscuts with a handsaw, too).

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm still a fan of just using a plain old trivet. You can get all kinds, ranging from big heavy ones to light weight folding ones. I usually bring a squirrel cooker, a trivet, pot, and frying pan. That'll let you cook just about anything.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Swedish candle is basically a log with a hole down the middle and airflow into it, by any of a number of means, originally drilling straight to the bottom. It's basically just a rocket stove that consumes itself. The post, your comment, or just drilling straight through are all variations of it.

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I've also seen it done with an axe, just by splitting a log, quartering the larger split, then stripping out a strip of wood along one of the central corners of a quarter, then tying the pieces back together with string.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Here in Finland it's called a logger's candle.

7 months ago | Likes 77 Dislikes 3

Indian people call Indian food "food".

7 months ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 2

Here in Australia we'd have called them chazzwazzers...

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

...and you gotta keep an eye on them or they'll jump up and eat your face with their poison fangs.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think it was ze Germans who named it.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Tommy. Is that a gun in your trousers?

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No, I’m just glad to finally see you!

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, allegedly because it was used by Swedish soldiers in the Thirty Years War. Personally I'd _guess_ it was more probably invented at some point in prehistory as a derivative of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campfire#Rakovalkea by the Saami.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Most probably!

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It doesn't look very derivative of a rakovalkea, unless I badly misunderstand one or the other. It's just a rocket stove that eats itself. The rokovalkea seems entirely different in construction, intention, and purpose.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They're slow burning, self-feeding, self-fanning fires made of whole logs that concentrate the heat and shield themselves from the wind, used for heat, light and cooking, the main difference being the orientation of the fuel logs and the tools used to make the more modern forms of the candle; both also originate from the same region and the same peoples, and AFAICT the rakovalkea is attested earlier (e.g. in Olaus Magnus).

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Haha I just searched for what it's called in Swedish, and apparently it's "bum's stove". Not bum as in ass, but bum as homeless-adjacent.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Whereas in English, a "hobo stove" is made from a tin can. Crazy how language do that, right? Maybe depression era drifters up here had easier access to logs than to tin cans, or something.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh, actually hobo stove would probably be a better translation. I guess wood is easy to come by here? :D

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There you go! The name Swedish torch was, as I said before, given by the Germans, not the Swedes.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, that's usually the case. We don't call Swedish Fish Swedish Fish.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Swedish Fish.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In Canada, we dont call it Canadian bacon. It's called back bacon.

7 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

That’s ok, I just call it Canadian ham, it tastes exactly like ham, so why not?

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But do you call the Canada goose just a goose?

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

No, we claim those

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Canada Geese are named after a man named John Canada.

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Shit, man, I've been so wrong my whole life.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1