by Cecile Cinco

I termed it dark simply because it has turned dark after frying fish or chicken or whatever that is you fried and you can no longer use the oil for food.

Oftentimes it will just go to utter waste. Imagine how many liters of oil that was you fried how many kgs of fish in...

So what can we do about it to make it useful still?

Make your light shine...save those candles, use used oil.


How?

First, filter the oil at least twice, to make it "cleaner".

Get a clean bottle. (I used a liquor bottle with its cap intact.)

Punch 4 small holes with a nail on top of the cap. Those will be breathing holes.

Punch a bigger hole in the middle for your wick.

Cut a bias (diagonally) of cotton (old cotton cloth/shirt) long enough for the end to reach the bottom (even if it's longer) and wide enough (about 2 inches).

Insert the "wick" through the bottle cap and leave just an inch out the cap.

Pour the filtered oil in the bottle.

Close the cap to wet the cloth wick with oil. Oil up to the tip of the wick.

Make it flame (by lighting it, of course!)

Try it.