Build a tea light oven yourself: simple instructions for the mini heat source in the living room

Created: 09/21/2022, 2:30 p.m

By: Juliane Gutmann

Rising energy prices are turning many citizens into savings experts.

A tip circulating on the internet: The tea light oven as a heat source.

Burning candles radiate heat.

But you really would have to light a lot of candles in the apartment to have it cozy and warm.

On average, a tea light should only develop a heat output of 40 watts.

A tea light oven with three or four candles thus creates around 160 watts of heat output.

Even if it can only make a small contribution to heating the room: A tea light stove always makes for more cosiness.

Thanks to the following instructions, it is also beautiful to look at.

Tea lights are not only good for Advent decorations: They can also be used as a source of heat.

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Build a tea light oven: Here's how

The following materials are required:

• tea lights

• two clay pots of different sizes with a planting hole

• long construction screw

• 4 washers

• 1 spacer sleeve

• 1 wing nut

• 3 fireproof plant pot feet

• Slab of slate as a base

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Now it's time to assemble:

• Place the washer on the outside of the hole in the larger pot and put the bolt through.

• Then the screw is fixed with a washer and the spacer sleeve.

• Then place another washer on top of the spacer sleeve and insert the smaller pot inside.

• Fix everything with the last washer and the wing nut.

• Then place tea lights in the pot construction and place them on the plant pot feet that you place on the slab of slate.

The heat from the flame collects in the inner pot and slowly transfers it to the outer pot.

Even when the candles are no longer burning, the heated clay remains warm for a long time.

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