It's ugly, it's frustrating and it's definitely happened to all of us at least once: candle tunneling. If you're a big Christmas candle burner like I am, you've encountered a candle or two that ...

You can see the burned candle had already started to tunnel. Gabriella DePinho/NYT Wirecutter I paid close attention to the issue of “tunneling,” which is when the wax doesn’t burn evenly ...

Once a candle tunnel develops, it may seem near impossible to fix, but years (and a lot of wasted wax) later, we’ve discovered that the answer was sitting in your kitchen cupboard all along.

Typically I prefer a 3-wick (and if you watch Real Housewives of Potomac, you just know) because I feel like the more wicks, ...