 It was not just that I didn't know what I was doing when I made those candles. The writer Harriet Beecher Stowe said making candles from animal fat was seven times as bad as washing clothes. I mean, think about it. You gotta get a cow. You gotta raise the cow. You gotta have food to feed the cow. You gotta kill the cow. You gotta get the fat out of the cow. You gotta put the fat in your Cuisinart.