FOOD-GRADE colored waxes

Taiwan Where Can I Find...?
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I’m looking for pre-colored food-grade wax (either paraffin*, beeswax, or microcrystalline), OR the food-grade colorant agents suitable for adding to wax (not just liquid food colors like from baking supply stores or groceries).

I know I can get uncolored waxes, and I know that at Tianshui St. I can get wax colorants for candles, but I don’t trust them to be food grade. I also know where to order the waxes abroad, but since nobody ships surface anymore, the shipping costs are absurd. So no need to post those answers, thanks. :wink:

I’ll be using these to coat homemade cheese. Any leads? Failing this, of course, I will just use uncolored wax, either a paraffin-micro blend, or a paraffin-beeswax blend. I can only get two colors that way, though, translucent white, and yellowish.

*Yes, I know paraffin is too hard and fragile unless blended wtih one of the other two.

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If you’re after some kind of orange or umber colour, I can supply you with a lovely batch of mine own manufacture, literally harvested from from my ears. I’m sure it’s edible.

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Can you get me a kilo?

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if we all chip in, i’m sure a kilo is possible. maybe even 2.

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:dance: Gosh, you guys are swell! :dance:

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I won’t make any suggestions about what we could donate for the cheese.

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I can remember back when I was 8 or so, collecting it and storing it in a tiny jar in my room somewhere. Took forever (like years) to collect more than a rice grain. I may be just a wee bit larger now, but i still think that a kilo might be out of my league even with help.

Sorry.

Please temp me, I have been a bad boy.

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:sick:

I wonder whether I could use 2-3 layers of uncolored wax, and then use a NON-food-grade for an outer coating (using candle colors). :ponder: If it never touched the cheese it would be safe, right?

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Aaaa! Cheese covers. Serves me right for not reading your entire post.

Um, buy lots and lots of those minibel baby cheeses, then peel off the wax and melt it in a can then dunk your own cheese in it. You can throw away the minibel cheeses, or just give them to me.

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[quote=“urodacus”]Aaaa! Cheese covers. Serves me right for not reading your entire post.

Um, buy lots and lots of those minibel baby cheeses, then peel off the wax and melt it in a can then dunk your own cheese in it. You can throw away the minibel cheeses, or just give them to me.[/quote]

Yeah, I know it’s reusable. But that would cost me more than importing a kilo of wax, and would raise my cholesterol too much. :stuck_out_tongue:

Hey everybody, save me your cheese wax please! :smiley:

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I’d go to that place in Dihua Street. I recall they have all these cheeses and yougurt making stuff. They might have it or at least point you in the right direction.

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They have cheese-making stuff? Really? Any idea where along Dihua St. it is? Address?

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Icon, stop being so SENSIBLE. OK ?

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You did notice I didn’t give the address, the crucial piece of data for his endeveaour? :stuck_out_tongue:

:laughing:

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I suppose I’ll need to bribe you, then.

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I take my bribes in foccaccias, pan dulce or simply flan.

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I’m sure I can stir up something. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I know that Crayola brand crayons work very well for an addition to parrafin for candle making. It is also non-toxic because kids stick them in their mouths. So, I believe your suggestion of a couple of coats of regular parrafin and a final layer of colored wax with Crayon coloring would work great.

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You plan on selling the stuff? If not, why not just use uncoloured?

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Thanks, Enigma, I was considering that. I wonder whether I can buy boxes of, say, all green crayons? :ponder:

Sandman, it’s an aesthetic thing. :idunno: I think it will look nicer, and I can use different colors for different cheeses, so I don’t have to do labels.