Candle Snuffer

“Blow the candles!” These words are often heard in birthdays and people quickly do so when electricity flows again after a power outage. The lungs’ job is to supply oxygen in the body and you wouldn’t have to interrupt this process if you have a candle snuffer.

It is an instrument used to extinguish the flame in a candle often use in home and churches in times when electricity is yet to be discovered.

The “extinguisher,” its other term, is still used in modern days in dinner made more pleasant and exquisite by candles perched atop ornate candelabras, as one of the center pieces. In such cases, the candle snuffer is much needed so as to avoid wax spatters ruining the tablecloth or worse hurting someone else.

This indispensable candle accessory is usually has a bell-shaped snuffer that extinguish the flame by depriving it with oxygen. The bell is attached to a handle with a length as short as 4 inches and as long as 16 inches.

Such is the typical form, yet one can still have the luxury to choose from its varieties.

Silver candle snuffer is the most common and simplest extinguisher that you can add in a silver collection.

But if you want color to come along with luster, brass candle snuffer is a good choice. Like the former you can have it in different length depending on the required reach.

And if you want a touch of nature in this handy instrument, you can opt for a wooden handle such as mahogany.

These materials renders durability and aesthetic at the same time. Glass candle snuffer, on the other hand, has a beauty associated with transparency and more color but requires extra careful handling compare to the other types of candle snuffer.

After the dinner or celebration will the extinguisher be stashed in a cabinet? Not quite. Some candle snuffers have a design too intricate making it a decorative piece that renders elegance to a simple dining table.

Even in modern times, candles and snuffer are indispensable. The simple task of extinguishing a flame is somewhat more of a privilege, especially if it’s a tulip or a floral candle snuffer. Safety, beauty, and elegance are found in a simple instrument that can spare the lungs in occasionally stubborn flame that wouldn’t be put out in a single blow.