Honey

[pioneergirl]

could it be vacuum packed in the can? Or just a hot can? Heck, what do I know!?!

 

[reinbeau]

You don't need to do anything more to honey than keep it in a jar in the cupboard. Seriously, it doesn't go bad, you don't need to 'preserve' it. Just keep the jar in a nice cupboard away from sun and heat and it'll be just fine. I've got honey out there we harvested two years ago, and it's just as luscious as when I bottled it.

 

[buckeye lady]

We get our honey in 5 gallon buckets. I heat it in my stock pot until it is hot (Not boiling)and then pour into canning jars and seal with lids and rings.
You can just pour into jars and cap without heating. I use heat method to create a seal. The seal is nice when you give honey as a gift

 

[Up-the-Creek]

I read somewhere, not sure where, that in one of the Egyptian tombs they went into, they found jars or crocks of honey. They had some type of lids on them,..they opened them and the honey was just like it was fresh! How many thousands of years do you think that honey was in that tomb??? You think the Pharoah did PB and honey???

 

[me&thegals]

We get our honey in 5 gallon buckets. I heat it in my stock pot until it is hot (Not boiling)and then pour into canning jars and seal with lids and rings.
You can just pour into jars and cap without heating. I use heat method to create a seal. The seal is nice when you give honey as a gift

Hi buckeye lady--You can actually save some time and electricity/gas and just close the jars without sealing them. Honey has its own antibacterial properties and doesn't "go bad." Isn't that cool?

 

[big brown horse]

Ok I'm the dum-dum here, what do you mean by "the bee's knees"?

 

[reinbeau]

Ok I'm the dum-dum here, what do you mean by "the bee's knees"?

When you pull the supers, hopefully you get rid of all of the bees - but sometimes one is still there, perhaps she gets smooshed, somehow - then there's the problem of brood in the honey supers, it happens, just a bit, I scrape it off, but still....and then there's the wax, little pieces of wax that fall into the honey during extraction. All of that gets filtered out through a mesh filter, it drips through naturally, no heat is used to make the honey runnier.

 

[pioneergirl]

I knew about its natural anti-bacterial properties, and preservitives. In fact I read that if you put some on a zit, covered with a band-aid overnight, that it will make it go away.

Honey in a tomb? How awsome is that???? Wonder if anyone had the guts to try some? HAHAHA! In a future life I want to be an Archeologist......maybe my interest comes from being one in a past life

Anyway, I'm glad I asked as its opened up some great information!

 

[me&thegals]

I love the term "bee's knees" and have long used it to describe anything really, really awesome.

As for antibacterial properties, I read that they are using honey to pack into MRSA wounds--methicillin-resistant staph. aureus--that really nasty staph stuff they people have such a hard time healing.

We use it for scratchy throats in our house. No cough syrup needed!

 

[Dace]

My 16 yr old loved the zit idea we are going to try that next time one of us gets one...I told her I would have to wait a week or two till I am PMSing again

Spoonful of honey for a sore throat? Clever!