Mead Lover's Digest #1452 Wed 16 December 2009

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Re: Dealing with crystallized honey (bill keiser)

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Subject: Re: Dealing with crystallized honey
 From: bill keiser <bk2@sharpstick.org>
 Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:21:55 -0500


I got a 5 gallon pail of blueberry honey a couple years ago that was solid
crystallized.
I propped it up on a plastic crate, put a frame of something on top (i
forget exactly what) that overhung and left some head space over the
bucket. I put a small light bulb (15 watt or so?) in the crate below and
draped a large blanket over the whole thing. In a few days, the honey was
completely liquid.
Bill Keiser

> > I've got a 5 gallon bucket (~60 pounds) of honey here which has
> > crystallized and I'm wondering if anyone has any tips on how to deal
> > with it. I'm probably going to break it down into 4 15 pound batches,
> > but it's going to be tough to dig it out the way it is. Can I just dig
> > out chunks and use them by weight or is there maybe a way to soften the
> > whole thing?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Pat

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