Decrystallizing a 5 gallon pail of honey
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How many times have you grabbed your bottle of honey only to find it had started to crystallize? Well, this video show how I go about decrystallizing a 5 gallon bucket of it. The process works the same if you just have a bottle of it, it just takes a heck of a lot less time to do it. Thanks for watching. God's peace and Merry Christmas. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Nice! May I give you an advice or tip? Try to use a metal container or something else that hangs inside the hot water (not makes direct contact with the heat from below). It will one make it easier to warm the honey. Plastic doesnt transfers the heat so good. But second the plastic tends to give some of it plastic away at the higher temperatures. So with using the metal it keeps its own taste even more. I really enjoy watching the vids. Keep making em them. I really like them and I learn alot and even considering to search for a place where I can get some experience myself.
That is a great idea, but I have taken it a bit further. I bought a water jacketed bottler, and now, when I have crystallized honey, it will be dumped into the tank and I let it alone. It may take a few days to get it to go liquid, but I am in no rush. Thanks so much for the help and watching my channel. God's peace. Mr. Ed
Indeed, a jacketed bottling tank is the way to go. If you're a backyard, beekeeper like myself, I use a very large canning kettle as my heating bath and insert my 5 gallon buckets into it with some chunks of wood on the bottom to keep the plastic bucket from contacting the very bottom, where the heating element is on my electric stove, just in case. It may take a while but I've got all kinds of time and if you have the heat somewhat low you can leave it on all night and perhaps wake up to completely heated and liquefied honey in the morning.
@KenHill I'm just watching a vid from two months ago from Mr Ed. Where he is rendering beeswax and is explaining the story of the kettles and then you wrote this. What a coincidence, that video from recycling the beeswax is a really good one to have a look at. ( recycling our beeswax)
@@sebrassino I probably watched everything available on rendering wax. There are lots of different ways, and a lot of it depends upon the scale of what you need to accomplish and what tools and facilities you have available. For the five or six pounds of finished/rendered beeswax I get every year or two, I usually start with hot water in a dedicated kettle to melt and settle everything. I let it cool overnight and dump it out just like Mr. Ed does and wash and scrape the cake a bit. From there I melt in a double boiler at least twice, taking my time about it and run it through mesh strainers and scrape till I'm satisfied with the product. Have fun!
Speaking of lots of different ways of doing things.......... There's an old beekeeper's adage that I've heard and that is ' ask five different beekeepers the same question and you'll get at least six different answers.'
Thanks for the useful instructions.
Appreciate your taking the time and trouble to prepare this video.
The process I use to avoid crystallizing honey is... eat it :D
Works for me too. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Me too. I love it that way the best.
YUMMY! Every time I see one of your videos I go get some honey. But not yours. I really want to have some of your honey. It is GOLD in so many ways. Blessings.
Hang on for a bit, and you will get some. God's peace Joyce.
Mr. Ed
Mr. Ed, I had a quart jar of awesome honey but it had mostly crystallized ! I followed your example here and I got my awesome honey back! Mmmmh good honey. Thanks! God Bless!
Thank you for your blessing Danny, and it is my pleasure to pass along info that is helpful. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
Another great video, drama and all. Glad the camera didn't get hurt! Just finished this process on my LAST gallon of honey, looking forward to warmer weather and a great honey flow!
Glad you enjoyed it, other than the camera falling, I enjoyed making it. When I bought the camera I took out drop and fall insurance on it just for these occasions. I must have dropped my other camera a dozen times before it gave up the ghost. Live and learn. It is a pain to do it, but it has to be done if you want to sell it. You and me both brother, but then, that's why we live in Louisiana isn't it?
Thanks for watching. God's peace. Mr. Ed
I agree with Randy, the extra drama was good...
Glad you concur, it really was funny after I got over the knot in my stomach from having the camera fall from about 6 feet in the air. Thank you for watching and commenting. Merry Christmas!! Mr. Ed
I thought that was a computer generated thing. GOOD JOB!
I will have to send pitchers of my decrystallizing box I built. Its uses two 60 watt lights (need to add a third light) and a old hot water heater temp controller. I set it between 100 to 105 and stick the whole bucket in or a 3 or 4 case of honey. The only problem is it takes a few days. Nice looking honey.
You have me interested. The problem with decrystalilziing honey using water is that water and labels are not good for each other. I like the idea of a dry decrystallizing is appealing. Send pictures and plans. Thanks Desmond. Merry Christmas!!! Mr. Ed
Please feel free to send that bucket to me! I'll take it whether it's crystalized or not! 😉 Great video on doing that and thanks for explaining the temps to keep it from getting too hot and losing the benefits of the honey. Merry Christmas!
Crystalized honey is perfect for hot tea, just shove your spoon into the honey, pull out a chunk, and let it disolve in the tea. I'm warming up just thinking of it. Nothing better on a cold morning. Thanks for watching and commenting. May Santa bring you lots of bee equipment for your endevor. Merry Christmas! Mr. Ed
I just use my old honey in my ribs, makes wicked bbq ribs, w a lovely raspberry vinegar , ur fav spices .
I use honey on a lot of things, salads, sauces, biscuits, you name it, you can add honey. Of course my favorite way is straight from the comb.....with no bees on it. God's peace Wanda.
Mr. Ed
Mr. Ed, wonderful videos! I think in the future you can skip the step of measuring the water temperature. When it's boiling you are pretty much 212 degrees if you are close to sea level.
So glad you like the videos, and thanks so much for taking your time to watch them. Even though the water is hard boiling, the thickness of the crystallized honey will not allow the honey itself to reach that temperature. It requires a lot of stirring and a constant monitoring of the temp to get the honey to return to it's liquid state. I only use this method when I have honey in 5 gallon pails, but I will be using a different method in our 55 gallon drums. Stay tuned for that video. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
If you sell raw and unfiltered honey you should not heat the honey above 121 degrees Fahrenheit to maintain all of its health benefits. I use 150 degree water and take the honey to around 118 degrees. Keeps all of it good properties that way.
I really don't like putting any heat to the honey, but when it crystalizes you really don't have a choice. I really tried to maintain those numbers and I was very close to them. As you could tell, the thermometer was not a really good one, so I think I did ok. At least the honey did not lose any color and was still golden. I really appreciate your comment, I have found so many different opinions on heated honey, and yours are ones that I have read and agree with. Thanks for watching. Merry Christmas. Mr. Ed
@bear09871 Chemistry doesn't work in absolutes. Honeys enzymes have a half life of roughly 1000 days @69F and only a few min @ 121F... Anywhere north of 95F you start degrading or killing the benefits. Once It is crystalized the health benefits are pretty much void unfortunately , there isn't a way to get It uncrystallized in a preserving manner, just avoiding hitting 121F is by no means preserving all of it , you are still killing a large portion. I would be interest to see if any living enzymes are left in crystalized honey before you heat it, there is a good chance there is none...
@@George-nx5lo i have a crystallized pail of honey and am going to make mead. your comment made me wonder, if i de crystallize it, could that affect the quality of the mead, or is it simply the sugar content the yeast needs, not the healthy enzymes, etc that honey provides?
anyone can answer this question!
Man he's adorable
I've had 62 years of practice. Thanks for your sweetness and watching. God's peace Tabby.
Mr. Ed
This is my preferred method for heating honey up for final straining into my bottling tank. I use a block of wood with a hole in it for my thermometer probe and let it float in my honey. Periodically, check the temperature and stir it up to even the temperature.
Love the floating thermometer idea, I'm going to use it. Thanks for the suggestion and for watching. God's peace Ken.
Mr. Ed
Will it stay liquid?
I'm very happy to have found your channel, I love your videos, great work 👍
I'm very happy you found it also, maybee you could tell some of your friends about it too. Are you a bee keeper? Thanks for watching and I hope you continue to do so. God's peace. Mr. Ed
Jeff Horchoff Hi there, yes I keep bees for a hobby, and where I am in Australia we also have a native stingless bee, it's great, nice honey with no stings 👍
man that Honey looks so good
good job on the video
You can't beat honey straight from the comb. I wish everyone could taste it, they would never buy honey from Wal Mart again. Thank you for watching and commenting. Go and get you some raw honey from a local bee keeper for a Christmas present for yourself and see what I mean. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Mr. Ed
Jeff Horchoff o ya I'm Gona get me some
Interesting - thanks.
All honey will crystallize, and it is a big help to know how to bring it back to it's original state. God's peace Michael.
Mr. Ed
The best way I've found is to get a BIG spoonful and put it on my tongue and just wait for it. Takes a while but who cares! GBWYou Palley!
Now I know why you have so many comments, you are always on a sugar rush from eating all that honey. God's peace Lewie.
Mr. Ed
I'm really a diet controlled diabetic and my Sweetie is a hypoglycemic But I wish BIG! And I have a good memory about stuff like this.
GBWYou, Palley!
Am I the only one that likes crystallized honey? I have seeded honey with crystals in order to make it crystallize. Long story short with that, you take a small bit of crystallized honey and put it in liquid honey, and leave it alone. It seems to work best when the temps are cool, but not cold.
The question is why spoon it from one container to another then put it into your container to heat =)?
Great vid =)
Will it stay in that state or go back to crystals.?
It can always recrystallize, and if it does, just repeat the process. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
How did you learn all about bees? did you always have an interest? Great video and very informative! please keep them coming!!!! God bless!
By watching youtube videos and then going out to bee hives to get stung. That's right, the school of hard knocks. Thanks for watching Gina, I'm glad you like watching the videos, I hope there will be a lot more in the new year. God's peace. Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff Don't you mean the school of hard stingers
What kind of thermometer is being used please
It is a deep fry/candy thermometer that came from Amazon. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Carmela.
Mr. Ed
Could it be put into jars also?
It sure could, that's all I use now a day. Thanks for watching. God's peace David.
Mr. Ed
Hi jeff. This might be off topic I just need some help. They say that if you place pure honey in the freezer it should not harder and cryztallize? Is that true? Coz as far as I know anything you place in the freezer gets hard. Thank you for accomodating. GODBLESS YOU. :)
I have a buddy that puts his honey in the freezer, it still crystallized. It did slow the process down, but did not stop it. I would not put my honey in the freezer. If it crystallizes, put it in water, turn the heat on, bring the water to a low boil, turn the heat off, and let the jar sit till the honey returns to it original state. That's what I do. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
I think I like dark honey better. It tastes more like honey. I also like the ones that are less sweet.
You and I are on the same page. Dark honey has more body to it, and it is less sweet. Unfortunately, I get more of the lighter colored honey, spring time honey, than the darker honey, fall honey. We just did a honey tasting for the dedication of the St. Ambrose Honey House, th-cam.com/video/OWvuIu1aRjo/w-d-xo.html , where we had 15 different kinds of honey from all over, and sure enough, the darker honey was much better than the lighter honey. Thanks for watching and Happy New Year!!! Mr. Ed
If I ever get that much honey, I'm gonna try my electric bucket heater, plug it in and go do something else.
I am going to have to invest in one of those very soon. I know they work very well, and it is a lot less work to bring the honey back. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out a few more of my videos on my channel and let me know what you think of them. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Jeff Horchoff Oh I do. Gotta try to keep up on you and that 628DirtRooster Randy 🤓
I have a 15-year-old bucket of honey that has completely separated and hardened. There is an amber syrup on top and hard sugar on the bottom. Any suggestions on how to soften the crystals so I can mix the two back together again?
love all the video's ! does boiling plastic release those pcb's chemicals into the honey ?
As the honey never gets above 100 degrees, no chemicals are released from the plastic. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
I'm still stuck on "biscuits from scratch" in your email. I waited the whole video to see them.
I am really sorry you were so disappointed with not seeing the biscuits sitting on the stove with the steam rising from them, it really is a good picture. But, I hope you realize that is a real story out of my life. There's no way I could have written that unless I experienced it first handed. Once those saliva glands get started, the bar has been set and there is no settling for something secondary. I'm sorry for your pain. Merry Christmas and God's blessings for the new year. Mr. Ed
Hi Jeff, when you checked the honey temp the last time you didn't reset the thermometer. When you placed it in the honey it dropped down from a higher temp, do you think it was still reading the honey correctly?
Now you have me wondering. What I need to do is invest in a really good thermometer to avoid that issue. Thanks for pointing it out. God's peace. Mr. Ed
Very nice vid Jeff. I had the same issue as you in a completely full 5 gallon pail with honey gate. I ended up acquiring (free) a commercial stainless steel wine chiller that did not work any longer (lost all of its freon). I took out all the workings an added a 60 watt bulb to the base on the inside with a galvanized heat shield over the bulb. Over night it will decrystalize. Check out my facebook page for pics HONEY B GUYS. God bless.
This is brilliant!
ed please mail me some honeycomb! watch these videos is torture. i have never had anything other than grocery store honey. so please let me try some fresh honeycomb
Tell you what, if you ever make it to the New Orleans area, let me know, and I will hook you up with some Abbee Honey. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Is this honey no longer true raw honey?
Because the temperature of the honey never went over 110 degrees, it still is raw honey. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Where can i get a big thing of dish soap like in the video
Wal-Mart has everything...........except Abbee Honey. The only place you will find that is at the Saint Joseph Abbey gift shop. Thanks for watching. God's peace. Mr. Ed
Can you burn the honey?
Yes you can, that's why I monitor the heat all the time. Very good question. God's peace Christine.
Mr. Ed
I only do not like that the honey is in a plastic bucket... the plastic melts. And he chemicals that are in the plastic get into the honey. Not only that they make the honey taste bad it also is not good for your health. You don't even need to heat the plastic up to get the chemicals into the honey. Just storing honey in plastic containers are bad. What happend to the good old glas containers? Glas is perfect for honey!
There are no leaching of chemicals in the honey as all the buckets are food grade. When I bottle the honey, I do put it in glass bottles because I prefer glass to plastic. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling adventures on my channel and let me know what you think of them. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
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I'd rather have crystallized honey myself. lol
michael ianni It's perfect to put in tea or coffee, I do it all the time. Thanks for watching and commenting. Mr. Ed
Too bad you couldn't have gotten some spun honey out of it.
Have you ever made spun honey?
Lot of arm muscle work to do but Oh! so worth it!! lol!!
Never heard of it, now I have to go look it up. If I like what I see, there may be a video on it very soon. Thanks for the tip. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
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