Thank you for doing such a helpful video. I just got done pouring my very first 1oz bars and my very first candle. The information you provided was very helpful and you did a great job with the video. Thanks again 🐝🐝
What an enormously labor intensive process! Just think of all the hard work the bees put into that before you harvested it! Can’t wait to see all the goodness you’ll be creating with this luxurious product this winter.
Was so nice to see you!! You will love learning new ways to use your wax! Comfrey salve was my go to for diaper rash. What a reward your bees gave you! You are so patient 😊
Wow!! Amazing! I just pickup up 16 pounds of beeswax from a local beekeeper that I'll use making candles , lip butters, and body butters! I feel like I received actual gold bars! Just a beautiful resource! Thank you for sharing !! ~jc
Thanks for sharing that’s a lot of work I learn so much from you and getting a deer with a bow that’s hard to do I hope my husband gets to go hunting this year
I have never seen this process, so very interesting. Thanks for sharing your great talent. Are you going to sell any of the products you are making? I would love to try your honey as well. 🙂
Hey Robyn! I’m planning to hopefully sale some products once I master creating them! We can gladly ship you some honey! Private message me on Facebook or IG. God Bless & Merry Christmas!
Such great information, we are planning to thus in our summer kitchen because of the mess. Can’t wait to see what all you do with it. Hugs and love Texas.
Ma'am you sure are doing it the hard way. The way I do it is take 2 5 gal buckets and cut the bottom out of one. Take a cheap tee shirt and put it across the top of the bucket with the bottom in it. Then fit the bottomless bucket into the top of bucket with the tee shirt. This holds the tee shirt in place. Then put a paint strainer bag into the top bucket. Using a large old pot put 3 or 4 inches of water in and heat it up. When the water is hot enough start putting in your old comb and bur comb etc. When everything is melted pore everything into the buckets. The paint strainer will catch the large particles and the tee shirt will catch the small stuff. Strained and filtered in 1 step. This gets the wax clean enough for my purpose of waxing foundation.
Hey Paul! Anything we use for this process is given over to the bee equipment. I can’t get all the wax off and get it clean. I just do the best I can by heating up the pot and tools and wiping with a paper towel while it’s hot and clean it the best I can. Any wax that I get on countertop,etc. I did find using lemon essential oil helps it come right off
Why are you dunking your seive all the way into the crockpot ? - you need only skim the top - the way you are doing it is only stirring the good with the bad - I know this is a 2 yr old video - I am pretty sure you have perfected your process during this time
You're messing up by doing all that it's very easy to render the wax get you a big pot put you about 2 inches of water in the bottom get it up to boiling get all your camping and start pouring them in that hot boiling water and disturb it a little bit let it melt down pour it to the paint filter running through the paint strainer let it cool overnight then tip the block out of the bucket tip it over wash off the slump gum off the bottom do that process 3 or 4 times 3 and 4 times until it becomes clean
Thank you for doing such a helpful video. I just got done pouring my very first 1oz bars and my very first candle. The information you provided was very helpful and you did a great job with the video. Thanks again 🐝🐝
Glad it was helpful!
What an enormously labor intensive process! Just think of all the hard work the bees put into that before you harvested it! Can’t wait to see all the goodness you’ll be creating with this luxurious product this winter.
Hey Audrey! Thanks for watching! God bless & Merry Christmas
@@justdigitfarms Christmas blessings to you and yours!
I like the paper towel filter because you can use the paper towels afterwards as fire starters, and the wax comes out so clean
Was so nice to see you!! You will love learning new ways to use your wax! Comfrey salve was my go to for diaper rash. What a reward your bees gave you! You are so patient 😊
Hey Melody!
I’ve got some comfrey in my herbal mix for my gardeners hands salve!
God bless you & Merry Christmas!
Wow!! Amazing! I just pickup up 16 pounds of beeswax from a local beekeeper that I'll use making candles , lip butters, and body butters! I feel like I received actual gold bars! Just a beautiful resource! Thank you for sharing !! ~jc
Hey!
How exciting! I agree! It is like gold bars!😊 Have fun making all those amazing things!
Thanks for sharing that’s a lot of work I learn so much from you and getting a deer with a bow that’s hard to do I hope my husband gets to go hunting this year
Hey Gina. Thanks for watching! Merry Christmas!
I have never seen this process, so very interesting. Thanks for sharing your great talent. Are you going to sell any of the products you are making? I would love to try your honey as well. 🙂
Hey Robyn! I’m planning to hopefully sale some products once I master creating them! We can gladly ship you some honey! Private message me on Facebook or IG.
God Bless & Merry Christmas!
Great video taking us through the steps. I’ve made it through the first step and am clarifying it further today.
Wonderful!
Your honey bars look so nice!
Thank you Gabriel! It’s like creating gold bars!😉
Such great information, we are planning to thus in our summer kitchen because of the mess. Can’t wait to see what all you do with it. Hugs and love Texas.
Oooohhhhh wow! A summer kitchen? That would be nice!
Let the bees clean the wax
Ma'am you sure are doing it the hard way. The way I do it is take 2 5 gal buckets and cut the bottom out of one. Take a cheap tee shirt and put it across the top of the bucket with the bottom in it. Then fit the bottomless bucket into the top of bucket with the tee shirt. This holds the tee shirt in place. Then put a paint strainer bag into the top bucket. Using a large old pot put 3 or 4 inches of water in and heat it up. When the water is hot enough start putting in your old comb and bur comb etc. When everything is melted pore everything into the buckets. The paint strainer will catch the large particles and the tee shirt will catch the small stuff. Strained and filtered in 1 step. This gets the wax clean enough for my purpose of waxing foundation.
Thanks for sharing! Always looking for easier ways to do things!
great video thank you for sharing. ill be attempting this for the first time soon.
Thank you for watching! Wishing you the best!
When I raise my honey bees I would have at least 800 lb of wax when I got through
you did a awsome job great video
Thank you so much Tonya!
Those girls in your intro are beautiful!
i thought the darker wax had just been in the hive longer. learn something new every day
Just a thought, keeping the wax in the paint strainer, tie it up and put in crock pot with water.
Good idea. Thanks!
Use silicone molds. Removes the need for PAM and muuuuch easier to demold
Thank you Violette!
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What is the remaining liquid in the crock pot after you remove the block of wax? Is that honey?
It’s the water
It’s a year later and I found this video. Do you still have bees? That wax looks amazing! Do you make soaps?
We do still have bees. I have not made soaps. Just chapsticks and salves but I want to try candles and I’d love to learn to make soaps.
I've watched numerous rendering videos,. The one using a pillowcase has one step.
Put the waxed stuff in the freezer and it will clean off pretty easy
Great tip. Thanks!
Next time you could use a paint strainer sack so that way you won't have to filter as much. But still a amazing video. Keep it up!!!
Hey Gene! Great suggestion! Thank you
How do you clean the stuff you use for this process?
Hey Paul! Anything we use for this process is given over to the bee equipment. I can’t get all the wax off and get it clean. I just do the best I can by heating up the pot and tools and wiping with a paper towel while it’s hot and clean it the best I can.
Any wax that I get on countertop,etc. I did find using lemon essential oil helps it come right off
Thanks
Thank you Eric for joining us! Blessings!
How to make the wax clearer?
Maybe better to use distilled water or rainwater instead of tap water. However your finished product does look good.
Great suggestion Marie. Thank you
where do you get those molds ?
I ordered from Amazon and I’m sorry but I can’t remember the source!
I had one old guy that come in by every bit of my wax when I got through rendering it
Just LOVE watching your edutainment (Lesterism) videos. Pkeeeez get a better microphone system.
Why are you dunking your seive all the way into the crockpot ? - you need only skim the top - the way you are doing it is only stirring the good with the bad - I know this is a 2 yr old video - I am pretty sure you have perfected your process during this time
Wax can be cleaned off with mineral spirits
Great! Thank you!
Goodbye Madam
You're messing up by doing all that it's very easy to render the wax get you a big pot put you about 2 inches of water in the bottom get it up to boiling get all your camping and start pouring them in that hot boiling water and disturb it a little bit let it melt down pour it to the paint filter running through the paint strainer let it cool overnight then tip the block out of the bucket tip it over wash off the slump gum off the bottom do that process 3 or 4 times 3 and 4 times until it becomes clean
As far as removing wax from countertops super easy look into a product called goo gone it’s fantastic