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1 minute ago, Rattlecan said:

30 seconds in the microwave usually does it for me 

Yeah - that's what I do with it now - since it is usually liquid on the top and crystalized in the middle-bottom.

I transfer the honey when I get it to a Mason jar, so I just pop the top off and nuke the glass container, but it still is annoying and there usually remain some tiny crystals even in the liquid after nuking it.

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1 minute ago, jsharr said:

You can place the jar or bottle in warm to hot water.  Be careful as really hot water will make the plastic bottles shrink and deform.   Same can happen to plastic honey bottles in the meecro wahvey. 

Exactly why I go to the Mason jar.  One, I try to NEVER microwave plastic. Yuck and crazy potential chemical nastiness.  But for the original "melt", if in plastic, I would do the hot water route - ie head up a big bowl of water in the microwave to near boil, and drop the honey container in there to warm it up.  

6 minutes ago, jsharr said:

I was just thinking Honey Crystals would make a great stage name for an exotic dancer or breakfast cereal, or both! 

I bet both have been considered (or even used)! 

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I don't do it in a microwave.  I have had much better and onger lasting results with a hot water bath.  The microwave heats at too high of  temp and seems to change the honey.  When I have used the mirowave, it seems to crystalize again very rapidly compared to the hot water bath on the stove top.  If you can buy in glass, it heats nicely in a pan.

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1 hour ago, Razors Edge said:

Any tips or ideas on how to keep honey in a liquid rather than semi-crystalized form?

It seems like, these days, I can't find a simple way to have honey smooth and liquid like I used to remember. :dontknow:

Heat it up.  The best way is stand your jar of honey in a pot of warm to hot water, and stir it occasionally until the crystals are gone.  It will be just like new.  I usually just use hot water from the tap as opposed to putting it on the stove.

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1 minute ago, sheep_herder said:

Spread some crystallized honey with some butter on a biscuit and nuke it. Yum!Yum!

I will agree with this.  Warm butter and honey on a biscuit is awesome.  As is butter and molasses.  My wife had aunts who favored sourghum syrup.  

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11 minutes ago, dinneR said:

Our boy likes Costco. He's probably buying a 50 gal. drum of honey.

I wish!!! I could swim in it!  

I guess, though, to some, VA honey is weird :( It crystalizes even when 10 oz or so.  Maybe an altitude thing??? You're at a higher elevation.

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Just now, Longjohn said:

The local place that I used to buy honey you could buy it in a 55 gallon drum, 30 gallon drum, five gallon bucket, or in quart jars. I always bought quart jars.

Pint is the absolute LARGEST CafeTM approved size.  Ounce or even tablespoon is further encouraged.  Maybe even just bring your toast or tee by the vendor and get the honey directly applied is best.

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7 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

The local place that I used to buy honey you could buy it in a 55 gallon drum, 30 gallon drum, five gallon bucket, or in quart jars. I always bought quart jars.

That is what I miss about college days. We had a co-op user supported grocery store (hippie 70's!!!!) that had several 55 gallon drums of various varieties of honey with a hand pump. Weight the container you brought in, pump desired amount of honey, weigh it then subtract the container weight. It was all on the honor system and likewise with other bulk items such as tea.

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12 minutes ago, Tizeye said:

If you can find it...Tupelo Honey. It has a different sugar compound that doesn't crystalize.

Also, for other honeys, that is the reason they created whipped honey that you apply with a knife.

I had to look up Tupelo honey, I had never heard of it. The first thing that came up was a fancy restaurant in Pittsburgh. I knew that wasn’t what you were talking about so I refined my search.

Beekeepers must clean the comb for tupelo honey when the tree is in bloom.

Tupelo honey includes table and baking grades of honey made from the blossoms of the tupelo gum tree, Nyssa aquatica. The tupelo gum tree grows in flooded forest areas in states such as Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, and Virginia as well as along the Mississippi River, but the honey is mainly only produced commercially in areas along the Choctawhatchee, Apalachicola, and Ochlockonee rivers. Honey made from the white tupelo gum tree, Nyssa ogeche, is top quality table honey and is valued for its uniquely delicious flavor and its inability to granulate.

I buy my local honey either in quart jars or five pound bottles. I buy a gallon at a time and usually only one in four jars will need heated to de-crystallize.

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5 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

I had to look up Tupelo honey, I had never heard of it. The first thing that came up was a fancy restaurant in Pittsburgh. I knew that wasn’t what you were talking about so I refined my search.

Beekeepers must clean the comb for tupelo honey when the tree is in bloom.

Tupelo honey includes table and baking grades of honey made from the blossoms of the tupelo gum tree, Nyssa aquatica. The tupelo gum tree grows in flooded forest areas in states such as Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, and Virginia as well as along the Mississippi River, but the honey is mainly only produced commercially in areas along the Choctawhatchee, Apalachicola, and Ochlockonee rivers. Honey made from the white tupelo gum tree, Nyssa ogeche, is top quality table honey and is valued for its uniquely delicious flavor and its inability to granulate.

I buy my local honey either in quart jars or five pound bottles. I buy a gallon at a time and usually only one in four jars will need heated to de-crystallize.

Can you buy honey sugar like you can buy maple sugar?

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39 minutes ago, Randomguy said:

Can you buy honey sugar like you can buy maple sugar?

I've never seen it.

My local reference is a store I stop at on the way to the beach. A little shop on their farm property with dirt parking lot and sign to be careful of free-range chickens.

Excellent honey selection taking up half the store. If anyone, they would have honey sugar, but there is none. Most unique honey derivative products are Propolis, Royal Jelly, and Bee Pollen, but I have not been brave enough to try either product. They produce their own honey with a few active hives outside plus stored empty hive boxes. While Wild Flower and Orange Blossom honeys are the staple, occasionally will have Tupelo but is on an "as produced" basis. They don't do bulk and re-package. They literally truck their hives 300 miles to the Apalachicola River basin where the Tupelo trees are but timing has to be coordinated with the bloom.

Sadly, they had a fire a few months ago which seems to have been limited to the back side of the building involving storage/shipping and offices, but not the front retail. Thankfully the hives and chicken coups were not impacted, but I haven't been out there since the fire.

Bee Products — Webb's Honey — Webb's Honey Inc. (webbshoney.com)

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2 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Jeebus! Take something great like honey and RUIN it :(

The boutique hotel in Bisbee included honey sticks with their in-room tea. Far from ruined, nice to have with the evening brew. Also a local roast coffee and a small pitcher of real cream in the fridge. And local chocolates. I would stay there again. 

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8 minutes ago, MoseySusan said:

The boutique hotel in Bisbee included honey sticks with their in-room tea. Far from ruined, nice to have with the evening brew. Also a local roast coffee and a small pitcher of real cream in the fridge. And local chocolates. I would stay there again. 

Until that plastic straw ends up in a sea turtle's nostril!  :frantics:

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9 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Tough to harvest more turtle balls if we kill off the parents with needless straw consumption!!!!!

Nope, just sail up to the floating turtle and snip off the balls, use them to fertilize the turtle eggs harvested from the floating mommy turtles and create lots of new laboratory bred honey ball turtles.

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