Martimart
House Bee
- Joined
- Nov 18, 2020
- Messages
- 202
- Reaction score
- 173
- Location
- Derby
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 4
1. Cappings and the inevitable honey that comes off with them are valuable. Make one of these for next year so that you can drain the honey off as part of your crop (nothing wrong with it if you uncap above a decent stainless or food safe tray.
Use the same seive to wash the cappings. Then melt them down in a Bain Marie and cast them into blocks (plastic box with a bit of rainwater in the bottom). There's plenty of threads on here about what to do with wax.
2. Scrape the wax out as much as you can and add to the cappings to be processed - the small amount remaining... just wash with cold water and it will become crumbs of dry wax which can be added to the bain marie for processing.
https://www.thorne.co.uk/candlemaking/bain-marie-1-5kg.html
That’s brilliant thank you very much