Honey spoiled?

[Newbeeneil]

By mistake I managed to heat a 30lb bucket of rape honey to 50degC for 48hrs! Is this spoiled or could it be used for anything?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

it will be fine

 

[Newbeeneil]

Thanks..... would hate to waste it.

 

[MuswellMetro]

unless it has turned from yellow/brown to ruby red with HMF it will be fine

 

[Madge]

To produce clear honey, advice in an SBA honey-workshop booklet that I have, says to heat set honey at 50 degree C for up to 48 hours in order to completely re-melt it - so, as Jenkins said, your honey should be fine.

 

[Millet]

To produce clear honey, advice in an SBA honey-workshop booklet that I have, says to heat set honey at 50 degree C for up to 48 hours in order to completely re-melt it - so, as Jenkins said, your honey should be fine.

I have read somewhere that you can heat it to 54C for 45mins to give it a longer shelf life..and also 60C for 1hr to clear it up..

 

[Finman]

I have read somewhere that you can heat it to 54C for 45mins to give it a longer shelf life..and also 60C for 1hr to clear it up..

On some point honey gets aroma of melted wax. And that is not nice.

But you can try those temps yourself, what happens.

60 C in one hour? How can you do it?.

Heat does not move in the honey evenly.

 

[Beefriendly]

Below is a list of times and temp needed to increase the levels of HMF to illegal levels.
80C=2 hours
70C=3-5 hours
60C=1-2.5 days
50C=4-10 days
40C=20-50days
30C=100-300days

48 hours at 50C hmf levels will still be fine and legal.

 

[Finman]

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Question is not only HMF. It is the change of honey taste. HMF can be measured, but how much you have changed the original taste of honey with heating, it is another story.

And that you can control only by yourself.

You may get extra aroma to honey with too hot electric knife too and using too much smoke in your hives.

 

[Beefriendly]

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Question is not only HMF. It is the change of honey taste.

Yup, for me it's the minimum time at any temperature to melt honey in buckets and get it jarred ASAP.