Honey Stix or Straws

[pargyle]

Meat Balls...probably equine.......
With those inside you....a quick gallop for the exit!
Clearly....IKEA is not for you....
Back to the drawing board....hmmmmm.....where to source fat straws?

Here you are ....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hot-Bubbl...t=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item3cf060ca82

and here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Homemade-Honey-Sticks/

Let us know how you get one ... could be a UK First ?

 

[Mart_got_hives]

Maybe - but I couldn't cope with the stigma if I was seen walking into one of those places

Wear your veil.

 

[Thymallus]

I assume taster sticks - why don't they just pinch them from Starbucks - that place has to have some purpose seeing the coffee is so sh!te

At just over a fiver for a 1000 of them, is it worth the hassle of "borrowing" them, when they can be delivered to your door in the post?
I cut them in half and get 2000 for my money...mind I am known as a spendthrift.....some have been known to wash and re-use them....

 

[Tremyfro]

WooHoo......I'm gonna make some of these honey sticks.bet they sell well at school Xmas fair....make some money for charity! Fun time...filling straws.

 

[pargyle]

WooHoo......I'm gonna make some of these honey sticks.bet they sell well at school Xmas fair....make some money for charity! Fun time...filling straws.

The only thing that bothers me is, once they are sealed you have to cut the end off them in order to get at the honey, the ones sold in the USA you can just bite the end off the tube and squeeze/suck the honey out - Knowing what the drinking straws are like I'm thinking you might need a pair of scissors to get into them. Would be better if, like the USA one, you could just bite the end off.

 

[Tremyfro]

The only thing that bothers me is, once they are sealed you have to cut the end off them in order to get at the honey, the ones sold in the USA you can just bite the end off the tube and squeeze/suck the honey out - Knowing what the drinking straws are like I'm thinking you might need a pair of scissors to get into them. Would be better if, like the USA one, you could just bite the end off.

Soooo picky!.....I wonder where to source the waxed straws?.....or perhaps a small circular hole punched in the end before sealing and put a sticky pealable dot on the hole...obviously food safe ones.....tee tum....

 

[pargyle]

Soooo picky!.....I wonder where to source the waxed straws?.....or perhaps a small circular hole punched in the end before sealing and put a sticky pealable dot on the hole...obviously food safe ones.....tee tum....

Nooooo ... not picky ... as a former 'marketing' person I am accustomed to thinking about the end user and I see these as a healthy 'sweet' or treat - or even a replacement sweetener in a hot drink.. They need to be 'ready use' purchases if they are really going to sell well. You could see them sold for immediate consumption (and perhaps the hope of a purchase of your jars of honey) - they become less desirable if you have to sell a pair of scissors with them ... there has to be a way ...

 

[Tremyfro]

Nooooo ... not picky ... as a former 'marketing' person I am accustomed to thinking about the end user and I see these as a healthy 'sweet' or treat - or even a replacement sweetener in a hot drink.. They need to be 'ready use' purchases if they are really going to sell well. You could see them sold for immediate consumption (and perhaps the hope of a purchase of your jars of honey) - they become less desirable if you have to sell a pair of scissors with them ... there has to be a way ...

There is a way....I will think on it......
I don't sell my honey...too many gannets at home!

 

[pargyle]

There is a way....I will think on it......
I don't sell my honey...too many gannets at home!

Better start thinking .. with the number of hives you will have next year even your army of gannets won't be able to eat that much honey !!

 

[Tremyfro]

Better start thinking .. with the number of hives you will have next year even your army of gannets won't be able to eat that much honey !!

Ha ha...I think there will be some combining later in the season! ATM I have 3 14x12 nucs.....2 are destined for long hives. So will have a spare plus 2 nationals.....that is if all the queens get mated...start laying ...and are queens which pass on good manners...otherwise any mean queens will go to the guillotine post. It would be interesting to take some poly nucs through the winter to see how they do. Also as a little insurance to support the colonies. So far I have been lucky....but you never know what the winter will bring. I was wondering how it would be if I put one of the nucs in the end of one long hive....it might fit...and there would be good protection from the weather.