Honey storage

[Etton]

How do others store their jarred honey to minimise/delay crystallisation. I try to jar as needed but sometimes I see it crystallised where it’s being sold.
Do others keep jarred honey in the cold garage or a cool room, warm room with c/h, airing cupboard… is it different for soft set? (made via dyce method with seeded honey)

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

keeping it in a garage or a cool room will make it granulate sooner, I keep mine in a warm room, not often does it stay there long enough to granulate again, if it does start to get cloudy, I pop it back in the warming cabinet for a few hours. if it does crystalise in the shop, I do offer to swap it, but most retailers decline as around here many customers prefer it like that and actually ask for it if they see it on the shelf.

 

[JamezF]

I'm sure I've read that the "optimal" granulation temperature for honey is around 14°C, though I can't recall where. I believe that's what those beeks who sell comb honey sometimes keep it in the freezer however. In the Winter I guess that might mean that an unheated garage is not a bad place to keep it, otherwise perhaps an airing cupboard (which, given that we set our central heating thermostat to 18°C, is where we keep our "personal use" honey).

James

 

[Cuckmere couple]

keeping it in a garage or a cool room will make it granulate sooner, I keep mine in a warm room, not often does it stay there long enough to granulate again, if it does start to get cloudy, I pop it back in the warming cabinet for a few hours. if it does crystalise in the shop, I do offer to swap it, but most retailers decline as around here many customers prefer it like that and actually ask for it if they see it on the shelf.

if I only had a warm room

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I'm sure I've read that the "optimal" granulation temperature for honey is around 14°C

it is, for quick granulation when making soft set (I find 13° best) but keeping it a little below that won't slow down natural granulation I have retailers such as butchers and greengrocers whose premises stay well below 14° (Tanya's stock feed premises get so cold that in the winter it gets right down to near freezing) and the honey rapidly granulates, even honey in the freezer doesn't stay totally liquid.

 

[Erichalfbee]

if I only had a warm room

Coming to most households soon.

 

[Dodge]

I make my softset un a mini wine fridge set to 14c. Supposed to be the optimal temperature for it.

 

[The Poot]

Coming to most households soon.

Courtesy of crazy Ed.
Today, wind provided 40% of our demand, which is a good result after days of almost nil. Ed will be happy about that, but feeling very let down by an almost zero % from solar. (The tiny yellow stripe in the chart in the middle part of the day). Nuclear returned 14% as usual and is consistent. Gas provided 22% biomass 9%.
16% was imported.
No matter how many solar farms cover the landscape in the future, the result will at times be the same, except by then two nuclear could be decommissioned and some gas shut down. Makes good sense doesn’t it?

 

[pargyle]

Coming to most households soon.

I'm sat with a dressing gown over my jeans and fleece and a woolly hat ! Heating is banned before 6.00pm and after 10.00pm ... by order of the management ... need to save the £300 we needed to donate to fill the Starmer hole ...

 

[Penninetrader]

Courtesy of crazy Ed.
Today, wind provided 40% of our demand, which is a good result after days of almost nil. Ed will be happy about that, but feeling very let down by an almost zero % from solar. (The tiny yellow stripe in the chart in the middle part of the day). Nuclear returned 14% as usual and is consistent. Gas provided 22% biomass 9%.
16% was imported.
No matter how many solar farms cover the landscape in the future, the result will at times be the same, except by then two nuclear could be decommissioned and some gas shut down. Makes good sense doesn’t it?

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It is of course a gigantic fraud that transfers wealth and will continue to do so for at least 50 years even if we abandoned the madness this day

 

[Erichalfbee]

I make my softset un a mini wine fridge set to 14c. Supposed to be the optimal temperature for it.

Yes, that's a tip I picked up from here so I bought one as well. Very useful in the summer

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I have two outhouses which seldom creep above 14° at floor level my Royal Welsh award winning softset this year was made at the end of June, and apart from the initial quick chill to get it down to temperature (ice packs in the switched off warming cabinet) I needed no further artificial cooling.