mixing sugar syrup

[YorkshireBees]

Haynes book on beekeeping still advocates matchsticks

I tried that method but takes far too long mixing the syrup with matchsticks!


Back on subject I mix in 12.5l jerrycans, sugar in 1st (normally 8-10kg) followed by hot water (from the tap in my case). Shake container (after putting cap on!) and repeat a few times as and when it settles if not all dissolved.
Works for me and yes I have some sugar crystals in my rapid feeders but I just keep topping them up and generally the bees manage.

 

[For want of a better word]

Its supposed to be 2 parts by weight of sugar to one part by weight of hot water.


One kilogram of fresh water is exactly one litre.

Make up your 2 ;1 mix 2kg of sugar to 1 litre of hot water..... simples really

{but some DO like to complicate matters!}

 

[itma]

Its supposed to be 2 parts by weight of sugar to one part by weight of hot water.


One kilogram of fresh water is exactly one litre.

Make up your 2 ;1 mix 2kg of sugar to 1 litre of hot water..... simples really

{but some DO like to complicate matters!}

They complicate things by using different measuring methods!

You have the scales out for the sugar, so weigh the water!
Keep it simple!

And incidentally, weighing reinforces the message that it is 2:1 by weight - and not 2 bucketsful to 1 bucketful (working by volume).

What one is really trying to steer away from are the hybrid recipes for 2 pounds to a pint (UK pint is 1.25 lb), and the like.


/ Not that its terribly important for bee-syrup, but digital weighing of liquids (esp water) is much more accurate than using the printed lines on most measuring jugs. This makes a massive difference to home bread-making giving consistent or predictable results.

 

[Ely]

I tried that method but takes far too long mixing the syrup with matchsticks!


Back on subject I mix in 12.5l jerrycans, sugar in 1st (normally 8-10kg) followed by hot water (from the tap in my case). Shake container (after putting cap on!) and repeat a few times as and when it settles if not all dissolved.
Works for me and yes I have some sugar crystals in my rapid feeders but I just keep topping them up and generally the bees manage.

 

[m100]

And incidentally, weighing reinforces the message that it is 2:1 by weight - and not 2 bucketsful to 1 bucketful (working by volume).

What one is really trying to steer away from are the hybrid recipes for 2 pounds to a pint (UK pint is 1.25 lb), and the like.

All well and good weighing but a great many references refer to 2lb per pint

In metric that is 908g / 568ml, or, as the NBU recommend in their feeding bees leaflet 1kg / 630ml which is clearly not 2:1

I suspect the perennial problem with people failing to get sugar to dissolve without boiling or a lot of effort is that they are using a 'metric' 2:1 which isn't the same as an imperial 2:1.

 

[Poly Hive]

All a bit academic really, provided it is as "heavy" as it can be got it's going to be ok.

I have worked probably wrongly to the 2:1 for over 20 years. Bees were fine.

PH

 

[Finman]

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Mixing success depends much on how hot is water.

I do not know how much I have mixed sugar
during my life.

How can I mix syrup wrong?
I can because I am only a human.
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During my life they have said that I mix everything. Why not then sugar?




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