ok to eat commercial foundation?

The Drone Ranger · Sep 4, 2014

Hi elaine.
Quite a few people use fishing line to give support when not using sheets of foundation.
When you make up new frames you just drill a small hole every two or three inches in the side frames then thread through the fishing line
About 50lb breaking strain should be thick enough.
That helps support the new wax and keep it fairly straight

Queen Brenda · Sep 5, 2014

I got very excited indeed about cut comb, especially when I found the previous owner of the hive I inherited had used unwired foundation. At my first ever harvest in July, all the family gathered round to help, i chopped up and passed round some cut comb, saying chunk honey is the best thing since sliced bread. We all chewed away, chewed, continued to chew and some people began to make faces and we all got left with a chunk of what appeared to be chewing gum and had to spit, rather unpleasantly. Were we doing it wrong?

bontbee · Sep 5, 2014

how olde were the combs?

Erichalfbee · Sep 5, 2014

Next time cut a thick slice of nice artisan bread, toast, slather in butter, pop a square of cut comb on and crunch up. The comb will be gone with the bread

ratcatcher · Sep 5, 2014

Queen Brenda said:
I got very excited indeed about cut comb, especially when I found the previous owner of the hive I inherited had used unwired foundation. At my first ever harvest in July, all the family gathered round to help, i chopped up and passed round some cut comb, saying chunk honey is the best thing since sliced bread. We all chewed away, chewed, continued to chew and some people began to make faces and we all got left with a chunk of what appeared to be chewing gum and had to spit, rather unpleasantly. Were we doing it wrong?

I only use comb that has been built in the same season as cut comb, if you inherited the hive, how old was the comb?
also yours had man made foundation, mine is all bee made
you find ours crumbles in the mouth, some swallow, some spit, lol