Soft set from recently extracted honey

[Etton]

Why is soft set honey white?

 

[Ian123]

It’s not always white and colour is influenced by the source of nectar. The reason why most is pale is that many will use osr.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Why is soft set honey white?

It's not. My dandelion soft set is yellow and summer blossom usually a cream colour

 

[Etton]

“For creaming you need to warm the solid set honey gently but enough to make it pliable, but not so much that there is runny honey around the edges - this leads to frosting in the jars. Once pliable, cut with a pallette knife (or similar) then mash vigorously - we use a giant potato masher from a catering supplier. You're aiming for a fluid paste with no big lumps. Bottle whilst still pliable, and you will end up with a soft set honey in the jar that will firm up a little but stay as a spoonable, spreadable paste. Unless you previously seeded it then it will be a paste of whatever coarseness this honey naturally adopts. You've adjusted the spreadability but not the grittiness..”

After cutting OSR with with a palette knife & mashing then jaring unless you have ground to a fine paste surely it sets rock hard again

 

[TonyC]

My experience is that a thorough creaming with a spiral on a power drill in warmed OSR honey as described above yields a smooth creamy honey, perfectly soft set, which does not harden again. Curiously though, my runny clear summer honey is more popularwith customers, so I am not planning to seed any summer honey to soft set it.

I was far from popular with my bride when i lifted the spinning spiral from the tub and spread the honey all over the place....