Stirring soft set honey

[pargyle]

I see a seed mentioned now and again..it is not needed..the honey is warmed to 45c to make it liquid and then mixed with a drill..five minutes every hour does a good job with a paint stirrer mounted to a bucket ..the paint stirrer I use pulls it up over so no bubbles get sucked down..the drill is a 24v cordless with no oil or grease..a brushless model is now on the market which has me thinking.

A jar of seed honey will assist the process .. more so if it is naturally very runny honey. If you have rape honey then it willl readily granulate and you can make it without a seed. The seed is there to start the granulation process - the finer the set in the seed the finer your soft set will be.

 

[Erichalfbee]

I see a seed mentioned now and again..it is not needed..the honey is warmed to 45c to make it liquid and then mixed with a drill..

Correct if you are setting OSR
But blossom honey is never ever going to soft set itself. It needs a seed of fine crystals otherwise 99% of the time it sets with a coarse crystal which has a nasty mouth feel
I make it every year. I keep a 3lb bucket back to use as seed for the next year but i find that it does get grainy after that so I renew my seed every two years by grinding down honey that has set naturally. You can use supermarket soft set OSR to equally good effect

 

[deemann1]

I see a seed mentioned now and again..it is not needed..the honey is warmed to 45c to make it liquid and then mixed with a drill..five minutes every hour does a good job with a paint stirrer mounted to a bucket ..the paint stirrer I use pulls it up over so no bubbles get sucked down..the drill is a 24v cordless with no oil or grease..a brushless model is now on the market which has me thinking.

For how many hours ?

 

[Levitt53]

Ok I hadn't realised a new drill would be so cheap. We're not a great DIY family and don't have much stuff. Anyway maybe I was being too fussy about the drill but surely you can't stick anything into the honey that isn't food grade!! Anyway I think I will just do a bit next year and see how it goes with a potato masher or something. I have plenty to runny honey to use as a seed.

I experimented with one jar this year and realised that I was using the cake making figure of 8 technique. Air in cakes - lovely, but four weeks later and it still looks a bit like a latte! Tastes lovely though.

 

[Ian123]

Don’t mistake the cloudiness of crystals for air bar a little frothy on top it’s really quite hard to cock up

 

[Swarm]

New market, Honey Mousse?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

surely you can't stick anything into the honey that isn't food grade!!

Trick is to just get the stirrer into the honey, not the drilling machine as it's a right bugger trying to get the honey out of the works afterwards

 

[The Poot in Somerset]

Made my first bucket of soft set today - having bought a creamer from Abelo. Battery drill powered and no problems.